Books: L’École Polytechnique

May 8, 2012
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Books: L’École Polytechnique Bruno Belhoste, La Formation d’une technocratie. L’École polytechnique et ses élèves de la Révolution au Second Empire, Paris, Belin, 2003 “La technocratie française est née pendant la Révolution avec l’École polytechnique. Les futurs cadres techniques de l’État y reçoivent un enseignement scientifique général d’excellence, avant de se spécialiser dans des écoles d’application. Désignés pour leurs seuls...
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Review: Race & Caste

February 19, 2012
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Review: Race & Caste « Peut-on comparer race et caste ?. Retour sur la sociologie de l’Inde de Louis Dumont », La Vie des idées, 18 janvier 2012 Review by Roland Lardinois Kamala Visweswaran, Un/common Cultures. Racism and the Rearticulation of Cultural Difference, Durham, Duke University Press, 2010 ; New Delhi, Navayana, 2011 “L’œuvre de l’anthropologue Louis Dumont, qui aurait eu...
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Review: Diversity and Change in Modern India

February 19, 2012
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Review: Diversity and Change in Modern India « Les mutations de la société indienne », La Vie des idées, 16 mars 2011 Review by Roland Lardinois Antony F. Heath et Roger Jeffery (dir.), Diversity and Change in Modern India. Economic, Social and Political Approaches, The British Academy, Oxford University Press, 2010 “L’ouvrage édité par Antony Heath et Roger Jeffery offre une vue d’ensemble...
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Book: Rule of Experts

February 17, 2012
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Book: Rule of Experts Timothy Mitchell, Rule of Experts, Egypt, Techno-politics, Modernity, Berkeley and Los Angeles, UC Press, 2002 “Can one explain the power of global capitalism without attributing to capital a logic and coherence it does not have? Can one account for the powers of techno-science in terms that do not merely reproduce its own understanding of...
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Book: Engineers in Parliament

February 17, 2012
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Book: Engineers in Parliament  Bruno Marnot, Les Ingénieurs au Parlement sous la IIIe République, Paris, CNRS Éditions, 2000 “Le Parlement de la Troisième République a compté, sur l’ensemble de la période, 280 ingénieurs qui ont joué un rôle essentiel dans l’élaboration de la politique industrielle de la France. Qui étaient ces ingénieurs ? Quelles étaient leur formation, leur...
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Review: Engineers in Portugal

December 29, 2011
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Review: Engineers in Portugal Maria de Lurdes Rodrigues, Os engenheiros em Portugal,  Oeiras, Celta, 1999 Review by Charles Gadea Assez proches du cas français, les ingénieurs sont considérés au Portugal comme une élite, à laquelle échoient des positions de pouvoir et de prestige bien au-delà des fonctions techniques des entreprises ou des services d’Etat. Cet ouvrage visite l’histoire...
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Review: Engineers in Argentina

December 29, 2011
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Review: Engineers in Argentina Marta Panaia, Trayectorias de ingenieros tecnologicos, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Mino y Davila, 2006. Reviewed by Charles Gadéa Ce copieux ouvrage (712 pages) analyse les trajectoires d’insertion et les carrières d’ingénieurs diplômés et étudiants argentins issus des formations technologiques, un peu sur le modèle des enquêtes de cohorte du Céreq que l’auteure connaît grâce à...
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Book: Architects & Engineers

December 24, 2011
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Book: Architects & Engineers Antoine Picon, Architectes et ingénieurs au siècle des lumières, Paris, Editions Parenthèses, 1988 « ”Un bon architecte n’est point un homme ordinaire, puisqu’indépendamment des règles fondamentales de son art, il est important qu’il soit muni de la théorie de ceux qui y ont relation, tels que les mathématiques, la perspective, la sculpture, la peinture, l’art...
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Book: Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées

December 22, 2011
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Book: Ingénieur des Ponts et Chaussées Antoine Picon, L’invention de l’ingénieur moderne. L’Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées 1747-1851, Paris, Presses de l’Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées, 1992
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Book: Social Mobility among the Professions (India)

December 20, 2011
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Book: Social Mobility among the Professions (India) S. M. Dubey, Social mobility among the professions: study of the professions in a transitional Indian city, Bombay, Popular Prakashan, 1975 “This was a pioneering work on the sociology of professions in India based on a study of three hundred members of six professions (Free professionals : lawyers and medical doctors ; Salaried professionals...
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Book: The Indian Flag

December 20, 2011
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Book: The Indian Flag Arundhati Virmani, A National Flag for India, New Delhi, Permanent Black, 2008 “Unearthing the complex history of the making of the Indian national flag, Arundhati Virmani reveals cultural processes that imposed a set of values and sentiments on an incredibly diverse and scattered body of people. She shows that the Indian flag had strong...
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Book: Chinese Society

December 20, 2011
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Book: Chinese Society Tania Angeloff, Histoire de la société chinoise, 1949-2009, Paris, Editions La Découverte (Repères 545), 2010 “Work, social stratification, ethnic group, men-women relations, etc…all the aspects of Chinese society since 1949 are examined in this highly original work, that blends together the fields of history and sociology for a better understanding of Chinese society and...
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Book: ICTs and Economic Development

December 20, 2011
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Book: ICTs and Economic Development Ashwani Saith and M. Vijayabaskar (eds), ICT and Indian Economic Development. Economy, Work, Regulation, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2005 “This book evaluates the recent phenomenon of Information technology communication (ICT) development in India, and discusses such questions as: Can the growth be sustained? How far can an ICT revolution go towards modernising India’s economy?...
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Book: ICTs and Social Change

December 20, 2011
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Book: ICTs and Social Change Ashwani Saith, M. Vijayabaskar, V. Gayathri, ICTs and Indian Social Change. Diffusion, Poverty, Governance, New Delhi, Sage Publications, 2008 “This book is the first of its kind in putting together the optimistic voices of techno-idealists, critical social science perspectives on technology and a range of empirical material on the impacts of ICTs on the...
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Book: “Body Shopping” in ICT India

December 20, 2011
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Book: “Body Shopping” in ICT India Xiang Biao, Global “Body Shopping”: An Indian Labor System in the Information Technology Industry, Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2006 “How can America’s information technology (IT) industry predict serious labor shortages while at the same time laying off tens of thousands of employees annually? The answer is the industry’s flexible labor management system–a flexibility widely...
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