Crisis of confidence?

Summary "It is commonly accepted that trust is the elementary virtue of any social life: without trust, the behaviors of our fellow human beings would be unpredictable and dangerous, whereas it allows us to anticipate their actions and reactions. But the establishment of trust relies on cultural, institutional, social and, often, imaginary and religious devices. However, we have to recognize that our contemporary societies are disrupted by crises of confidence with very diverse manifestations: questioning of political elites, scientific knowledge and expertise, the success of conspiracy theories, etc. At the same time, these crises do not stop at the very beginning of the crisis. At the same time, these crises do not prevent the construction of other modalities of trust. While it is important to analyze the way in which trust is weakened, or even destroyed, it is also necessary to understand the continuous production of trust in new forms. This is the purpose of this collective work, which brings together original contributions by researchers from a number of human and social science disciplines: history, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, communication science, etc. These plural approaches help to shed light on a theme that embraces the entirety of the life of societies and can be broken down into multiple questions and objects.