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The relationship between power, control, and violence defines the experience of intimate partner violence, abuse that occurs within the context of a current or former intimate relationship. Coercive control, including using violence and threats of violence to restrict another's freedom, is an especially dangerous manifestation of intimate partner violence. In this article, we point to an under-explored modality of power and control as well as resistance to intimate partner violence: the act of looking. Our analysis of interviews with 18 intimate partner violence survivors in the United States identified 'looking' as an emergent category in their experiences. We read these mentions of 'looking' through select insights from symbolic interactionism, post-structuralism, and postcolonial studies. We argue that acts of looking are everyday mechanisms for both the contestation and the maintenance of power and control in survivors' lives, highlighting dynamics of intimate partner violence that extend beyond physical violence. Paying attention to everyday forms of interaction like looking helps illuminate the webs of power in which survivors' intimate relationships are situated, including at the social and institutional levels. Tracing the 'looks' of survivors also underscores both the social nature of abusive intimate power and the social embeddedness of survivor healing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Based on a reading of Carl Schmitt proposed by Jacques Derrida, this article examines the modern conceptual architecture that organizes the notions of « power », « State », « politics » and « law » into a system. In his Politics of Friendship, Derrida develops the thesis that an important Western intellectual tradition, whose apex is the work of Schmitt, tried to isolate the meaning of politics through a teleology of enmity. He demonstrates, then, that this teleology is permeated by insurmountable contradictions, and the project of a phenomenology of the political is doomed to failure. We will add another layer to this critique. By reading the texts that revolve around Schmitt's magnum opus The nomos of the Earth, we explore the modern division between two levels of violence. The first, organised by European public law, is the one that has seen the political realm centred on the State and its people. The second, marked by unlimited violence, is the one whose aim is the complete appropriation of the lands and bodies discovered in the New World. We argue that the meaning of politics depended not only on a contradictory teleology, but also on a discharge of annihilation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Jean Bodin defines sovereignty as the perpetual and absolute power of the Commonwealth - that is to say - a legislative power that knows neither conditions, nor constraints, nor obligations. Nevertheless, he also affirms that all sovereigns are subject to the laws of God and nature and to several human laws common to all peoples. So how can a power define as absolute can have limits? This is the contradiction pointed out by several interpreters of his political thought. My purpose is to show the imprecision of these opinions and to propose an interpretation that makes consistent the idea that the sovereign can be both above the civil law and subject to boundaries that limit his power to legislate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this post-workshop summary, we describe three ethical challenges related to engaging people with lived experience as partners in health research. We share learnings and reflective prompts from our workshop delivered as part of the Canadian Bioethics Society Workshop and Community Forum held in May 2023. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article analyzes the relationship between the Andalusian daily press and the media conglomerates in Spain from the 20th century to the present day. It highlights that few Andalusian newspapers remain in local hands and that there is a large regional communication group. The importance of understanding media ownership to understand the identity of publications and the evolution of companies is emphasized. The emergence of New Journalism and its relationship with power and public opinion is also mentioned. It discusses the consolidation of the market economy and the capture of local press by large businessmen and politicians. Examples of businessmen and politicians who invested in the newspaper business are mentioned. It is highlighted that corporate press has evolved and adapted to new media such as radio, television, and the internet. Some prominent journalistic companies in Spain are mentioned. The article focuses on the period of the Spanish Transition from 1975, where there was an explosion of new media. Changes in ownership in the main Andalusian daily newspapers during the Spanish Transition and the 1980s are analyzed. The conversion of the Cadena de Prensa del Movimiento19 into the Medios de Comunicación Social del Estado (MCSE), which were later privatized in 1984, is highlighted. The strong penetration of foreign capital in the Spanish economy and the concentration of companies in the media sector are mentioned. The importance of local press in covering events and the opinion of local residents is emphasized. The two major communication groups, Grupo Correo and Prensa Ibérica, which absorbed several local newspapers, are mentioned. The methodology used in the study is described, which is based on the structural approach and analyzes the ownership connections of the media with other elements of power, such as economic, political, and media. The article talks about the history and evolution of the ABC de Sevilla newspaper. Founded in 1929 by Torcuato Luca de Tena y Álvarez-Ossorio, the newspaper was part of the Prensa Española company, controlled by the Luca de Tena family. During the Spanish Civil War, ABC de Sevilla took the place of the monarchist newspaper ABC de Madrid. After Franco's regime and the Transition, the newspaper experienced significant growth. In 2001, Grupo Correo acquired 80% of Prensa Española and merged with Vocento in 2003. Over the years, ABC de Sevilla has faced competition and has experienced a setback in its market position. The Luca de Tena family has had a strong influence on the newspaper, with monarchic and aristocratic connections. Vocento has continued to grow as a media conglomerate, expanding to other media and launching digital editions of its newspapers. The article discusses the history and political and economic connections of the newspapers ABC de Sevilla, Ideal, and El Correo de Andalucía. ABC de Sevilla, founded in 1929, has had connections with political forces such as Alianza Popular and the Union of Democratic Center. Ideal, founded in 1932, has been linked to Editorial Católica and has had shareholders related to Cadena COPE and Grupo PRISA. El Correo de Andalucía, founded in 1899, has been a conservative Catholic newspaper and has had links to the Catholic League and the National Catholic Action of Propagandists. Ideal and El Correo de Andalucía have been part of Grupo Correo and later Vocento. The article describes the history of the El Correo de Andalucía newspaper and the changes in its ownership over the years. The Second Vatican Council influenced the newspaper's commitment to the social doctrine of the Church, while the arrival of Bueno Monreal as Archbishop of Seville led to collaboration with EDICA. [Extracted from the article]

Access to public space for earning livelihoods is important for street vendors in global south cities. However, due to continuous population growth and the demand for lands by the real estate development sector, pressure on land is very high in the global south. Consequently, global south cities such as Dhaka provide 'no place' for its poor migrant citizens. Yet, the urban poor are able to appropriate public space for livelihoods. Drawing on a case study of Sattola slum in Dhaka, this article investigates how the urban poor access to public space for livelihoods and construct counter-spaces by breaking the planned order of the city. This article argues that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces with the tacit support of translocal social networks as well as with the support of a range of state and non-state powerful actors who are compromised by the benefits and profits they extract from vendors. This article draws on qualitative data generated through in-depth interviews with 94 informal workers and 37 key informants. This article contributes to urban sociology literature demonstrating that the urban poor are able to construct counter-spaces drawing on a range of everyday tactics and appropriating public space by quietly breaking the planned order of the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The concept of "constraint" is central to Oulipo's work, yet the group has introduced this term into modern literary criticism without providing a consistent definition. The resulting ambiguities create challenges for researchers studying Oulipian constraints. This paper reviews Oulipo's attempts to theorize constraint and legitimize its literature, examining these efforts through the lens of the group's struggle for literary legitimacy. Indeed, the concept of constraint represents not only Oulipo's poetic uniqueness, but also an important tool for the group to legitimize itself and gain power within the literary field. This paper argues that "constraint" has served as both an expression of Oulipo's aesthetic singularity and a strategic lever in its bid for legitimacy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reexamines the colonial representation of Indians in Rudyard Kipling's "The Story of Muhammad Din" through a postcolonial resistant translation from English to Arabic. Set in India, Kipling's short story depicts the buried Anglo-Indian conflict between the world perspectives of an adult Englishman and an Indian child. To this Indian child, Muhammad Din, existence is situated at the crossroads of an intense personal and national struggle for power, freedom, and independence. The dominant presence of the colonial law, which is embodied in the English doctor's presumed authority and strict medical discourse in Kipling's narrative, fashions a negative and inferior representation of Muhammad Din and his father Imam. Moreover, the impersonal style of narration, which is noted in the final scene of Muhammad's death, enhances a colonial desire of the English to accentuate a rigorous sense of Englishness and national superiority that cannot be compromised. By offering a postcolonial translation of Kipling's story in Arabic, however, Arab readers re-conceptualize or re-imagine othered Indians – here Muhammad Din – as central post-colonial agents who also function as vital sources of artistic or creative power that is necessary to deflate colonial authoritative agency in Kipling's colonial text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Existing research on digital technologies in peacebuilding exhibits both tech-solutionist and tech-problematizing traits that tend to understate their embeddedness in society and politics. We argue that the study of digital peacebuilding should instead reflexively engage with the coproduction of the technical and the social in both academia and practice. This requires asking how assumptions about technology are related to assumptions about the conflict and peacebuilding context on which these technologies are brought to bear, and with what consequences. Therefore, we propose a methodological framework that brings to the fore how technologies for peacebuilding and peacebuilding with technology are coproduced. First, we focus on the interrelated claims about peacebuilding and technology, and the coproduction of peacebuilding problems and technological solutions. Second, we inquire into the characteristics of the digital peacebuilding agendas built on these claims, including the dynamics of disruptive change and datafication that these agendas bring. Third, we consider the sticky effects of digital approaches, in terms of a politicization or depoliticization of peacebuilding efforts, and ask what kind of peace this may produce. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Belonging to the Los Ñetas gang means, in part, observing a certain number of rules that are transcribed in the Liderato, the Ñetas' book. These rules are accompanied by trial procedures, the mesas disciplinarias, and a series of sanctions for anyone who transgresses them. Yet, while the Ñetas have elaborated a complex legal order to settle internal conflicts, trials are rarely used. Are Ñetas rules poorly enforced, or ineffective? What is the nature of these rules? Can we speak of Ñetas law? And what use is it, if it is little applied in cases of conflict? This starting point will be the occasion to present a multi-sited ethnography carried out over four years among the Ñetas. I'll be looking back at the history of this gang, which originated in Puerto Rico and spread to the United States, Ecuador and Spain, as well as its internal transformation. By questioning the place of the law within criminal societies, I will show how the work of interpreting these rules enables the Ñetas to develop practices of self-improvement. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Keywords: environmental impact assessment; power; knowledge politics; depoliticization; évaluation des impacts environnementaux; pouvoir; politiques du savoir; dépolitisation EN environmental impact assessment power knowledge politics depoliticization FR évaluation des impacts environnementaux pouvoir politiques du savoir dépolitisation 462 484 23 09/12/22 20220901 NES 220901 Introduction Environmental impact assessment (EIA) is a process that studies and predicts the risks and benefits of development projects with the aim of supporting decision making, aiding environmental management, and holding decision makers accountable for potential and foreseeable project impacts (Beanlands and Duinker 1986; Cashmore 2004; Cashmore et al. 2010; Bond et al. 2011). Although scientific knowledge has been at the core of EIA practice since its inception, its role in EIA varies widely between different visions of EIA, which can range from a highly technocratic process in which EIA is viewed as an applied science, to a highly participatory process in which EIA is viewed as a civic science (Bartlett and Kurian 1999). Divergent epistemic communities shape the EIA process, but knowledge hierarchy dominates EIA... This research shows that divergent epistemic communities are central in shaping knowledge debates in an EIA context. EIA practitioners refer to scientists and consultants who often conduct their work in EIA and other applied contexts, including the development of technical reports for the Muskrat Falls Project (I8: EIA Practitioner; I9: EIA Practitioner; I11: EIA Practitioner). The term EIA expert advisor refers to a legal or social sciences EIA subject matter expert who conducts their work in EIA and other applied contexts and served on expert advisory committees or review panels (I7: EIA Process Expert; I10: EIA Process Expert; I12: EIA Process Expert). [Extracted from the article]

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Persistent inequities in access to and experiences of learning in postsecondary education have been well documented. In line with efforts to redress these inequities and develop more just institutions, this study explores the potential for pedagogical partnerships in which students and faculty collaborate on teaching and learning initiatives to contribute to classroom equity. We investigate this issue by drawing on qualitative interviews with students who have participated in extracurricular pedagogical partnership programs in institutions in Canada and the United States, and who identify as members of marginalized groups (e.g., racialized students, 2SLGBTQ+ students, students from religious minorities, disabled students). While much existing research on equity and student-faculty partnership primarily focuses on the outcomes of partnership for participating students, we instead investigate students’ perceptions of the extent to which their partnership efforts contributed to wider impacts—such as developments in faculty thinking and teaching practice and student experiences in the classroom. We also consider challenges students noted connected to power imbalances and faculty resistance, which influence partnership’s capacity to contribute to equity and raise important considerations for those interested in partnership practice. Les inégalités persistantes concernant l’accès et les expériences d’apprentissage dans l’enseignement supérieur ont déjà été bien documentées. Conformément aux efforts déployés pour redresser ces inégalités et créer des établissements plus équitables, cette étude explore le potentiel pour des partenariats pédagogiques dans lesquels les étudiants/les étudiantes et les professeurs/les professeures collaborent sur des initiatives d’enseignement et d’apprentissage afin de contribuer à l’équité en salle de classe. Nous enquêtons sur cette question grâce à des entrevues qualitatives auprès d’ étudiants/d’étudiantes qui ont participé à des programmes de partenariat pédagogique extrascolaires dans des établissements du Canada et des États-Unis, et qui s’identifient en tant que membres de groupes marginalisés (par ex. racialisés, 2SLGNTQ+, minorités religieuses, personnes handicapées). Alors que la plupart de la recherche menée sur l’équité et les partenariats entre professeurs/professeures et étudiants/étudiantes se concentre principalement sur les résultats du partenariat pour les étudiants et les étudiantes qui y participent, de notre côté, nous enquêtons sur les perceptions des étudiants et des étudiantes concernant la portée dans laquelle leurs efforts de partenariat ont contribué à des impacts plus vastes – tels que l’évolution de la réflexion et des pratiques d’enseignement du corps enseignant et les expériences des étudiants et des étudiantes dans la salle de classe. Nous prenons également en considération les défis indiqués par les étudiants et les étudiantes liés aux déséquilibres du pouvoir et à la résistance des professeurs et des professeures, qui influencent la capacité du partenariat à contribuer à l’équité et soulèvent des considérations importantes pour les personnes intéressées à la pratique des partenariats.

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Background: Epistemic injustices are increasingly decried in global health. This study aims to investigate whether the source of knowledge influences the perception of that knowledge and the willingness to use it in francophone African health policy-making context.Methods: The study followed a randomized experimental design in which participants were randomly assigned to one of seven policy briefs that were designed with the same scientific content but with different organizations presented as authors. Each organization was representative of financial, scientific or moral authority. For each type of authority, two organizations were proposed: one North American or European, and the other African.Results: The initial models showed that there was no significant association between the type of authority or the location of the authoring organization and the two outcomes (perceived quality and reported instrumental use). Stratified analyses highlighted that policy briefs signed by the African donor organization (financial authority) were perceived to be of higher quality than policy briefs signed by the North American/European donor organization. For both perceived quality and reported instrumental use, these analyses found that policy briefs signed by the African university (scientific authority) were associated with lower scores than policy briefs signed by the North American/European university.Conclusions: The results confirm the significant influence of sources on perceived global health knowledge and the intersectionality of sources of influence. This analysis allows us to learn more about organizations in global health leadership, and to reflect on the implications for knowledge translation practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Antonia is a novel of George Sand, which deals with class conflict between nobles and roturiers, on the value of birth. Being born noble is seen as of high rank, which gives supremacy to the noble over the roturier, and therefore power over him. The novel is an illustration of the value of power, no more only on that of the noble over the roturier, but also of that of the human being over his fellow. It is through speech that power is shown, speech becomes the manifestation of the power of the speaker over his listener. From there come the following questions : what makes the speech of the speaker an act of power linguistically expressed ? On what stands the power of the speaker over the listener and what is the aim of its utterance ? Since we are dealing with speech, that is why we have chosen the discourse analysis approach, following the semasiological order. The analysis has made to distinguish two types of power : the natural and the artificial power. The first shows the supremacy of the being over the other at three levels: the high social background of the noble over the roturier, the authority of the parent over the child and that of the husband over his wife. It has come out that the nature herself sets hierarchy on the relations between humans by giving power to some over others. The second deals with money, the owning of propriety and self praise, they show how human being through his efforts gets to be over the others and detain power over them. These elements are sources of power, give power to the being, and their discourse becomes that of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to provide an update on the media treatment of the speeches of Mohamed VI, King of Morocco, recently addressed to the people (August 20, 2022) when commemorating the historic event called “The Revolution of the King and the People”. By taking into account the Discourse Analysis (theorized by the French School), we will attempt to understand the argumentative part in the linguistic activity produced by the public media discourse, on the national scene, in reaction to the monarch’s discourse at the aforementioned occasion. It is thus an analysis of the media discourse in a political speech. It is therefore incumbent on us to detect, with the aim of emphasizing the metadiscourse, the argumentative strategies that journalists and analysts deploy, in particular on television because of their high visibility, not only in order to relay “the political event” but also to try to overcome any communication challenge. If necessary, the challenge is to reach consensus concerning the first national cause: the territorial integrity of the kingdom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When we talk about 'power', we're often referring to subjugation by external forces, to potentially abusive situations, to violence and to the objectification of humanity. In short, we often talk about power when we feel powerless, so we end up focusing on its destructive aspects. We experience a plethora of different powers: economic power, political power, religious power, the power of nature, parental power, the power of a boss or master. It's always an asymmetric relation; someone holds the reins of power, and the others must submit. Our psyche, whether on a collective or individual level, seeks to express itself and to be acknowledged. We fight to become, to realize our potential, to get ever closer to our individuation process. Power dynamics however, go beyond such collective (and frequently sombre) arrangements: power is also an essentially creative force. In this paper I want to discuss power as something intrinsic to all creation. Through the symbolic analysis of myths and legends, I argue for the need to integrate the deep feminine in the exercise of power in order to release and express its full potential. I also discuss the need for power, love and wisdom to work together as complementary forces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article foregrounds the Indigenous ethical principles of respect, reciprocity, relationality, and responsibility that bind human and other/more-than-human agents, a non-anthropocentric conception of agency that may be said to offer a truly radical, if not "new," eco-critical approach to the crucial questions raised by new materialist and posthumanist scholars. Virginie Magnat argues that what distinguishes this understanding of agency from Karen Barad's influential theory of agential realism is the non-separability of matter and spirit posited by Indigenous scholars Vine Deloria Jr., Gregory Cajete, Manulani Aluli-Meyer, and Shawn Wilson, among others. Magnat contends that holding space for Indigenous philosophy, which values orally transmitted embodied ways of knowing, contributes to decentring/unsettling/decolonizing Eurocentric paradigms that still inform dominant knowledge systems in the academy, and she suggests that the scholarship of Dylan Robinson and Dolleen Tisawii'ashii Manning, who critically engage with new materialism/posthumanism, opens up possibilities for much-needed cross-cultural dialogue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Background: While the deleterious effects of FGM/C on physical health are well documented, the psychological experience of this harmful practice is a neglected area of research, which limits global mental health actions. As FGM/C was a traditional practice in some areas of Nigeria, the study aimed to understand the psychological experience of FGM/C in context. Methods: This qualitative study was completed in urban and rural Izzi communities in Southeast Nigeria where FGM/C was widely practiced. In-depth interviews were completed with 38 women of the same ethnicity using the McGill Illness Narrative Interview (MINI) to explore the collective psychological experience of FGM/C before, during and after the procedure. The MINI was successfully adapted to explore the meaning and experience of FGM/C. We completed thematic content analysis and used the concepts of total capital and habitus by Bourdieu to interpret the data. Results: During the period of adolescence, Izzi young women who had not yet undergone FGM/C reported retrospectively being subjected to intense stigma, humiliation and rejection by their cut peers. Alongside the social benefits from FGM/C the ongoing psychological suffering led many to accept or request to be cut, to end their psychological torture. Virtually all women reported symptoms of severe distress before, during and after the procedure. Some expressed the emotion of relief from knowing their psychological torture would end and that they would gain social acceptance and total capital from being cut. Newly cut young women also expressed that they looked forward to harassing and stigmatizing uncut ones, therein engaging in a complex habitus that underscores their severe trauma as well as their newly acquired enhanced social status. Conclusion: FGM/C is profoundly embedded in the local culture, prevention strategies need to involve the whole community to develop preventive pathways in a participatory way that empowers girls and women while preventing the deleterious psychological effects of FGM/C and corresponding stigma. Results suggest the need to provide psychological support for girls and women of practicing Izzi communities of Southeast Nigeria. Plain Language Summary: While the deleterious effects of FGM/C on physical health are well documented, we have little knowledge on the psychological experience of this harmful practice. This study aimed to understand the psychological experience of FGM/C in Izzi communities in Southeast Nigeria where FGM/C was widely practiced. In-depth interviews were completed with 38 women from the same ethnic group to explore the collective psychological experience of FGM/C before, during and after the procedure. Our results found that during adolescence, Izzi girls who had not yet undergone FGM/C reported being subjected to intense stigma, humiliation and rejection by their cut peers. This ongoing psychological suffering led many young women to accept or request to be cut, in order to end their psychological torture. Virtually all women reported experiencing severe distress before, during and after the procedure. Some expressed relief from knowing their psychological torture would end and that they would gain social acceptance and a rise in status from being cut. Newly cut young women also expressed that they looked forward to harassing and stigmatizing uncut ones, therein engaging in a complex behaviour that underscores their severe trauma as well as their newly acquired enhanced social status. Our results suggest that prevention strategies need to involve the whole community to develop preventive pathways in a participatory way that empowers girls and women while preventing the deleterious psychological effects of FGM/C and corresponding stigmatizing behaviour towards the uncut. Results suggest the need to provide psychological support for girls and women of practicing Izzi communities of Southeast Nigeria. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reflects on the manipulative practices of autocratic populist leaders in North and South America and looks at their speeches, which appeal to followers who desire love and protection, or who seek an outlet for aggressive impulses. Jung's considerations regarding the annihilation of the other, evil and the unconsciousness of the masses - manipulated for purposes of subjugation - are important for understanding the risks that threaten society. The behaviour of unscrupulous leaders seized by power complexes, reinforced by psychopathic traits in clinic and culture, creates an increasing number of victims. A lack of imagination for evil is behind the absence of malice as a defence and the idealization which opens doors to the violence of totalitarian leaders and of dominant figures in social and family relationships. The polarities evil-innocence and dominator-dominated are severely dissociated in contemporary society, endorsing Jung's vision as a warning against destructiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We analyze representations of water in relation to wells among certain groups in the Mande area who are struggling with desertification. These representations span the period dating from the formation of the Wagadu-Ghana kingdom to its decline (eighth to thirteenth centuries), the settlement of Mande populations in the Senegambian area from the thirteenth century (under the domination of the Mali Empire), and the fall of the Kaabu kingdom in the nineteenth century. We demonstrate that during the migrations of Soninke and Manding populations from the Sahel the well as a symbol played as much a role in the constitution of power as in its destruction. Our historical and anthropological approach captures the multiple symbolic dimensions of the well, including those associated with the cult of the serpent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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