« Do we really need a dam ? » Le conflit lié au barrage Gordon-below-Franklin (Tasmanie, Australie) ou la redéfinition d’un cycle hydrosocial ? by Silvia Flaminio

“…The article analyses more specifically how the hydraulic fix which the project represents is debated in the public sphere and how the utility and the efficiency of the technical infrastructure is contested. …”
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The Emotional Museum. Thoughts on the “Secular Relics” of Nineteenth-Century History Museums in Paris and their Posterity by Felicity Bodenstein

“…Indeed this museographical tradition still holds an important place in museums today, especially in biographical or personal museums, its appearance during the Revolution and its subsequent development will be considered as the transposition of a commemorative practice taken from Catholicism and introduced into the secular world of French Republican museum but also as a transfer from the private to the public sphere. This allow us to examine the agency of such objects as triggers that allow history to be experienced as an emotion.…”
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Lutte nationale ou fondation étatique ? by Dyala Hamzah

“…Why has the hegemonic presence of “Islam” in the Palestinian “public sphere”, not generated “new Muslim intellectuals”, whose exegetic commitment on the global scene does not preclude national and secular commitments ? …”
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Le genre comme fait de discours : pour une définition molle de la science-fiction by Matthieu Letourneux

“…Elaborated collectively in the course of discursive exchanges in the public sphere, resulting in a superimposition of slightly different definitions, the genre must be thought of at the level of the practices of producers and receivers. …”
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Taḥyâ as-sînamâ ! Produire du sens : les enjeux politiques de l’expression dans l’espace public by Cécile Boëx

“…We will illustrate these practices through examples form different registers: the last demonstrations against the Mehlis investigation, and cinematographic expression, which has played a leading role in bringing dissension into the public sphere.…”
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Entre memorias oficiales e identidades colectivas : la Fiesta Provincial del Inmigrante (Berisso, Argentina, 2010-2015) by Nicolás Herrera

“…The mnemonic use of this origin myth –which links the formation of the community to the arrival of European immigrants in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries and their harmonious fusion– allows these actors to give an account of the collective identity of Argentines and people from Berisso to the public sphere. In this context, the article describes the role that the past has in the formation of social boundaries, in the establishment of mythical figures of local memory and in the construction of legitimacy, prestige and recognition.…”
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Négocier la reconnaissance de sa citoyenneté par le squat by Alizée Lazzarino

“…The accessibility norms of the squats allow marginalized populations to create a public sphere in the absence of access to public space. …”
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Du personnel au politique : construction d’une identité militante dans le journal d’Alice Stone Blackwell (1872-1874) by Claire Sorin

“…The most striking feature of her journal is indeed the glorification of a free mind embodied in a strong and healthy body capable of investing the public sphere. Thus, her positive identification with a powerful body can be interpreted as a political act.…”
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Les chambres d’écho sont-elles morales? Étude croisée de disputes en ligne by Céline Morin, Julien Mésangeau

“…However, the transformation of our sociotechnical framework does not bring us closer to the Habermasian ideal of a public sphere. This article proposes to analyze the concept of “echo chamber” from a moral perspective, through both a theoretical and an empirical approach: firstly, as a floating concept leading to ambiguous results and reflecting an academic concern; secondly, as a tool for diagnosing conflicting spheres. …”
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Pacifismo y vínculos transnacionales entre feministas en el continente americano en los años 1930: encontrar una solución a la guerra del Chaco by Maria Elvira Alvarez Gimenez

“…Thanks to the links created between feminists of the continent in these years, a broad transcontinental mobilization of women took place, which placed women and feminists at the forefront of the public sphere in their respective countries.…”
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L’adultère à l’ère numérique : Une discussion sur la non/monogamie et le développement des technologies numériques à partir du cas Ashley Madison by Nathan Rambukkana, Maude Gauthier

“…It references concepts, critical approaches and analyses that he develops in his book Fraught Intimacies, which explores the mediation of non-monogamies (how they are represented and discussed in the public sphere). The interview also mobilizes his current work on digital intimacies, including an interest for avatar infidelity. …”
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Les dernières Amazones : réflexions sur la contestation de l’ordre politique masculin pendant la Fronde by Sophie Vergnes

“…Writing was among the means that allowed these women to go on claiming power in the public sphere.…”
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Transforming the study of religious situations: The view of post-secular society theories by S. Astapov

“…The discourse emerging from theories of the post-secular society, which recognise the transformation of the place of religion in the public sphere at the beginning of the 21st century, views the contradictory unity of religious and secular moments in any social phenomenon. …”
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A populist turn? by Ekman Mattias, Krzyżanowski Michał

“…Positioned within the ongoing discursive shifts in the Swedish public sphere and the growth of discursive uncivility in its mainstream areas, the analysis highlights how xenophobic and racist discourses once propagated by the far and radical right gradually penetrate into the studied broadsheet newspapers. …”
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Déjouer la Ville Créative ? by Léa Sallenave

“…Like any enterprise taking place in the public sphere, this initiative is both praised (as a way to value the territory and to create social cohesion against spatial disjunctions) and criticized (as exclusionary towards some graffiti artists, as being artistically poor). …”
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Shaping Scholarly Recognition in Early Nineteenth-Century Poland: The Case of the Society of the Friends of Sciences (1800–1832) by Adrian Wesołowski

“…In a context where political authority was eroded, intellectuals sought new ways to assert their visibility and influence within the public sphere. Focusing on the Warsaw Society of the Friends of Sciences, the study examines how its members positioned themselves as alternative representatives of the Polish public through strategic self-presentation and developing a new discourse on scholarly fame. …”
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Official Status As a Tool of Language Revival? A Study of the Language Laws in Russia’s Finno-Ugric Republics by Konstantin Zamyatin

“…For the purpose of comparison, the study focuses on education and work environment among the domains within the public sphere of language use. The results demonstrate that the framing of official status in these sectors provided only some additional opportunities for the expansion of language use, while the extent of their institutionalisation directly correlated with the level of political representation of ethnic elites.…”
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Imaginaire national et laïcité. Penser l’identité avec le projet de Charte des valeurs by Sklaerenn Le Gallo

“…The issue of cultural and religious diversity is important amongst Quebec’s public sphere. Indeed, there have been many initiatives conducted to reflect on the “management” of diversity in Quebec, in order to either supervise or limit it. …”
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Écrire l’histoire des femmes musulmanes en Europe du Sud-Est. Archives associatives et trajectoires d’engagement en Bosnie dans la première moitié du xxe siècle by Fabio Giomi

“…The aim is to show how voluntary associations can be a valuable tool for the history of women and their relationship with the public sphere. In doing so, the article will try to counter the dominant historiographical discourse that considers Muslim women in Yugoslavia as passive, invisible and oppressed until the liberation given to them by the Communist Party after 1945.…”
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“Love and Self-Love”: The Balance between Sympathy and Self-Respect in Louisa May Alcott’s Early Fiction by Asun López-Varela Azcárate

“…The plot revolves around self-respect and stages forms of female empowerment by using fiction as a form of education oriented towards creating awareness in the public sphere.…”
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