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Law and glocalization
2022
The chapter intends to analyze the existing relationship between, law, globalization and grobalization. Having briefly illustrated the key concepts of globalization and grobalization, in order to examine the above relationship the chapter analyzes first the concepts of hybridity, mixity and diffusion as used in comparative law, in order to determine to which extent the same concepts as used in legal sociology cannot create misunderstandings. After having clarified all the key elements for the analysis, then the chapter focuses on how globalization and grobalization intersect with law, putting forward some related examples. The chapter ends with some conclusive remarks.
Identité composite et métissage dans « Letter to Friends » de Leontia Flynn
2015
In “Letter to Friends” (Profit and Loss, 2011), a long epistolary poem inspired by Letters from Iceland (1937) by W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice, Leontia Flynn paints an introspective and retrospective self-portrait in which she examines all the elements that have formed her existence until her recent maternity. The identity that emerges from this intimate inventory is plural, “mixed” or “multi-breed” (Édouard Glissant), the cultural mix resulting not only from history, globalization and travel but also from temporal, linguistic and psychological shifts or ruptures.Flynn’s lyrical and polyphonic (if not cacophonous) piece, bursting with asides, debating a multitude of subjects in an infinit…