Crimillegal Orders: Revisiting Organized Crime’s Political Power by Markus Schultze-Kraft

“…Taking recourse to the conceptions of political order put forward by Weber, Fukuyama and North, Wallis and Weingast, I explain how regular patterns of social exchange and interaction - involving public and private, and state and non-state actors - that span an assumed divide between the realms of legality (“legitimate upper world”) and criminality (“illegitimate underworld”) influence the character, shape and evolution of political order. …”
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Bernard Lassus : une pratique démesurable pour le paysage by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo

“…Then, fulfilled by new visual and tactile experimentations and by the development of a sort of vernacular landscapism and its actors "landscaper Inhabitant", his concepts have again evolved. …”
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La notion de société civile dans les politiques et pratiques du développement by Gautier Pirotte

“…As an empty envelop filling with particular senses according to the actors and specific social and cultural contexts, the new “non western civil society” must be above all studied as “projects”, realities in gestation, in the junction of dynamics appropriate for the local societies where they appear and of dynamics outside societies which privilege certain actors (in particular non-governmental organizations), a particular meaning of the concept (in a perspective close to a third sector) and also supply a consequent part of the resources necessary for the vitality of these projects. …”
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Le gouvernement économique de la filière sucre-énergie : blocages sectoriels et territoriaux des perspectives de développement au Brésil by Mathieu Fruleux

“…This work analyzes the weight of agribusiness as an explanatory variable of the unsustainable character of the distributive inflexion of Brazil’s growth regime. …”
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Positive Development of Identities in the Context of Change by Ilya A. Turkin

“…In this regard, the need for a preventive identification of possible cleavages that may have ontological status in relation to actors is actualized. In the article, the author identifies two trends that have a structural character in current politics: the narrowing of the public sphere and the securitization of memory. …”
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Armies of War Without Uniforms: Mercenaries and Private Military Companies in Russia’s Interventions in Syria and Ukraine by Çağla Mavruk, Ali Gök

“…The overarching purpose of this research is to explain how these actors affect the character of the war by explaining the reasons for their use, duties and effects on the battlefield. …”
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Productive capacity and genetic variation behavior in progenies from irrigated açai according to plant age by João Tomé de Farias Neto, Gilberto Ken Iti Yokomizo, Marcos Deon Vilela de Resende

“…The açai fruit yield is concentrated between the months of July to December (harvest), providing an important income to actors involved in the production chain, however in the off-season this brings serious socioeconomic problems, with the need for research that may offer selected genetic materials that can circumvent this problem. …”
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Science diplomacy as a tool for promoting the interests of Czechia in Africa by Mikhail V. Vedernikov

“…The institutional structure of Czech science diplomacy at the present stage is analyzed, and the main actors involved in this activity are identified. Its main instruments on the Black Continent have been studied – concluding official agreements with local partners, involving national businesses in promoting Czech science, advertising Czech higher education, and conducting scientific diplomacy through official development assistance. …”
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THE POLITICS OF INSECURITY REPORTAGE IN NORTHERN NIGERIA by ISA SA’IDU

“…The challenge has now snowballed into full-pledged entrepreneurial terrorism where the actors amass wealth through kidnapping, banditry, and other forms of criminal activities. …”
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La nature en privilège : de l’effet des populations citadines aisées sur les paysages et la flore du Cœur vert de la Randstad Holland by Fabien Roussel

“…Some ideas are suggested concerning the management of these measures by the institutions and the resulting negotiations with local actors.…”
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Paisaje agrario en contextos periurbanos mediterráneos: el caso del Gran Sousse (Túnez) by Abdelkarim Hamrita, Rafael Mata, Nieves López-Estébanez, Hichem Rejeb

“…Se adopta la noción de carácter del paisaje y se relaciona con las políticas públicas de gestión de los espacios agrarios periurbanos tunecinos y la percepción social, mediante entrevistas a una muestra de actores locales y regionales. Se analiza la diversidad paisajística concretada en Áreas Paisajísticas de Agricultura Periurbana (APAP), caracterizadas a partir de su particular fisonomía, y de los principales elementos y funcionamiento pasado y presente. …”
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Systemic Poverty Modelling: Case of Central Asia by F. I. Arzhaev, V. Y. Andriukhin, D. V. Saprynskaya

“…The politization of the problem and the motivation of political actors to harness the issue of poverty result in significant restrictions for objective assessment of the situation. …”
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Populism in the political culture of Turkey: The foreign policy dimension by P. V. Shlykov

“…Starting from Turkey’s transition to multiparty system the majority of political actors have resorted to populism in one or another way. …”
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La médiation paysagère, levier d’un développement territorial durable ? by Sylvie Paradis, Laurent Lelli

“…In the Hautes-Corbières (Aude, Languedoc-Roussillon), a map of the landscape units and photographs were proposed and used as tools for recognition of landscape characters with various local actors. In Lagraulet-du-Gers municipality (Gers, Midi-Pyrenees), various participants were invited to use photojournalism to decrypt the planning choices implemented on a municipal housing estate and then discuss their meaning and interest.…”
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JOHANNINE WOMEN AS PARADIGMS IN THE INDIAN CONTEXT by J. Thomaskutty

“…Women’s positive role and status in the Gospel of John enable us to understand them not merely as passive actors, but as active interlocutors and dialogue partners. …”
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Almodóvar’s Baroque Transitions in the Early Films (1980–1995) by Frederic Conrod

“…After defining the Baroqueness of his early filmography, this article will take a closer look at the ricochet trajectory he designed for actors such as Carmen Maura, Victoria Abril, and Antonio Banderas, who will all act in several corresponding roles and embody characters in transition, before becoming emblematic for the public. …”
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"I Fregi del Ceppo”: when artificial intelligence and geomatics meet theatre by Pietro Bartolini, Alessandro Conti, Lidia Fiorini, Grazia Tucci

“…The project used artificial intelligence (AI) tools to analyse and animate the frieze characters’ postures and relationships. The performance incorporated a 180º multi projection system that synchronised human actors with digital projections, merging live performance with digital heritage. …”
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V's Virtual Afterlife by Jasmyn Connell, Christopher Moore, Reneé Middlemost

“…NHOPs encompass entities like brands, places, artificial intelligences, and, as we explore in this study, video game characters. This article examines the NHOP of V, the customisable protagonist from the video game Cyberpunk 2077, to consider how such characters attain a virtual afterlife beyond the original text through collective fan engagement. …”
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Ik’aletik « Les hommes noirs » by Rocío Noemí Martínez González

“…This article shows how the multiple names attributed to actors of the k’in tajimol festival—Black Lords, Wind Lords, Our Ape Fathers, Mixed-Race Fathers of the Night, Devil, Judas, Mixed-Race Elder Brother—reveal their nocturnal nature. …”
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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or accidental) of actual women. …”
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