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Translation and response between Maurice Blanchot and Lydia Davis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
When an author translates a text by another writer, this translation is one form of a response to that text. Other responses may appear in their own writings that are more inflected with their authorial persona.
Evans, Jonathan
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Kihnu, Manilaid et Ruhnu : au sujet des relations [PDF]

open access: yesDynamiques environnementales, 2018
Cet article a pour but d'examiner les relations entre l'homme et la nature dans les contextes cotiers et insulaires, a partir d'enquetes ethnographiques de terrain menees au cours des quatre dernieres annees sur les iles de Kihnu, Manilaid et Ruhnu (partie estonienne du Golfe de Riga).
openaire   +3 more sources

Du Discours sur l’Inégalité à l’Émile : le parcours anthropologique de Rousseau [PDF]

open access: yes, 1988
Le point de départ de cette étude est un passage de la préface du Discours sur l'Inégalité, passage qui, quoique souligné par Rousseau, n'a pas longtemps retenu l'attention des commentateurs. Il s'agit du texte suivant : « ...
Nguyen, Vinh-De
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Electrified rhythms: How hydropower infrastructure transforms hydrosocial relations of riverine communities in the Lower Sogamoso River, Colombia

open access: yesPeople and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Hydropower dams regulate water flows for millions of downstream inhabitants worldwide, altering water availability. Under a changing climate, flow control is often framed technically and politically as being essential for reducing drought and flood risks. However, it can also disrupt ecological flows, impact livelihoods and erode environmental
Laura Betancur‐Alarcón   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

De l'idée d'un développement durable socio-centré à la nécessité d'une gouvernance environnementale éclairée. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2006
International audience" Favoriser un état d'harmonie entre les êtres humains et entre l'homme et la nature ", telle est la proposition du Rapport Brundtland pour aller vers le développement durable.
Sébastien, Léa
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Crossing boundaries: women's gossip, insults and violence in sixteenth-century France [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Using evidence from cases recorded in the registers of the consistories of southern France, the author investigates the way in which Languedocian women policed each other's behaviour, enforcing a collective morality through gossip, sexual insult and ...
Lipscomb, Suzannah
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Revitalizing endangered mycocultural heritage in Mesoamerica: The case of the Tlahuica‐Pjiekakjoo culture

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The preservation and revitalization of mycocultural heritage, developed over centuries of human‐mushroom interaction, contributes to safeguarding both natural ecosystems and the promotion of sustainable rural development, one of the biggest global challenges currently faced by humankind.
Elisette Ramírez‐Carbajal   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Physical attractiveness, drug taking and gender differences

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.
Abstract This study investigates the relationship between adolescent physical attractiveness and drug‐taking behaviour, emphasizing the human capital and “pretty girl” effects on the decision to use drugs. Through the human capital effect, physically attractive adolescents are better positioned to accumulate human capital at a young age compared to ...
Andy Chung, Junsen Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

For scientists, for students or for the public? : the shifting roles of natural history museums [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This article aims to discuss the main roles of natural history museums and to show how these purposes have evolved and adapted throughout the museums’ history, as a response to the development of natural sciences and societal change, from their creation ...
Delicado, Ana
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