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Lauréat du prix Nobel de la paix 2018, le Docteur Denis Mukwege est l’homme qui répare des milliers de femmes violées durant 20 ans de conflits à l’Est de la République Démocratique du Congo.
Sa lutte incessante pour mettre fin à ces atrocités et dénoncer l’impunité dont jouissent les coupables, dérange. Fin 2012, le Docteur est l’objet d’une nouvelle tentative d’assassinat, à laquelle il échappe miraculeusement. Menacé de mort, ce médecin au destin exceptionnel vit dorénavant cloîtré dans son hôpital de Bukavu, sous la protection des Casques bleus des Nations unies. Mais il n’est plus seul à lutter. A ses côtés, ces femmes auxquelles il a rendu leur intégrité physique et leur dignité, devenues grâce à lui de véritables activistes de la paix, assoiffées de justice.
Publisher: Les films de la passerelle, 2015
Call Number: 7.0 HOM
The 2018 Nobel laureate for economics analyses the politics and economics of the central environmental issue of today and points the way to real solutions.
Climate change is profoundly altering our world in ways that pose major risks to human societies and natural systems. We have entered the Climate Casino and are rolling the global-warming dice, warns economist William Nordhaus. But there is still time to turn around and walk back out of the casino, and in this essential book the author explains how.
Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013
Call Number: 577.22 HEIA 96481
In this important new book, Nancy Fraser and Rahel Jaeggi take a fresh look at the big questions surrounding the peculiar social form known as “capitalism”, upending many of our commonly held assumptions about what capitalism is and how to subject it to critique.
They show how, throughout its history, various regimes of capitalism have relied on a series of institutional separations between economy and polity, production and social reproduction, and human and non-human nature, periodically readjusting the boundaries between these domains in response to crises and upheavals. They consider how these “boundary struggles” offer a key to understanding capitalism’s contradictions and the multiple forms of conflict to which it gives rise.
Publisher: London : Polity, 2018
Call Number: 330.122 HEIA 122232
Nancy Fraser will be present at the Institute, on Thursday, 11 October, for a public lecture on democracy’s crisis and the political contradictions of financialised capitalism.
Joan Wallach Scott’s acclaimed and controversial writings have been foundational for the field of gender history.
“Challenging the assertion that secularism has always been synonymous with equality between the sexes, Sex and Secularism reveals how this idea has been used to justify claims of white, Western, and Christian racial and religious superiority and has served to distract our attention from a persistent set of difficulties related to gender difference―ones shared by Western and non-Western cultures alike.”
Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2018
Call Number: 305.3 HEIA 120474
Joan Wallach Scott will be present at the Institute, on Tuesday, 25 September, for the Opening lecture of the academic year, “Gender equality: why is it so difficult to achieve?”
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