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On a souvent dit que Cioran, dans son œuvre en français, reprend les mêmes thèmes, qu'il tend au désistement, au repli sur soi et à l'exploration de sa propre intériorité. Pourtant, le présent essai révèle une subtile inflexion de la pensée du philosophe, d'un recueil à l'autre, et affirme que l'abstention est en fait une prise de position, dont il s'agit de déchiffrer les causes et les modalités. Partant du principe que l'art se définit comme autonomie et fait social, ne prenant forme qu'en opposition à la société, tout en tirant sa substance de celle-ci, Sylvain David avance que Cioran a développé son point de vue de l'univers moderne tout au long de son œuvre fragmentaire, structurant ainsi son écriture même. À la fois lecture diachronique et étude thématique des écrits de Cioran, cet ouvrage démontre, au-delà de l'apparent éclatement des fragments, l'organisation d'un imaginaire où un va-et-vient entre l'être et le monde s'opère, où la distance que le sujet tente d'instaurer entre ses semblables et lui doit être constamment renégociée, où le marginal ne peut se définir que par rapport à la collectivité, qu'en fonction du groupe dont il choisit de s'exclure.

This volume will feature research examining the consequences, implications, and opportunities associated with issues of diversity in the electronic media. The topics of gender and race in electronic media have been hot topics of study and remain so today. The book will consider race and gender issues in both historical and contemporary (including newly emerging) electronic media, and will focus on: 1) media content, 2) media audiences, and 3) media production. Chapters may reflect the intersection of race and gender, or overlap with either race or gender and other types of difference such as class, religion, and physical ability.

Conflicts about space and access to resources have shaped queer histories from at least 1965 to the present. As spaces associated with middle-class homosexuality enter mainstream urbanity in the United States, cultural assimilation increasingly erases insurgent aspects of these social movements. This gentrification itself leads to queer displacement. Combining urban history, architectural critique, and queer and trans theories, Queering Urbanism traces these phenomena through the history of a network of sites in the San Francisco Bay Area. Within that urban landscape, Stathis G. Yeros investigates how queer people appropriated existing spaces, how they expressed their distinct identities through aesthetic forms, and why they mobilized the language of citizenship to shape place and secure space. Here the legacies of LGBTQ+ rights activism meet contemporary debates about the right to housing and urban life. “It is challenging to find a book that gives not just an account of a specific place and people but a theory of how queer space works, how it becomes queer. This is that book.” — ROBERT SELF, author of American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland “This is a timely work that offers insight into a pressing problem not just for San Francisco but for our understanding of cities themselves.” — SUSAN STRYKER, author of Transgender History and codirector of Screaming Queens: The Riot at Compton’s Cafeteria “This lively and illuminating book provides a new and needed history of San Francisco since the 1960s, tracing how LGBTQ people remade public and private spaces while contesting the bounds of normative citizenship. Moving from SROs to renovated Victorians, lesbian bars to community land grants, Yeros revives vital questions about how queer and trans communities remake the cities they call home.” — STEPHEN VIDER, author of The Queerness of Home: Gender, Sexuality, and the Politics of Domesticity after World War II

Cashew industry has emerged as one of the potential enterprises in accelerating the economic growth of the country. Tamil Nadu ranks sixth in the production of cashew. In order to meet the challenge, the rate of growth of production should be accelerated by adopting intensive development strategies by bringing more areas under cashew and replacing senile plantation with clones of high yielding varieties and also intensive transfer of technology programmes. Cashew statistics in Tamil Nadu High yielding varieties, improved technologies, case studies are available for boosting cashew production are compiled in this book” Cashew-status in Tamil Nadu” which will be useful for all those dealing this with this crop and will serve as useful reference material for students, farmers, extension workers and policy planners. The authors are grateful to DCR, Puttur, PC, AICRP on Cashew, DCCD and Tamil Nadu Agricultural University.

This fully revised and expanded second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Disability Studies takes a multidisciplinary approach to disability and provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of the main issues in the field around the world today. Adopting an international perspective and arranged thematically, it surveys the state of the discipline, examining emerging and cutting-edge areas as well as core areas of contention. Disability studies and different life experiences, examining how disability and disability studies intersects with ethnicity, sexuality, gender, childhood and ageing. Containing 15 revised chapters and 12 new chapters from an international selection of leading scholars, this authoritative handbook is an invaluable reference for all academics, researchers, and more advanced students in disability studies and associated disciplines such as sociology, health studies and social work.

This open access book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. Relying on different indicators, it demonstrates an important transformation in the class basis of social democracy. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the working-class vote is strongly fragmented and social democratic parties face competition on multiple fronts for their core electorate – and not only from radical right parties. Starting from a reflection on ‘working-class parties’ and using a sophisticated class schema, the book paints a nuanced and diversified picture of the trajectory of social democracy that goes beyond a simple shift from working-class to middle-class parties. Following a detailed description, the book reviews possible explanations of workers' new voting patterns and emphasizes the crucial changes in parties' ideologies. It closes with a discussion on the role of the working class in social democracy's future electoral strategies.

Comment habiter le littoral du plateau des Guyanes, l’un des plus mobiles du monde ? Longé par des bancs de vase venus de l’Amazone, il se transforme constamment : l’installation ou la disparition de mangroves ou de plages, une érosion forte et rapide, bouleversent les milieux dans lesquels les hommes se sont établis. Ce livre a ainsi une double ambition. La première est de décrire la manière dont les populations ont habité et habitent cet environnement très particulier et d’en repérer les enjeux régionaux. La seconde est de proposer une réflexion sur la vulnérabilité des groupes humains dans ce contexte et sur leur capacité d’adaptation, en s’interrogeant sur la possibilité d’une approche combinant savoirs locaux et savoirs scientifiques face à des changements qui s’annoncent désormais rapides et importants. Il s’agit de faire le point sur l’évolution des connaissances géomorphologiques et de décrire, de la période précolombienne à nos jours, les manières différentes d’habiter ces espaces, du monde colonial aux quartiers informels d’aujourd’hui, des modes d’habiter amérindiens et créoles à la construction de la « ville spatiale » de Kourou.

This reprint of the Special Issue Functional Foods as a New Therapeutic Strategy 2.0 explores the potential of functional foods and nutraceuticals in improving metabolic health, highlighting the role of bioactive compounds found in plants, marine products, and dietary supplements. The Issue includes studies focusing on quinoa leaves, avocado seeds, red clover isoflavones, and marine algae, emphasizing their therapeutic properties. Additionally, it reviews plant-derived compounds like ursolic acid and supplements such as Dekosilhue® and melatonin for their anti-inflammatory and metabolic benefits. The findings underscore the growing significance of functional foods in modern healthcare and underscore the need for further research and interdisciplinary collaboration.

The Middle Dutch term schaec referred to abduction with marital intent. This book explores this phenomenon to understand wider attitudes towards marriage-making in the fifteenth-century Low Countries. Whilst exchanging words of consent was all that was required legally, making marriage was a social process that evoked public concern and familial scrutiny. Abductions embodied contrasting evaluations of what mattered when selecting a spouse and resulted in polarized trials in which narratives on consent, coercion, and family strategy coincided and competed. Abduction, Marriage, and Consent draws from a wide range of legal records to assess how men, women, families, and authorities used, navigated, and dealt with abductions during this period. It contributes to debates on consent, family involvement, and women’s access to justice and demonstrates that abduction should be approached as a comprehensive social phenomenon, one that is crucial in the history of marriage and women’s social and legal status.

The book outlines the history of the Collegio delle vergini dell'Annunziata in Nola. This institution, which was founded in 1393 by the count Nicola Orsini, was intended as a place for the education and the social control of young girls from the local elite. The starting point of this work was the edition of the Statuti de lo Collegio delle vergene de la Annunciata de Nola de lo ordene de Sancta Maria, a particularly valuable source due to the rarity of this type of document in late 14th century Southern Italy. This research pays close attention to social segmentation, to forms of selection and access, and to the management of this institution, which was shared among noble, ecclesiastical and civic powers. Indeed, the Collegio became an instrument of government and territorial construction in a baronial lordship, that was strongly aware of its political function.

En octobre 1955, la Radio Télévision Française crée la collection « En votre âme et conscience ». Ses producteurs ambitionnent de raconter, dans un nouveau langage spécialement conçu pour le petit écran – la Dramatique –, les causes les plus célèbres du xixe et des débuts du xxe siècle. En décembre 1969, après avoir relaté soixante-six affaires criminelles, la série disparaît. La Dramatique en direct, concurrencée par des genres plus spectaculaires et divertissants, n’est pas parvenue à se maintenir plus de quatorze ans. Mais durant toute cette période, Pierre Desgraupes et Pierre Dumayet, les deux scénaristes, ont réussi à faire comprendre aux Français le fonctionnement de la justice et les ont amenés à réfléchir sur la difficulté de juger. Ils leur ont aussi, subrepticement et sous le masque de la fiction historique, parlé de leurs préoccupations présentes : de la décolonisation et des misères de la guerre, du débat sur la peine de mort, de l’émancipation des femmes et des attentes de la jeunesse…

Throughout the 18th century, Lyonnais silk manufacturing was constantly creating, adapting and transforming products in response to the evolution of fashion, which was both a profitable tool and a turbulent stream to harness. The male waistcoat is an excellent example of the difficult exercise in which merchant manufacturers engaged in order to secure their markets. Although not originally a specialty of the French city, the waistcoat eventually became a key item in Lyonnais production, selling very successfully in France and abroad. In this article, we analyse trade with Italy in order to explore in detail how the Lyonnais adapted to changes in fashion and used them to their advantage in order to stimulate consumption while navigating the challenges of a foreign market.