Paganism in Tess of the D’Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure: The Possibility of Faith and Ethics in a Darwinian World by Marie Panter

“…By using Darwin, he relates to the early romantic debates with Deism, natural philosophy, and the foundation of republican ethics and politics.…”
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Survivre, renverser, réparer : personnages féminins et animaux à la fin de l’Androcène by Jodie Lou Bessonnet

“…These novels look at the Anthropocene not only through the environmental approach but also through the prism of an animal ethic, considering the crossing between sexism and specism that Carol Adams identified as the “sexual politics of meat” (2010 [1990]). The apocalyptic novel allows however to reverse the power relationships, through a defensive violence first, but then opening to a potential reparation as the disaster questions the possibility of a feminist and anti-speciesist utopia.…”
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Médicaments génériques : pivot de la reconstruction de l’industrie pharmaceutique by Philippe Abecassis, Nathalie Coutinet

“…The pharma has a particular significance given the challenges it involves for public health, economics, politics and ethics. The medicines production is therefore subject to multiple and complex regulations, both national and international. …”
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Civil Society and the Democratization of Communications in Latin America by María Soledad Segura

“…Also, we propose theoretic problems that are derived from this analysis – civil society and its links to the state and the market, its influence in processes of defining public policies, the relation between media and politics, and communication democracy.…”
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House and Mobility: Portuguese Hindus and Brazilians in Lisbon in face of housing constraints by Rita Ávila Cachado, Simone Frangella

“…Drawing reflections from two ethnographic contexts in which we have been working, the Hindu-Gujarati and the Brazilian populations in Lisbon, we reflect upon the contours of their experiences, recounting their migration process, and different ways of being under housing vulnerability, as well as their responses to excluding urban politics. The lack of places to inhabit, drives people to different housing solutions, and to a constant mobility, through migration and remigration. …”
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Strategic Litigation in EU Law: Who does it Empower? by Pola Cebulak, Marta Morvillo, Stefan Salomon

“…The results of strategic litigation maintain or change power relations in society, economy or politics.…”
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La métro-périurbanisation comme nouveau paradigme ? by Émeline Bailly, Hervé Duret

“…This interdependent dynamics between metropolises and periurban spaces brings us from then on to consider these “metro-periurban” entities as a viable frame for sustainable urban politics adapted to the social and urban realities in presence.…”
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Introduction. Normes, silences, pouvoirs : pour une anthropologie critique des “violences fondées sur le genre” by Giovanna Cavatorta

“…This article outlines some reflections towards a critical anthropology of gender-based violence, which is interpreted as an object of politics, even a governmental stake, where moral economies and specific forms of victimization and culturalization emerge. …”
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Public Agency Capabilities and Transformational Challenges of the 21st Century by Richard Sturn

“…Under transformational challenges, the agency capacity of public sector is under stress due to a combination of two specific factors: (a) new coordination problems and social dilemmas, inter alia requiring changing degrees of centralisation of collective agency in a world of polycentric governance and (b) shifting rent potentials, which pre-empt public agency by multiplying situations where private agents have the means and the incentives to invest in rentenhancing and distortive rule setting (shadow politics). Coping with those challenges is a necessary condition for forwardlooking public policies.…”
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Vulnerability and Housing Policies through the Lens of Anthropology. An Introduction by Giacomo Pozzi, Rita Ávila Cachado, Ana Luísa Micaelo

“…In particular, the ethnographies hosted in this Dossier explore the dense intersection between different configurations of social and political action, such as housing rights, residents’ responses to public policies, vulnerability, real estate politics, migration, forced evictions, infrastructures. …”
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Une balle blanche dans un roman noir by Sophie Vallas

“…This paper analyzes the place of baseball in Squeeze Play: it first appears as an essential element in the very structure of the plot, but it is also, for Auster, a way of questioning the myth of the hero in an American society whose main aspects (sports, politics, private life) are eaten up by corruption and perversion. …”
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L’angosciosa resistenza: decostruire la categoria dell’“abbandono istituzionale” nel quartiere di edilizia popolare di San Siro (Milano) by Paolo Grassi

“…Thus, the paper will analyse this gap, its interpretative potential, and its function within the broader urban politics of Milan.…”
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Attitudes about Sea Level Rise Adaptation: Comparison between Miami-Dade and the Rest of Florida by Bailey Emrick, Misti Sharp, Xiang Bi

“… Sea-level rise and climate change are important issues in science, politics, and communities. Sea-level rise is a particularly contentious topic in Florida, where expected impacts include coastal flooding, shrinking shorelines, and saltwater intrusion. …”
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The "turn" to spirituality by C. Kourie

“…Post-patriarchal and telluric, contemporary spirituality affects all areas of society, including the business world, education, health care, the arts, ecology, politics, religion and particularly the academy, where new programmes in spirituality are attracting a large number of students. …”
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Everyday agency and centred marginality: being “youth” in the oil-rich Niger Delta of Nigeria by Akin Iwilade

“…This paper uses an ethnography of youth gangs in the oil-rich Niger Delta region of Nigeria to explore the distinctions between being young and being youth and to argue that, in order to understand the complexities of a category whose politics have profoundly influenced the history of contemporary social transitions in many African societies, one must analytically disaggregate its various components and highlight the interesting ways in which various contexts can shape it. …”
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A Dataset on “Social Media and India’s Foreign Policy: The Case Study of X Diplomacy During the Covid-19 Pandemic” by Mukund V. Narvenkar

“…Additionally, it examines how the Indian government leveraged X to communicate messages and shape narratives in international politics. This dataset offers valuable insights into social media’s impact on global diplomacy and crisis communication.…”
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Precarity as Resistance and Cultural Solidarity by Abdul Aziz Hafiz

“… This discursive paper uses the work of Freire and others to propose a critical pedagogy for precarity which is grounded in forms of radical (post)politics. A critical pedagogy for precarity is proposed that calls for a replacement of, or synthesis with, the UK government’s employability in HE agenda. …”
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Visual Chronicles from the Balkans and Central Europe: Samplers Remembered by Maria-Alina Asavei

“…Although these hand-crafted items are no longer part of today’s ‘compulsory’ household, they are still regarded as nostalgic, familiar or emotional forms of materiality and tangibility which perform a cultural politics of identity. These vernacular textiles predate the digital age and the free market and yet co-evolve and interact with digital networks and technologies. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…But, as a faraway echo of past battles, political sticking points are still counteracting the implementation of this teaching.…”
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Developing Potential and Sharing Knowledge: How German Companies Can Gain a Foothold in Africa by Dirk Dohse, Sophia Fehrenbacher, Philipp von Carlowitz

“…This article examines how the digital transformation is changing the investment and innovation conditions in Africa, how German companies can utilise new opportunities resulting from these changes and how politics can foster greater commitment by German and European companies in Africa.…”
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