Politiques et pratiques de la psychiatrie en prison 1945-1986 by Hélène Bellanger

“…After the historical break of Second World War, a spirally reform process gradually sealed the historical convergency of prison and asylum, and led to the creation of structures dedicated to psychiatric treatment of prisonners (psychiatric annexes created by Amor reform, followed by the CMPR and SMPR). …”
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Slaves and Captives Between Castile, Granada, and the Canary Islands: Frontier and Judicial Dynamics in the 15th and 16th Centuries by Mirko Suzarte Škarica

“…This activity often included revolts, horseback raids, robberies, death, the capture and enslavement of people, and other notions such as slavery under ›just war‹, which sometimes blurred the margins between slavery and captivity. …”
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Crisis of the Neoliberal Model; Towards Regional Planning - a Polanyian Contribution by Paula Valderrama Saud

“…The polarity between democracy and the market, observed since the beginnings of liberal capitalism, has deepened since the inter-war period due to the appearance of so-called “mass democracy.” …”
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From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…In the aftermath of World War II, a more critical view of slavery began to emerge on film. …”
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L’effort de guerre des exploitants non-professionnels du cinéma en URSS (1939-1949) by Irina Tcherneva

“…This article focuses on the turning point that occurred as early as 1939, and on two paradoxical effects that it triggered in the immediate post-war period. On the one hand, the Ministry of Cinema is struggling to control the financial transactions in union and corporate cinemas. …”
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Les communistes espagnols : les années difficiles (1947-1956) by Serge Buj

“…At the time of its founding, the pce had very few activists; it became a mass membership party under the exceptional circumstances of the Civil War. The party grew into a militarized organization, with very limited political experience and without a long history. …”
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The Transatlantic Trade Conflict and the German Economy: It Matters how Long It Takes by Sebastian Dullien, Sabine Stephan, Thomas Theobald

“…Fiscal rules limit the ability to counterbalance the macroeconomic impact of a trade war, putting Germany potentially at a relative disadvantage in this conflict.…”
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Quand l’État devient banquier by Isabelle Chambost, Béatrice Touchelay

“…It shows that the State as shareholder is rooted in the imperfections of the previous system, that of the "erased State", from the beginning of the 20th century to the outbreak of the Second World War, and then in an asserted political will to install a "partner State" from 1940 to 1945 where the State entered, not without difficulty until the sixties, alongside the banking corporation.…”
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From Cybernetics to Systems Theory in the First Space Age by Christian Girard

“…Both fields appeared to tackle the pilot problem head-on, either to shoot a pilot down (cybernetics in World War II) – or to send some to the moon and back (systems engineering and management in the Apollo programme). …”
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“An Enormous Amount of Human Waste”: Self-esteem, Capitalism, and the US Prison, 1973-1989 by Anaïs Lefèvre

“…The period between the passage of the Rockefeller drug laws in 1973 and the Reagan-era expansion of the War on Drugs in the late 1980s was characterized by the rise of penal punitiveness and the triumph of neoliberal logics; it was also during these years that the concept of “self-esteem” came to be used recurrently in relation to prison work programs. …”
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Une promise pour la licorne : quand Denis Johnston crève l’horizon de la scène irlandaise by Virginie Girel-Pietka

“…Examining the way Johnston turned his back on the Aristotelian tradition so as to usher Modernism onto the stage, this paper aims at showing that the play was rather meant to open up new aesthetic prospects for the Irish drama of its time. In the wake of World War I and the worldwide Great Depression, mimesis was out of fashion. …”
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Racialization of American Politics by Serge Ricard

“…The following essay attempts to throw light on the permanence of the race factor in American society, its impact on the 2016 election, either by means of its unabashed activation or through a coded rhetoric, its centrality in the Trumpian discourse, the heyday of white nationalism under a President prone to stoking the flames of division and prejudice, together with the disquieting signs of a “new civil war” in a disunited nation.…”
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Film Review: Jagun Jagun, Nigeria, 2023. Produced by Euphoria 360 Media. Netflix. 129 minutes, Yoruba (with English subtitles). No price reported. Directed by Tope Adebayo and Adeb... by Yemi Atanda

“…However, it is noted that the inappropriate mingling of both traditional and modern visual effects influenced by the Western postmodernist style in filmic framing, composition, sound, music and war combat mode. Generally, the film occludes the postcolonial thematic relevance in the modern political African leaders in their visionless Machiavellian ideology. …”
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Technology, Organization, and the Militarization of Intelligence: The Turkish Experience by Tolga Ökten

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“Nowadays the house would be called a stately home”: Pastoral Relocations in Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia by John Bull

“…In this paper, I will consider the ideological implications of this paradox in relation to the playwright’s use of pastoral models that date from the English Renaissance, and yet reconfigure models of earlier post-second war British theatre, models that – according to many critical accounts – had long been superseded and abandoned. …”
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Saliamonas Antanaitis (1894–1973) and his research into the old mathematics by Juozas Banionis

“… Antanaitis is one of the 20th century Lithuanian professional mathematicians, who trained pedagogues at Teachers' Colleges in the 3–4th decades. After World War II S. Antanaitis worked in the Gymnasium of the 16th of February in Western Germany. …”
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Hidden geographies of population implosion in Bosnia and Herzegovina by Haris GEKIC, Aida BIDZAN-GEKIC, Ranko MIRIC, Peter REMENYI

“…Depopulation was foreseen even without the emergence of war, but not nearly to that extent or that early. …”
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L’éducation à la majorité selon Theodor W. Adorno by Alain-Patrick Olivier

“…The critical enquiry made by Theodor W. Adorno after World War II as sociologist and philosopher led him to the conclusion that not only is this process of critical and democratic education not really carried out but also the mere willingness to carry out such education remains to be evidenced. …”
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Histoire Croisée by Bénédicte Zimmermann

“…Globalization makes understanding worldmaking processes a crucial issue. During the Cold War the social sciences mainly addressed this issue through comparative studies which mirrored the logic of the world-historical confrontation. …”
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Theories of the End of the Novel by Barış Mete

“…In the twentieth century, especially after the end of the Second World War, the novel became the subject of the discussions about a sense of an ending. …”
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