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Multinationals in Africa

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There is something deeply paradoxical in the relationship between Africa and the major multinationals operating there. On one side, a continent full of riches — mining, agriculture, human beings, energy. On the other hand, people who are still among the poorest in the world. In between, transnational corporations whose turnover sometimes exceeds the GDP of the host states.

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Frantz Fanon: man-tempest, insurgent consciousness

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There are men whose existence seems too short to contain the intensity of their thought. fulgurant lives, crossed by sickness, war, exile, but leaving behind a trail of fire. Frantz Fanon belongs to this rare category.Born in 1925 in Fort-de-France, Martinique, who died in 1961 at the age of 36 in the United States, he condensed into a decade of writing and engagement a work whose theoretical power, moral radicality and prophetic lucidity continue to enlighten our time.

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Europe, the trap of contradictions: demography, shortages, fear, and the temptation to close

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Europe has fewer children, is ageing rapidly, lacks arms in its most essential occupations, and yet it is hardening its rejection of immigration at a time when the economy is structurally dependent on it. This paradox, seemingly absurd, becomes intelligible as soon as one stops treating it as a juxtaposition of crises and looks at it as a system: a chain of causalities, perceptions and feedback loops where fear — economic, cultural, security — works as a political accelerator.

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When a nation is made against its origins: the whitening of Argentina and its blind spots

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There are countries that build their identities on a pluralistic, sometimes conflicting, but assumed narrative. And there are others which, on the contrary, form themselves by subtraction: by swallowing up what disturbs, by minimizing what contradicts the national ideal, by relegating to the out-of-field the populations yet founders. Argentina largely belongs to this second category.

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The economy of asymmetry: Power, money, mobility and exploitation of women in the era of globalization

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The exploitation of women does not belong to the past. It has not disappeared as a result of modernity, urbanization or digitisation of societies. She changed. She adapted. She has integrated the codes of luxury, development, humanitarianism, mentoring, visible success. She learned to speak the language of consent and to follow the paths of respectability.

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