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Materiality and atmosphere. Two American beat artists painting Europe
2019
The article discusses how European painting heavily influenced two American Beat painters in the post war years. Post-war American painting was often concerned with breaking away from traditional iconography and style, but Jay DeFeo and Joan Brown chose to engage with European traditional painting. Both artists travelled to Europe early in their careers and both declare an intense interest in European painters, paintings, and architecture. In Brown’s case particularly the works of Goya, Velazquez, and Rembrandt become scrutinized and remodeled in her pasty abstract style. De Feo, on her hand, states a particular interest in how the European cities’ distinct colors, lights and textures inspi…
Coffins in Finland : the history of production, design and attitudes
2017
AbstractCoffins as death-related objects have changed in Finland during the past 150 years and the Finnish funeral industry has been created to answer the changing needs of customers. No longer do people build coffins in the household, or only buy a coffin and some other items from the funeral company: now professionals manage entire funerals. Coffin designs have become simpler and less socially discriminating and the colour formerly reserved for children and young people, white, has become the most popular colour for a coffin. Attitudes towards coffins have also changed, from mild dislike of having a coffin in the home to general demand of hiding coffins even in funeral companies’ premises…
Trajectories of stress biomarkers and anxious-depressive symptoms from pregnancy to postpartum period in women with a trauma history
2019
Background: Cross-sectional studies have found that a trauma history can be associated with anxious-depressive symptomatology and physiological stress dysregulation in pregnant women. Methods: This prospective study examines the trajectories of both anxiety and depressive symptoms and salivary cortisol and alpha-amylase biomarkers from women with (n = 42) and without (n = 59) a trauma history at (i) 38th week of gestation (T1), (ii) 48 hours after birth (T2), and (iii) three months after birth (T3). Results: The quantile regression model showed that trauma history was associated with higher cortisol levels at T1 and this difference was sustained along T2 and T3. Conversely, there were no si…
Two Peas in a Pod: Book Sales Clubs and Book Ownership in the Twentieth Century
2017
In the early twentieth century, book sales clubs became popular as an alternative means of book distribution. Corinna Norrick-Ruhl offers a unique comparative approach, synthesizing research about book sales clubs in twentieth-century Germany and the USA. Whereas previous studies have focussed mainly on the recommended literature and the effect on middlebrow reading, Norrick-Ruhl shows how book sales clubs rendered the book as a cultural object available and affordable, filling working-class and middle-class shelves with attractive volumes of “furniture books”. While book sales clubs were enormously successful in the twentieth century, they have recently declined. The author finally underli…
Pratiques Éditoriales, recrutement et réseaux intellectuels dans les revues durkheimiennes (1924-1942)
2019
Cet article a pour ambition de montrer comment, dans l’entre-deux-guerres, la structure et le contenu des revues durkheimiennes (L’Annee sociologique Deuxieme serie et les Annales sociologiques) s’eclairent mieux des qu’on les met en lien avec les reseaux intellectuels et les espaces institutionnels dans lesquels s’inscrivent leurs collaborateurs. De cette enquete, il ressort que les deux principaux artisans de cette entreprise editoriale sont Maurice Halbwachs et Celestin Bougle. Leur travail montre comment ils se sont efforces, tout en conservant les « categories » scientifiques et editoriales durkheimiennes originelles, de donner, dans le cas de Bougle, un espace de reflexion a une nouve…
Le procureur entre l'ordre public et les justiciables : plaintes, procès-verbaux et poursuites pénales à Dijon à la fin du XIXe siècle
2005
L’analyse du registre d’entrée des plaintes et procès-verbaux du parquet de Dijon est riche d’enseignements quant au rôle du ministère public dans le processus pénal. Au delà du grand nombre d’affaires classées, cet article montre que le procureur privilégie avant tout le maintien de l’ordre public, avec une rigueur perceptible à l’égard des infractions commises par les jeunes, les sans domicile et les ouvriers. Conduisant cette politique sous la pression des justiciables qui souhaitent une justice de défense des biens et d’apaisement des conflits, le parquet est amené à composer avec les populations par le biais du renvoi en simple police des affaires mineures (violences légères) et par la…
The Theory of Forms Without Substance a Romanian Legal Transplant Theory Ahead of its Time
2020
Abstract Comparative law and legal history show us that law is dynamic, always in continuous development, change, or mutation. This dynamic dimension has become a central concern for the comparative law scholars. The circulation of legal models in the world (e.g. legal transplant, legal transfer, legal borrowing, legal migration) is an evergreen issue. This phenomenon has provoked numerous doctrinal disputes, which have been encapsulated in complex theories on its possibilities and impossibilities. In the present article, we will not explore the many modern theories regarding legal transplantation (or under other metaphors). Instead, we will go back in time, in the second half of the ninete…
Propositions pour une littérature d’investigation
2017
Le temps semble a l’alliance de la litterature et des sciences sociales. Mais les modalites en sont encore incertaines. Au lieu de considerer l’anthropologie comme une forme de litterature, on peut envisager la litterature comme une enquete. Cette « litterature d’investigation » se donne notamment pour objectif de documenter des formes de vie et de monter des dispositifs rendant compte d’aspects inapercus de phenomenes sociaux. Elle occupe ainsi une position intermediaire : elle se menage a la fois une liberte et une creativite relatives vis-a-vis des protocoles d’enquete propres aux sciences sociales et une certaine mefiance pour un respect trop reverencieux envers la litterature.
Mourning Missing Migrants
2019
While the term missing refers to various instances and practices, we focus on the bodies of deceased migrants that remain unidentified, and on the inability of families to mourn someone when there is no body to grieve for. We deploy some ethnographic fragments of how Italian communities sometimes mourn those who are buried without a name and we describe the many problems of mourning someone whose fate is unknown through a discussion of the notion of ‘ambiguous loss’. Our contribution articulates some of the politics around deaths in migration by considering how missing migrants and their bodies are mourned in multiplicity.
China in Pakistan and the wider region: A cautious but effective leader?
2018
This article assesses China–Pakistan-Afghanistan relations in the period 2014–2018 and asks whether China has exercised distinct pressure on Pakistan to be a more constructive partner for Afghanistan. A central argument is that even as China has failed to alter Pakistan’s policies significantly in the short term it is still continuing to successfully build power and trust in Pakistan and Afghanistan, as well as with their neighbours to the north and west. This bodes well for China’s exercise of regional leadership in a long-term perspective.