School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

About: School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences is a facility organization based out in Villejuif, France. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Politics & Context (language use). The organization has 1230 authors who have published 2084 publications receiving 57740 citations. The organization is also known as: Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales & EHESS.

Catastrophic climate change, population ethics and intergenerational equity

Abstract: Climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous impacts, possibly leading to extinction. The most relevant trade-off then may not be between present and future consumption but between present consumption and the mere existence of future generations. To investigate this trade-off, we build an integrated assessment model that explicitly accounts for the risk of extinction of future generations. Using the class of number-dampened utilitarian social welfare functions, we compare different climate policies that change the probability of catastrophic outcomes yielding an early extinction. We analyse the role of inequality aversion and population ethics. Low inequality aversion and a preference for large populations favour the most ambitious climate policy, although there are cases where the effect of inequality aversion on the preferred policy is reversed. This is due to the fact that a higher inequality aversion both decreases the welfare loss of reducing consumption of the current generation and also decreases the welfare gain of reducing the future risk of extinction.

Pasajeros del poder propietario: la sociedad explotadora de tierra del fuego y la biopolítica estanciera (1890-1920)

Abstract: A inicios de siglo XX el negocio ovejero en Patagonia meridional habia adquirido la forma de un gigantesco imperio organizado segun los modernos criterios de produccion britanicos. La condicion operativa de dicho imperio fue la produccion de un desierto biopolitico que evacuo no solo la competencia -ganaderia pionera- o las jurisdicciones nacionales, sino toda forma viviente que obstruyese los flujos mercantiles, animales y humanos bajo su control. No obstante, la misma forma de este poder propietario, la estancia con sus rasgos post-industriales, permitio la emergencia de otras formas de circulacion por el desierto, de otros pasajeros, que desviaron o detuvieron, al menos parcialmente, los engranajes de la maquina estanciera.

Les carrières de cadres au cœur des restructurations : la recomposition des effets de genre ? L’internationalisation d’un groupe français en Angleterre et en Hongrie

Abstract: L’effet des restructurations sur les carrieres des cadres reste encore peu analyse, notamment dans une perspective genree Les deux cas de fusion-acquisition etudies, en Angleterre et en Hongrie, montrent que si la recomposition des espaces d’opportunite semble en partie favorable aux carrieres feminines, le renforcement d’un modele d’activite masculin-neutre contribue au durcissement du plafond de verre, pour tous ceux qui ne peuvent se conformer a ces attendus, en particulier les femmes

Métissage and Bricolage in the Making of African Christian Identities

Abstract: EnglishMetissage, bricolage, or hybridizing - the argument continues over the appropriateness of metaphors in the study of contemporary religious productions, and we are invited to question and confront the dialectical or "dialogical" processes which are at work in the appropriation of differences, and the handling of disputes which are part of these processes. A detour by way of all that is involved in the Christian invention of African identities, all that individuals and groups have invested in that invention, the remnant of the colonial encounter, all this contributes to the comparisons which are made in the present writing, and to its conclusions. When we speak of the post-modern re-enchantment with metissage, with its subversive transgressions exemplified by hybridization, or of our fascination with a vanishing bricolage which now is breaking up into simple collage, we may regret the way in which the fecundity of misunderstandings inherent in any encounter has been cancelled, and especially the ambi...