Upstream Flows of Water: from the Lesotho Highlands to Metropolitan South Africa by Yannick Rousselot

“…The LHWP has resulted in a reproduction of the asymmetrical relations between and inside the metropolitan and mountain areas of both countries. Coalitions of actors have emerged from these new relations that the transfer has produced, and as such, this project should be analysed as a hydraulic assemblage in which three distinct scales of territorialities are clashing or cooperating with each other: the regional scale, made up of South Africa’s political and economic elites, who seek to direct Southern Africa’s water resources towards the thirsty region in and around Johannesburg; the scale of the Lesotho government, which has a nationalist policy of monopolising any social and spatial stakes for the benefit of the national territory; and the scale of the Maloti communities, which claim their rights as a transnational Basotho nation and autonomy in the face of interventionism from the Lesotho state.…”
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Les conflits fonciers comme analyseurs des guerres civiles : chefs de guerre, militaires américains et juges Taliban dans la Kunar by Adam Baczko

“…In dealing with land disputes, political actors act directly on social relations, with decisive implications for their struggle against each other. …”
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A social network perspective on the interaction between policy bubbles by Moshe Maor

“…This is achieved by focusing on: (i) the diffusion of interbubble connectivity information through social networks characterized by varying levels of segregation; (ii) the perceptions of distorted or corrected information by individuals at the receiving end as being factual, thus requiring no gap-filling by policy actors, or as an opinion that therefore requires gap-filling; (iii) the derived consequence in terms of simple or complex contagion; and (iv) its impact on the sustainment of policy bubbles. …”
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La science‑fiction institutionnelle chez Julian Bleecker et Brian David Johnson by Thomas Michaud

“…Firstly, this science fiction retains its critical negativity and directs it towards actors hostile to the interests of the institution. …”
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Mudanças climáticas e impactos sócio-territoriais dos desastres glaciais na Cordilheira Branca, Peru by Anderson Ribeiro de Figueiredo, Jefferson Cardia Simões, Álvaro Luiz Heidrich, Rualdo Menegat

“…Moreover, glacial disasters cause a process of abrupt deterritorialization and, consequently, a reterritorialization that will develop more slowly, opening an intense field of disputes between the different involved actors, arousing social conflicts.…”
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Comment évaluer et mesurer la conflictualité liée aux usages de l’espace ? Eléments de méthode et de repérage by André Torre, Romain Melot, Luc Bossuet, Anne Cadoret, Armelle Caron, Ségolène Darly, Philippe Jeanneaux, Thierry Kirat, Haï Vu Pham

“…We first define the scope of our study by providing a definition of these conflicts, of their characteristics and motives, of the ways they manifest themselves and of the actors involved. We then present the methodology we have used to identify conflicts ; a methodology based on a spatial analysis and the combined use of different data collection methods including surveys conducted by experts,  analyses of the regional daily press and of data from the administrative litigation courts. …”
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Au-delà des bois : Une analyse des conflits socio-politiques autour de la libéralisation de la chasse en Belgique (1894-1936) by Marie Chaidron

“…The analysis goes beyond parliamentary debates to delve into rural areas, revealing the direct involvement of local actors: hunters, gamekeepers, and landowners. The term "poaching dramas" thus became a recurring subject in the judicial sections of the press from the last quarter of the 19th century onwards to describe the sometimes deadly confrontations between supporters and opponents of hunting liberalization. …”
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Les processus de patrimonialisation de la nature dans le Kodagu (Inde) : pluralités, imbrications, contradictions by Béatrice Moppert

“…These initiatives are brought up by actors with different intents and can result in conflicts. …”
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Représenter l’expérience spatiale. Description et analyse d’une expérimentation graphique by Catherine Szanto, Ann Bergsjö

“…The European Landscape Convention – the established reference among actors in the field of the landscape - integrates the issue of perception in the very definition of the landscape. …”
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Participación infantil a nivel legal e institucional en México-¿Ciudadanos y ciudadanas? by Tuline Gülgönen

“…En particular, muestro cómo la ausencia de cambio de paradigma acerca de la infancia dificulta el reconocimiento de niñas y niños como sujetos plenos de derecho y como actores sociales, necesario para su participación real en el ámbito analizado.…”
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Apuntes para pensar el territorio desde una dimensión social by Luciano Martínez Valle

“…El consenso actual sobre la dinámica territorial como un proceso de construcción social requiere de un análisis de las estrategias desplegadas por los actores y grupos sociales, en un específico campo social. …”
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Criminal acts eradication of corruption in corporates in Indonesia by Maman Budiman

“…The factors that cause corporations to commit criminal acts of corruption are the political system, the culture of business actors, the culture of state administrators, both executive, legislative, and judicial, low legal awareness, and intense competition between one corporation and other corporations. …”
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Compétences émergentes dans la pratique des professeurs des écoles débutants. Une approche psychophénoménologique. by Magali Boutrais

“…This epistemological approach coupled with the technique of the explicitation interview takes into account the subjectivity of the actors to document the progress of the actions in a past situation. …”
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Agriculture urbaine et stratégies de survie des ménages pauvres dans le complexe spatial du district d’Abidjan by Abraham Olahan

“…The article will also describe the actors (stakeholders) who are involved, their origins and the strategies they adopt to survive in a large metropolitan area like Abidjan where the cost of living is high compared to normal daily life marked by unemployment, under- employment and poverty.…”
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Alpinists and the Terrestrial Limits of Living Beings: an Atypical Contribution to Scientific Knowledge by Cédric Dentant, Pascal Mao, Sébastien Lavergne, Philippe Bourdeau

“…Until the emergence of a new scientific assemblage, involving new actors from conservation biology. Mountaineers have thus mutated from collector bodies to co-producers of science.…”
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Des normes professionnelles auto-prescrites. Le cas de la mise en œuvre de la démarche d’enseignement scientifique en Suisse romande by Corinne Marlot, Catherine Audrin, Ludovic Morge

“…These standards described as self-prescribed, are the result of the actors' renormalization of primary requirements (programs) and secondary requirements (the discourses of training institutions). …”
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Comment La charte “Ya d’ar brezhoneg” est devenue un outil incontournable de la revitalisation et de la normalisation de la langue bretonne by Cédric Choplin

“…In this article, which is largely based on interviews with various actors and a study of the press, we will first focus on the sociolinguistic reflection that presided over the design of the charter; secondly, we will discuss the keys to its success and the rare negative reactions it has provoked; thirdly, we will return to the experience of the entrepreneur Denez Pichon, a signatory of the charter in his high-tech company.…”
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Germany: strategies for labour force replacement amid demographic challenges by Mark B. Kondratyev

“…The assessment of the German expert community as well as other economic actors with regard to the government's pension reforms is presented. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Its management is a privileged observation field for the analysis of the interactions between new and old local and international actors on narratives, practices, and hierarchies of power. …”
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Colonialismo y chilenización a través de solicitudes y peticiones en el Departamento de Villarrica- Pitrufquén (1915-1920) by Francisco Felipe Cádiz Villaroel

“…Metodológicamente se utiliza un análisis documental de solicitudes y peticiones que muestra la influencia de muchos actores en el proceso de chilenización entre los años 1900-20. …”
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