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Xavier-Laurent Salvador

The influence of Anglo-Saxon liberal models disseminated by Brussels on Research

The European Research Council (ERC) budget for the seven-year Horizon Europe programme amounts to €16 billion, dedicated to EU member states and associated nations, under the European Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (FPRI). Is France autonomous in its higher education policy? No, because it conforms to European policies inspired by the United Nations aimed at achieving externally set objectives. Over the past 15 years, research and higher education in France have been silently transformed, partly influenced by the Anglo-Saxon liberal models established by Brussels.

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Yves Gingras (UQAM) and Thierry Nootens (UQTR)

“Moral panic”: a more normative than analytical notion

For some time now, we have noticed in the media and in certain polemical works a frequent use of the notion of "moral panic": we will dare to question the precise meaning of this notion which has become fashionable.

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intersectionality
Collective

The Hijabeuses did not win

For over a year, the Hijabeuses collective has been attacking the French Football Federation to obtain the right to wear the hijab during competitions. The FFF has refused. The Hijabeuses have taken the case to the Council of State. In vain?

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Vincent Tournier

Islamism, school bullying, eco-sexuality: a generalized bug?

The Senate hearings on the "Marianne fund" affair are underway, and all the light has yet to be shed, but one point already invites us to ask ourselves: how could the government have thought, after the assassination of Samuel Paty, that the fight against Islamist radicalization could be limited to distributing a few million euros to associations, a fortiori without monitoring their use?

The publication of Florence Bergeaud-Blackler's book on the Muslim Brotherhood adds a further layer to this concern.

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Francois Rastier

The intersectional left, a godsend for the far right

Wouldn't the totalizing project of inclusion aim at a form of closure? We know that the strength of mythical thought lies in particular in its closure: myths are characterized by constant references between all semantic domains that allow thought to be locked in a totalization that is as seductive as it is illusory.

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Francois Rastier

Intersectional ideology and scientific management

by François Rastier (CNRS) Antoine Petit, Chairman and CEO of the CNRS, recently reported presidential support for his reappointment to the management of the CNRS. He wrote to his subordinates: "Dear colleagues, The President of the Republic has announced

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Sami Biasoni

Racial and climate demands: paradoxical intersectionalities

[by Sami Biasoni] The contemporary history of our country, that of the past century to which some can still bear witness, has probably only known two moments of real convergence of social struggles: the democratic victory of the Popular Front in 1936 and the junction

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charles coutel

On so-called intersectional feminist student associations

[By Charles Coutel] For less than three years now, many student associations claiming intersectionality have been flourishing in universities, often grafted onto feminist collectives or associations like Nous Toutes. Built on the soil of the necessary decolonial theories

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