Kally Forrest (2024) Lydia: An Anthem to the Unity of Women. Johannesburg: Jacana Media. ISBN 9781431434800. 230 pp. ZAR300.00 (paperback); US$ 19.55 (kindle) by Diane Cooper

“…The biography chronicles her journey from her rural childhood, to her life as a trade unionist and a rural land restitution activist, to a member of South Africa’s first democratic parliament. …”
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From Carpentaria to The Swan Book: finding a voice to narrate and resist the threat of extinction in Alexis Wright’s latest work by Anne LE GUELLEC-MINEL

“…Alexis Wright is an acclaimed Australian author as well as a dedicated activist for indigenous sovereignty. In her most recent novel, The Swan Book (2013), Wright contextualises climate change and the extinction anxieties Western urbanized audiences are finding increasingly difficult to ignore within the time frame of the European settlement of Australia, and the much larger time frame of Aboriginal presence on Country. …”
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« Going limp » : Usages et mises en scène de la vulnérabilité comme stratégie militante lors d’actions désobéissantes aux États-Unis by Charlotte Thomas Hébert

“…It contends that by performing refusal, activists deploy their vulnerability as a strategic tool. …”
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Les Archives de la planète, entre ressource documentaire et matière à récits by Valérie Perlès

“…During Albert Khan’s lifetime, the academic, documentary, activist and aesthetic dimensions interacted. Since then, the collections have been passed on to the department of Hauts-de-Seine, and the banker’s estate has become a museum. …”
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« Pieds Noirs Rythmes : un orchestre de détenus OAS dans le “Sing-Sing” français » by Jean-Claude Vimont

“…From 1962 to 1968, several hundreds of activist members of the OAS (Organisation of the Secret Army), i.e. partisans of a French Algeria, were condemned to be incarcerated in the barracks of Thoiras, a maximum-security prison located near the citadel of Saint-Martin-de-Ré. …”
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L’homonationalisme n’est-il que homo ? by Noureddine Noukhkhaly

“…To do so, I examine scientific and activist, anti-racist, decolonial and/or queer discourses who highlighted the refusal of coming out. …”
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Produire des archives lesbiennes : transmissions communautaires et connexions temporelles by Mathilde Petit

“…This article addresses the archival practices of lesbian activists from the angle of the desire for transmission that animates them through the studies of activist texts produced between 1975 and 1990. …”
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Négocier la reconnaissance de sa citoyenneté par le squat by Alizée Lazzarino

“…Based on a reflection on citizenship, this article analyzes the activist trajectory of a collective of female sex workers in Barcelona through their involvement in non-residential squats (illegally occupied spaces). …”
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Quels curricula d’éducation au politique dans les questions environnementales et de développement ? by Angela Barthes

“…It repositions a history of environmental and development education in a political education perspective to show the role of institutional, activist and scholarly spheres in the successive phases and currents of environmental, sustainable development and anthropocene education. …”
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« Notre histoire compte » : Transmettre l’histoire des mouvements féministes et lesbiens à Genève by Carolina Topini, Isabelle Salem Diego Sentis

“…This article presents the approach and the stakes involved in the activist project « Our places, our parties, our fights: our history matters ». …”
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Renaissance arabe et solidarité musulmane dans La Nation arabe by Anne-Claire de Gayffier-Bonneville

“…Signs of this awakening are reported, in particular, the mutual interest that Arabs show for one another, the solidarity of people who are suffering and the emergence of uncommon personalities. The journal had an activist stance which was original for that time : it intended to mobilize Arabs and Muslims not only towards fighting the occupying powers but also towards fighting against the Zionist project which threatened the territorial integrity of Palestine and which symbolised the Arab nation.…”
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Gustav Landauer : le devenir révolutionnaire comme alternative anarchiste by Anatole Lucet

“…German philosopher and activist Gustav Landauer (1870-1919) promoted an original form of “anarchism-socialism”, thereby challenging social and political standards under Wilhelm II. …”
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Mainstreaming Urban Interventionist Practices: the Case of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin by Monika Grubbauer

“…The Lab’s temporary residence in Berlin in 2012 encountered fierce protests from residents and activist groups. I revisit the ensuing public debates and discuss the impact they had on the project. …”
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De la «  modération  » chez des cadres du Parti de la justice et du développement au Maroc : réhabiliter la religion/l’idéologie dans l’analyse de l’islamisme by Haoues Seniguer, Hassan Zouaoui

“…However this terminology is very problematic as it reifies an activist use. Indeed, there is some confusion between two different processes: on the one hand, the legalism of the Islamists who take part in Institutions; and on the other hand, their renunciation to moral crusades in the political sphere. …”
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Défendre la culture gaie. Entretien avec David Halperin by David M. Halperin, Mathieu Trachman

“…In this interview David Halperin discusses his background as an academic and as an activist. He describes the direction his present research is taking and the evolution of homosexual activism in the United States, the reasons for the increased depoliticization of homosexuality, and argues that queer theory has misrepresented the character of the lesbian and gay studies which preceded it. …”
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Du « je » au « nous ». Le Théâtre de l’opprimé comme grammaire d’une parole collective by Sophie Coudray

“…The Theatre of the Oppressed appears as a theatrical pedagogy dedicated to “non-actors” – oppressed, vulnerable subjects – whose openly activist purpose implies the construction of a collective political subject. …”
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L’intervention développementale comme outil d’expansion de l’activité d’animation d’ateliers de slam de poésie by Élodie Géas, Vincent Grosstephan, Stéphane Brau-Antony

“…Developmental interventions represent an alternative form of research that is resolutely activist and interventionist, supporting the efforts of actors to reconceptualize and transform their activity, thus questioning their respective places. …”
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Francoféminisme en Tunisie : pratiques langagières et enjeux institutionnels by Mariem Guellouz, Sélima Kebaïli

“…Based on historical archives and ethnographic fieldwork in Tunisia, the article analyses language ideologies that articulate the practice of the French language and modernity as well as the processes that has participated to shape the institutional and activist feminist field in Tunisia. and proposes the term francofeminism to characterize this process.…”
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Life on board ship and cultural intimacy. Notes from the Central Mediterranean by Jasmine Iozzelli

“…When they meet aboard seagoing vessels, these currents construct a highly diverse range of shared spaces.Exploring both the macro-structure and some of the micro-practices that constitute these spaces, I attempt to point up some of the contradictions – between humanitarian logic and activist demands, between efficiency and processes of dehumanization, between formal rationality and the unpredictability of events – that arise in the construction of a sense of belonging on board a large SAR ship.…”
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Tolérance et transgressivité : le jeu à somme nulle des gauchistes et des islamistes tunisiens by Michaël Béchir Ayari

“…Moreover, in mid 2000s, the release of jailed Ennhada militants and the return of exiled activists suggest that a protest cycle of a new kind is under way. …”
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