Sustainability imaginaries by design by Roy Bendor

“…Digital technology, in other words, not only has material consequences but mediates the meaning of sustainability and takes part in the creation and dissemination of sustainability imaginaries: collectively held beliefs about the world and how to act on it in a sustainable manner. On this background, I argue that we are witnessing the emergence of a new sustainability imaginary that stands on three pillars: ontological entanglements, premised in the observation that everything is connected and could only be fully understood through those connections; inclusive epistemologies, rejecting the reductivism of Western rationalism in favor of “othered,” more situated forms of knowledge; and a politics of mutuality and care that mobilizes generosity and reciprocity as the basis of social life. …”
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Tentes et rails. Les « jeunes » du Sud tunisien entre chômage, attente et protestation by Stefano Pontiggia

“…The article tells some of their stories, and analyses the reasons that drove them to act as they did. It shows that many of these protestors were unmarried men who, because of their lack of employment, were not in a position to fulfil the conditions that would make them adults: building a house and establishing a family. …”
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Conflict in Ukraine: Inflections Points after the Zeitenwende and Article 51 of the Charter of United Nations by Sebastian Kornhauser

“…A synallagmatic wrong parallel to how the US acted in Iraq and Afghanistan on an ‘if you can break international law, then so can we’ basis.…”
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Legal characteristics of volunteers engaged in organizing and hosting sports events by M.N. Maleina

“…The agreement on volunteer activity is concluded in practice and mentioned in legal acts, but its terms and responsibilities are not fixed. …”
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L’autorité internationale des fonds marins, l’environnement et le juge by Jean-Pierre Beurier

“…Since the advice of the International Tribunal of the law of the sea dated 2011, we know that States are responsible of the acts of their citizens in the international zone. …”
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Créer des problèmes. Eléments pour une pédagogie des problèmes à partir de G. Deleuze by Jean-Benoît Birck

“…Considérés, à l’inverse, dans l’acte libre de leur position ou de leur création, les problèmes ordonnent alors le mouvement de l’apprendre et la genèse d’une vérité produite plutôt que reçue ou reconnue. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF CULTURE AND RELIGION ON GENDER INEQUALITY AND IT IMPLICATIONS ON WOMEN EMPOWERMENT by GRACE ETIM-JAMES

“…Religion focuses on patriarchy and androcentrism. Religion acts as an oppressive deceptive mechanism used by the patriarchal society to exploit women based on defined gender roles and not by biological differences. …”
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A model of scientific communication as a global distributed information system by Bo-Christer Bjork

“…The purpose of the model is to act as a road map for policy discussions and research concerning the process. …”
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Le français dans l’écriture conradienne by Claude Maisonnat

“…The result is that French is essential to his art in so far as it provides a constant challenge to the master discourse of the authorial voice and thus constitutes the basis of the poetic dimension of his prose based on the Lacanian notion of lalangue, as if French acted as a surrogate maternal language.…”
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A Critical Look at Bilingual Physical Education in Spain by Francisco José Martínez-Hita

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Quality of services as a vector for expansion and development of service activities by I. Yu. Sofiyannikova

“…The article used both theoretical methods (analysis of current regulatory legal acts, as well as scientific works of researchers in this field) and empirical research methods (practical substantiation of the need to improve the quality of services provided to customers). …”
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Les Fiançailles au couvent : Prokofiev adapte La Duègne de Sheridan by Tetiana Zolozova

“…Prokofiev’s musical production is heavily indebted to his encounter with Britain’s literary heritage, with such important works as his ballet Romeo and Juliet after Shakespeare and his four-act opera buffa Betrothal in a Monastery after Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s The Duenna or The Double Elopement. …”
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Singapore Government Securitization Measures against Transboundary Haze Pollution as a Non-Traditional Security Threat by Muhammad Ramli

“…Keywords: existential threat; securitization policy; constructivism approach; transboundary haze pollution; speech act …”
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Status of the a class certified zoos and aquariums in turkey by Ahmet Selçuk Özen

“…In addition, to suggestions to establish a contemporary institution<p> <b>Materials and Methods:</b> In this study, the status of A class certified Zoos and Aquariums, established according to operational procedures and principles of the &#8220;Animal protection Law Article 22 with regulation number 5199 act&#8221; dated August 11, 2007 and published in Official Gazette with number 26610 in Turkey, were detected by observations, interviews, small number of literature and internet records.…”
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Corps-dissident, Corps-défendant. Le tatouage, une « peau de résistance » by Emma Viguier

“…The basis of such treatment in the past has related, and continues to relate, to one’s situation, religion or act : the slave, prisoner, criminal, social misfit, prostitute, enemy of the faith, « non-aryan » of the Nazi ideology. …”
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Appropriations habitantes dans les espaces intermédiaires des grands ensembles toulousains by Audrey Courbebaisse

“…In what way do the inhabitants’ appropriations of intermediate spaces constitute a political act and to what spatial and social rationale do they correspond? …”
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Contestations and Contradictions in the Argentine Redes de Trueque by Georgina M. Gómez, Joop de Wit

“…Complementary and Community Currency Systems are studied as schemes of monetary contestation, following the assumption that the rejection of official money implies a micro-political act of resistance to the government, the globalised economic system and the instruments of control that sustain them. …”
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Villy Sørensen’s Hermeneutics of the Fall by Rasa Alė Petronytė

“…The interpretation of the short story “The Soldier’s Christmas Eve” highlights several aspects of the hermeneutics of symbols which constitute consciousness: (1) the unmasking of consciousness by revealing the split in the psyche is irreversible, (2) the archaeology and eschatology of the subject are interrelated: they contradict each other, yet are mutually constitutive, (3) the conscious becomes true consciousness only by adopting the hermeneutical task: consciousness is the act of interpreting representations of meaning outside the conscious. …”
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Human studies and user studies: a call for methodological inter-disciplinarity (Brenda Dervin) by Brenda Dervin

“…The origins and symptoms of these disciplinary overloads and the usual forms of inter-disciplinarity brought to bear on them are traced and the author argues that most usual approaches to inter-disciplinarity act as more of the same and contribute to overload conditions. …”
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Séquence d’introduction de discours représenté : faire ou dire ? by Lotfi Abouda, Nina Rendulic

“…We will show that this particular use of faire, which cannot systematically be paraphrased by dire, presents, in relation to the latter, an additional pragmatic value which consists in presentifying a represented speech act by mimicking it and replaying it. This process, along with its rhetorical function of sustaining active listening and involvement by the interlocutor, allows the speaker to conceal an underlying argumentative issue.…”
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