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EAN : 9782348054570
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 288
Size : 135 x 220 mm
“THE MOST BEAUTIFUL AVENUE IN THE WORLD”

Collection : Sciences humaines
Release date : 12/03/2020
The Champs-Élysées, known throughout the world as the flagship of luxury, pleasure and power, is, in reality, a disputed space, permeated by political and social conflict.

This book invites us to look at it from the opposite perspective: poverty and lack of security in the midst of opulence, invisible work in...
The Champs-Élysées, known throughout the world as the flagship of luxury, pleasure and power, is, in reality, a disputed space, permeated by political and social conflict.

This book invites us to look at it from the opposite perspective: poverty and lack of security in the midst of opulence, invisible work in the very heart of luxury hotels.

Based on original research, and numerous interviews, it plunges us into the ambiguity and unique tensions of the Champs-Élysées.

Internationally known, this concentration of wealth and inequality is also an intensely political place, a metaphor of the world as it is and as it is contested, attacked and refused. Is “the most beautiful avenue in the world” also the most rebellious one?



 
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EAN : 9782348054570
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 288
Size : 135 x 220 mm
La Découverte