Dwelling in the Digital Age by Antoine Picon

“…Central to the argument developed here is that there is a deep relation between dwelling and the constitution of human subjectivity. Dwelling in the digital age is thus inseparable from the question of the evolution of what it means to be human in our contemporary societies.…”
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La Galice au XXe siècle : économie, culture et autogouvernement by Ramón Villares

“…On those bases and after a « long night of stone » during the Franco dictatorship, autonomous Galicia was built, as one of the three « historical nationalities », with Catalonia and the Basque Country, within the State of Autonomies designed by the Constitution of 1978.…”
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Qu’est le quilombo aujourd’hui devenu ? De la catégorie coloniale au concept anthropologique by Véronique Boyer

“…After the enactment of the article 68 of the 1988 Brazilian Constitution, anthropology became interested in the emergence of a quilombola identity in a society where the quilombo is supposed to belong to the past. …”
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The role of religious values in extending social protection: a South African perspective by L. G. Mpedi

“…It also examines various factors that contribute towards informal social security dependency in AICs, namely the influence of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, the limited scope of social security coverage, the restricted family concept (underlying much of the formal system which does not reflect the family context in South Africa), African traditional values, and Christian principles. …”
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Contra los «vicios y corruptelas» del foro tradicional, el funcionario militar by Alina Castellanos Rubio

“…This article aims to show that the traditional archetype of the iudex perfectus was gradually replaced in liberal political culture by the model of the military officer as a good administrator and thus capable of personifying the virtues hitherto associated with the 'perfect judge' as the embodiment of the institutions of government: fitness, morality and public concept – to which constitutionalism added adherence to the constitution. …”
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Political Experience in Economic and Social Transformation by Christoph Bergner

“…The economic and social transformation of East Germany took place with its accession to the German Constitution. The fall of the “Iron Curtain” gave the process of globalisation a considerable acceleration, which in turn made strengthening competitiveness a growing challenge for German politics.…”
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De Félix Martin-Sabon à Pierre Pradel, une histoire de plaques de verre by Anne-Bénédicte Mérel-Brandenburg

“…Beyond the patrimonialisation of this exceptional collection intended for teaching, the article will focus, based on written archives put into perspective with the glass-plate collection, on its peregrinations (1932–2005), genesis and constitution, management and classification (1900–60), and the renewed interest in the 2010s. …”
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État(s) des lieux : espaces et topographies dans la collection Gaignières by Damien Bril

“…To do so, we will first recall the nature of Gaignières’ project and the role played by topographical data in structuring his collection ; then we will look at the scientific and methodological means used to achieve it ; and, finally, we will examine the practices surrounding the constitution of the collection, and the questions that they may raise for the contemporary historian.…”
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Citoyenneté féminine sous la Seconde République : entre le réformisme social et la démocratisation by Ana Aguado

“…All these rights, as well as the right to vote, were included in the Constitution of 1931. The new republican regime therefore created the necessary conditions -although still insufficient- for women to redefine egalitarian concepts found in certain political cultures, such as republicanism or socialism, with a gender approach. …”
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Lexicon and Humor: Considerations about the witty functioning of the meanings in the Dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas by Anderson Braga do CARMO

“…The aim of this study is to understand and analyze the processes involved in the production of humour and new lexical units and verify the constitution and the witty functioning of the senses in entries that make up the book Le dictionnaire des mots qui n’existent pas (1992). …”
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The Heidelberg Catechism: a hidden creedal text and catechetical manual in the Malawian Reformed Church 1889-2012 by W. S. D. Zeze

“… This article focuses on the reception and the status of the Heidelberg Catechism in the Church of the Central Africa Presbyterian (CCAP) Nkhoma Synod in Malawi between 1889 and 2012. The constitution, the church order and the liturgical formularies of the CCAP Nkhoma Synod equally mention that the Heidelberg Catechism is one of the church’s doctrinal standards. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…Tis move was against the constitution of Oyo, which stipulated that the Crown Prince (aremo) commits suicide on the Alafn’s death. …”
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URBANISATION ET CONTREURBANISATION DANS L’EUROPE D’APRÈS-GUERRE by IONEL MUNTELE

“…The most important purposes of this analysis, presented at the „Academic Days of Iaşi” (Sept. 2008) has been the followings: the constitution of one database about the dynamics of the urbanization in modern and contemporary Europe; the analysis of the measure were the classical models of the urban dynamics study (rank-size rule, the model of the central places) may be adapted of the recently complicated evolution derived from the change-over of the spatial reports between the urban system components, at everyscale; the obviousness of the various types of the urbanization, including the perspective of the engendered effects:urban displaying, urban congestion, periurbanization etc.…”
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Le droit à l'autodétermination comme droit moral by Xacobe Bastida Freixedo

“…In the current essay we will try to prove that self-determination is a moral right –a legitimate and justified claim– that, as such, should be integrated as far as possible in a democratic constitution. In Spain many people concur with this thesis and they come to law searching for an acting guideline: if the claim is contained within the legal order the norm is applied and, if not, a reform is proposed in order to include the claim. …”
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Les langues kanak, une histoire très politique by Françoise Roche

“…In the wake of the 1980’s « Events », the Kanak freedom fighters’ major claims were recorded in two historical Agreements (Matignon-Oudinot in 1988, and Nouméa in 1998), and then in the French State Constitution (in 1999). This led to a new balance of power for the benefit of the Kanak people, concerning politics, justice, and above all economic matters and land property. …”
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NATIONAL SECURITY: A RE-ENGAGEMENT WITH CONCEPTS, STRUCTURES, AND PLANS by Ochoga Edwin Ochoga, Binta Sidi

“…Although this is a constitutional matter, it is a concern against the effective implementation of the National Security Strategy. …”
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Environmental Racism: Slow Death and the Displacement of Ancestral Afro-Ecuadorian Territory in Esmeraldas by Maria Moreno Parra

“…The antiracist struggle consists of remaining in the territory and appealing to the right of ancestral possession as Afro-Ecuadorian peoples and to the rights of nature in the Constitution of 2008.…”
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The forced resettlement of the Crimean Tatar people in 1944, the liquidation of the Crimean Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic: a national movement for the return to their homela... by Refic Kurtseitov

“…Systematic and legal restrictions in places of special settlement and their impact on the ethnocultural development of the people The phenomenon of the national movement for an organized return to the homeland, restoration of rights of national autonomy in accordance with the constitution and legislative acts of the USSR.…”
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The “national – local” DIALECTIC in the Tunisian electoral laws or how to represent the “people” in post-Ben Ali Tunisia by Eric Gobe

“…The emergence of the « local » in the « national » is translated by the adoption of the first electoral law integrating the issue of the region and by the adoption of a largely decentralized state architecture. The new constitution paved the way for the organization of local collectives directed by elected councils for universal suffrage, and has encouraged actors of the post-Ben Ali political stage to cast a new regard on the effects of electoral methods on the operation of the local as well as national political scene.…”
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Strategic Litigation in a Time of Populism: Poland’s Experience by Adam Ploszka

“…Paradoxically, the rule of law crisis also resulted in the popularization of strategic litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union and some domestic courts, which began to apply the Constitution directly.…”
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