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The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solutions in a Changing World (ISHSS 2023) unfolds as a crucial academic undertaking, centred around the overarching theme of intellectual synergy and inquiry. This conference serves as a vibrant forum, facilitating discussions on a wide array of subjects within the realms of humanities and social sciences. The curated collection of proceedings encapsulates an expansive spectrum of subject areas, transcending disciplinary boundaries to encapsulate sociology, anthropology, history, and beyond. The significance of this compilation lies not only in the wealth of knowledge it imparts but also in its potential to resonate with a diverse audience. From academicians to practitioners, the discourse transcends traditional boundaries, offering insights that cater to the intellectual curiosity of a broad audience. The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

Le « phénomène constituant » est à comprendre comme un ensemble d’actes successifs ou simultanés qui sont à la fois des actes juridiques et des faits. Il est un processus complexe et composite qui se déclenche à partir de la fin d’un ordre constitutionnel donné et qui conduit, après une période dont la durée dépend des contextes historiques et politiques, à l’instauration d’un nouvel ordre constitutionnel. L’étude de la période se situant entre deux constitutions a souvent été délaissée par la doctrine constitutionnaliste. Une partie de celle-ci considère en effet que les périodes de transition constitutionnelle ne sont qu’une succession de décisions politiques dont la valeur juridique ne pourra qu’être confirmée ou infirmée ex post, une fois la nouvelle constitution adoptée et le nouvel ordre juridique établi. Mais si la transition entre deux ordres juridiques est une période exceptionnelle, dans laquelle les faits politiques et sociaux s’articulent aux faits juridiques, le nouvel ordre constitutionnel qui s’ensuit est alors le reflet de ces faits, des équilibres qui en sont issus, souvent formalisés par des actes juridiques pré-constituants. Pour décrire et expliquer ce phénomène complexe, le constitutionnaliste a alors besoin de s’appuyer sur les analyses des autres disciplines pour comprendre les multiples éléments qui participent à ce processus. Cette journée de réflexion se propose ainsi d’instaurer un dialogue interdisciplinaire sur le phénomène constituant entre les juristes constitutionnalistes et les représentants d’autres sciences humaines et sociales. Les perspectives de l’histoire, de la science politique, de la sociologie, de la psychanalyse ou encore de l’économie permettront d’apporter des éclairages nouveaux sur cet objet juridique mal identifié.

This book is the first to explore how protest is remembered in the stories told about it. How does the memory of past protest feed into new mobilizations? At stake is understanding how hope in the possibility of making the world a better place is communicated across time with the help of media and cultural forms. Remembering Hope addresses this issue with reference to a range of cases from late nineteenth-century socialism to today’s climate activism, using the shape-shifting memory of the Paris Commune as a unifying thread. It treats a wide variety of cultural forms, from periodicals, radical calendars, and archives to photography, graffiti, documentaries. In the process, it shows that cultural memory and activism are deeply entwined, that stories can offer resistance to defeat and hence act as a mobilizing force in kick-starting campaigns. Overall it challenges the assumption that looking back can never be progressive. Above all, it demonstrates how culturally mediated memories become carriers of hope by mobilizing a readiness to act irrespective of the outcome.

Jeffrey Lesser focuses on São Paulo’s Bom Retiro neighborhood to examine the competing visions of wellbeing in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials.

Sustainable by passion and deliberate choice, not mere interest, pragmatic sustainability is a model of sustainability that contemplates the three dimensions of environmental, economic, and social factors and does not stop at announcing this concept but ensures that it is implemented in practice and is made concrete after providing analyses that support it. Pragmatic sustainability is based on the concept of altruism, just as the morning sentinels baptized by St. John Paul II defended “life at every moment of its earthly development” to make it “ever more habitable for all”. We need PEACE. Not coincidentally, the research project inspiring this Special Issue is titled PEACE (Protecting the Environment: Advances in Circular Economy) and is funded by the Ministry of University and Research under the PRIN initiative, which involves Sapienza University of Rome, University of L'Aquila, University of Ferrara, Unitelma Sapienza University of Rome, and Tor Vergata University of Rome. This Special Issue, “Sustainable Development Goals: A Pragmatic Approach”, contains one editorial, nineteen articles, four reviews, and one systematic review with international authors. All papers are highly innovative and support sustainable development goals.

The central issue of this volume is violence against women and young girls as part of symbolic or systemic violence, overt or subtle, and its impact on their health and general well-being. Recognised as a determinant of health, violence has been aptly described as a silent epidemic affecting women not only in Europe but globally.This book aims to provide an additional platform for discussing the issue of violence against women and young girls, with a particular focus on its impact on health. The central question of this volume is the nature of interdisciplinary studies on gender violence, bringing together sociologists, lawyers, psychologists, anthropologists and biologists.

Over 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by oceans and seas, which are massively complex and consist of diverse assemblages of life forms. Marine bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms develop unique metabolic and physiological capabilities that enable them to survive in extreme habitats and to produce compounds that might not be produced by their terrestrial counterparts. In the last few decades, the systematic investigations of marine/marine-derived microorganisms as sources of novel biologically active agents has exponentially increased. This Special Issue will focus on aspects relating to new bioactive metabolites from marine microorganisms including the isolation, taxonomy, and/or dereplication of microorganisms and the corresponding isolation, structure elucidation, biosynthesis, and/or biological activities of the new compounds. Comprehensive topical review articles relating to marine metabolites will also be considered.

This chapter focuses on Françoise, a dummy figure of the upper part of the female human body used for calibrating radiation detectors in laboratories around the world. From spring 1962 to the end of 1965, Godofredo Gómez Crespo, a Spanish physicist employed by the International Atomic Energy Agency, travelled the world carrying Françoise in a box-like suitcase that also included a number of standard vessels of various sizes and shapes, containing amounts of mock radioiodine. Gómez Crespo’s task was to check the precision of radioiodine uptake tests for quality assurance in in-vivo measurements in several hospital laboratories across the globe. At the time, thyroid uptake tests constituted one of the first diagnostic applications of radioactive tracers, a cutting-edge technique in nuclear medicine. The chapter discusses the unnecessary gendering of physics instrumentation and brings front and centre the legacy of sexism in the nuclear sciences.

Jean-Baptiste Girard, jésuite, séduit une de ses pénitentes, Catherine Cadière. Il a 48 ans, elle en a 19. Nous sommes à Toulon en 1731. Un fait divers parmi tant d’autres au XVIIIe siècle ? L’opinion publique en décide autrement. Un procès retentissant s’ouvre à Aix-en-Provence. Sur fond de querelle religieuse entre jésuites et jansénistes, les discours des satiristes et des épistoliers commentent les frasques du couple scandaleux et construisent une affaire singulière. Le verdict du procès ne satisfait personne, ce qui explique que l’histoire semble échapper à toute conclusion. C’est pourquoi le livre interroge aussi les mémoires de l’affaire, en examinant les variations de ses réécritures qui, du XVIIIe à nos jours, oscillent entre fascination et défiance. Aujourd’hui encore, les éléments savoureux de cet objet historique singulier permettent à chacun de s’y retrouver.

Chlorophyll presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the biology, biochemistry and chemistry of chlorophylls in photosynthetic organisms. Divided into seven discreet parts, the book covers topics on basic science and applied technology of chlorophyll molecules. Chlorophyll provides an insight into future developments in each field and extensive bibliography. It will be an essential resource for researchers and academic and industry professionals in the natural pigment field.

Sin fronteras: Inclusive Spanish Grammar Guidebook is the first ever Spanish language text to teach non-binary and gender-neutral language. It is an invaluable resource for intermediate and advanced learners that offers concise explanations and exercises for the major clausal structures, tenses, and moods. Along with including non-binary and gender-neutral language, the volume also incorporates the voseo, or the use of vos as a second-person singular pronoun that is common in many Latin American countries. This book expands the scope of traditional grammar instruction by including tasks such as reading, writing, discussions, and independent research in order to support the development of the competencies necessary to thrive in the increasingly interconnected and diverse world. Sin fronteras is suitable for independent study or for supplemental use in conversation classes, classes for heritage speakers, classes with focus on the professions (e.g., medical Spanish, Spanish for business), and literature classes.

Dans la pensée contemporaine, l’esclavage est considéré comme un crime contre l’humanité, parce qu’il nie des droits universellement reconnus (la liberté, l’égalité), en faisant de l’être humain une propriété, un objet. Pourtant, l’affirmation de l’homme en tant qu’être juridique porteur de droits subjectifs est historiquement et culturellement marquée. Il a pu exister, même en droit français, un droit objectif de l’esclavage. Cette réalité conduit à s’interroger sur la logique de légitimation de l’esclavage, et à l’inverse sur l’émergence d’une définition juridique de l’homme comme sujet de droit. Le centre « Éthique et procédures » et la faculté de droit Alexis de Tocqueville (Université d’Artois), à l’initiative de Manuel Carius et de Tanguy Le Marc’hadour, ont invité juristes de droit public ou de droit privé et historiens du droit à réfléchir sur les rapports du droit et de l’esclavage. Leurs contributions, limitées à l’espace juridique français, mais étudiant des époques et des lieux variés, analysent le code noir et ses évolutions, ou le droit international contemporain, en passant par le droit du protectorat marocain ou le statut de l’indigène en Algérie. Le droit de l’esclavage ayant longtemps cohabité avec son interdiction, on constate un relativisme juridique qui lui donne des contours imprécis, sur deux points : il fait de l’esclave un être juridique hybride, à la fois chose et homme, dont le statut varie avec le temps, et il désigne aussi « l’autre humanité », susceptible d’être mise en esclavage, et « l’autre lieu », l’ailleurs où existera l’esclavage. Il crée alors une altérité mouvante qui prend des formes différentes selon les époques et les lieux. Les contributeurs du colloque présentent ainsi une réflexion sur un droit pris entre exigence morale et intérêts économiques ou sécuritaires.

As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.

environmental economics; biodiversity; sustainable development