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This book presents a series of research on documentation practices and methods on eight Fuegopatagonian languages: Selk'nam, Haush, Alakaluf/Kawesqar, Yagan, Aonekko 'a'ien, Teushen, Gününün a Yajüch and Mapuzungun, carried out in Patagonia in the last third of the 19th century and up to the mid-20th century in a context of territorial expropriation and genocide of the pre-existing peoples. It also makes available unpublished documents in these languages that have been stored in repositories in Argentina, Chile, Germany and Italy. The publication seeks to make visible the work of the co-producers of the native peoples in the collection of information and methods of documentation of their languages, as well as the material conditions in which they developed. Undoubtedly, it values a little-known manuscript corpus, which at the time was shared by various scholars, objectified and extracted from its speaker communities, and thus contributes to consolidating an ethical position in interdisciplinary research work on the languages of the native peoples of the Fuegopatagonian region.

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Shumona Sinha, born in Calcutta in 1973 and living in France since 2001, has created a body of work that sets her apart in contemporary French-language literature. Her dual cultural heritage, poetic style, narrative strategies and thematic choices, inspired in equal measure by her own biography and her preoccupation with current social and political events, give rise to a global and dislocated view of the contemporary world, which the author scrutinises and questions with the same thirst for humanity and the same sense of revolt in the face of injustice, whatever the country or the cultural, political or religious context that makes the latter possible. At the same time, his texts underline the need to place literary reception in a post-national perspective, which is better able to capture the transformations of the literary in a post-migrant society. This book is devoted to the entirety of Sinha's literary output to date, and sets out to establish a first collective critical milestone in the reception of what we will describe as his ‘world work’.

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Comment circulons-nous sur le web ? Comment organisons-nous nos recherches ? Qu’est-ce qui nous arrête et qu’est-ce qui nous fait bifurquer ? Comment agissons-nous face à l’inattendu ou au trop connu ? Internet incite à se promener, à visiter, à se faire curieux, ce dont rend compte le terme de sérendipité. Avec le numérique, les possibilités de consommation culturelle deviennent illimitées. Cet ouvrage analyse les processus qui permettent à l’heureux hasard de se manifester mais aussi, au-delà, les façons dont on butine sur Internet, dont on explore les contenus entre flânerie curieuse, attention flottante, multi-activités ou engagement soutenu. L’auteur étudie ce qu’il appelle un régime exploratoire à travers quatre comportements essentiels de la vie : apprendre, travailler, faire des rencontres et se détendre. Chaque étude de cas rend compte d’une forme de compétences spécifiques liées aux usages d’Internet et à l’exploration curieuse. Certaines de ces compétences sont acquises dans le domaine scolaire, d’autres sont de nature extra-scolaire ou familiale. En filigrane de ces analyses, se dégagent des inégalités nouvelles liées au monde de l’illimité, que cet ouvrage se propose de mettre au jour.

"In the decade since Kevin Hylton’s seminal book ‘Race’ and Sport: Critical Race Theory was published, racialised issues have remained at the forefront of sport and leisure studies. In this important new book, Hylton draws on original research in contemporary contexts, from sport coaching to cyberspace, to show once again that Critical Race Theory is an insightful and productive tool for interrogating problematic social phenomena. Inspired by W.E.B. Du Bois’ statement that ""the problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the colour line"", this book sheds a critical light on the way sport perpetuates racism, while identifying opportunities to challenge its insidious presence. Exploring and explaining the ways in which notions of ‘race’ are expressed and contested at individual, institutional and societal levels, it addresses key topics such as whiteness, diversity, colourblindness, unconscious bias, identity, leadership, humour and discourse to investigate how language can be used as a device for resistance against racism in sport. Contesting ‘Race’ and Sport: Shaming the Colour Line is vital reading for all sport studies students, academics and those with an interest in race, ethnicity and society."

Teachers' beliefs are considered to play a decisive role in the quality of their professional activities. When using digital media in schools and classrooms, specific beliefs about digital media are important in addition to general job-related beliefs. However, there are hardly any empirical findings on the development and change of such convictions. On the basis of professional biographical narrative interviews, the present study recorded the diverse convictions of teachers about digital media, reconstructed individual developmental trajectories and the associated conditions, and worked out different basic patterns on the basis of a typology.

In News Networks 35 scholars from 10 countries give a new account of the history of European news, emphasising its transnational character and the international transmission of forms and modes of news as well as information. Readership: All interested in the histories of news, of the book, and of political culture in early modern Europe.

Photobiology is a challenging research area aiming to explore the interactions between light and living organisms and their biological consequences, with applications in the fields of photomedicine, photo(nano)technology, photosynthesis, and photosensory biology. Nowadays, there is a great interest in designing advanced materials with peculiar physicochemical properties and photoresponsive features that, interacting with light, produce a response that can be exploited for diagnosis and/or therapy. In this Special Issue, articles and reviews addressing the latest advances in the use of light-responsive materials for photobiology have been selected for publication, including phototherapeutic biomaterials proposed for light-induced therapies against cancer, microbial infections, atherosclerosis, aesthetic dentistry treatments (e.g., dental bleaching), and photobiomodulation (PBM) for treatment of neurological and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Qu’est-ce qu’administrer les finances dans la monarchie espagnole, entre le xvie et le xixe siècle ? Ce livre aborde l’administration des finances dans une perspective dynamique - comme une activité - et sous plusieurs angles - politique, institutionnel, culturel et social - en la concevant comme un espace de relations et de négociation entre le monarque, ses agents, et des contribuables qui sont aussi des sujets. Le point de vue des acteurs est privilégié : quels objectifs se donnent-ils ? C...

It is often repeated that we live today in a ‹post-truth› world. But this problem has a long history. Greek philosophers investigated the origins of truth (and the will to truth) in hope to separate truth from illusion. But already Machiavelli equated the concept of truth with the notion of what seems to be true. And today? Perhaps, we are paying the price of naivety. In this book, the author approaches the idea of deliberative democracy with reservation, attempting to expose the vain hopes rooted in the Enlightenment tradition, which placed the desire for truth at the fore, and relegated the desire for illusion to the shadows. The book encourages reflection on the appeal of deception in a world which has become the media’s ‹grazing ground›; a world which rejects metaphysics in favour of pragmatic theories, thereby transforming politics into a sphere where truth is replaced with ‹narrative›.

A partir da temática da proteção, Simone Monteiro relativiza o enfoque epidemiológico de risco, mostrando o modo como os jovens da comunidade de Vigário Geral encaram a sexualidade e suas implicações. Desconstruindo a idéia recorrente no imaginário social de que a questão da prevenção é amplamente difundida na sociedade brasileira, a autora nos apresenta reflexões, com base em depoimentos decorrentes de uma pesquisa aprofundada, que permitem um questionamento crítico sobre o verdadeiro alcance das políticas preventivas em saúde.

Adam Smith was not only a founder of modern political economics but also a moral philosopher, who gave a lecture series titled Lectures on Jurisprudence, now preserved only in lecture notes. He was unable to realize his plans to create a comprehensive theory of the law and burned all drafts of the work. However, relevant sections of his major works enable the reconstruction of a substantial portion of his ideas in the area of legal theory.

Diverse Islamic groups have triggered a "revival of Islam" in Central Asia in the last decades. As a result, there has been a general securitization of Islam by the governments: not only do they combat the terrorist Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan but also outlaw popular groups such as the Gülen movement. However, strong repression of religion might lead to radicalization. Kathrin Lenz-Raymann tests this hypothesis with an agent-based computer simulation and enriches her study with interviews with international experts, leaders of political Islam and representatives of folk Islam. She concludes that ensuring religious rights is essential for national security.

Après la parution en 2023 du Cours de poétique de Paul Valéry, jusque-là resté inédit, Valéry au Collège de France propose la première synthèse et réflexion historique, philosophique et critique sur l’enseignement donné par l’écrivain au Collège de France de 1937 à 1945. Pour la première fois, des spécialistes dressent le bilan de l’édition du Cours et donnent une lecture et interprétation de son enseignement durant les huit années de la chaire de Poétique. Pour la première fois également est proposée une étude d’ensemble de la réception de la pensée de Valéry par des professeurs du Collège de France aujourd’hui disparus et qui furent de grandes figures du xxe siècle – Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Roland Barthes, Yves Bonnefoy et Jacques Bouveresse –, réception qui se poursuit ici à travers les voix de Jean-Pierre Changeux, Antoine Compagnon, Carlo Ossola et Claudine Tiercelin.Cet ouvrage montre à quel point Valéry représente un moment important de l’histoire des idées au xxe siècle, mais aussi de l’histoire intellectuelle du Collège de France.