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...

Call for papers for a special issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics, on "International Environmental Justice and the Quest for a Green Global Economy" The journal special issue will explore : The links between sustainable development, green economy and social-e...

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There are many high-speed train projects in Europe and elsewhere in the world. These projects are now part of a context of sustainable development, and their ambition is primarily to limit, or even counter, the continuous growth of road transport for people. However, this primary ambition is accompa...

This research work focuses on studying the representations of the journey put into circulation via the Instagram device by a group of users — which we simply define as a globe-trotters whose passion and practice from the other side are laid down as communal denominators. The study of the process of...

Face with the COVID-19 pandemic, the French government has put in place drastic measures to combat the spread of the disease. This includes the lockdown of the population. A lot of questions then arose; what will be the impact on our daily lives and future projects? What will happen to the practice...

Colard Mansion, que la ville de Bruges va célébrer au printemps 2018 par une exposition qui fera date, fut aussi copiste et traducteur du latin; son activité se déploie dans cette même ville, entre les années 1457/58 et 1484, date après laquelle on perd sa trace, et est au moins en partie liée au mé...

While the COVID-19 pandemic is mostly under control in many advanced economies, some developing countries in Africa and Latin America are registering an increase in the number of cases and may suffer long-lasting consequences from the pandemic. Although there is rapidly growing literature on the eco...

Through the example of Naples, this thesis analyses the importance of kinship in the upper class residential location and mobility in a Mediterranean city. Though many studies have stressed the importance of a family residential proximity cultural model in Southern European countries, the forms of t...

In this article we combine a mobility perspective with a biographical approach to explore the Italian experience of Ghanaian and Senegalese migration emphasising expectations, obstacles and practices in contexts of uncertainty and precariousness. First, we provide readers with an historical backgrou...

Under the reign of classical international law, preventive war was, in international relations, a natural phenomenon. States used to declare war freely to protect themselves against threats of attack that were either imminent or remote. Preventive war was waged in an offensive or defensive way. The...

British discussions of French technical culture have often assumed, if not explicitly stated, contrasting ‘national styles’ : centralized, state-oriented, theoretically driven, and institutionally supported work in France ; dispersed, individualistic, empirically driven, school-shy practice in Brita...

Since the beginning of the decade, the draft Constitution for Europe has become the main concern of European bodies and leaders. In the United Kingdom, it has gradually superseded the issue of euro adoption. As a result, the ruling Labour Government sailed through the meanders of this project until...

Walter Benjamin wrote in The work of art at the time of its technical reproducibility that fascism had esthetised politics and that communism had responded with the politicisation of art. The accuracy of this consideration can explain the current historical and literary interest in the complex links...

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...

This article explores a often neglected aspect of studies on anti-parliamentarism in contemporary France, looking at the dissemination of this topic in the campaigns of the third Republic. In particular, he studied two “moments” of strong domestic mobilisation, the wine crises in the Belle Époque, t...

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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...

The University of All Knowledge website (Odile Jacob Editions) offers several downloadable conferences (Real Audio); the ‘Art and Culture’ section includes communications (50 minutes) from Antoine Compagnon, Marc Augé, Roger Chartier and Gérard Genette. There are also several other interesting headi...

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By studying fashion market, this research aims to analyze legitimacy issues existing between two market categories: the primary market of mainstream fashion and the secondary market of plus size fashion. Through the lens of the Consumer Culture Theory (CCT), we observe dynamics based on practices an...

Raphaël Morera, a researcher associated with the CNAM-CDHTE, member of the Board of the hive, has just published L’eschery des marais in France in the 17th century, at the University Presses of Rennes. Through the history of nine French marshes, this book, based on the exploitation of French and Dut...

Il s’agit ici de dessiner la trajectoire de Juan Mayorga, depuis les années 1990 où il commença à publier ses premiers textes, jusqu’à l’année 2016-2017, où il met en scène sa propre pièce El Cartógrafo. Mayorga occupe une place particulière dans le panorama théâtral espagnol contemporain : avant de...

Long 12 avril 2021, séminaire en ligne, 15h30-19h The sex as a political category to be destroyed. Topical subject of lesbian theory and writing by Monique Wittig Avec les interventions de Irene Villa, Suzette Robichon, Sara Garbagnoli, Ilana Eloit, Catherine Écarnot, Nadia Setti, Eva Feole Universi...

Call organised by the Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO), the Metropolitan University for Education and Work (UMET) and the Future Institute — Marco Aurélio Garcia (Imag)