Ageing has intensified in recent decades, leading to a significant change in the relationship between age groups and genders. This is the result of both a secular decline in fertility and birth rates, but most importantly, for the recent period, the marked decline in mortality at high ages, which tr...

International audience THE CHURCH AND THE CITIZENS IN MEDIEVAL PSKOVThe identification of the Christian Church with the whole organized society is the fundamentalfeature which distinguishes the Middle Ages from earlier and later periods ofhistory. However, in Russian historiography, Church history u...

To understand the domination and the grip on power of some political parties in sub-Saharan Africa, we must go beyond the classic labeling and have a deeper look at how they function in practice. In this regard, this thesis, which is based on an ethnographic survey carried out in several localities...

While Chief Lamidi Ariyibi Adedibu has been a central player in the emergence of a new way of governance in Nigeria over the last two decades, his political career has so far been little studied. Here we use Chief Adedibu’s personal and political trajectory as a starting point for a broader sociolog...

International audience The Ocean and the resources that it provides are vital to human survival, yet its sheer vastness poses difficulties for regulating this space, adding to its mysteries and challenges. In an industry that is dangerous in the best of circumstances – the International Maritime Org...

Joseph Delachenal, deputy of Savoy from 1910 till 1914, then from 1919 till 1924 and from 1945 till 1958, was not one of the major personality of the national political life of the first 20th century. His influence, solid in spite of his election defeats, exceeded hardly the regional horizon. But hi...

Any multistakeholder initiative that aims to build the basis for change in a food system, regardless of geographic scale, requires an understanding of what is important to stakeholders, how they view the boundaries of the system, and what changes they feel are needed. An assessment of stakeholder pe...

This paper explores my on-going collaborative research journey that began in 2009 with a critical ethnographic investigation into the ways one early years school in Bristol was working to advance a pedagogy of respect that drew on the multilingual and multiliterate out of school practices of childre...

This article tries to adapt socialist and Marxist reading grids to the Cameroon case. It draws on the neo-Gramscian literature leaving aside concepts unsuited to the realities of the country. It offers the analysis axis harmed/profiteers who contrasts with that of proletarian/bourgeois in the litera...

This work investigates certain traces of poetic experimentalism between Galician and Latin, seeking to demonstrate its longevity and artistic power. In this sense, difficult typologies of writing such as acronysis, palindrom, centon, lipogram, anagram and tautogram are addressed. It is interesting t...

Mirroring trends elsewhere in Southeast Asia, Cambodia has witnessed a pronounced shift towards stricter authoritarianism over recent years. The state appears more firmly ruled by prime minister Hun Sen than at any time during the past three decades, while the de facto status of the Cambodian People...

The biological trait analysis (BTA) is regarded as a promising approach to unravel how ecosystem functions respond to human-induced disturbances. This study considered the four sampling locations associated with different human activities in Daya Bay, that is, the domestic and industrial sewage disc...

This article examines two scenarios for the future of education over the coming decades, mainly in England but also in comparable countries. It does so against the background of six large-scale historical processes now in progress: increasing longevity, the expansion of the internet, changes in work...

Since the early 90s, Italy has undergone radical changes in the regulations of the public pension system aimed at mending its main drawbacks and improving sustainability in the long run. The reforms were intended to recover the national economy through a significant reduction of benefits by increasi...

The objective of this article is to analyze the diversification of social positions concomitant with the positions within the political space. In this sense, a research universe was set up with 235 cases that had links with economic activities and also played the role of Federal Deputy between 1990...

‘Philoophical Enquiries: review of English-speaking philosophies’, No 6 (June 2016), recention of Hent Kalmo and Quentin Skinner, Sovereignty in Fragments, The Past, Present and Future of a Contested Concept, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, New York, 2010, 269 p., Index, Bibliography. The dec...

This thesis is about decades of social and political tranformations in the formerly Paris'"red belt", and come into the framework of local studies about french communist party. I tried to understund how generations of communists local representatives stayed in power despite of important constraints:...

To legitimise its power and to build a national identity in the young Spanish-American republics, the Christian elites forged a panteon of patrian heroes intended to play an exemplary, unifying and stabilising role. The worship of the patrio heroe will be strengthened through a wide range of popular...

the significant subsets of social systems and organisations are fundamentally conservative. Their homeostatic stabilities make them sustainable. Culture at group level and refusals to change the actor come together to bring the system into line with itself. However, the system is threatened both fro...

The CEISMIC Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive is a Digital Humanities project to preserve images, stories, and media about the earthquakes of 2010/2011, for the purposes of commemoration, teaching, and research. CEISMIC helps facilitate understanding of the effects of major natural disasters on...

Heterogeneity among life traits in mammals has resulted in considerable phylogenetic conflict, particularly concerning the position of the placental root. Layered upon this are gene- and lineage-specific variation in amino acid substitution rates and compositional biases. Life trait variations that...

Consuming America offers a data-driven, longitudinal analysis of the historical dynamics that have underpinned a long-term, layered cultural-historical process: the emergence of the United States as a dominant reference culture in Dutch public discourse on consumer goods between 1890 and 1990. The i...

Foucault and Bourdieu both referred to their times as neoliberalism. A term that still characterises us perfectly. Taking care to follow each other’s specific context, Christian Laval is among the analyses of both intellectuals, which is essential to understand and combat this longevity. Two of the...

in Nantes, Jean Blaise brings art out of his usual square meadows to the heart of the city and territory. Supported by a political commitment to a rare longevity culture, its creativity has helped to transform the city’s image, everyday life and economy.

This paper studies the dynamics in end-of-life inpatients hospital expenses. A new model is proposed for hospital care expenditures based on a frequency-severity decomposition including age, calendar time, longevity dynamics, and time-to-death. These features are treated as continuous explanatory va...