By Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3714557 Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA   “Feeling” is a social reality     Today, I would like to start a new cycle on the tax question, debate brought to light in France by the movement of yellow vests and more generally in Europe through various movements in recent years. When I started to study the tax issue, my questioning was to understand what motivated the anti-tax revolts, in the 17th and 18th centuries : from the Fronde [1] , to the “Bonnets rouges” [2] , from 1738-1739 to the crisis of subsistence of 1740 and the “guerre des farines” [3] , during which the rumor denounced a new “famine pact”, to use the expression of Prévost de Beaumont. My line of work, questioning the french national and regional archives, was to know what motivated these crowd movements : political campaigns launching rumors and publishing libels against the monarchy, popular reaction to th...

By Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3576363 Licensed under the CreativeCommons4.0 BY-NC-SA   Today, to celebrate the first anniversary of the Yellow Vests movement, I would like to focus on these anonymous women who daily fight in the name of ancestral solidarity forgotten in recent decades 1 . The feminine sociological composition of the Yellow Vest troops challenges the observer, as it sticks to historical realities of peaceful revolutionary struggles of women : not just to defend their individual rights, their own bodies, according to the feminist slogan of the « second wave », from the 1960s and 1970s, but much more to a universal feminism fighting for human rights, against all types of oppression, not for their own body but for the entire social body. It is to these pioneers of care that I want to pay tribute today, to those forgotten in History, overshadowed by some contemporary figures erasing th...

by Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3549366 Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA While the new French « Immigration Plan » has just been revealed on November 6th, I would like to focus on the changes made to « l’Aide médicale d’Etat » (AME). Sometimes presented as the incarnation of French laxity with regard to illegal immigration, sometimes presented as the gateway to « medical tourism », AME cover the health expenses of undocumented migrants living in France.  The myth of « medical tourism of the migrant », (phenomenon totally marginal according to Médecins du Monde), is a powerful lever of contemporary identity discourses. In reality only 3% of undocumented migrants cite health as a reason for migration and 85% of the patients supported by the association and eligible for the device are unaware of its existence. Beyond individual care, the AME is a real public health tool, one of...

By Deborah Liebart . First appeared on DisputatioMagistrorum . DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3517866 CC BY-NC-SA A few months ago, I asked the question of utopia and dystopia by re-reading Thomas More’s De optimo rei .  Today, I would like to come back to the issue basing my observation on the latest developments concerning the automation and digitization of welfare in Europe, and the ethical issues that this raises, in the field of care, in a broad sense : care, universal credit… It may be time to really question our societies, their ability to create and recreate social bonds, trust, affect, empathy,…, their ability to maintain their humanity, both in the treatment of individuals by the central states, and in the daily interindividual relations on which each of us can act.   The automation of the British healthcare system 1 shows in retrospect that while many pre-existing problems remain, new challenges, specific to the system itself, are emerging 2 , at a time w...