“Pre-wedding” photos and the coastline for young Chinese couples: the staging of an imagination from the Western world? by Meng Li

“…Our sites for this research are in Shanghai and Sanya in China, and on the island of Phuket in Thailand, where we will also see the spatial and social construction which underlies this cultural industry, through its actors.…”
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A Sámi media system? by Rasmussen Torkel, Sara Inker-Anni, Krøvel Roy

“…Numerous Sámi activists and organisations have contributed to the establishment and running of Sámi media – in interaction, cooperation, and conflict with external actors such as missionaries, investors, and state institutions. …”
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Le Parc des Caudreleux, malgré lui. Une défense et une illustration du concept de métaprojet by Denis Delbaere

“…Considering the specific way that time transforms open spaces, the author presents the concept of metaprojet in order to think of a projects’ continuity after its realization and through the role of actors who appropriate the space. The paper focuses on a park designed by the author himself, who describes its design, its building and its alteration over a period of twenty years. …”
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Structuration, fondements et objectifs de la politique linguistique au Pays Basque by Eguzki Urteaga

“…This shows the will of the public authorities to return to a more classic scheme of local governance, with public authorities on the one hand and associative actors on the other, brought together in a Consultative Committee, and their desire to put in place a more ambitious public policy in favour of the revitalisation of the Basque language. …”
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Les pratiques collaboratives inclusives en territoire insulaire dispersé. Exemple de la Polynésie française by Philippe Kerfourn

“…They contribute to a better understanding of inclusive collaborative practices between the various actors of inclusive education in a dispersed island territory.…”
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Les réfections chirurgicales de l’hymen en Tunisie. Des techniques de purification et d’absolution ? by Ibtissem Ben Dridi

“…It also investigates how the various actors involved (young women, medical personnel, religious authorities) construct specific discourses entailing a moral logic that justifies the reconstruction of the hymen through the mobilization of the principles of repentance, protection and the common good, as well as the notion of physical and psychic purification. …”
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Géopolitique africaine et rébellions touarègues. Approches locales, approches globales (1960-2011) by Pierre Boilley

“…However, since the revolt of 1963-64, the Tuaregs have always had to deal with policies beyond their own interests and African and global geostrategies with multiple actors and interests. By analyzing the facts we were able to place these realities back in their contexts and better understand the progress and failures of these struggles. …”
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Capitalisme(s) et Politique by Éric Lahille

“…In an institutional and intellectual context marked by the tightening grip of neo-liberal ideas, the project consists of a work of cross-fertilization allowing the development of a broader conceptual framework articulating the “actors’ varied forms of political regulation and political work” from a constructivist perspective.…”
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Sociabilidade, cultura e biodiversidade na Beira de Abaetetuba no Pará by Flávio Bezerra Barros

“…The present text focuses the Abaetetuba/Pará ("the edge") market concerning the aspects of the sociability, culture and biodiversity, and the way these factors infl uence the daily life of the local actors. The participant observation and the accomplishment of interviews and informal colloquies were the main methods of collection of data. …”
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Coloniality and tourism: the fabric of identities and alterities in India by Anthony Goreau-Ponceaud

“…Country crossed by the colonial matrix, India constitutes a relevant example for thinking about tourist situations and showing how institutional (Indian government) and non-institutional actors (companies, domestic tourists, members of the diaspora) mobilize tourist imaginaries for support or redefine collective identities and alterities - even sometimes reinforce them. …”
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Transport durable et développement économique by Corinne Meunier, Thomas Zéroual

“…On freight transportation, the European Union policy exercises a determining opinion, both on the French public policies (at every scale) and on most of the actors stepping in the transportation domain in France. …”
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Ouverture sociale : intérêts et limites d’une politique ambitieuse by Viviana Urrego, Najoua Mohib

“…The results of the survey carried out among three categories of actors involved (pilots, students, pedagogical team) lead to questioning the relevance of the model of meritocratic equality of opportunity on which most current initiatives are based.…”
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Constructing Sonic Heritage: The Accumulation of Knowledge in the Context of Sound Archives by Johannes Müske

“…This paper argues that sonic heritage does not exist per se, but is socially constructed. rather it arises from various measures of accumulating knowledge with respect to the collected sounds. a variety of actors, for example, scholars, or foundations, participate in this process by editing parts of the collections, publishing ethnographic or historic studies, and conducting digitisation projects. …”
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Avventure e disavventure dei processi di co-sviluppo by Bruno Riccio

“… "Co-development" is the term to name those aid projects where migrants present themselves as "actors of development. Those programmes involve also local government, migrant and non-migrant associations and NGOs. …”
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Sécurité et Développement by Agnès Bergeret

“…Our analysis is rooted in the study of a particular case – a municipality with a native and peasant majority – to show how the words of the public policies are traduced by the local actors in their configuration of the power struggle: Are revealed the links between violence, juridical evolution, monetarization and commoditization of the property of land.…”
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Sylvain Maechler, Accounting for Nature: Risk, Uncertainty, and the Global Political Economy of the Ecological Crisis by Sylvain Maechler

“…This thesis looks at the various ways in which accounting has been mobilized over the past four decades by a variety of international actors in order to face the global ecological crisis. …”
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Les TIC sont-ils les nouveaux territoires de la diaspora chinoise ? by Joy Raynaud

“…This study highlights the existence of new interactions between actors (Chinese student community of Montpellier), territories (Chinese and French) and networks (ICTs). …”
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Ik’aletik « Les hommes noirs » by Rocío Noemí Martínez González

“…This article shows how the multiple names attributed to actors of the k’in tajimol festival—Black Lords, Wind Lords, Our Ape Fathers, Mixed-Race Fathers of the Night, Devil, Judas, Mixed-Race Elder Brother—reveal their nocturnal nature. …”
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À quoi pensent les archives de la jouabilité? by Hugo Montembeault, Simon Dor

“…The remarkable devotion of these communities for their objects situate them as privileged witnesses and core historiographical actors to document, preserve and write the history of videogames. …”
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Strengthening the Resilience of Objective-Oriented Health System Reforms. Analysis of the Left-Turn in the Health Reform Proposals in Mexico (2019) and Colombia (2023) by Laura Flamand, Octavio Gómez-Dantés, Natalia Losada-Trujillo, Diana Pinto, Edson Serván-Mori, Diego Cerecero-García, Thomas Hone, Sumit Mazumdar

“…We also conducted in-depth interviews with key actors about the factors behind the need for reform, the policy proposals, and the public and legislative debates. …”
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