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Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism
Constitutions can play a central role in responding to environmental challenges, such as pollution, biodiversity loss, lack of drinking water, and climate change. The vast majority of people on earth live under constitutional systems that protect the environment or recognize environmental rights. Such environmental constitutionalism, however, falls short without effective implementation by policymakers, advocates and jurists. Implementing Environmental Constitutionalism: Current Global Challenges explains and explores this 'implementation gap'. This collection is both broad and deep. While some of the essays analyze crosscutting themes, such as climate change and the need for rule of law that affect the implementation of environmental constitutionalism throughout the world, others delve deeply into geographically contextual experiences for lessons about how constitutional environmental law might be more effectively implemented. This volume informs global conversations about whether and how environmental constitutionalism can be made more effective to protect the natural environment.
Languages – Cultures – Worldviews
This edited book explores languages and cultures (or linguacultures) from a translation perspective, resting on the assumption that they find expression as linguacultural worldviews. Specifically, it investigates how these worldviews emerge, how they are constructed, shaped and modified in and through translation, understood both as a process and a product. The book’s content progresses from general to specific: from the notions of worldview and translation, through a consideration of how worldviews are shaped in and through language, to a discussion of worldviews in translation, both in macro-scale and in specific details of language structure and use. The contributors to the volume are linguists, linguistic anthropologists, practising translators, and/or translation studies scholars, and the book will be of interest to scholars and students in any of these fields.
Sous la peau de l'ours
Cet ouvrage offre un état des relations entre êtres humains et ursidés, mêlant les travaux de 26 chercheurs statutaires (CNRS, Muséum, Université) ou indépendants, photographes et doctorants en ethnologie et éthologie, dans une approche interdisciplinaire. Huit espèces d'ursidés réparties en cinq genres (" Ailuropoda ", " Helarctos ", " Melursus ", " Tremarctos ", " Ursus ") vivent dans des habitats distincts : banquise, forêts boréales d'Amérique du Nord et d'Asie, forêts tempérées d'Europe, forêts tropicales d'Asie du Sud-Est et d'Amérique du Sud. Les peuples en contact avec lui ont accordé à l'ours une place particulière dans leurs croyances. Ce plantigrade est admir...
Résistances culturelles et revendications territoriales des peuples autochtones
Cet ouvrage collectif rassemble les communications de doctorants, jeunes chercheurs et chercheurs confirmés de diverses disciplines (anthropologie, histoire, histoire de l'art, sociologie...) présentées lors d'une journée d'étude sur le thème "Résistances culturelles et revendications territoriales des peuples autochtones" qui s'est tenue en 2010 à la Maison Interuniversitaire des Sciences de l'Homme d'Alsace (MISHA) à l'Université de Strasbourg. Cette confrontation de diverses approches de thèmes classiques des sciences humaines et sociales amène à se questionner sur les stratégies de résistance développées par les peuples autochtones et les si mal nommées "minorités" pou...
Le Banquet cérémoniel entre archéologie et ethnologie
While the practice of the banquet or ceremonial feast has been recognized in many societies around the world, living, ancient or extinct, it had not yet been the subject of a large-scale synthesis. This book offers an interdisciplinary study of the festive banquet in relation to the cosmogonies and social practices of the social spaces concerned.
Enjeux et défis du développement international
Le développement international est un territoire contesté. À cause de l’aggravation des écarts entre le Nord et le Sud, de l’accroissement de la pauvreté mondiale et de l’urgence écologique, de nouveaux défis sociétaux émergent, s’accumulent et conduisent à des besoins criants qu’une aide internationale parvient de moins en moins à combler. Malgré ces tensions, des communautés du Nord et du Sud tentent de reprendre les choses en main et de réinventer le développement autour de principes clés : le respect de la diversité humaine ; le droit de vivre dignement ; le lien organique qui lie les êtres humains ; la vie non humaine ; la nature ; et l’importance de la par...
Property and Dispossession
Offers a new reading of the history of the colonization of North America and the dispossession of its indigenous peoples.
The Divo and the Duce
At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In the post–World War I American climate of isolationism, nativism, democratic expansion of civic rights, and consumerism, Italian-born star Rodolfo Valentino and Italy’s dictator Benito Mussolini became surprising paragons of authoritarian male power and mass appeal. Drawing on extensive archival research in the United States and Italy, Giorgio Bertellini’s work shows how their popularity, both political and erotic, largely depended on the efforts of public opinion managers, including publicists, journalists, and even ambassadors. Beyond the democratic celebrations of the Jazz Age, the promotion of their charismatic masculinity through spectacle and press coverage inaugurated the now-familiar convergence of popular celebrity and political authority. This is the first volume in the new Cinema Cultures in Contact series, coedited by Giorgio Bertellini, Richard Abel, and Matthew Solomon.
Transfigurations
In many senses, viewers have cut their teeth on the violence in American cinema: from Anthony Perkins slashing Janet Leigh in the most infamous of shower scenes; to the 1970s masterpieces of Martin Scorsese, Sam Peckinpah and Francis Ford Coppola; to our present-day undertakings in imagining global annihilations through terrorism, war, and alien grudges. Transfigurations brings our cultural obsession with film violence into a renewed dialogue with contemporary theory. Grønstad argues that the use of violence in Hollywood films should be understood semiotically rather than viewed realistically; Tranfigurations thus alters both our methodology of reading violence in films and the meanings we assign to them, depicting violence not as a self-contained incident, but as a convoluted network of our own cultural ideologies and beliefs.
