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Tracés: Revue de Sciences Humaines publishes research in the social sciences in two themed issues per year and a handful of special editions. These issues focus on an old debate that has taken a new turn due to current editorial or political circumstances, takes an idea that the various intellectual traditions and disciplines would usually address in isolation and submits it to examination from multiple perspectives, or explores an emerging field of thought. Tracés claims a true pluralism, as attested to by the variety of themes and approaches it publishes. The journal’s editorial committee is made up of young researchers from various disciplines and pursues a strong interdisciplinary project. This is manifested in the selection of articles, notes, translations, and interviews that make up each of the issues.

Latest issue
47 | 2025
Épreuves d’autorité

Trials of Authority
Edited by Corentin Durand , Elsa Génard and Mathilde Rossigneux-Méheust

What are the relationships between employees and bosses, students and teachers, defendants and judges, officers and enlisted soldiers, children and parents, patients and caregivers, gurus and followers, etc., made of? This issue proposes to begin with authority, a central and challenging concept in modern political thought, and to consider it as a social relationship. Compared to other power relationships, it is characterised by being grounded in a priori asymmetrical participation statuses. By understanding authority as relational work, a test, and a set of sensitive experiences, the articles explore the critical moments that construct, stabilise, and test authority relations, as well as the material, spatial, linguistic, and moral mechanisms that produce and embed them.

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