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Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss’s reflections...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-414342020-08-26T00:50:31Z Gift Exchange MALLARD, GREGOIRE Chartered Companies Gift Exchange Global Governance Decolonization International Law bic Book Industry Communication::L Law::LA Jurisprudence & general issues::LAQ Law & society Since Marcel Mauss published his foundational essay The Gift in 1925, many anthropologists and specialists of international relations have seen in the exchange of gifts, debts, loans, concessions or reparations the sources of international solidarity and international law. Still, Mauss’s reflections were deeply tied to the context of interwar Europe and the French colonial expansion. Their normative dimension has been profoundly questioned after the age of decolonization. A century after Mauss, we may ask: what is the relevance of his ideas on gift exchanges and international solidarity? By tracing how Mauss’s theoretical and normative ideas inspired prominent thinkers and government officials in France and Algeria, from Pierre Bourdieu to Mohammed Bedjaoui, Gregoire Mallard adds a building block to our comprehension of the role that anthropology, international law, and economics have played in shaping international economic governance from the age of European colonization to the latest European debt crisis. 2020-08-25T12:11:20Z 2020-08-25T12:11:20Z 2019 book ONIX_20200825_9781108570497_6 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/41434 eng Law and Society Series application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781108570497.pdf http://doi.org/10.1017/9781108570497 Cambridge University Press 10.1017/9781108570497 10.1017/9781108570497 7607a2d0-47af-490f-9d2a-8c9340266f8a 07f61e34-5b96-49f0-9860-c87dd8228f26 Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Cambridge 10BP12_183395 Open Access Books Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of A Political Idea Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung Swiss National Science Foundation open access
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