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School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences

FacilityVillejuif, France
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: Population & Politics. 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.


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TL;DR: The authors argue that applying a "decentred" conception of diaspora provides an understanding of the complexity of Palestinian identity-making in Britain, based on ethnographic research among Palestinians in Britain.
Abstract: In this article based on ethnographic research among Palestinians in Britain, I argue that applying a ‘decentred’ conception of diaspora provides an understanding of the complexity of Palestinian identity-making in Britain. After a critical review of theorizations of the notion of diaspora and its relevance to this case study, I discuss ethnographic data to illustrate how processes of rooting and mobility are linked together in various contexts in which personal migration trajectories and positionalities play an important part. I demonstrate that, for Palestinians in Britain, diaspora relates to connections constructed both in relation to their homeland and other frames of reference: in relation to both roots and mobility.

11 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors propose a new archaeological sequence for human occupation in the Kharga Oasis and discuss its integration in the wider frame of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara.
Abstract: Within the Egyptian Western Desert, the Kharga Oasis was a particularly favourable and highly frequented area during the Holocene thanks to a permanent ground water supply. The high concentration and accessibility of archaeological sites here allows the cultural and economic changes to be documented at a local scale, when northeastern Africa was experiencing strong climatic variations and the transition to a food production economy. An expansive program led by the Institut francais d’archeologie orientale (IFAO) which included systematic survey, sampling collections, tests and stratigraphic excavations has dramatically increased the amount of data available concerning the prehistory of the Kharga Oasis. Typo-technological analyses focusing on the lithic industries, and other aspects of material culture, plus a series of 14C dates have led to the definition of four main successive cultural phases: Kharga A, B, C and D. This paper describes this proposal of a new archaeological sequence for human occupation in the Kharga Oasis and discusses its integration in the wider frame of Egypt and the Eastern Sahara.

11 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the mechanisms proposed in formal semantics to account for the ambiguity generated by simple numerical expressions (e.g., "three students") and explain how these mechanisms, when applied to more complex numerical expressions such as "between n and m", predict a surprising ambiguity between a doubly bounded and a lower-bounded reading.
Abstract: We investigate the mechanisms proposed in formal semantics to account for the ambiguity generated by simple numerical expressions (e.g., ‘three students’). We explain how these mechanisms, when applied to more complex numerical expressions such as ‘between n and m’ (e.g., ‘between three and five students’), predict a surprising ambiguity between a doubly bounded (e.g., ‘at least three and at most five students’) and a lower-bounded reading (e.g., ‘at least three students’). While the lower-bounded reading is not detectable intuitively, results from three offline experiments and a response time study provide evidence in favour of its existence. Our contribution is twofold. On the experimental side, we present two psycholinguistic methods powerful enough to detect what we call phantom readings, i.e., readings that do not seem to have consequences for actual interpretation, but have detectable effects on processing. On the theoretical side, we show that certain semantic mechanisms that might be thought to ov...

11 citations

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TL;DR: From a small area of the South West of Bangladesh, thousands of landless farmers cross the border with their family in order to work in the informal sector, mostly in Delhi and Bangalore.
Abstract: From a small area of the South West of Bangladesh, thousands of landless farmers cross the border with their family in order to work in the informal sector, mostly in Delhi and Bangalore: a...

11 citations

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TL;DR: The authors examines the historical trajectory of the famous "ozone hole" from its birth within the astronomical community at the beginning of the twentieth century to its contemporary framing as a global environmental threat.
Abstract: In 1985, just over 30 years ago, the “ozone hole” made its appearance in the press as a truly global environmental threat. As one of the most important environmental issues of the twentieth century, the “ozone hole” is also a remarkable metaphorical, visual, and imaginary construction. This essay examines the historical trajectory of the famous “ozone hole” from its birth within the astronomical community at the beginning of the twentieth century to its contemporary framing as a global environmental threat. The article provides evidence why metaphors constitute a valuable object of historically informed studies of scientific practice, and shows in particular how metaphorical landscapes shift over time, mapping at the same time larger social and political developments. The essay ends by showing how scientific images and metaphorical framings interact and how they shape scientific and popular discourse on nature, as well as our understanding of the global environment.

11 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Philippe Aghion12250773438
Andrew J. Martin8481936203
Jean-Jacques Laffont8333232930
Jonathan Grainger7832919719
Jacques Mehler7818823493
James S. Wright7751423684
Thomas Piketty6925136227
Dan Sperber6720732068
Arthur M. Jacobs6726014636
Jacques Mairesse6631020539
Andrew E. Clark6531828819
François Bourguignon6328718250
Emmanuel Dupoux6326714315
Marc Barthelemy6121525783
Pierre-André Chiappori6123018206
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202318
2022134
2021121
2020149
2019119
2018118