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Le projet CollEx-Persée DISSINVENT – DISSidences de l'Est en exil : INVENTaire, histoires, pratiques documentaires, porté par La contemporaine et l'ICT-Université de Paris (2020-2022), s'inscrit dans une dynamique internationale de la recherche qui met l'accent sur le renforcement du travail concerté sur le document, numérique ou non, en ligne ou non, entre chercheurs et grands établissements patrimoniaux. L'objectif est d'identifier, de rendre visibles nationalement et internationalement et de valoriser les importantes collections produites par les dissidences « de l'Est » en exil en France entre 1945 et 1991, tout en développant une réflexion sur la particularité de ces corpus, leur histoire et leur description en différentes langues.

A comprehensive history of the Matzpen group, who advocated for a joint community of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs and a socialist Middle EastFocuses on the stories of Matzpen's protagonists whose biographies are linked to key events in Israeli historyUses the history of Matzpen as an entry point to broader questions around Israeli and Middle Eastern history, politics and cultureTells a history of Israel from the margins and raises new questions about the Jewish state I the Middle EastThis book explores the history of the Israeli Socialist Organization – Matzpen (compass) – that splintered off from the Communist Party of Israel in 1962. After the Six Day War of June 1967, Matzpen shook Israeli society, calling for a withdrawal from the recently occupied territories, and placing itself outside the national consensus. Even before the war, the group emphasised the colonial dimension of the conflict between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, which was irresolvable within the paradigm of the nation-state. Matzpen instead advocated for Israel's de-Zionisation and a socialist revolution in the Middle East in order to both restore the rights of Palestinian Arabs and guarantee the existence of Israeli Jews as a new Hebrew nation. However, in the era after Auschwitz, when the Jewish world stood in almost unanimous solidarity with the Jewish state, Matzpen's radical perspective was at odds with the history and memory of the Holocaust. Against this backdrop, this study places Matzpen's political stance in its historical context and sheds new light on the political culture of Israel

Resistance and Change in World Politics -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Abbreviation and Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Approaching International Dissidence: Concepts, Cases, and Causes -- Conceptual and Terminological Considerations -- International Order -- Types of Resistance -- Opposition -- Dissidence -- The Two Trajectories of Dissidence: Dissidence by Ascription and Dissidence by Choice -- Research Design and Case Selection -- The Case Studies -- Explaining Dissidence and its Outcomes -- Causes of Ascription/Self-Description as Dissident -- Interest-Based Causes -- Identity-Related Causes -- Norm-Related Causes -- Self-Perpetuating Dynamics -- Causes of the Success or Failure of Dissidence -- Features of the Normative Context -- Norm Characteristics -- Type of Norm Conflict -- Features of the Normative Frame of Reference/Institutional Setting -- Actor Characteristics and Strategies -- Characteristics -- Strategies and Behaviour -- Escalation or Exit -- Alliance-Building -- Framing -- Consistency -- External Developments and Technological Progress -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Health Before Patents: Challenging the Primacy of Intellectual Property Rights -- Object and Course of the Conflict -- From the Establishment of a Liberal Order to its Norm-Based Contestation -- The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights -- The Norm-Based Challenge to the TRIPS IP Protection Regime -- From Delegitimisation to the Reversal of the Norm Hierarchy -- The Refusal to Recognise Divergent Normative Conceptions and the Delegitimisation of Practices Deriving from them -- Recognition, Transformation of the Order, and Reversal of the Norm Hierarchy -- Explaining the Reversal of the Norm Hierarchy -- Norm-Related Causes -- Characteristics and Strategies of Actors in the Conflict

In this article, we explore the relationship between gender, judging, and the place of judicial dissent through the cinematographic treatment of the film Minority Report. We draw parallels between the structure of the judicial system and the main characters and events of the film to better understand how the idea of 'dissent' is represented and gendered. The exercise leads us to a consideration of the figure of the judge in relation to the film's precognitives – three beings kept in a foetal state whose task it is to transmit their visions of the future, visions that enable the prevention of murders yet to come. The precognitives can be seen, in the world of the film, to have assumed the role of judge. We see them as assuming that function in a variety of ways: first, as a type of 'judicial-automatons' in a system that is thought to require perfect and necessary unanimity, where the truth can be definitively known and found; alternatively, as judges in a more flexible and provisional system where the possibility of disagreement and dissent exists.

Shows the continuing, necessary story of dissidence and humanism in Russia and other nations, beginning with a brief history starting at Khrushchev's disavowal of Stalin and his tactics, to the aborted Hungarian Revolution and ideas of Gyorgy Lukacs, the humanist Praxis Group of Yugoslavia, and the eventual realization that Communism was not merely the government as representatives of the proletariat, but of the elimination of alienation for the populace. Humanism spread throughout Communist and Socialist nations, specifically those previously overseen by the Soviet Union, and that nation itself, while the Party still retained absolute, inflexible control of the populace. For this reason, humanism was shunted off to the realms of philosophy, and away from politics. It was with the new generation, beginning at or just after the Czech Velvet Revolution of 1968, that modern Soviet dissidentism truly began to unfold. This led to an understanding of the difference in the political-economic dance of Socialist nations, and that of Capitalist nations. These humanist groups sought to explain little along the lines of economy, but to simply press for freedoms so that the people would then be able to work out economic parameters after their liberties were achieved. Finishes by examining how the dissidents lost their voice as the Soviet Union and other Communist regimes fell in the Spring of 1989, though in the future, the dissidents will return where needed. S. Fullmer