“Sustainable security” through river enlargements: A political ecology of nature-based solutions and flood control in the Rhone Valley, Switzerland by Alexis Metzger, René Véron

“…The largest ongoing river training project in Switzerland, the so-called Third Correction of the Rhone in the Valais, builds on nature-based solutions (river enlargements and renaturation) while official documents and discourses also refer to an ill-defined notion of “sustainable security” and the goal of controlling floods. Drawing on qualitative data from stakeholder interviews and analysis of official documents, this paper examines the concept of sustainable security, as it is applied to the river project in terms of a balance between security and environmental concerns, the relationship between the three pillars of sustainability, and the opportunities of the population to debate the spatial development of the Rhone Valley. …”
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Service Design for the Public Sector by Lorenzo Imbesi, Birgit Mager, Luca D’Elia, Sonia Belhaj, Luca Baldini

“… This contribution examines the application of Service Design within the public sector, drawing on the challenges posed by the so-called wicked problems to understand its potential and limitations. …”
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Insights into Factors Influencing Thermoplastic Elastomer (TPE) Foam Production and the Role of Induced Crystallization by Nigus Maregu Demewoz

“…The advancements achieved in polymer foam are thoroughly evaluated in terms of both progress and limitations, drawing insights from various research findings. Furthermore, the review examines recent developments and explores the effects of induced crystallization on TPE foam.…”
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"Religion and Mythology : A Poetics of indianité in Francis Gilbert Ponaman’s La nuit du Swami" by Shweta Deshpande

“…La nuit du Swami (2004), a collection of short stories by the Guadeloupean writer Francis Gilbert Ponaman, echoes the history of Indian migration and the resulting Indo-Caribbean identity. Drawing on the notion of indianité, I focus on some of those stories to examine the ways in which religious practices, customs and traditions brought from India through the historical kala pani crossings of indenture, are transmitted to Guadeloupe’s sociocultural landscape. …”
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L’intervention ergonomique comme acte pédagogique by Bernard Dugué, Johann Petit, François Daniellou

“…From a model describing the possible pedagogical exchange registers, and emphasizing the possible links between the instructor, the learners and the types of knowledge, we attempt to show the interest in drawing from concepts of education sciences in order to understand and structure ergonomic intervention processes. …”
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Accompagner les pratiques masturbatoires des adolescent.e.s dans des institutions pour personnes dites autistes : gestion du collectif, crainte de l’intime by Adrien Primerano

“…Drawing on a fourteen-month ethnographic study conducted within three specialized institutions for young people designated as autistic, and thirty interviews with its professionals, this article addresses discourses and practices related to masturbation. …”
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DESIGN AND CONTROL OF A MULTI-LEGGED ROBOT WITH GEAR ROD COMBINATION MECNANISM by WANG XiangLing, ZHANG Lin

“…Based on crawling patterns of arthropod such as spiders and crabs,a multi-legged robot with gear rod combination mechanism was designed by drawing method which met the requirements of predetermined trajectory. …”
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A inflexão zapatista: o Congreso Nacional Indígena e a candidatura presidencial em 2018 by Simone da Silva Ribeiro Gomes, Guilherme Figueredo Benzaquen

“…This text discusses the announcement of support by the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) to the Mexican presidential elections of 2018 by the Congreso Nacional Indigena (CNI). Drawing from the analysis of 31 speeches of EZLN, initiated with the announcement of the candidature and following CNI documents, we will discuss central issues for the analysis of this social movement, active since 1994, like the relationship of this movement with the State and the choice of an indigenous woman as their candidate. …”
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Des féministes qui ne sont pas féministes ? by Audrey Lasserre

“…Drawing from research in literary history dedicated to the Women's Liberation Movement in France, this contribution tells a story that is specific to radical women writers in France at this time: the story of their refusal, for some in the early 1970s, for others at the turn of the 1980s, to designate themselves as feminists. …”
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Contesting digital leisure time: Parental struggles in relation to young children's play with tablets at home by Lundtofte Thomas Enemark

“…Young children's practices with tablet computers has been a topic in parenting discourses for several years, drawing on earlier debates over technologies and media in children's lives. …”
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Violence, Politics and Religion: A Case Study of the Black Panther Party by Sergio García-Magariño, Aaron Yates

“…Through the lens of radicalization, this paper examines the place of violence in the Party’s ideological platform and political practice relative to the Party’s secularism and experience of state repression. Drawing on newly available archival materials, we examine how Party members conceptualized their own programs, made sense of, and responded to the repressive intervention of state actors and institutions in their attempts to create social change.…”
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Permanences bilatérales dans l’aide au développement en Afrique subsaharienne by Thierry Simon

“…This period witnessed the piling up of a formidable amount of budgetary help and various sectorial programmes, with a wealth of projects and micro-projects. Drawing on the hindsight of this last half-century, this paper attempts to focus on the process of French and British bilateral aid within the nebula of this expansion. …”
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Waste and the neoliberal work of blame: Reading politics from Cape Town’s informal landscapes by Angela D. Storey

“…Such local understandings are set against the municipality’s neoliberal framing of resident interactions with waste and infrastructure as irresponsible and illegal, implying that residents are to blame for service limitations and using this to justify further restrictions. Drawing from public service campaigns and ethnographic research, this article examines neoliberal ideologies as discourses of blame that erase the political context for marginalized lives, and argues for the need to understand ideologies of governance by setting them against the broad politics of everyday life.…”
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"Under Ben Bulben" : la montagne chez W.B. Yeats ou la rencontre du moi et du Soi by Michel Dufour

“…The article shows how, by drawing on multiple traditions and unifying them aesthetically into a complex symbol, the poet strives to embody the universal voice of the Self…”
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Le genre tactile : repenser les imbrications entre la matière et la parole au prisme de l’imagination et de l’expérience by Luca Greco

“…Drawing from a multiplicity of contexts (drag king workshops, consciousness raising groups and artistic performances), I will analyze how touching practices are mobilized and interpreted by social actors as gender (de)construction devices. …”
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Revendication des droits civiques et préparation au « jour J » : mobilisation et stratégies des féministes radicales allemandes pour obtenir le droit de vote (années 1890-1918)... by Anne-Laure Briatte

“…This article traces the struggles of German “radical” feminists in enabling and preparing for women’s access to the right to vote and to stand for election. Drawing on articles in the fortnightly journal Die Frauenbewegung (The Women’s Movement), the official press organ of the “radical” bourgeois women’s movement, and on pamphlets and memoirs published by “radical” feminists, it shows that, starting from a somewhat idealized conception of Parliament and relying heavily on this to defend women’s interests, “radical” feminists gradually domesticated politics, through their symbolic entry into the political arena and through the subjects they managed to place on the agenda of parliamentary debates. …”
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Réseaux relationnels et éclectisme culturel by Armelle Bergé, Fabien Granjon

“…This article explores different patterns of cultural activities that mix differently ranked cultural elements, focusing on their relations to sociability. Drawing on examples from qualitative research, we show how cultural legitimacies can be produced by and worked out through the activities of groups and the ways in which cultural activities are combined and distributed, either in conversations — in talking — or in shared practices — in doing — according to the various groups that compose one’s relational network. …”
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How the industrial journalist can promote good relations by Dirk Venter, Bosman Olivier

“…Managements must inform and motivate their employees at all times, drawing them closer to the heart of the company or organisation through messages conveyed by management supporting their job security, remuneration and recognition and increasing their insight and knowledge of the total work environment. …”
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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover by Marc Amfreville

“…Robert Coover’s yet unpublished (in its original English version at least) latest novel Noir forces its reader by addressing him/her directly to acknowledge and deconstruct various clichés of the City. Drawing from recognizable romances and tales of detection (early English, American and Victorian Gothic), but also from classic writers such as Hawthorne and Conrad, not to mention Chandler and the film adaptation of The Big Sleep, Coover takes us into an urban nightmare in its horizontal labyrinthine dimension and its vertical and spectral depths. …”
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Illusion in Du Châtelet's Theory of Happiness

“…I offer an account of Du Châtelet’s theory of illusion by drawing upon the previously unexamined influence of other French philosophers’ accounts of the connection between passion and illusions, including Descartes, Malebranche, and Anne-Thérèse, Marquise de Lambert. …”
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