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The residential landscape of western societies in the 20th century was based on a nuclear and monogamous normative representation of the family. This representation contrasts with the representation of the family that some consensually non-monogamous (CNM) parents carry. How did CNM informants combine residence, parenting and multiple relationships within the hetero-mono-normative organizational legacy of society? An extensive set of exploratory and ethnographic data was gathered in francophone countries in Western Europe during 2013–2018. Informants' dwelling configurations were interpreted as the result of their personal life paths interwoven with a web of macrostructural tensions. A comparative approach on residences, combined with life stories gathered within a strategic group of informants, contributed to understanding the various processes leading to specific forms of CNM dwellings with children. The comparison highlights five categories of CNM residential patterns, all resulting from attempts to compromise with the hetero-mono-normative dwelling tradition. The developments of transportation and communication technologies appeared as an important factor in the spatial and temporal organizations of family functions within the CNM configurations observed. These CNM family arrangements also appeared as ephemeral and versatile. These conclusions lead to new avenues of research regarding the social forces contributing to their fragility despite the intent of the actors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Portuguese society, some Cigano/Roma women, during their life paths, distance themselves from the Cigano cultural tradition, particularly in regard to marriage, schooling, employment and social life. On the one hand, there is a feeling of attachment to traditional values as family pressure to marry or in relation to gender differentiation; on the other hand, these women express a desire for empowerment autonomy and emancipation in order to draw up their own trajectories and life projects. The results obtained with 21 in-depth interviews, 10 women and 11 men, indicate that Cigano women face greater difficulties with regard to early and inbred marriage and are more prone to be victims of family and domestic violence, but they are also the main drivers of change and social transformation of Cigano/Roma families. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A summary of the diffusion and development of time-geography in East Asia, specifically in Japan and China, is presented in this article. Previous studies have provided reviews of time-geographic research and spacetime behaviour research in both countries. Few studies, however, have told the story about how and why timegeography diffused into East Asia. By showing and analysing the academic life paths of Yoshio Arai and Yanwei Chai, we conclude that the development of time-geography in Japan and China goes hand in hand with their academic progress. Moreover, the interactions within their academic life paths mark some key events that promoted time-geography significantly. The similarities and differences between their academic life paths are also analysed in this article. Both scholars shared some common research topics, such as childcare problems, urban spatial structures and socioeconomic transformations, which were also the most prominent characteristics of time-geography in East Asia. In addition, the socioeconomic backgrounds of their academic life paths are also quite similar, which reflects the close relationship between time-geography and societal needs. Finally, this article discusses the effectiveness and disadvantages of the academic life path method, as the method has proven to be an important tool in analysing the role that key scholars play in promoting a certain discipline. In conclusion, the diffusion and development of time-geography in East Asia can hardly have happened without both individual scholars' hard work and the exchange and cooperation activities between scholars. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Objective: to analyse the trajectory of individuals suffering from addiction, seeking to understand how they perceive their path in the world of drugs, with a core focus on the perceptions, representations and meanings they assign to drugs and their life path before, during and after their experiences with addiction. Method: qualitative research based on Grounded Theory. Eight subjects admitted to Community Therapy for substance addiction in Portugal were interviewed from September to December 2016. Results obtained: three main category groups: "Pattern consumption evolution", "Behavioural trajectory while consuming", and "Identity Transformations"; an intermediate category "Alteration of moral and social values"; and a core category "Addictive Identity". Conclusion: the subjects understand the addict's trajectory as being a set of progressive changes in one's identity, strongly associated with alterations in moral and social values. They refer to drugs as their self-destruction, expressing guilt and regret. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Alto Marija Bitenc Samec is one of the most prominent concert performers in the second half of the 20th century. Besides her solo career she was also very active as a chamber musician. In 80s, Marija Bitenc Samec had been also actively working as a sociocultural worker. The concert repertoire of Marija Bitenc Samec covered baroque and operatic arias, cantatas, partisan songs and songs of Slovenian and foreign composers. As a respected artist she performed lieds of dr. Danilo Švara, Lucijan Marija Škerjanc, Alojz Srebotnjak, Zvonimir Ciglič and others for the very first time. She often recreated lieder of Slovenian composers outside of our borders and so she helped carried the mother language in various European countries. Her concerts took place from former Yugoslavia through Austria, Italy to Belgium. She performed, besides previously mentioned countries, also on radio and television in West Germany, France and in Great Britain. In 1990, she was the initiator and organizer of setting a monument of her professor Julij Betetto in front of Ljubljana Opera House. In this article we wish to complete, upgrade, consolidate and evaluate the life and work of Marija Bitenc Samec, as well as her contribution to the history of Slovenian musical performances, especially in the field of concert performances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Both original (written in Persian) text and an old Turkmen translation of Mevlana Mohammed Celaleddin Rumi`s (1207-1273) mesnevi are housed at the National Manuscripts of the Academy of Sciences of Turkmenistan. Famous Turkmen sheikh and poet Niyazkulu Niyazi, who bore different names, (date of death 1236 hijra, 1280-1281 A.D.) translated mesnevi that was made up of 208 lines from Persian into Turkmen in Bukhara. An incisive literary critic and writer Abdulhekim Kulmuhammedov was the first scholar who studied carefully the Turkmen translation of mesnevi in the late of 1920`s, Lebap province. We present readers the transfer of an old Turkmen translation of mesnevi from Arabian alphabet to Latin alphabet as an additional text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Maghrebi literature in French expression has won many battles: in particular, that of representing the female condition. Thus, many women have managed to recognize their own plight thanks to the daring depiction of a courageous protagonist or an atypical character. One should not forget that for a long time the path life of a Maghrebi woman was constrained by the different dogma of her society, by the laws dictated by religion, traditions and customs. From this perspective, then, we can suggest that the life journey of a Maghrebi woman is not fundamentally different from one Maghrebi country to another. This paper will investigate that hypothesis by analysing and comparing the life paths of the female protagonists in l'Interdite (1993) by the Algerian Malika Mokkedem and La Retournée (2002) by the Tunisian Fewzia Zouari. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]