Bøker av Michel Wieviorka

Today the European Union is facing a crisis as serious as anything it has experienced since its origins more than half a century ago. What makes this so serious is that it is not a single crisis but rather multiple crises the euro crisis, the migration/refugee crisis, Brexit, etc.

* A major new book on the present-day forms of evil D terrorism, violence, racism and hatred. * Rather than treating evil as a supernatural force or a religious issue, Wieviorka analyses it from a sociological point of view, showing how these various forms of evil are constituted in day-to-day life.

This 1983 book records an analysis of the Solidarity movement in Poland. Alain Touraine here proposes an understanding of the place of social movements in contemporary society, and a fresh means of analysing them through 'sociological intervention'. These research methods were used in 1981 to analyse to the Solidarity movements.

The highly anticipated English translation of Michel Wieviorka's sophisticated exploration of violence.

Presents an analysis of the vocabulary of racism (prejudice, discrimination, segregation and violence), arguing that racism is not reducible to these elementary forms. This title shows how the experiences of racism in America and anti-Semitism in Europe can be analyzed to provide an understanding of the complex transition from race to racism.