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"Nos principales représentations de l’espace géographique sont issues de techniques conçues par les militaires pour la guerre. Le détour par les imaginaires offre un moyen d’explorer autrement la nature de l’espace que nous habitons." Henri Desbois, spécialiste de la cartographie, traite ici de l’histoire de la cartographie et de la mesure du territoire, depuis Ptolémée, les Cassini, jusqu’à Google Earth. La cartographie, c’est aussi l’art de faire la guerre, l’art de se repérer, et de communiquer. L’ouvrage commence par la partie historique, se développe sur les aspects politiques, scientifiques et aborde les cartographies imaginaires ou sentimentales.

The COVID-19 pandemic has been a social problem that has tested the resilience of communities. Its focus is primarily on controlling the effects of the disease through the implementation of community-level intervention measures to prevent its spread and to promote health and disease prevention. In this context, the University of Cali (UCC), as a fundamental university focus, is promoting the construction of knowledge through projects carried out by faculty and students of the Faculty of Health at the University of Santiago de Cali, which gave rise to the book "Realidades sobre el COVID-19 en la prevención primaria, secundarios y tertiarios" (Realities about COVID-19 in primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention).

"The relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes in space and in time. The development of historical geographical information systems (HGIS) and other methods from the digital humanities have revolutionised historical research on cultural landscapes. Additionally, the opening up of increasingly diverse collections of source material, often incomplete and difficult to interpret, has led to methodologically innovative experiments. One of today’s major challenges, however, concerns the concepts and tools to be deployed for mapping processes of transformation—that is, interpreting and imagining the relational complexity of urban and rural landscapes, both in space and in time, at micro- and macro-scale. Mapping Landscapes in Transformation gathers experts from different disciplines, active in the fields of historical geography, urban and landscape history, archaeology and heritage conservation. They are specialised in a wide variety of space-time contexts, including regions within Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and periods from antiquity to the 21st century."

« On ne connaît pas de société organisée qui n’ait sa zone de sacralité », répète Régis Debray. Cette sacralité imprègne notre interprétation du monde en s’accrochant à tel ou tel domaine, migrant du religieux au politique ou à l’esthétique (et vice versa parfois), magnifiant tour à tour une valeur ou une autre, se concrétisant dans des rituels ou dans leur transgression, se traduisant par des manifestations collectives ou par une ascèse intérieure. Le sacré, dans sa dimension anthropologique la plus large comme dans ses formes culturelles particulières, alimente l’imaginaire de toute société et, comme tel, constitue un ferment de l’expression artistique et littéraire. Les textes ici réunis font dialoguer des œuvres poétiques et romanesques, théâtrales, iconiques et plastiques, tirées des cultures arabe et européenne, de façon à questionner en résonance leurs interprétations du sacré et les formes qu’elles lui donnent. Où l’on voit que les écrits sacrés (la Bible et ses prolongements chrétiens et islamiques, mais aussi les mythes de la Grèce antique) continuent à inspirer mises en récits et mises en scène qui les transforment et les revivifient à l’infini. Que la quête poétique, recherche verbale et activité symbolique, reste sœur des aspirations mystiques intimes et/ou cosmiques. Que la figuration iconique et plastique, en particulier celle du corps humain, garde trace d’une transcendance liée à la conscience de sa finitude. Que l’activité théâtrale n’a rompu ni avec ses racines dionysiaques ni avec ses origines funéraires. Que cette production imaginante est toujours accompagnée de discours réflexifs qui la relativisent et la balisent, dénonçant les dérives possibles (ou tristement actualisées) et maintenant le cap d’une compréhension tolérante, plus que jamais indispensable.

When the Mahabharata and Ramayana are performed in South and Southeast Asia, audiences may witness a variety of styles. A single performer may deliver a two-hour recitation, women may meet in informal singing groups, shaddow puppets may host an all-night play, or professional theaters may put on productions lasting thirty nights. Performances often celebrate ritual passages: births, deaths, marriages, and religious observances. The stories live and are transmitted through performance; their characters are well known and well loved. Yet written versions of the Mahabharata and Ramayana have existed in both South and Southeast Asia for hundreds of years. Rarely have these texts been intended for private reading. What is the relationship between written text and oral performance? What do performers and audiences mean when they identify something as “Ramayana” or “Mahabharata”? How do they conceive of texts? What are the boundaries of the texts? By analyzing specific performance traditions, Boundaries of the Text addresses questions of what happens to written texts when they are preformed and how performance traditions are affected when they interact with written texts. The dynamics of this interaction are of particular interest in South and Southeast Asia where oral performance and written traditions share a long, interwoven history. The contributors to Boundaries of the Text show the difficulty of maintaining sharp distinctions between oral and written patterns, as the traditions they consider defy a unidirectional movement from oral to written. The boundaries of epic traditions are in a state of flux, contracting or expanding as South and Southeast Asian societies respond to increasing access to modern education, print technology, and electronic media.

S'il existe de nombreux ouvrages sur l'enseignement supérieur en France, la loi qui fonde l'Université de la seconde partie du xxe siècle n'avait en revanche pas encore fait l'objet d'une investigation systématique. Pour comprendre cette loi, il est d'abord nécessaire de la replacer dans un contexte particulier pour l'enseignement supérieur. Comment le pouvoir gaulliste a-t-il fait face au défi de la massification des étudiants dans les années soixante ? Des projets de réforme ont existé avant la loi Faure mais ils n'apportaient que des solutions conjoncturelles aux problèmes soulevés et aucun n'a eu cette volonté de structuration présente dans la loi Faure. Les événements de 1968 ont cristallisé les interrogations, y compris au plus haut niveau de l'État entre Charles De Gaulle et Georges Pompidou, notamment sur des sujets aussi sensibles que la sélection à l'entrée des formations. L'examen de cette loi « libérale » constitue le second temps de cette analyse : préparation rapide du projet dans un cabinet ministériel en pleine ébullition, débats au Parlement, réactions d'opposition des étudiants de droite. Tout cela aboutit finalement à une loi peu ou mal appliquée, compte-tenu de la réaction des syndicats enseignants, de la mise en œuvre difficile dans les établissements, à Nanterre par exemple, ou encore des difficultés à faire respecter la nouvelle autonomie des universités. Les conclusions auxquelles sont parvenus les auteurs sont paradoxales : on est passé de l'Université aux universités – en regroupant les facultés – en dérogeant aussi parfois à la loi même – par la création d'universités de technologie. Mais surtout la loi Faure a posé des questions encore d'actualité dans l'enseignement supérieur français, telles que le défi de la massification des étudiants ou l'autonomie des universités.

Sozialraumorientierte Soziale Arbeit prägt die sozialarbeiterische Fachdebatte seit über 30 Jahren. Unterschiedliche, teils konkurrierende Zugänge machen die Sozialraumorientierte Soziale Arbeit jedoch unübersichtlich. Dieses Handwörterbuch bietet Orientierungshilfe und baut Brücken – sowohl zwischen unterschiedlichen Konzepten als auch zwischen zentralen Diskurslinien der Sozialarbeitswissenschaft und der Sozialraumorientierten Sozialen Arbeit. Wissenschaftler:innen verschiedener Schulen sowie Praxisvertreter:innen beleuchten in über 100 einführenden Stichwörtern historische Verortungen, theoretische und konzeptionelle Orientierungen, Haltungen, methodische Ansätze, Handlungsfelder und Querschnittsthemen Sozialraumorientierter Sozialer Arbeit. So bietet das Nachschlagewerk eine fundierte Systematisierung für Studium und Praxis der Sozialen Arbeit.

This open access book focuses on how the design and use of innovative learning environments can evolve as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges that these changes pose, and the effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments. It offers a significant evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field by designers, architects, educators and policy makers. It presents twenty-five cutting-edge projects from researchers in fifteen countries. Thanks to the book’s comprehensive international perspective, which combines theory and practice in a single publication, readers will gain a wealth of new insights. ; This open access book focuses on the design of learning environments that change as teaching practices and education policies change. It addresses how these new environments are used, how teachers are adapting their practices, the challenges these changes present and effective evaluation of these changes. The book reports on emerging research in learning environment developments, with a particular emphasis on how teachers are transitioning from traditional classrooms to innovative learning environments and assesses the effectiveness of these learning environments. This book is the first ever evidence-based global assessment of current research in this field. Readers will gain new insight through its comprehensive international perspective that brings practice and theory together in one publication.

The office work is being completely reorganized in the current digital transformation. Central to this are concepts such as »lean production« and »agile methods«. The book shows the implications of this development for the workforce of employees through case studies from the areas of software development, engineering, metal and electrical industry. A fundamental change in employee work with an uncertain outcome is discernible. Is office work on the digital assembly line or a departure into a new humanization of the world of work? The book provides answers to these questions and shows that the result of development depends on our conscious design.

Ce livre déploie l’implicite d’un étrange petit carnet écrit entre 1824 et 1834, intitulé Le Salon imaginaire ou le 20e siècle de Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac, titre posé de la main de son auteur, l’ancien rapporteur du Comité de salut public de l’an II. Or, que veut, que peut un Salon imaginaire, si ce n’est parler de ce dont il n’est pas question : la Révolution française. Ces 230 notices dans l’esprit des Salon de peinture du temps brassent les époques et les lieux. Pour dire sans dire les moments critiques de l’action. L’invention de tableaux à peindre, rarement la reprise d’œuvres réalisées, permettent de ne rien forclore. L’avenir du passé persiste et nourrit la réflexion sur le tragique de la décision qu’elle soit directement politique ou non. Les situations paroxystiques dans le goût de David, leur présentification mentale évoquent les premiers rôles, les complices et les comparses, presque toujours néfastes dans un entrelacs de métaphores cryptées et d’allégories en action. Les voix du silence permettent d’opposer au présent désespérant, celui de la Restauration, la sensibilité préromantique de la seconde génération des Lumières qui fit la Révolution. L’horizon d’attente reste celui d’une humanité réconciliée avec elle-même, de là, le renvoi au xxe siècle. Cette rêverie vagabonde d’un des acteurs majeurs de la Révolution permet une authentique page d’histoire culturelle du politique.

Men in the Public Eye reveals why men's domination in and of the public sphere is a vital feature of gender relations in patriarchy. It also shows how public domains dominate private domains, contributing to the intensification of public patriarchies. Jeff Hearn explores these important issues by focusing on the period 1870-1920, when there was massive growth and transformation in the power of the public domains. He demonstrates that these historical debates and dilemmas are still relevant today as men search for new, postmodern forms of masculinities.

The 43rd UID conference, held in Genova, takes up the theme of ‘Dialogues’ as practice and debate on many fundamental topics in our social life, especially in these complex and not yet resolved times. The city of Genova offers the opportunity to ponder on the value of comparison and on the possibilities for the community, naturally focused on the aspects that concern us, as professors, researchers, disseminators of knowledge, or on all the possibile meanings of the discipline of representation and its dialogue with ‘others’, which we have broadly catalogued in three macro areas: History, Semiotics, Science / Technology. Therefore, “dialogue” as a profitable exchange based on a common language, without which it is impossible to comprehend and understand one another; and the graphic sign that connotes the conference is the precise transcription of this concept: the title ‘translated’ into signs, derived from the visual alphabet designed for the visual identity of the UID since 2017. There are many topics which refer to three macro sessions: - Witnessing (signs and history) - Communicating (signs and semiotics) - Experimenting (signs and sciences) Thanks to the different points of view, an exceptional resource of our disciplinary area, we want to try to outline the prevailing theoretical-operational synergies, the collaborative lines of an instrumental nature, the recent updates of the repertoires of images that attest and nourish the relations among representation, history, semiotics, sciences.

The Routledge International Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth offers a rich covering of approaches to different traumatic and stressful experiences in relation to posttraumatic growth (PTG). This handbook explores benefits that individuals, couples, families, organizations and communities can experience following the struggle with highly stressful and potentially traumatic events. Split into seven parts and written by a diverse international team of multidisciplinary contributors who provide a comprehensive overview of PTG, topics include: religious and spiritual aspects of PTG, gender in PTG, PTG in LGBTQ+, perinatal bereavement, and more. The Routledge International Handbook of Posttraumatic Growth represents an essential resource for students, researchers and professionals, including social workers, psychologists, nurses, mental health counsellors and psychiatrists.

This open access book provides a comprehensive mapping of anti-gender mobilizations in Italy, Slovenia, France, Spain, Turkey, Poland, Greece, and Denmark. In recent years, Europe has witnessed the rise and consolidation of these mobilizations, posing significant challenges to progress in equality politics. While analyzing the key actors, strategies, and discourses driving these movements, the book also shifts its focus to feminist and LGBT+ resistance. Drawing on interviews with activists from eight European countries, it identifies key opposition strategies that increasingly reflect productive resistance. By examining these evolving forms of activism, the book sheds light on the threats posed by anti-gender mobilizations and the innovative responses that sustain feminist and LGBT+ movements in today’s struggles. It will be of interest to researchers and students in gender studies, feminist studies, political sociology, and comparative politics.

The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0] licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Islamic Publications Ltd. The tradition of philosophy in the Persian-speaking world is extraordinarily rich, creative and diverse. This anthology, which is divided into three volumes, aims to communicate something of that richness and diversity. The term 'philosophy' is understood to in its widest sense to include theological debate, philosophical Sufism and philosophical hermeneutics (ta'wil). Extending over a period of more than two millennia, and showcasing translations by well-established scholars, the anthology offers full bibliographical references throughout. For anyone interested in exploring, in all their varied manifestations, the fascinating philosophical traditions of Persia, such a wide-ranging and ambitious work will be an indispensable resource. Volume 2 covers five centuries of Ismaili philosophy, and includes extracts from outstanding Ismaili works including the "Rasa'il Ikhwan al-Safa" ("Treatises of the Brethren of Purity") and the philosophical odes of Nasir Khusraw. It is of great siginificance that, in the early centuries of Islam, philosophers were influenced by Pythagorean and Hermetic ideas, which are usually associated with Shi'i thought in general and Ismailism in particular. Ismaili philosophy at this time was able to integrate strands of Greco-Alexandrian thought such as Hermeticism and Neo-Pythagoreanism, as well as aspects of Mazdaeism and Manichaeism. It also showed marked interest in Neo-platonism.