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This book is a testament to the renewal of the field of social and human sciences and, specifically, to the bold and innovative perspectives of generations who, without being direct witnesses of Stronismo, investigate—through critical political standpoints and with a new theoretical and empirical arsenal—an authoritarian and repressive system that enjoyed high levels of social legitimacy. It could perhaps be said that the failed political experience of Fernando Lugo, along with the staging of a neo-coup, shaped these young researchers’ desire to probe into a past that was far from having receded. It has often been said that Paraguay is one of the least-studied countries. However, this book, like many other signs from recent decades, compels us to question whether that assertion can still describe a reality that, at least in terms of intellectual production, has begun to change. These new currents, which bring forth renewed reflections on this country, are likely due to various factors. Among them are the inauguration and the process of consolidation of political freedoms in Paraguay and in the Southern Cone following the end of the dictatorships, as well as the expansion of the scientific research and graduate education system in the region. In this sense, it is fair to say that the democratization of society is also accompanied by the democratization of the sciences—in their content, methodologies, sources, writing processes, and professional recruitment.

This book explores the influence and reception of Witold Gombrowicz’s works in Argentina, where he spent over two decades and wrote much of his oeuvre. It examines the "Gombrowicz effect" in Argentinian literature, investigating who read his works, how his themes were integrated or ignored, and his impact on Argentinian culture and literature. Using comparative literature methods, the author analyses the case of Gombrowicz’s literary appropriation. The study starts with key Spanish translations of Gombrowicz’s texts and then assesses a series of Argentinian critical essays on his works. It focuses significantly on Argentinian writers, such as Ricardo Piglia, César Aira, and Osvaldo Lamborghini, who were influenced by Gombrowicz and engaged critically with his literature and his legendary life in Argentina.

Social movements throughout the world have been central to history, politics, society, and culture. Observing Protest from a Place examines the impact of one such campaign, the global justice movement, as seen from the southern hemisphere. Drawing upon a collective survey from the 2011 World Social Forum in Dakar, the essays explore a number of vital issues, including the methodological problems of studying international activist gatherings and how scholars can overcome those challenges. By demonstrating the importance of the global justice movement and the role of nongovernmental organizations for participants in the southern hemisphere, this volume is an important addition to the literature on community action.

The script addresses the role of the theme of work in Labriola's thought, and attempts to demonstrate how this can be assumed as the key to all of his Marxist reflection. "Self-government of work", construction of an "artificial ground" thanks to working praxis, primacy of praxis itself: these are the conceptual passages that attest this centrality. The text tries to account for this in their development.

The recycling of asphalt mixtures has significant contributions towards the reduction in greenhouse gases, pollution, natural resources, and energy consumption. Sustainable road materials and technologies can provide a powerful boost to “carbon-neutral strategies”, and so it is crucial to continue moving towards improving these technologies and theories.This Special Issue includes new findings in the field of regenerated asphalt mixtures, including the high-content regeneration of RAP, cold recycling technologies, regenerated mechanisms, eco-regenerating agents, and anti-aged materials. Additionally, novel materials, fast maintenance technologies, and functional materials are also addressed in this Special Issue, such as bio-asphalt materials, intelligent transportation, self-healing technologies, solid waste resource applications, numerical simulations, smart road materials and technologies, etc.

This book offers a reflection upon Medieval Latin artes poetriae and aims to spur the scientific debate on them by means of eleven papers written by internationally-kwown scholars. The essays investigate, according to different perspectives and in different ways, various aspects of the artes: their relations with other texts (Latin and vulgar), their fortune, their sources, the cultural contexts in which they were read and commented, and single authors’ reflections upon specific questions.

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Il volume ricostruisce le tensioni utopiche presenti nel positivismo, proiettate in genere verso descrizioni immaginarie del futuro, partendo dal Sistema di politica positiva di Comte in cui si descrive una società ideale basata sulla collaborazione fra classi diverse. La tentazione di descrivere il futuro in termini di realizzazione della perfezione accomuna molti altri autori vicini al positivismo. Tuttavia il libro evidenzia come le operazioni ucroniche alimentino talvolta un'immagine non fiduciosa, ma anzi preoccupata per le sue conseguenze sulla qualità umane, di un mondo troppo fondato sulla tecnologia e sui valori materiali dello sviluppo economico.

This book encompasses three sections pertaining to the topics of cancer biology, diagnostic markers, and therapeutic novelties. It represents an essential resource for healthcare professionals and scientist dedicated to the field of prostate cancer research. This book is a celebration of the significant advances made within this field over the past decade, with the hopes that this is the stepping stone for the eradication of this potentially debilitating and/or fatal malignancy.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the memory of colonial wars and liberation struggles that led to political change in Portugal and the independence of five new African countries: Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, and São Tomé and Príncipe. It offers a reading that highlights the changing nature of political memories and social representations. It emphasises three modes of mnemonic intersections: the intersection between distinct historical times; the intersection between multiple products and practices of memory; and the intersection between different countries and national histories. The book is one of the results of research carried out by “CROME – Crossed Memories, Politics of Silence,” a project funded by a Starting Grant (715593) from the European Research Council.

Très sensible aux conditions climatiques et océaniques, le corail construit des squelettes calcaires qui gardent en mémoire les variations des milieux régionaux et locaux. Pour cette raison, il témoigne des conditions dans lesquelles il a vécu. L'étude de colonies coralliennes massives permet donc d'accomplir un formidable voyage dans le temps. Cet ouvrage est le produit d'une recherche de terrain menée en Polynésie française, en particulier à Moorea et à Mururoa, et complétée par un travail de laboratoire. L'auteur cherche à caractériser les relations pluriséculaires entre, d'une part, la température de l'air et l'eau, l'activité solaire et les anomalies hydro-climatiques, d'autre part, les empreintes physiques, chimiques et biologiques laissées dans (et par) les squelettes coralliens. L'apport méthodologique tient notamment dans le développement d'une technique d'acquisition d'images par tomographie et le traitement des clichés, assurant une lecture plus fine et plus fiable des cernes d'accroissement du corail. Par ailleurs, le recours à une « analyse couplée » de mesures physiques et géochimiques sur des échantillons de taille variable précise le potentiel de reconstitution paléoclimatique de ce matériel. L'utilisation de plus en plus fréquente des biomarqueurs coralliens conduit la communauté scientifique à réfléchir sur leur fiabilité. Les signaux isotopiques, chimiques et physiques correspondent-ils uniquement à l'enregistrement des données climatiques ? Les récifs coralliens, et en particulier les colonies massives, représentent des archives incomparables du passé. En ce sens, ils deviennent des outils de prédilection pour l'étude des paléoenvironnements aux latitudes intertropicales et surtout pour l'établissement de modèles climatologiques prédictifs. En outre, des analyses approfondies et appliquées, qui assurent une meilleure compréhension du fonctionnement des écosystèmes récifaux, dont certains sont parfois déjà fortement dégradés, doivent permettre d'en améliorer la gestion et, en conséquence, de préserver les enjeux socio-économiques cruciaux de ces régions.

How will work be configured in the future? What new entities and values will emerge following the transformations of the Fourth Industrial Revolution? How decisive will worker participation be for the success of organizations? This book offers concrete experiences of 'creative' participation of workers and managers in companies committed to developing an intelligent organization. The first part of the book offers the contribution of workers, employees or managers who may also have negotiating roles in union bargaining, but who are above all committed to making everything work, offering opportunities that are able to regenerate processes and enhance workers. The second part contains reflections and proposals on how participation experiences can urge the academic world, trade unions, politics and the legislative system to deepen and take into account the new needs of work, in order to build a virtuous circle that supports companies and workers, management and participation in the complex challenges posed by innovation and the competitive world of production.

L'innovation technologique a une histoire. Elle ne surgit pas tout armée du cerveau d'un inventeur de génie, non plus qu'elle ne naît spontanément d'un besoin pressant du marché. Loin des explications simplistes par l'offre et la demande, il faut plutôt chercher à comprendre l'innovation par l'organisation qui tente de la susciter. Dans ce contexte, l'innovation technologique apparaît paradoxalement comme une affaire de gestionnaires — surtout quand elle requiert la mise en œuvre de grands projets, qui impliquent des ressources si considérables que seules des sociétés d'État ou des grandes entreprises peuvent les engager. Philippe Faucher, Kevin Fitzgibbons et Olga Bosak dressent ici un bilan des plus ambitieuses tentatives d'innovation technologique au Canada dans la seconde moitié du XXe siècle. Avec leurs collaborateurs, ils racontent l'histoire des centrales hydro-électriques de Manicouagan et de La Grande, des réacteurs nucléaires CANDU, du chasseur Arrow, du moteur d'avion PT6 et du jet d'affaires Challenger, des équipements de télécommunication mis au point par Northern Telecom et du satellite de communication Hermès. Ils exposent les conflits internes et les arbitrages, les tâtonnements et les initiatives risquées, bref la dynamique institutionnelle des sociétés qui ont pris en charge ces grands projets. Ce livre permet ainsi d'expliquer leurs résultats variables, qui vont de l'abandon pur et simple à des succès éclatants sur la scène internationale, et il montre la diversité des arrangements organisationnels qui permettent de gérer au mieux le risque technologique.

“On ne leur donnera ni larmes ni sépulture ; ils seront comme du fumier sur la terre [et] leurs cadavres serviront de pâture aux oiseaux du ciel et aux bêtes de la terre”. Extraites de l’Ancien Testament, ces divines paroles adressées au prophète Jérémie dévoilent les contours de la sanction de privation de sépulture : à l’absence d’inhumation et d’affection envers les défunts s’ajoute un traitement infamant pour des cadavres destinés à ressusciter. Ces mots vont orienter la définition médiévale et chrétienne de la peine de privation de ce que les textes nomment la sepultura ecclesiastica ou christiana : l’Église refuse en effet les funérailles chrétiennes, la mémoire liturgique et l’inhumation dans l’espace funéraire communautaire aux “mauvais chrétiens”, autrement dit elle exclut celles et ceux dont le comportement et les actes sont jugés néfastes par et pour la société des vivants et la communauté des morts.En se concentrant sur la province ecclésiastique de Bordeaux des xie-xive s., ce livre éclaire les causes, les conséquences et les moyens d’éviter et d’annuler cette peine, tant pour les vivants que pour les morts. Il replace également la privation de sépulture dans le jeu des interactions entre les justices, les systèmes de domination politique (ecclésiastiques et laïques) et les justiciables. Pour ce faire, il tente une approche du sujet en croisant les sources textuelles (normatives, liturgiques, actes de la pratique, etc.) et les données produites par des archéologues soucieux de trouver une interprétation historique aux inhumations atypiques (dépôt sur le ventre, en dehors d’espace funéraire, etc.).