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Inequality: Anatomy of a Fractured World – What the World Inequality Report 2026 reveals

As economic, social and climatic tensions intensify, the World Inequality Report 2026 highlights a difficult but essential truth: the extreme concentration of world wealth is not a natural phenomenon, but the consequence of institutional, fiscal and political choices accumulated over several decades. The document reveals the extent of these imbalances with a ...

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Abolish slavery without abolishing social order: the French Antilles, from proclaimed freedom to inherited inequalities

In the French Antilles, the end of slavery marks a major legal break, without ever questioning the economic, land and social structures inherited from the plantation. Compensation of former masters, lack of redistribution of land, forced wage labour, intact transmission of wealth and power networks: post-slavery was built in ...

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Three voices, one conscience: Baldwin, Morrison, Coates or literature as a moral requirement

Tribute of a reader faithful to three pillars of American black intelligence There are works that do not read, but live. Works that are frequented for a long time, that are read from a distance from fashions, and that eventually structure our way of thinking the world. James Baldwin, Toni Morrison and Ta-Nehisi Coates ...

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South Korean soft power or methodical invention of a world imagination

It is now impossible to think of contemporary cultural globalization without taking note of a phenomenon that goes far beyond entertainment: the affirmation of South Korean soft power as the structuring force of world imaginations. In less than 30 years, South Korea has managed to transform cultural industries that have long been marginal into a lever for economic growth.

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Why Africa Was Not Settlement Land

Unlike North America and Australia, profoundly reshaped by the massive influx of European populations, Africa remained a continent where colonization was almost exclusively a political, economic and administrative exploitation, and rarely a population replacement project. This singularity poses a major question: why did Africa not experience colonization?

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Three consciences for a continent: Lumumba, Sankara, Biko: genealogy of an unsuspecting Africa

There are figures in contemporary African history that exceed their status as politicians, activists or heads of state. They become living places of memory, incarnate consciousnesses, irreversible fractures in the imperial narrative. Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara and Steve Biko belong to this rare category of men whose physical disappearance never meant the political end. They...

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Demography of loneliness: growth of celibacy, change in gender relations and North-South contrasts

A profound social metamorphosis today crosses developed societies: the erosion of the couple as a structuring model of privacy. For a long time, as a pillar of social, economic and reproductive organization, the marital relationship loses its normative status and becomes an option among others. The spectacular rise of celibacy, particularly visible among young adults, reflects less of a ...

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When revolutions close: the universal paradox of emancipation confiscated

The political history of humanity seems to be crossed by a fundamental contradiction: revolutions are born of the will to break an unjust order and to open the field of possibilities; They bring hope for a freer, more egalitarian, more just society. Yet, in an impressive number of cases, these moments of collective exaltation lead not to emancipation, but to a recomposition of domination. — in forms which are sometimes even more rigid than those which they had begun to abolish.

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