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La jeunesse n’est-elle qu’un mot ? C’est à la célèbre réflexion de Pierre Bourdieu que répond ce livre, en ancrant sa réflexion en terre américaine et en offrant une série d’analyses qui, sans prétendre à l’exhaustivité, sont autant d’éclairages sur différents pays du continent. Loin d’être une expression univoque, la jeunesse est ici appréhendée comme une catégorie sociale construite, enjeu de luttes constantes et renvoyant à une extrême diversité de situations, allant de la condition ouvrière à l’engagement étudiant ou partisan, en passant par la déviance et la marginalité. La jeunesse est ici interrogée comme actrice et ressource politique, notamment à partir de la seconde moitié du xxe siècle. Le cycle contestataire des « années 1968 » apparaît ainsi indissociable des processus de politisation à « l’ère de la jeunesse » et même au-delà. Catégorie dominée, la jeunesse est elle-même traversée par des rapports de domination signifiés par le genre. Elle est également à la source de processus d’ethnicisation ou de racialisation, fruits d’une appropriation des assignations subies ou du pari émancipateur de l’altérité, voire de mobilisations antiracistes. Surreprésentée médiatiquement dans les sociétés contemporaines, la jeunesse s’avère aussi bien autrice qu’objet des différentes productions culturelles. Si elle n’est plus nécessairement une puissance démographique, elle demeure au centre des renouvellements des cultures de masse et de la vitalité créative des Amériques. Le continent pourrait-il réellement être pensé sans sa jeunesse ? Concevant l’âge comme une modalité du social, l’ouvrage examine successivement les formes de politisations de la jeunesse, son altérité, ainsi que ses dimensions culturelles et médiatiques, allant du cinéma au hip-hop.

Globally, the agri-food sector has a major role to play in ensuring food security and economic development, especially for lower-income countries. In the increasingly demanding context of environmental risk, exacerbated by climate change, and of environmental degradation, agricultural producers are faced with the challenge of meeting the demand of the agri-food sector to feed growing populations in a sustainable manner while still trying to make ends meet. Toward a Sustainable Agriculture: Farming Practices and Water Use, the first volume of MDPI’s Frontiers in Sustainability book series, edited by Prof. Manfred Max Bergman (University of Basel, Switzerland), aims to contribute to the agri-food sector’s need for the science-based evidence required to address these challenging demands. In this book, a variety of scholars explore risks and potential solutions to inform producers and policy-makers regarding practices towards sustainable production in the context of a changing climate.

This anthology highlights the tension between artificial intelligence and fairness. It focuses on questions of responsibility attribution, governance, participation, and ethical design—viewed from the perspectives of science, practice, consumers, and NextGen representatives. It combines theoretical foundations with empirical insights and practical ideas and ties in with the CDR Conference 2024. The target audience is primarily companies that are involved in or aspire to be involved in the field of corporate digital responsibility (CDR). At the same time, the volume also provides politicians, scientists, civil society, and interested citizens with valuable ideas and guidance on dealing with AI and fairness.With contributions byPaula Becker | Marie Blachetta | Emily Breuer | Alexander Brink | Valerie Carl | Annette Cerulli-Harms | Anna-Sophie Christ | Jonah Dähne | Saskia Dörr | Frank Esselmann | Maximilian Förster | Olivia Hankins | Leonard Henke | Christian Hugo Hoffmann | Sara Elisa Kettner | Till Klein | Julia Muff | Kilian Steinbeck | Christian Thorun | Julian WagnerThe Book will also be available in open access upon publication.

The essays in this book chart how women's profound and turbulent experiences of migration have been articulated in writing, photography, art and film. As a whole, the volume gives an impression of a wide range of migratory events from women's perspectives, covering the Caribbean Diaspora, refugees and slavery through the various lenses of politics and war, love and family. The contributors, which include academics and artists, offer both personal and critical points of view on the artistic and historical repositories of these experiences. Selfies, motherhood, violence and Hollywood all feature in this substantial treasure-trove of women's joy and suffering, disaster and delight place, memory and identity. This collection appeals to artists and scholars of the humanities, particularly within the social sciences; though there is much to recommend it to creatives seeking inspiration or counsel on the issue of migratory experiences. As with all Open Book publications, this entire book is available to read for free on the publisher's website. Printed and digital editions, together with supplementary digital material, can also be found here: www.openbookpublishers.com

The destruction of cities in times of war conflicts is usually accompanied by various forms of photographic recording. Such photos are created for various reasons and there is also a range of their subsequent uses. The 20th century is full of the histories of cities destroyed as a result of planned, massive attacks; among them, Warsaw occupies a special position. During the Second World War, its almost complete destruction took place in three stages: the German siege in 1939, the liquidation of the ghetto in 1943, and during the pacification of the Warsaw Uprising in 1944. Each of these tragic events has its photographic representation. The analysis of the three sets of photos is intended to answer several questions: for what purpose they were taken, how their meaning has changed over time, and what is their value as “reference points” and in John Tagg’s depiction of a symbolic “currency”.

This book provides a multidimensional analysis of the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within the contemporary educational ecosystem. Across 13 chapters, the authors examine topics ranging from the reconfiguration of lesson planning and cognitive load reduction to the ethical impact of generative AI on assessment and vocational guidance. Through case studies in diverse disciplines—including Political Science, Food Chemistry, Programming, and Language Acquisition—the dichotomy between student autonomy and the challenges of digital literacy in the face of misinformation is explored. The volume not only documents practical applications and active methodologies, such as gamification, but also offers a critical perspective on employability and academic community perceptions. This work stands as a roadmap for understanding the educational transformation in 2026.

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In 1971 the Unión de Ligas Campesinas Formoseñas (ULICAF) emerged. This research reviews the political, economic and ecclesiastical transformations that gave rise to its emergence.

The present Special Issue of the MDPI journal Mathematics, titled “Mathematical Methods and Operation Research in Logistics, Project Planning, and Scheduling, 2nd Edition”, contains a total of eight articles that cover a wide range of topics related to the theory, models, and applications of project planning, project scheduling, and operation research problems in logistics. These topics include, among others, scheduling problems, research allocation problems in project planning, routing and warehousing problems in logistics, and risk aggregation problems in risk assessments. It is hoped that the reprint will be interesting and useful for those working in the area of project planning, scheduling, routing, and other operation research and risk management problems in logistics. It is designed with people with mathematical backgrounds in mind, who are open to become familiar with recent advances of operation research and optimization problems. Each article reflects on novel challenges, such as pandemic situations and flexible, fast-changing environments.

The phenomenon of the post-1945 adaptation of the Lodz industrialists’ residences – villas and palaces – for museum purposes deserves a closer analysis. The fate of these buildings reflects the significant political changes in the post-war period. One of the most interesting projects of this kind was the conversion of the residences belonging to the most important industrialist families in Lodz into museums: the former palace of Izrael Poznański was designated as the seat of the City Museum (formerly the City History Museum), and the palace of his son Maurycy Poznański became the seat of the Art Museum. In turn, the villa of Matilda and Edward Herbst in Księży Młyn was transformed into a branch of the same museum, as the Herbst Palace Museum. The Scheibler Palace on Zwycięstwo Square was turned into the Museum of Cinematography. All these buildings were renovated and adapted to their new functions, which was not always an easy task. Thanks to these works, the city has been enriched with important cultural institutions, which are visited by residents and tourists. They can view the museum collections and admire at the same time the original and partially reconstructed interiors of the former palace buildings.

"Perspectives on University Learning Workshops" brings together conference papers from the 11th International Conference of University Learning Workshops in February 2018 in Erfurt. It invites you to immerse yourself in the broad discourse on conceptual considerations, research and practical experiences in and about university learning workshops. Emphasising the interplay of individual, community, thing and space, four thematic fields and interdependent relationships that are constitutive for university learning workshops will be addressed: What opportunities and challenges do learning workshops offer for individual development? How can cooperative and collaborative learning processes be promoted in communities? What is the significance of things, artefacts, media, technologies for learning and education in learning workshops? How are different discursive practices and learning processes realised in spaces and spatial constellations of learning workshops? Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

This book explores the role of feminist activists in The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and highlights the progress they have made in mainstreaming gender as a key issue in global climate governance. It is now commonplace for gender to be framed as a political issue in global climate politics within academic scholarship, but there is typically a lack of robust empirical analysis of existing advocacy approaches. Filling this lacuna, Joanna Flavell interrogates the political strategies of the Women and Gender Constituency (WGC) in the UNFCCC (The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change). Through a conceptual framework that integrates climate change with intersectional critical inquiry and political practice, Flavell analyses hundreds of historical documents, coupled with interviews and observations from two UNFCCC conferences. This research uncovers a so-far untold story about the history of the UNFCCC that foregrounds gender and feminist advocacy, highlighting the importance of the WGC in shaping dominant narratives of global climate governance through a series of rhetorical and procedural strategies. Overall, the book draws important conclusions around power in global climate governance and opens up new avenues for advancing a feminist green politics. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental justice, climate politics and governance, environmental activism, and gender studies more broadly.

Els textos que conformen aquest volum fan palesa la intensa tasca intel·lectual de Maria Aurèlia Capmany, el seu activisme constant i el seu treball polifacètic i incansable, malgrat els entrebancs, la clandestinitat i la repressió franquista. Una dona catalanista, d’esquerres i feminista que va obrir molts camins. I fan palesa també la necessitat de noves edicions de les seves obres, així com de noves recerques com les que aquí es recullen.

Silica is a naturally occuring solid substance with either a crystalline or amorphous structure. Industrially produced amorphous silica has a wide field of application. During the production process of amorphous silica, syneresis of the solid structures created occurs. In this work, the influences of the process parameters on syneresis are determined experimentally and a physically based model is proposed to describe syneresis.

This Special Issue focuses on the recent research on the effect of physical activity on chronic diseases, including COPD, other lung diseases, cognitive impairment, irritable bowel syndrome, and atherosclerosis . The associated factors, the evaluation methods, and the effective interventions were evaluated. Two review papers and eight original articles are included.