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After more than ten years of hectic debates on international ‘land grabs’, academic interest in collapsed land deals or projects with unexpected results is growing. According to the Land Matrix, Tanzania is one of the target countries for such deals, with a number ‘abandoned’ or delayed and projects...

Brazilian society was shaken by turmoil in the 1920s and 1930s. The country was rocked by heated debates over race and immigration, burgeoning social movements in cities and the countryside, entrenched oligarchies clinging to power, and nature being despoiled. Against this turbulent backdrop, a grou...

The French geography has never really succeeded in considering the environmental issue, which is fundamentally political, to be the logical body of its field of intervention. And despite the rise in contemporary environmental challenges, it seems to continue to do so. The organisation, by the Geogra...

This study is about the political regime in Mauritania, especially with regards to the preponderant influence of French law on this regime – a strong influence on the state’s central administration and on decentralized local administration, as well as on the whole of the political institutions.The f...

Ignoring the satire of learned women, a topos of classical drama at the end of the 17th century, Magaret Cavendish published several treatises of natural philosophy between 1653 and 1668. This article aims at reversing the topos to show how a woman could use the linguistic strategies of satire. Focu...

International audience A methodology for groundwater evaluation has been developed by the combined use of numerical model and spatial modeling using GIS. The developed methodology has been applied on the sub-basin of the Banganga River, India. Initially, the groundwater potential zones have been del...

The very heart of human rights is a fundamental right: freedom of conscience, the corollary of which is necessary tolerance. We will try to outline the progress of this ideal — from the 19th to the 17th century from Nicolas de Cues to Locke — not in an idealistic and abstract way, but by showing how...

IRISH ASSOCIATION OF RUSSIAN, CENTRAL AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES Annual Conference School of History and Archives and Centre for War Studies University College Dublin 9 - 10 May 2014 Call for Papers The War on the Eastern Front is less developed in the English-language historiography and has impinged...

Prof. Dr. Tobias Singelnstein (figure © RUB, Marquard) This contribution is part of the “Law, Politics & Society in doctrine” series. The interview was conducted by Philipp Günther. Mr Singelnstein, at Ruhr University Bochum, leads the Master in Crime, Criminalistics and Police Science. Who is t...

This article looks at the modes of government of two species of highly migratory amphihalin fish: European eel (Anguilla anguilla) and Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). Based on a long ethnographic survey, this text proposes to analyse the arrangements of the governments of fisheries and stocks in cont...

National hearing Agricultural cooperative societies have legal personality only if they are registered, including those formed before 1 July 1978. Next, although it follows from Article 25 of Law No 47-1775 of 10 September 1947 laying down the status of cooperation that, in principle, abandonment of...

Prison work involves pursuing the task with people who have been deprived of their liberty; whereas they can lead to mental disorders or addictions, lack social and educational skills, come from marginalised groups in society; but each is unique in its own right. Prison staff should treat them in a...

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At the time France grants asylum to the half million Spanish people fleeing Franco, the Spanish language was only of interest to a small minority of pupils. At the beginning of the 1950s, while English and even German were aware of the increased favours of young people, Spanish continued to grow in...

The aim of this work is to read the history of the French welfare state in the light of the theory of a predatory state. An approach to social protection taken by the State in which protection is an instrument of predation is opposed to an approach described as ‘Social’ dominated by a ‘welfare’ soci...

On 9 and 10 November 2015, the final seminar of the Osmose project, a French-Latvian research project dedicated to the development of a methodology for a comparative study on the law of intangible cultural heritage (project of the Latvian Academy of Culture and the Institute of Social Sciences of Po...

Summary Why do the important political texts of the former Russia adopt a moralising tone? Why are they so often fragmentary, unfinished? Why do we not find some key ideas in the political thinking of the tsar empire present in almost all the monarchies of Europe, and sometimes these particularities...

the Intercultural University of Indigenous Nations and Peoples, Amawtay Wasi (House of Sagesse, Kichwa) was officially established in 2004, following the indigenous struggles of the 1990s in Ecuador. At the time, the UN Charter of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples was not yet endorsed, and Ecuador ha...

The relationship of Turkey with Europe and the Middle East is greatly influenced by the actions of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) from coming to power in 2002 until nowadays. This thesis tries to make clear how the changes realized by the Turkish Islam during this period impacted on the for...

A large number of open competitive exams for French State civil service take place on the basis of a two-stage recruitment procedure. The first stage, consisting solely of written tests, preserves the anonymity of candidates, unlike the second stage, which consists almost exclusively of oral tests....

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Hugh Dempsey has for decades been one of Alberta’s most prolific and influential public historians. Author of more than twenty books, he has also been “in on the ground floor” of the development of many key Alberta institutions, including the Indian Association of Alberta, the Historical Society of...

Following four years of peace negotiations, the Colombian government and the FARC-EP signed a major peace agreement in 2016, representing a light of hope for this country torn by violence for decades. To date, this peace agreement process is considered to be the most inclusive, creating a global pre...

Craniopharyngiomas are frequent hypothalamo-pituitary tumors in children, presenting predominantly as cystic lesions. Morbidity from conventional treatment has focused attention on intracystic drug delivery, hypothesized to cause fewer clinical consequences. However, the efficacy of intracystic ther...