Le Yémen au xviie siècle : territoire et identités by Tomislav Klarić

“…The Yâfi‘ area—also known as al-Mashriq or Mashriq al-Yaman—constituted its eastern border. Yemeni borders were also varying according to cutlural relations. …”
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Transitions écologique et numérique : quelle régulation du sens par la Commission européenne ? by Marie-Hélène Hermand

“…As intimately linked in substance as they are separate in form, the ecological and digital transitions are the subject of two distinct sections on the EC web portal: they constitute the corpus of the study, multimodal and rich from an editorial point of view. …”
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Fra novice til oldtimer – domsmandsrollen som læringsproces by Louise Victoria Johansen

“…The present paper analyses how the repeated participation of newly appointed lay judges in Danish criminal cases changes the way they perceive their own role, as well as their perception of what constitutes relevant knowledge in a case. Over time, there is a tendency to learn and apply a way of reasoning that is closer to the court and its codes than it is to their own everyday life. …”
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Le Maroc des voyageuses françaises au temps du Protectorat. Une vision (de) colonisatrices ? by Claude Ghiati

“…These women’s texts constitute an unusual historical source for this period through their perception of a country in the throes of change, be they completely convinced of the ‘civilizing’ role of France or, on the contrary, staunchly critical of morally shocking attitudes.…”
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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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Un acercamiento engañoso: las relaciones políticas hispano-francesas entre 1958 y 1970 by Álvaro Fleites Marcos

“…This disproportion, the prevailing importance for the Spanish government of its links with the United States and the French distrust of the Franquist regime constituted unsurpassable limits of the bilateral relations in the period. …”
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Articuler l’expérience et le discours : réflexions à partir du poststructuralisme et de la phénoménologie féministe by Mickaëlle Provost

“…First, I analyze the poststructuralist position according to which experience is constituted by a set of discursive norms. In a second step, I study the phenomenological criticism addressed to this position, by underlining the singularity and the complexity of the concept of experience: experience can include some unspeakable or inexpressible dimensions, without being entirely irreducible to social and discursive conditions. …”
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Glacier retreat and perception of climate change by local tourism stakeholders: the case of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in the French Alps by Christophe Clivaz, Alexandre Savioz

“…By studying the case of the Chamonix valley, characterized by a prominent presence of glaciers in the landscape, we seek to determine the extent to which the climate issue is better understood when it materializes in tangible problems such as glacier retreat, which in the eyes of local residents constitutes a visible threat to the tourist potential of the region. …”
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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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Dossier Madagascar - Introduction générale by Dominique Gommery, Delphine Roullet

“…The diversity of the lemurs was even more important in a rather close past and constitutes another part of the Malagasy natural heritage. …”
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Propagande et « contre-propagande » en Irlande pendant la Première Guerre mondiale by Jérôme aan de Wiel

“…The First World War caused a major propaganda battle in Ireland between, on the one hand, the constitutional Nationalist Party, led by John Redmond, and the British authorities who were both in favour of the war and voluntary recruitment, and on the other hand, Sinn Féin, opposition nationalists and also a few Catholic clergymen who were against the British war effort in the country, deeming that the home rule crisis had not been dealt with in a satisfactory way. …”
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Donner la parole : à quel prix ? by Mathilde Zbaeren

“…Based on the idea that non-fictional literature forms are linked to deontological and political demands for the restoration of debt, this article argues that collections of voices require the overcoming of the assimilation of literature to the universal, in order to emphasize its commitments and effects within the chain of exchange that constitutes the social bond. The distinction between literary and ethnographic restitution, thus made obsolete by non-fictional forms, requires documentary literature and field writing to think of restitution in its material dimension, by virtue of the "participation" in the field of the potential readers of these productions.…”
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Natal Fruit Fly, Natal Fly, Ceratitis rosa Karsch (Insecta: Diptera: Tephritidae) by Howard V. Weems, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Although it never has been captured as an escapee in the United States, it continues to constitute a potential threat to Florida agriculture. …”
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Les métaphores comestibles dans les rituels mexicains by Danièle Dehouve

“…The ritual dishes are analysed as material and eatable difrasismos which first of all represent a metonymical technique, and constitute the basis of metaphorsRitual food.…”
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Freedom of Assembly in Poland by M. Moulin-Stożek

“…In the chapter of the book, the author describes the procedure for normative regulation of the organization and holding of assemblies in the Republic of Poland, given that the right to freedom of assembly is enshrined in the Constitution of Poland. The author identifies certain signs and types of assemblies, depending on which a particular assembly is subject to regulation or not. …”
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Federalismo e competências tributárias, uma geografia dos impostos  by Fabricio Gallo, René Somain, Martine Droulers

“…Analysing the evolution process of Brazilian federalism (result, among other things, of different Constitutions and tax collection policies) is one way to understand the complexity of the national territory. …”
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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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L’anglais d’Afrique du Sud : indigénisation et affirmation politique. Le cas du Dictionary of South African English on Historical Principles by Bernard Cros

“…The present article seeks to examine the place of this dictionary, a historically constituted object, in South African lexicography, how it renders the specificities of South African English, the peculiar world view it offers and its role as a symbolic tool reflecting the aspirations and prejudices of its authors.…”
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Les pressions écologiques réglementaires : comment les entreprises tunisiennes les gèrent-elles ? by Ahmed Turki

“…The results show that public authorities (constitute) the most and sometimes the only source of ecological pressure in the Tunisian context. …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…Thereby, the conditioning factors of affirmation, the logics of action and mechanisms of consecration mobilized by agents who constitute as authorized spokespersons are learned, as well as the multiple patterns of notabilization of “interpreters” of the culture and the regional memory in and of Maranhão.…”
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