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La littérature brésilienne actuelle est une invitation permanente à faire l’expérience de productions romanesques et poétiques caractérisées par l’émergence de nouvelles propositions esthétiques et de nouvelles thématiques. Cette production romanesque et poétique contemporaine s’inscrit dans une période marquée par les séquelles de la dictature militaire (1964-1984) et la transition vers un pouvoir civil qui n’a pourtant pas empêché l’explosion de graves convulsions sociales en rapport avec l’insertion du Brésil dans le nouvel ordre mondial. En présentant les grandes lignes de cette production foisonnante ainsi que ses auteurs phares, cet ouvrage entend offrir, aux spécialistes et à un public plus large, un état des lieux sur la production littéraire brésilienne des trente dernières années. Il regroupe les travaux récents de spécialistes des universités françaises et brésiliennes présentés lors d’un colloque international organisé par l’ERILAR-Équipe de recherches interdisciplinaires en langues romanes de l’université Rennes 2. Ces contributions interrogent les rapports que la littérature entretient avec l’Histoire; le statut de l’écrivain dans une société marquée par la fermeture politique, le rôle de la littérature dans les sociétés d’économie de marché, les problèmes qui affectent les mégalopoles – violence, inégalité sociale, ghettos identitaires, les représentations hyperréalistes et les subtilités intimes de l’écriture. Cette publication fait découvrir pour la première fois au lecteur francophone tout un éventail de possibilités esthétiques et thématiques qui disent beaucoup de la façon de percevoir et de concevoir le temps présent.

The contribution analyses a recent editorial production of novels targeting young audiences that present complex, multifaceted and extremely realistic protagonists struggling with the difficult definition - or conquest - of their gender identity and sexual orientation.

Notre imaginaire, très français, de la laïcité nous conduit souvent à penser que la modernité s’est construite contre la religion : le monde social se serait constitué, à partir de la grande transformation des xviie-xviiie siècles, sur le fondement d’une séparation radicale d’avec l’ordre de Dieu, et aurait échoué sur la relégation de la croyance dans le seul espace privé des individus. Constitué d’une série d’enquêtes philosophiques, historiques, et sociologiques, menées sur plusieurs terrains culturels, ce livre remet en cause cette théorie ordinaire de la modernité politique. Il révèle, d’une part, que la constitution de la laïcité est largement redevable aux productions théologiques nées sur le terreau des monothéismes, chrétien sans doute, mais aussi juif et musulman. Il constate, d’autre part, que le fonctionnement de la laïcité, s’il fait fond certes sur le principe de souveraineté du politique, admet bien plus qu’on ne le croit la présence du religieux dans l’espace public, parce qu’il est considéré comme une expression de la liberté du sujet et comme un élément de consolidation du lien social.

This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. Why have the struggles of the African Diaspora so resonated with South Pacific people? How have Maori, Pasifika and Pakeha activists incorporated the ideologies of the African diaspora into their struggle against colonial rule and racism, and their pursuit of social justice? This book challenges predominant understandings of the historical linkages that make up the (post-)colonial world. The author goes beyond both the domination of the Atlantic viewpoint, and the correctives now being offered by South Pacific and Indian Ocean studies, to look at how the Atlantic ecumene is refracted in and has influenced the Pacific ecumene. The book is empirically rich, using extensive interviews, participation and archival work and focusing on the politics of Black Power and the Rastafari faith. It is also theoretically sophisticated, offering an innovative hermeneutical critique of post-colonial and subaltern studies. The Black Pacific is essential reading for students and scholars of Politics, International Relations, History and Anthropology interested in anti-colonial struggles, anti-racism and the quests for equality, justice, freedom and self-determination.

Humanity now faces the possibility that it will become extinct over the next few decades or so. This is not simply a reality about the biological fate of the species; it also raises the prospect of thought’s own extinction. But what does it mean for thought that it, too, might disappear? Thought’s possible disappearance shatters the assumption, at work across all the institutions and disciplines of the West, that one version or another of thought is enduring and will survive. As it turns out, no familiar practice rests on a secure ground; under the sign of the terminus - the prospect of humanity’s extinction - each one is shattered and undone. The cultural legacy becomes a field of rubble. In dozens of short essays, this book moves through this field. It takes up a host of specific inheritances and traces how each is shattered and transformed by an extinct thought. It engages with religion, philosophy, history, literature, ethics, studies of political power and resistance, and depictions of humanity’s place in the nonhuman world. It reconsiders the emergence of capitalism and of biopower, the science of climate change, the import of mediation and technology, and philosophies of temporality. Moreover, it contends with many innovative waves of thought over the past two centuries, from German idealism to deconstruction, from psychoanalysis to queer theory, from decolonizing theory to Afropessimism, and from the critique of ideology to speculative realism. It concludes by assessing what it is like for thought, having confronted its extinction, to live on in this debris, to dance with its own oblivion.

The book focuses on four exemplified EM&Ts areas as results of the methods, gaps and issues related to their teaching methods. The four areas are: Experimental Wood-Based EM&Ts, Interactive Connected Smart (ICS) Materials Wearable-based, Carbon-based & Nanotech EM&Ts and Advanced Growing. It provides the setting up of a common/ novel method to teaching EM&Ts: to create new professional in young students, and to develop new guidelines and approach.

The history of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS) is part of the longstanding tradition of political Islam in Indonesia. Born in 1912 with the foundation of the Union of Muslim Traders (Sarekat Dagang Islam) this trend dominated the emerging nationalism in the Dutch East Indies for nearly twenty years. This initial momentum lies at the the origin of the two-dimensional Islamist project: to islamicise society by cleansing Islam of all practices considered to be impure; to mobilise the electorate by invoking Islamic values and their necessary implementation. Indeed, the birth and development of political Islam was closely linked to the reformist Muslim movement which in religious, cultural and social matters attempted to face the colonial challenge through a religious surge. In Indonesia, the Muhammadiyah, founded in 1912, and the Persatuan Islam, founded in 1923, provided most of the early generations of activists. During the decade after independence, militant Islam played a leading role in Indonesian politics. Between 1945 and 1960, the Masjumi party, which brought together most Muslim organisations, was one of the main government components and thereby constituted the matrix of political Islam in Indonesia to which the current generation of activists still refer. The discussions conducted within this party, especially the delicate compromises made between divine law and people's democracy, preconfigured the present debates conducted by Islamic parties. Like the current leaders of the PKS, this first generation of “government Islamists” was also confronted with economic and social modernity issues such as those related to the role of the West in this process. As the two following contributions remind us, its failure is mainly due to domestic reasons that in turn heavily influenced the way Indonesian Islam later considered these issues. Banned by President Sukarno and marginalised by the emerging New Order, the proponents of militant Islam had no choice but to withdraw from conventional politics. Here the organisational model of the Muslim Brotherhood (also repressed in several Arab countries) as well as the financial resources and literature made available to them by Wahhabi Islam networks contributed to the radicalisation of their discourse. The two terms Dakwah (preaching) and Tarbiyah (education) were therefore used to describe a movement based on the conviction that the re-Islamisation of Indonesian society was the essential precondition for its return to the political scene. Paradoxically, after the initial phase of repression, it was the New Order that favoured this agenda. From the early 1990s, some of the networks born from the Islamic revival were instrumented by a power lacking support and looking for scapegoats (Sino-Indonesian Christians...) on whom to deflect public anger. However, most student associations from the Tarbiyah movement did not let themselves be dragged into this trend and, true to their moral position, joined the opposition against the declining Soeharto regime. From this movement the Justice Party (PK) was born in 1998 (later transformed into the Prosperous Justice Party, or the PKS).

The liber amicorum honours Georgios Gounalakis, one of the leading and most influential media law scholars in Germany. The book combines contributions from all areas of business law, media law and digital law with articles from related research areas, particularly communication science. Because of its multidisciplinary perspectives, the book is of value not only for legal academia and practice, but also for research in media and communication sciences. The authors, which include both researchers and representatives of legal and political practice, are well-known experts in their areas. With contributions by Sabine Christmann | Christian von Coelln | Steffen Detterbeck | Dieter Dörr | Murad Erdemir | Florian Flamme | Hubertus Gersdorf | Karl-E. Hain | Markus Heinker | Thomas Hoeren | Bernd Holznagel | Fabian Kieß | Michael Kling | Moritz Köhler | Christian Krebs | Wolfgang Kreißig | Katja Langenbucher | Pierrick Le Goff | Kai von Lewinski | Elmar J. Mand | Florian Möslein | Sebastian Müller-Franken | Ralf Müller-Terpitz | Alexander Natt | Christoph Neuberger | Sebastian Omlor | Stephan Ory | Eva Oster | Jan Oster | Boris Paal | Anne Paschke | Karl-Nikolaus Pfeifer | Michael Petri | Thomas Pfeiffer | Rupprecht Podszun | Heike Raab | Hannes Rösler | Markus Roth | Simone Schelberg | Christian Schertz | Stephanie Schiedermair | Thorsten Schmiege | Pascal Schneiders | Luca Schramke | Dirk Schrödter | Rolf Schwartmann | Birgit Stark | Gregory Dening Taylor | Sarah Uebber | Andreas Walter | Constantin Willems | Georgios Zagouras

Forest biomass modelling is essential for monitoring and storage. However, biomass in stands and forests varies according to the species, stand structure, and site. Biomass models can be developed using data obtained from destructive sampling, forest inventory, remote sensing, and ancillary. There is a wide range of data science methods and techniques that are currently applied in order to fit the models and evaluate their uncertainties. Biomass models are utilized in order to produce management alternatives. This reprint offers an overview of the various datasets and modelling methods employed to develop biomass functions, as well as their applicability at both the tree and area levels. The topics covered include the following: Biomass models at the tree level; Biomass models at the stand level; Datasets used in biomass modelling; Data science methods and techniques used in biomass modelling; Model performances and uncertainties; Development of management alternatives with biomass models.

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The enhancement of autonomy in language education relies heavily on teachers' empowerment and agency as critical intellectuals and reflective practitioners. However, most teacher education programmes are still based on instrumental views of teacher development that undervalue professional experience and expertise. The authors set the ground for alternative practices by proposing and illustrating a case-based approach to language teacher education that values experiential professional learning and expands competences to promote autonomy in school.

Préfacé par Monsieur Vovelle, ce livre traite de la sensibilité moderniste qui s'est développée partout en Asie au XIXe siècle, pour répondre à des problèmes endogènes d'une part, pour s'adapter à l'intrusion de plus en plus affirmée des Européens d'autre part. L'originalité du cas du Vietnam est que cette sensibilité s'est développée au début du XXe siècle dans un contexte colonial coercitif et a donc revêtu des formes particulières : associations apparemment cultuelles servant de paravents...

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Catholic author Endō Shūsaku (1923-1996) has gained worldwide acclaim for his novels and short stories that explore the conflicts between ethnicity, faith, and native Japanese religious sensibilities. A number of international scholars have interpreted his works as an effort towards religious inculturation and a search for a form of Christianity that resonates more harmoniously with the Japanese spiritual landscape. However, this article challenges such an interpretation, positing that Endō’s oeuvre primarily functions as a dialectical response to the prevailing discursive paradigms of the past, rather than being a conscious attempt at evangelisation. In particular, I argue that his final work, Fukai kawa (Deep River, 1993), stands as a tangible testament to his deliberate attempt to propose an all-encompassing religious pluralism capable of overcoming the binary divisions inherited from earlier literary debates.

« Patrimoine de la Méditerranée »: une collection qui se propose de retrouver l'esprit des lieux, de les faire revivre à travers leur histoire, de susciter l'imagination du passé. Chaque ouvrage, s'appuyant sur les acquis les plus récents de la recherche, s'organise autour d'un thème privilégié. Une petite ville nommée Tétouan était apparue dès 710, mais ce n'était plus qu'une modeste bourgade à la tin du XVe siècle, avant l'arrivée des musulmans d'Andalousie fuyant la reconquête chrétienne. Les émigrés grenadins furent à l'origine de la renaissance de la ville et de son extraordinaire développement. Pendant quatre siècles, du XVIe au XIXe, Tétouan fut un foyer de culture andalouse en terre marocaine. Gouvernée par de grandes familles au pouvoir héréditaire, riche d'une forte élite intellectuelle et commerçante se perpétuant d'âge en âge, elle sut maintenir son autonomie politique, étendre ses échanges vers l'Europe et le Proche-Orient, accueillir des populations diverses, tout en conservant sa profonde originalité culturelle. La civilisation tétouanaise, greffant sur le fonds andalou maintenu et enrichi les apports ottomans et ceux de son environnement rural et berbère, atteignit son degré de perfection au XVIIIe siècle. Malgré les mutations apportées, depuis un siècle, par la modernisation et l'essor de la ville nouvelle, la vieille cité, préservée dans ses anciennes murailles, conserve sa personnalité, unique dans le monde musulman. Cet ouvrage, histoire et description d'une ville andalouse marocaine, de ses palais et de ses édifices religieux, est aussi l'analyse de l'esprit et de la culture du Tétouanais, fier des valeurs dont il a hérité, qu'il a maintenues mais aussi adaptées pour relever les défis d'une histoire séculaire.