Oscar Wilde is regarded as the emblematic figure of Aestheticism and Art for Art’s sake and thus of the autonomisation of the arts in late nineteenth-century Britain. That is why The Soul of Man under Socialism, his most overtly political essay, published in The Fornightly Review in February 1891, h...

over the last 20 years, few tourist destinations in the world have built a success as fast as Marrakesh. To such an extent that the ‘Moroccan destination’ is often indissociable from that of the ‘red city’; Marrakesh’s case is unique in the world. Behind this achievement, a will and political commit...

(COM. 13 November. 2003, No 00-20.646, Bull. civ. IV, No 171; D. 2004, Somm. p. 2033, obs. B. Thullier; Rev. Companies 2004, p. 97, Note B. Saintourens)

Colloque annuel 2021 de Christian Churches, Culture and Society in Contemporary Europe (CCSCE), Religion, social commitment and female agency. Encounters with subalternity and resilience , en ligne, 31 mai-3 juin 2021.

The quest to reduce national and global environmental impacts has had a significant impact on the construction industry. In most developed countries, the construction sector is responsible for 35% of waste generation, 32% of energy consumption, and 19% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Both theory...

The contribution seeks to explain the meaning and role of the terms “décadence” and “dilettantism” in the context of the considerations of a non-political one, highlighting the influence of the French cultural critic Paul Bourget and the “Vienna Essayist” Hermann Bahr. In view of the fact that the v...

This article looks at the Parisian metro signage as an authorisation mechanism that engages users in a specific form of co-production of the mobility service. On the basis of an analysis of internal documents and interviews conducted within RATP, it shows that its designers have relied on certain us...

Im Mittelpunkt des Buches steht die Frage nach den Loyalitäten und Lebenswelten des Prager jüdischen Großbürgertums zwischen 1800 und 1867. Aufgrund seines enormen wirtschaftlichen Erfolges nahm es innerhalb der jüdischen Bevölkerung Böhmens eine Sonderstellung ein. Anhand von fünf Prager Familien z...

to hear the commitment of intellectuals, particularly when their intellectual activity is scientifically asserted and where it relates to the field of social practices, or even to the very scope of their partisan intervention, leads to the inevitable question of the requirement of neutrality, which...

International audience This article aims at showing how environmental aesthetics relates to the common environment, the ordinary environment that we discuss, share, and live in. Aesthetics has primarily been understood in relation to art and art history, but it has now been emancipated from this fra...

Following various crises, the French Food Safety Agency was set up in 1999 to incorporate scientific advice into the assessment of health risks. The principle of expert opinion implies that professional and economic interests must be disregarded in the evaluation work. Observing the specific activit...

, a controversial figure of the Amerindian history of the second half of the 19th century, Sarah Winnemucca appears to be the archaetype of the committed Amerindian intellectual. In a short life marked by tension between idealism and dissilsion, indigenous traditions and openness to alien knowledge,...

The organisational study of the Quimper Volley 29 Élite shows that, like the structures resulting from the voluntary sport movement, this volleyball club has embarked on a process of professionalisation which leads to interpersonal and organisational difficulties. The purpose of this memory is to qu...

Jean-François Lecaillon, Women and War 1870-1871. History of a hidden engagement, Paris, Éditions Pierre de Taillac, 2021.

International audience Virtual reality has been brought into the language classroom through the use of virtual worlds such as Second Life (Wigham & Chanier, 2013) to immerse learners in authentic communication situations. Then, technology has made further progress to give way to an even more augment...

The text presents the results of a socio-ethnographic survey (interviews, observations) within a structure that prepares the profession of professional footballers. This learning requires intensive engagement and the production of a vocation within a uniquely surrounding organisation, the profession...

reading the above, we will appreciate the contribution and limits of the intersections of approaches to each of them’s contribution and to the structuring of the approach reflected in this work. However, it is useful to highlight in a few words what characterises this company on the epistemological...

Brazilian Black women actively participated in left-wing movements during the dictatorship in Brazil (1964-1985). Their trajectories are the result of the engagement of this social group in anarchist and communist organizations since the beginning of the 20th century. Therefore, the present thesis a...

Social scientists have only recently begun to explore the link between health and political engagement. Understanding this relationship is vitally important from both a scholarly and a policy-making perspective. This book is the first to offer a comprehensive account of health and political engageme...

“Pédibus... is practical, pleasant, it keeps shape, it doesn’t pollute!” This Pédibus information campaign reflects the setting of public policies for walking on the agenda. Born in Switzerland in 1998 and then in France in the 2000s, the Pédibus was promoted to encourage walking on the way for scho...

In The Expanding Spaces of Law: A Timely Legal Geography (Braverman et al., 2014) fordern die Redakteure rechtliche Geographen dazu auf ihre Aktivitäten auf den Austausch mit weniger häufig anzutreffenden Feldern wie Architektur, Humanismus und Posthumanismus, Physische Geographie, Psychologie und...

The deportation of homosexuals is particularly relevant in the militant LGBT environment in France because the issue is part of the commitment to the homosexual cause. What is the significance of the war history in this commitment? What is the dialectic relationship between individual and collective...

A military force counting over 100 000 men, the French Gendarmerie Nationale ensures the security of people and goods over 95% of the national territory.Territorial appropriation and the meshed layout of the institution have been partly instrumental in controlling the territory for over three hundre...

International audience The reading system can be broken down into four basic subcomponents in charge of prelexical, orthographic, phonological, and lexico-semantic processes. These processes need to jointly work together to become a fluent and efficient reader. Using functional magnetic resonance im...

EWord of Mouth (eWOM) influences consumers who belong to brand communities on Facebook. The aim of this thesis is to analyze the antecedents for eWOM on brand communities on Facebook. The thesis proposes an analysis of eWOM’s antecedents: brand engagement, identification to brand communities, genera...