Consequences of anisotropy in electrical charge storage: application to the characterization by the mirror method of TiO2 rutile

This article is devoted first to anisotropic distributions of stored electric charges in isotropic materials, second to charge trapping and induced electrostatic potential in anisotropic dielectrics. On the one hand, we examine the case of anisotropic trapped charge distributions in linear homogeneous isotropic (LHI) insulators, obtained after an electron irradiation in a scanning electron microscope. This injection leads to the formation of a mirror image

Two decades of French urban policy: from social development of neighbourhoods to the republican penal state

This paper provides an overview of French national urban policy for the period 1981-2002, organized around three themes: spatial conceptualizations of intervention areas and changing scales of intervention, discursive articulations of intervention areas, and legitimation of state intervention. By relating the transformations of this policy to the contemporary restructuring of the French state, the paper argues that although there are elements of convergence, the contemporary restructuring of the French state differs remarkably from a US or UK-style neoliberalization, partly because of the republican tradition emphasizing the active role of the state for the well-being of its citizens. This restructuring carries the signs of the strong state tradition in France, and is best understood as an articulation of neoliberalism with established political traditions, an articulation that I try to capture with the notion of a "republican penal state"

Mémoires occupées

Soixante-dix ans après la fin des hostilités, les tragédies et les questions liées à la Seconde Guerre mondiale continuent d’occuper les esprits et la culture, la création et le commentaire. Certaines de ces productions contestent des vérités admises, et jusqu’à la possibilité d’un accord. Des spécialistes d’origine et d’institutions très diverses sont réunis ici pour étudier un corpus qui va de l'après-guerre à nos jours, de Maurice Bardèche à Armand Gatti, couvrant tous les genres littéraires ainsi que les arts du spectacle. Se sont joints à ces chercheurs l’historien Henry Rousso, les écrivains Laurent Binet, Pascal Bruckner et Yannick Haenel. Loin de l’unanimité souvent trompeuse, les points de vue peuvent différer, ou diverger radicalement. Trois axes successifs relancent le débat et l’ordonnent : les hantises et recompositions imposées par le traumatisme, les écritures de l’Histoire aux prises avec la fiction, les implications et engagements suscités par l’événement