La Créolité, vingt ans après by Jean Bernabé

“…About twenty years after the publication of the essay In Praise of Creoleness, it was necessary to come back to the concept that constitutes its main theme, even if it meant revisiting, or even revising, in a self-critical perspective, some of its ideological and political implications. Beyond the semantic value of the word "creole" and analysis of the modes and processes of linguistic creolization, this article aims at containing the various potential risks, among which, for instance, that of communitarianism which may follow from an unduly essentialist sense of the term, the sharing of ancestors then appearing as both the optimal definition of Creoleness and the antidote to the communitarian reduction.…”
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Immigrant Gambling in Finland by Perpetual Crentsil

“… An anthropological study of gambling among immigrant groups in Finland can reveal much about how the society organizes its way of life in categories  elevant for the economist, sociologist, political scientist and the historian. Anthropological studies of other aspects of immigrants’ lives—remittance giving, socio-economic status, and development issues in origin countries—usually present immigrants as ethnographic subjects. …”
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Impressionist Art in Private Clubs: The Case Study of the Union League Club (1886-1902) by Claire Hendren

“…Using New York’s Union League Club as a case study, this article highlights the motivations and impact, both aesthetic and political, of the club’s approval of Impressionism. …”
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Quand le savant l’emporte sur le politique by David Diallo

“…Through my analysis of the controversy caused by Wilson thesis, I importantly address issues of methodology, analytical rigor, and objectivity in scholarly works and emphasize highly biased assumptions presented by myopic researchers who let racial and political ideology take precedence over objectivity.…”
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Autofictions in Co-labouring by Diana Damian Martin, Daniela Perazzo, Nik Wakefield

“… In this co-authored text, the Dissonant Co-Labouring Key Group examines the difficulties, gaps, political slippages and entanglements of collaboration in its encounter with artistic and educational institutions. …”
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«It is necessary to bring sincere thanks to the donators who willingly responded to the call of the church to help in difficult times...»: report on activities of the Parish Counci... by A. V. Sushko

“…It denotes a change in government policy from struggle with religion, which consisted in the transition from taxation turned out to be insufficiently effective pressure on the community, to political repression against its leaders. The work is addressed to researchers of the Soviet society, specialists in the history of the Russian Orthodox Church…”
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Deutsche Bahn: Unbundling 2.0! by Jürgen Kühling, Cornelia Gremm

“…So far, however, the political will has been lacking. In its current report, the Monopolies Commission therefore presents measures to remedy the current independence and transparency problems in the existing framework.…”
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“Our Life Was Divided in Many Facets”:Anna Foa Yona, an Anti-Fascist Jewish Refugee in Wartime United States by Stefano Luconi

“…The article uses her experience as a case study for the intertwinement between political exile and economic migration, in addition to shedding light on Jewish identity in exile.…”
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Waste, weeds, and wild food by Flaminia Paddeu

“…Drawing on three bodies of critical geography literature, namely urban informality studies, radical food studies, and urban political economy and ecology, it advocates that investigating urban food collecting provides a tool to analyze structural forms of power, exclusion, injustice and inequality as well as alternative pathways in spaces of advanced capitalism.…”
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Negotiating Trans Affect in Luka Holmegaard’s Havet i munden by Tais Terletskaja

“…Through a reading of Havet i munden (2023) [The Ocean in Your Mouth] by Danish author Luka Holmegaard, the article discerns poetic strategies for navigating the politically pressurized present. The article argues that in troubling the relation between pleasure and pain, exhibiting representational restraint, and attuning to bodily sensations, Havet i munden offers a renegotiation of trans affect, exhibiting the desire to move beyond the constraints of marked identity entirely. …”
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La ira anticlerical de mayo de 1931. Religión, política y propaganda by Mirta Núñez Díaz-Balart

“…The de facto adversaries of the Republicans, including the powerful Catholic Church, were forced into taking a political stance. From that moment on, the journalistic and propagandistic battle lines were clearly drawn for both the government and its opponents, until the military coup of 1936.…”
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Le populisme climatique de Donald J. Trump et le libre marché des idées by Jean-Daniel Collomb

“…In addition, the article demonstrates that the current political and media environment in the United States reinforces climate populism.…”
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«On seven dashing blowing winds...» (About book by D. I. Petin «The History of the Omsk clan of Batyushkin») by A. A. Shtyrbul

“…The author analyzes the peculiarities of the author’s approach to coverage on the example of a single Omsk family and the mansion of political and social history that belonged to it in more than a century of the functioning of the Russian statehood. …”
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Hydroélectricité et conflits paysagers dans la montagne pyrénéenne du début du xxe siècle à la création du parc national by Emmanuelle Heaulmé

“…It is during this period that, in Cauterets, the landscape became a part of local political action and a key element in the project for the development of the valley.…”
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América Latina luego del mito del progreso neoliberal: las políticas sociales y el problema de la desigualdad by Claudia C. Danani

“…The article develops three sections: the first focuses on the theoretical and political differences between equality and equity and also analyzes why equity replaced equality during period of Neoliberal hegemony. …”
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« La durabilité forte : enjeux épistémologiques et politiques, de l’économie écologique aux autres sciences sociales » by Valérie Boisvert, Leslie Carnoye, Rémy Petitimbert

“…The notion of "strong sustainability" is being reassessed in different disciplines of the humanities and social sciences such as history (Quenet, 2016), geography (Chartier, 2016), but also ethics and political science. It obviously raises important epistemological questions about the integration of environmental issues into social sciences (Blanc et al., 2017). …”
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The Word become Flesh. Wild orality and “palliative” conservation for the Mexican performative arts by Juan Gerardo Ugalde Salinas

“…Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Mexico's political and social context has influenced a body of performance artworks rich in activist connotations, full of black humor and references to the violence and injustice surrounding. …”
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Domestiquer l’Orient. La contre-histoire balzacienne de la domestication by Élisabeth Plas

“…While the relationship to animals is still seen a territory of naturalness, this article shows, from Balzac’s short story Une Passion dans le désert’s example, that the relationships between men and animals are as social and political as those between men. The extraordinary encounter of a French soldier and a panther during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt questions the contemporary thesis on domestication, creates an allegory of practical and fantasmatic relationships between colonizers and indigenous, while inventing other possible and alternative relationships between animals and men.…”
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Quand les savoirs font ressource : constructions sociales et intégrations territoriales. by Audrey Sérandour

“…The hypothesis defended in this paper is that in default of participating directly in the exploitation of lithium, the knowledge produced in the "lithium triangle" assume a social and political role on other scales (namely regional, national, local).…”
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L’autopartage entre particuliers du point de vue des utilisateurs : quand la voiture devient un bien commun by Pierre Servain, Jérôme Sawtschuk, Dargentas Magdalini, Nicole Roux, Camille Noûs

“…Several forms exist : regulated loan of cars between relatives, joint purchase, assembly of an association, use of a service of putting in relation set up by a local authority… Based on interviews with practitioners of each of these modalities, the survey questions the motivations for participating in such approaches, in terms of economic interest, ethical choices and political justifications. Looking at the practical modalities as well as the issues discussed in terms of organization and communication makes it possible to analyze experiments giving different relationships to property.…”
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