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Despite a largely positive reception, the 2016 film adaptation of the widely popular and acclaimed picturebook We're Going on a Bear Hunt (Rosen and Oxenbury 1989) has also received criticism. A number of parents have even taken to the internet to share their experiences of children being very upset, and even crying. Indeed, the film has been deemed sadder and more depressing than the picturebook, particularly in relation to its treatment of the character of the bear. Using these critiques as a springboard, this paper argues that they are—in large part—caused by the change of medium and genre. Drawing from Klaus Kaindl's mode—medium—genre taxonomy (Kaindl 2013), this paper investigates the changes in the medial, modal, and generic dimensions between the two works as being closely intertwined. In order to gain a better understanding of those dynamics, this paper will provide a thorough multimodal breakdown of one scene from the picturebook and the film (textual, visual, and aural modes), and examine how the new medium affordances, multimodal arrangement, and generic conventions reshape the work and its subsequent reception. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

What is unique about art genres? In this paper, I will show that genres are best understood as clusters of regulative rules for appreciation. Evaluation, interpretation, and other appreciative responses to a work of art are sensitive to how the work is categorised, and genres are the categories that play a normative role in this context. Genres as rules have social foundations and arise from a speech act that I distinguish from classification and call framing. Based on this account, I will illustrate genre practices as social practices in which we declare and propose rules of appreciation to each other. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the ongoing project of recovering and (re)integrating early modern European women philosophers, scholars have been re-examining not only who counts as a philosopher, but what kinds of works are properly understood as philosophical. Madeleine de Scudéry is best remembered as a novelist, but some scholars have argued that her dialogues are richly philosophical. Here, I examine an early and overlooked text from Scudéry – Illustrious Women – which is a collection of speeches of historical women who find themselves in dire circumstances. I argue that Illustrious Women offers a sophisticated critique of patriarchal power: Scudéry exposes the conflict between epistemic and practical agency under conditions of gendered oppression and illustrates specific manifestations of this harm concerning control, autonomy, and consent. In so doing, particularly through the genre of oratory, Scudéry’s Illustrious Women is both a work of seventeenth-century feminist resistance and a subversive educational tool. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper reconsiders the critical promotion of science fiction in the Anthropocene. It highlights the genre’s technocentrism and ethnocentrism, and its historical alliance with empire and globalisation, but specifically argues for the genre’s association with an emerging planetarity whose hegemonic dynamics are underscored by Matthew A. Taylor (2016), among others. The paper revisits Margaret Atwood’s distinction between science fiction and speculative fiction, and calls attention to theorisations of planetarity that are not premised on scale or totality, to raise the question of genre and planetarity in and beyond science fiction proper. As a literary illustration of how genre my bear upon planetary thinking, the paper examines Jeanette Winterson’s 2007 novel The Stone Gods, which varies genres, scales, and planets. In the novel, a critique of imperial, world-making, planetarity is implemented as a parody of science fiction, whereas a change of genre opens for a different understating/practice of planetarity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the interplay of complexity, genre, and second language proficiency in language learning. It highlights the distinction between complexity and difficulty in language studies and challenges the assumption that learners produce more complex structures as they progress. The authors propose the concept of appropriate complexity, emphasizing the importance of considering communicative contexts and genres in language proficiency development. They also caution against arbitrary selection of complexity measures and suggest a restricted set of core measures for future studies. [Extracted from the article]

The Chinese Rites Controversy was one of the most contentious issues in the French church at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Nourished with rumors from China, it was predominantly a debate among men, with the exception of an extraordinary intervention by a woman, Paule Payen de Lionne, in 1701. In a public letter to the Jesuits, she used a dispute concerning her missionary son Artus de Lionne to launch a fierce critique of what she saw as the Society of Jesus's toleration of Chinese idolatry. Conscious that many would see it as inappropriate for a woman to discuss a matter of ecclesiastical controversy, Payen nonetheless filled the letter with references to her sex. This article proposes that she strategically invoked tropes of feminine weakness and intellectual inadequacy as rhetorical tools to contrast the simple purity (and thus truth) of her perspective with the verbose artifice of the Jesuits. At the same time, the register of aggression in her letter forces historians to reconsider the view that women engaging in querelles were obliged to adopt a less confrontational tone than men. This episode shows how women could use femininity to carve out a unique voice in an otherwise male‐dominated public sphere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines descriptions of the Punjab, particularly Lahore and its environs, in Persian writings from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-eighteenth centuries. Specifically, it traces the usage and movement of topographical registers and imagery across genres and literary forms that are usually studied separately, highlighting the ways in which they interacted with (and resisted) each other. It suggests that such experimentations with the writing of place were central to the ways in which individuals engaged in processes of self-fashioning. Further, it argues that such experimentations with literary-topographical themes and registers also helps explain the increasing interest in the Punjabi qiṣṣa and other regional narratives in Persian during this period. These observations help to further nuance understandings of the ways in which genres and languages interacted in the early modern Punjab. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

L'émergence du concept de schizophrénie d'Eugen Bleuler au début du XXe siècle a bénéficié de nombreuses études historiques. Cependant, qu'elles aient envisagé la schizophrénie comme un objet scientifique ou un objet social, aucune de ces études n'en a fourni une description clinique correspondant à la pratique courante des institutions psychiatriques à l'échelle de la population des patients hospitalisés. Cette étude vise à reconstituer les caractéristiques cliniques associées au diagnostic de schizophrénie à la Clinique Psychiatrique Universitaire de Strasbourg entre 1929 et 1931, au moment de son introduction dans les pratiques. L'étude a porté sur un échantillon de 150 hospitalisations avec un diagnostic de schizophrénie. L'analyse des données a été mixte, initialement qualitative puis quantitative. Un questionnaire, élaboré à partir de dossiers médicaux de patients grâce à une méthode d'analyse thématique, a été utilisé pour explorer les caractéristiques cliniques des hospitalisations de l'échantillon. La fréquence de chacun des items du questionnaire a été établie en tenant compte du genre. Le diagnostic de schizophrénie était plus fréquemment associé au sexe féminin, à la catégorie d'âge 20–40 ans et à certains symptômes psychiatriques : les hallucinations auditives/verbales, l'affectivité indifférente et les idées de persécution. Les symptômes physiques et les antécédents étaient rarement renseignés. Les hommes et les femmes avaient une présentation clinique comparable. Le diagnostic de schizophrénie a bien reposé sur la présence de symptômes psychiatriques caractéristiques identifiés par Eugen Bleuler mais pas ceux considérés par lui comme ayant la meilleure valeur diagnostique. Il a résulté d'un compromis pragmatique entre plusieurs influences théoriques et des facteurs liés au contexte de l'hospitalisation. The development of the concept of schizophrenia by Eugen Bleuler at the beginning of the 20th century has been the focus of numerous historical studies. Many of these studies are part of the history of ideas: they examine in particular the relationship between the newly developed concept of schizophrenia and other existing concepts, above all that of dementia praecox founded by Emil Kraepelin. Other studies relate to social history: they analyze the emergence of schizophrenia as gender-related or as a phenomenon influenced by political or economic factors. However, whether they consider schizophrenia as a scientific or as a social object, none of these studies provide a clinical description corresponding to everyday practice in psychiatric institutions at the level of the inpatient population. Studies on the history of ideas are based on clinical descriptions from psychiatric textbooks or scientific articles, and are therefore far from everyday practice. The discrepancy between science-in-the-making and published science has already been widely described. Social history studies are based on clinical descriptions from medical archives, but these only concern the situation of a single patient or a small number of patients. Moreover, they exclusively focus on the social situation of patients and not on everyday medical practice, such as diagnosing patients. The aim of this study is to describe the clinical features associated with the diagnosis of schizophrenia at the Strasbourg University Clinic of Psychiatry at the time of its introduction into clinical practices (1929–1931). We have attempted to identify those that led the psychiatrists of this institution to diagnose schizophrenia in everyday clinical practice. As the diagnosis of schizophrenia was not routinely given until 1928 at the Strasbourg University Clinic of Psychiatry, the study period was delimited from 1929 to 1931. We have stretched the study period to three years in order to avoid a selection bias due to a too short time frame. The study was based on a sample of 150 hospitalizations. This sample was randomly selected from the total of 401 hospitalizations with a diagnosis of schizophrenia identified during the period 1929–1931. The existence of another diagnosis (in addition to schizophrenia) was an exclusion criteria as we considered that this could alter the description of symptoms reported in the patient's medical files. The data were collected from patient's medical files and more specifically from the medical observations they include. We did not take into account other documents from patient's medical files (such as medical letters or medical certificates) because they were either not clinically informative or were too rarely available. Data analysis was mixed, initially qualitative and then quantitative. In the qualitative analysis, a questionnaire was developed from the medical observations of the patient's medical files in order to explore quantitatively the clinical features of the sample's hospitalizations. A thematic analysis method was used involving the construction of themes that correspond to clinical features. The medical observations of the various hospitalizations (excluding the 150 hospitalizations of the sample) were successively thematized until no new themes were identified. The hospitalizations were selected at random after stratification by gender and year. Eighteen hospitalizations were analyzed. Each theme constructed was then used to create a questionnaire item. The questionnaire developed included 130 items grouped into four axes: psychiatric symptoms, physical symptoms, history, age and gender. In the quantitative analysis, the frequency of each item of the questionnaire was established among the sample of 150 hospitalizations taking gender into account. Additional statistical analyses were performed to compare men and women. The diagnosis of schizophrenia was more frequent in women, in the 20 to 40 year old age group and when some psychiatric symptoms were reported: "verbal auditory hallucinations", "indifferent affectivity" and "ideas of persecution". In the analyzed hospitalizations, "Autism" was rarely reported, while "ambivalence" and "disturbed associations" were not. In the majority of analyzed hospitalizations, patients were diagnosed with at least four psychiatric symptoms corresponding to those currently used for the diagnosis of schizophrenia according to DSM 5. Physical symptoms and history were rarely reported. Overall, the clinical presentation of men and women was similar. In everyday clinical practice at the Strasbourg University Clinic of Psychiatry, the diagnosis of schizophrenia relied on psychiatric symptoms, primarily "verbal auditory hallucinations", "indifferent affectivity" and "ideas of persecution". These symptoms had been identified by Eugen Bleuler, but they were not those considered by him to have the best diagnostic value (fundamental symptoms). Our results support a pragmatic approach to the diagnosis of schizophrenia at the Strasbourg University Clinic of Psychiatry. It could be seen as a transcription into practices of Eugen Bleuler's typical clinical description of schizophrenia, shaped by a pre-existing theoretical influence (Emil Kraepelin's typical clinical description of dementia praecox) but also by the context of hospitalization. Indeed, hospitalizations of patients with schizophrenia were motivated above all by symptoms with behavioral consequences, such as hallucinations or delusions, which may have focused the attention of psychiatrists at the expense of fundamental symptoms. While showing a clear over-representation of women in the diagnosis of schizophrenia, they also revealed that men and women were diagnosed with the same symptoms overall. The over-representation of women therefore might result rather from a lower hospitalization rate of men (compared to women presenting with the same symptoms) than from an over-diagnosis of schizophrenia in women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article explores the concept of gender expansiveness. This term refers to a person's self‐identifying as gender fluid, genderqueer, transgender, non‐binary, gender diverse, or gender nonconforming. Young people, including older children and adolescents, increasingly are experimenting with crossing gender lines. This trend can be understood as a sociocultural process for humanizing more terrifying archetypal forms of gender diversity. Using Henderson's (1988) concept of the cultural unconscious, the author posits that current social developments among youth are attempting to bring gender expansiveness more into collective consciousness. This issue has occasioned a strong counterreaction with panicked appeals to upholding traditional gender norms and needing restrictions on gender‐affirming care. Examples from myth, literature and clinical practice help to contextualize the intense emotions aroused by gender diversity. A case example shows how gender fantasies are worked through within an empathic analytic relationship. The author makes an appeal for updating and humanizing older psychological theories that have relied heavily on splits, polarities, and oppositions, all of which are more characteristic of a 20th century way of thinking about the psyche. A potential approach to incorporate gender expansiveness is through a model of the psyche as a mosaic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article focuses on the genre distinction between artistic and legal photographs of faces: while the artistic portrait tends to express the singular soul of the person pictured, the biometric mugshot aims to scan singular physical traits without any psychological expression. How do these photographic genres allow us to identify the represented person? What do each of them seek to recognize? To grasp our metaphysical expectations of photographic technology, and thus to bridge the gap between discursive styles of these two photographic genres, I revise Derrida's deconstruction of the law of genre. Further, I argue that Derrida's and Nancy's subversive readings of Kant's concepts of parergon and schema help us to understand the rhetorical setting of the human mind, which organizes the photographic work of framing fragments. Finally, I explain the metaphysical conditions of possibility for both photographic genres by situating their opposite goals in the interval of personal recognition constructed by metonymical schematism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Writing qualitatively is an immersive experience divergent to other forms of research writing. It is an active construction of reality characterized by integration of the socio-cultural context and in-depth analysis of data viewed through the lens of the writer's own experience of the phenomenon. However, these characteristics prove challenging and qualitative researchers are often at a loss on how to document their findings. Most studies provide a broad sweep of qualitative writing with few explicit examples in practice which further confounds researchers. Consequently, researchers find qualitative writing exacting and intimidating and tend to present their findings objectively with either scarce or excessive reference to the research paradigm, thwarting the full transformative potential of qualitative research. Drawing on my experience as an interpretive phenomenologist, I present the writing cul-de-sacs and alleys I navigated to illustrate my becoming as a qualitative writer. Specifically, I highlight three distinct strategies to write it right, qualitatively. To maximize findings, the writing style should conceptually align with the research philosophy. Textual cohesion and a multi-dimensional view of social reality can be generated through a mixed-genre writing approach. Finally, making the "I" meaningful by incorporating the researcher's experiences into the text affords a deepened understanding of the phenomenon. Tenaciously navigating cul-de-sacs in writing and finding solutions to exit no through roads, and walking those shadowy alleys of theoretical constraints, stylistic impositions, and tight word space endow a concrete visibility to the otherwise blurry aspects of life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Emergency situations around the world have always presented a complicated and ostensibly paradoxical mix of crisis and continuity. This essay builds on the author's research into the cultural and literary history of the Emergency in India (1975 – 77) and on a reading of Paul Lynch's 2023 novel Prophet Song to address the ongoing and horrific crisis of 2023–24 in Palestine and Israel. Turning to genre as a way to look at emergencies and the ways in which we comprehend them, the article argues that once identified and declared, an emergency brings about an array of generically determined actions and reactions that seem inevitable and necessary. The crisis becomes disconnected from its historical origins, attendant only to the immanent logic of its genre. The logic of inevitability does not then allow a recognition of those strands of reality that are not embedded in the genres through which the world is already understood. Paying attention to the genres in which the current emergency is narrated, the article argues that the deadly violence in the Middle East is not, in fact, just a singular moment of crisis, nor is it just "more of the same," or an inevitable result of a two-sided "conflict." Shifting genres, one can recognize that the deadly violence today, and the occupation of which it is part, has a history and a politics that are human-made and can thus be unmade. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking as points of departure modern pragmatic theory and the information-theoretic view of communication offered by Levinson, this paper re-defines the notion of "genre" as a primarily top-down functioning kind of pre-existing, conventionalized package deal in construing meaning. As a consequence, this paper argues for relativizing the role of code (langue), given information in favor of pre-existing pragmatic-functional knowledge in "making meaning". This discussion is focused on law, which is where the issue of whether and how much meaning is "in the text", and what it means to be "in the text" is theoretically and practically paramount. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The life realities of the people make up the vital content of folklore. As mentioned above, human life is related to folklore from the cradle to the grave. This relationship is direct and not indirect. In other words, folklore is closely related to situations in human life and is an organic part of it. A lullaby is played at the cradle, a song is sung at the grave; those who come into the world and those who leave the world are admired and cherished. Such commonality, which unites life and death, stands out as the philosophy of unity of the people in the creativity of the people. Folklore topics are taken from life. More precisely, the theme of folklore genres was created on life events. Folkloric patterns, which closely accompany ritual actions in the old culture, are gradually separated from it, and the ceremony loses its meaning after the ceremony is separated from its origin. But still, although not with the old solemnity, he continues to live without severing the relationship with a certain situation of the rhythms of life that he was connected to at the beginning. Some folklore examples are already preserved as archival material or exhibited as museum exhibits. In the article, folklore is investigated and analyzed as an indicator of ancient culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the current digital age, an online messaging platform called the International Virtual Exchange (IVE) Program is widely utilized in the English language learning process. The participants of the IVE Program are learners from non-native English-speaking countries with different cultural contexts, so they may have different realizations of genre structures. Most studies employing genre analysis only covered the genre stages without analyzing their phases. Therefore, this study aims to explore the stages and phases of the participants' Analytical Exposition texts in the IVE 2021 Program, as one of the micro-genre texts on the international online communication with the topic Lessons from the Pandemic. The results showed that the participants of the IVE 2021 Program, who come from six different countries, had different stages and phases of the genre because the schematic structure could change based on the type and number of arguments/issues described in the text. This research can be used as a reference for participants of international online communication, especially in the IVE Program, so that they can implement complete and holistic stages and phases of the genre in their communication texts to minimize misunderstandings from other participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In Vietnam, ‘indie music’ is an internet-based phenomenon that began in late 2015, spearheaded by a generation of young GenZ artists on the music sharing platform SoundCloud. As a contribution to the current special issue, this article examines the relationship between Vietnamese indie music and streaming platforms. It shows how the genre was formed through the technological affordances of platforms such as SoundCloud and YouTube, and how it changed with the entry of Spotify. The findings show that Vietnamese indie music is co-produced on digital platforms through three means: users’ interaction, algorithmic recommendation system, and platform curation. These factors come together to deliver to listeners a sense of a new cultural formation that is different from how popular music has been traditionally produced and delivered in the past. When Spotify launched in the country in 2018, Vietnamese indie musicians saw it as a means to publish, to protect their copyrights, and to get publicity, something that domestic institutions or infrastructures did not provide. From this perspective Vietnamese indie music can be seen to represent the musicians’ entrepreneurial desires, rather than the oppositional politics that have historically been associated with indie music elsewhere. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper argues that All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida are neither "Problem Comedies" nor "Problem Plays". They have been viewed in terms of a genre to which they do not quite belong, and the fact that they deal with problems has somehow been construed to mean that they are problems. These plays show continuities with the previous comedies but also mark a forward movement and a further development. Where romantic love is the basis of early comedy, "the urgency of sexuality" is now the major theme and complex issues of sexual desire and its fulfilment are explored. The focus is primarily on women and their vulnerability, women who are insecure, threatened, and discover they can use their sexuality, the very thing that makes them vulnerable, as a weapon, as leverage, to help them survive. These are plays about sexuality, compromise, and survival. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Qualitative social scientists working in medical faculties have to meet multiple expectations. On the one hand, they are expected to comply with the philosophical and theoretical expectations of the social sciences. On the other hand, they may also be expected to produce publications which align with biomedical definitions and framings of quality. As interdisciplinary scholars, they must handle (at least) two sets of journal editors, peer reviewers, grant-awarding panels, and conference audiences. In this paper, we extend the current knowledge base on the 'dual expectations' challenge by drawing on Orlikowski and Yates' theoretical concept of communicative genres. A 'genre' in this context is a format of communication (e.g. letter, email, academic paper, and conference presentation) aimed at a particular audience, having a particular material form and socio-linguistic style, and governed by both formal requirements and unwritten social rules. Becoming a member of any community of practice involves becoming familiar with its accepted communicative genres and adept in using them. Academic writing, for example, is a craft that is learned through participation in the social process of communicating one's ideas to one's peers in journal articles and other formats. In this reflective paper, we show how the concept of a communicative genre can sensitise us to the conflicting and often dissonant expectations and rule systems governing different academic fields. We use this key concept to suggest ways in which the faculty can support early-career researchers to progress in careers which straddle qualitative social science and medical science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Narrative structures, though invisible to the naked eye, guide our understanding of pandemics. Like curves and graphs, we can plot them, identify their patterns and organizing principles. These structures act upon our understanding of social and biological events just as much as the rhythms of viral replication and mutation. They order not only themselves but also social and health outcomes. This essay uses narrative precision to expand beyond Charles Rosenberg's influential dramaturgic model and develops new pandemic forms, scaled from the level of an individual line break to the multi-part series: Arc, a form of sequence. Cycle, a form of repetition. Sequel, a form of elongation. Caesura, a form of break. It investigates the potentialities and limitations of these forms, how they intersect, collide, and contradict, and how analysis of these interactions contributes to a deeper understanding of pandemics, their effects, and the diverse perspectives defining their structures. In doing so, it prototypes how literary methods offer conceptual frameworks for pandemic historiography and how a transdisciplinary, medical humanities analysis produces novel understandings at the intersection of health, culture, and society. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article critically examines the contemporary applicability of homonormativity in understanding LGBTQ experiences in outer suburban Australia. Representing a departure from urban-rural dichotomies in queer geographical research, this study enriches our understanding of LGBTQ life in suburban areas. Drawing on a comprehensive national survey encompassing 6835 LGBTQ adults in Australia, the research provides novel quantitative insights into the geographic distribution of LGBTQ mental health and wellbeing outcomes. Contrary to assumptions of suburban privilege, the article challenges the notion of homonormativity in the suburbs, shedding light on the unique challenges faced by LGBTQ people in these areas. Findings reveal that LGBTQ people in outer suburban Australia experience higher psychological distress and suicidal ideation compared to their inner suburban and rural counterparts. Additionally, they report lower levels of connection with LGBTQ communities, indicating a dearth of supportive resources in these areas. These insights have crucial policy implications, advocating for changes that foster diversity and inclusion in outer suburban areas. By emphasizing the distinct experiences of LGBTQ individuals in these settings, the research underscores the necessity for targeted interventions and support. This work extends beyond conventional urban-centric studies, offering valuable insights to inform policies, advocacy efforts, and community support initiatives for LGBTQ people in suburban environments. Cet article offre une approche critique sur l'applicabilité contemporaine de l'homonormativité pour comprendre les expériences des LGBTQ dans les grandes banlieues australiennes. Il s'écarte de la dichotomie ville-campagne qu'on trouve dans la recherche sur la géographie queer et enrichit nos connaissances sur la vie des LGBTQ dans les zones périurbaines. Reposant sur une enquête approfondie à l'échelle nationale concernant 6 835 adultes LGBTQ en Australie, il offre des données quantitatives inédites sur la distribution géographique des résultats en matière de bien-être et de santé mentale pour ce groupe social. Contrairement à la théorie du privilège urbain, cette recherche remet en question la notion d'homonormativité dans les banlieues et met en évidence les obstacles uniques auxquels se heurte la communauté LGBTQ dans ces environnements. Les résultats révèlent que les LGBTQ qui vivent dans la grande banlieue australienne éprouvent plus de détresse psychologique et plus de pensées suicidaires que ceux qui habitent en province ou en banlieue proche. En outre, ils font état de moins de liens avec les communautés LGBTQ, ce qui indique un manque de ressources de soutien dans ces parties du pays. Ces constatations ont des implications importantes au niveau stratégique, et préconisent des changements qui renforceraient la diversité et l'inclusion dans les zones de grande banlieue. En mettant en avant des expériences individuelles de LGBTQ dans ces environnements, l'étude souligne la nécessité d'interventions et de soutien ciblés. Cette recherche va au-delà des travaux conventionnels focalisés sur les villes et offre des perspectives utiles pour les politiques, les efforts de sensibilization et les initiatives de soutien communautaires pour les LGBTQ dans les grandes banlieues. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This essay reflects on Peter Fitzpatrick's treatment of modern law as a problem of genre. It draws inspiration from his reading of Jacques Derrida's "Law of Genre" to suggest the urgent need to unsettle the distinction between law and nature (nomos and physis). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Agnieszka Holland's animal rights horror-thriller Spoor (2017) can be read as a revenge tale wherein women, non-hegemonic men and animals join forces against the hunters and, implicitly, against what they represent: the conservative worldview of the current nationalist government in Poland. Spoor offers a feminist, queer and ecological response to these values and, in the process, expands our comprehension of how ecocinema might look or feel. While narratively human-centred, the film uses several strategies to foster an aesthetic attunement to non-human beings and non-anthropocentric politics. However, Spoor also transcends ecocinema by putting itself in quotation marks. In its self-reflexive use of extreme genericity, Spoor exemplifies Nicole Seymour's observation that politically engaged cinema can sometimes fail to follow the available scripts for 'appropriate' environmental feeling. This paper argues that, by merging tenderness and despair with more distanced modes, including irony, humour and metageneric playfulness, Spoor departs from serious approaches prevalent in environmental filmmaking, questioning the authenticity and proximity central to the very concept of ecology. Spoor's aesthetic and affective complexity rests on blending fakery and feeling, which problematises existing ways of understanding how eco-films engage us. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study analyzes the types of reporting verbs employed in the literature review chapters of Master of Philosophy theses from the Agriculture, English and Mathematics departments at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana. The mixed method technique was employed for data collection. Using both purposive and simple random sampling, forty-five (45) Master of Philosophy (MPhil) theses constituted the study’s dataset. Employing a descriptive, content, and inductive analysis, the study found that discourse act verbs, research act verbs, and cognitive acts verbs were all used in the literature review chapters of MPhil theses in Mathematics, English and Agriculture. Overall, it was observed that the verbs were employed in varying degrees and that reporting verb usage is a discourse-defined attribute, influenced by the idiosyncrasies of the discipline in question. The contribution of this study lies in the light it throws on the usefulness of reporting verbs in research works and how reporting verbs ought to be selected carefully. The study also contributes to the body of knowledge on academic discourse in general, and particularly on citation and reporting verbs in Africa. Finally, the study also has pedagogic implications since it highlights the need for more emphasis on the nuances of reporting verbs in teaching Research Methods to (post-graduate) students.

Online dating has become a popular stage to find a romantic partner. In such context, interlocutors must employ language carefully to reveal their intentions, attract attention and as well sustain intimacy with their potential partners. While previous studies have explored aspects such as self-disclosure and linguistic strategies in impression formation, there remains a gap in understanding the structured interactions that occur between potential partners on dating sites. This study, therefore, investigated the linguistic elements and interactional structures characterizing online dating discourse, focusing on two popular platforms, Tinder and Tagged. Adopting Halliday and Hasan’s Generic Structure Potential framework, the study examined conversations of thirty participants (potential partners) whose relationship ranges between two weeks to three months. Findings revealed seven key stages: Discourse Initiation (DI), Introduction (INTR), Question and Response (QAR), Request (RQ), Admiration (AD), Declaration of Dating Intention (DDI), and Topic Formation for Conversation (TF). Each stage is marked by specific linguistic features and serves unique functions within the communication process. DI involves friendly greetings and endearments to initiate conversation and signal interest. INTR often includes declarative statements that provide personal information, establishing familiarity and a good first impression. QAR facilitates information exchange through questions and responses. RQ, predominantly by males, involves polite modal verb constructions to move the conversation to more personal platforms or obtain further information. AD includes compliments and positive affirmations to express appreciation and create a positive interaction tone. DDI features direct and indirect questions about relationship status to clarify the intent behind the interaction and define the nature of the potential relationship. Finally, TF sustains conversation with statements and questions about daily activities and interests. This study contributes to the broader understanding of professional discourse by analyzing the structured linguistic strategies and interactional patterns employed in online dating, demonstrating how individuals strategically use language to manage impressions, negotiate intentions, and build relationships – skills also crucial in professional communication.

The article examines the development of such a genre variety as the photoeкphrastic detective, embracing the period of the 1950s to the 1980s of the 20th century. The paper reveals the genre-forming potential of photographic eкphrasis, presented in the texts in the form of photograph descriptions found in classical detective literature (analyzed on the bases of A. Christie’s novel Mrs McGinty’s Dead, 1952) and its postmodernist version – in T. Findlay’s novel The Telling of Lies: A Mystery, 1986. Photography in the novels by A. Christie and T. Findlay helps the detectives (H. Poirot and Vanessa Van Horn, respectively) in the process of investigating a crime, but the degree of its being solved remains different. This is explained by the writer’s understanding of photography as an artifact, primarily determined by the general cultural situation. In the fi rst instance, a photograph acts as a document characterized by the unambiguous force of evidence, it allows to fi nd and punish the perpetrator; in the second one, the photograph acts as a visual artifact that challenges the photo-detective: its interpretation being ambiguous and directly connected with the narrative of the Other. The investigation in the novel The Telling of Lies is accompanied by Vanessa’s traumatic memories of her past during the Second World War, refl ected in her diary, which actualizes the confessional discourse. The interweaving of various kinds of stories in the novel – detective and personal – contributes to the actualization of major social, historical and philosophical issues. Thus, as a result of the conducted research, the author of the article comes to the conclusion that the postmodern photo-ekphrastic detective is engaged in a dialogue with the classical detective tradition and at the same time promptly reacts to the changing social, historical, political conditions, which cannot but infl uence the transformation of its genre structure.

In the basis of a special area of genre PRology as a branch of the science of public relations the authors put the criterion of the diversity of PR-information in multi-channel public communication via new media. As a subject of genre PRology, the authors consider convergence of information formats of a PR text in a multi-channel PR. In the genre revision of PR communication in social media, the genre transformations of PR texts are influenced by the following factors: 1) technological, 2) intentional, 3) structural. Technologically, PR texts functioning in the space of social networks are characterized by 1) a polycode structure, which implies the equivalence of verbal and non-verbal levels of meaning; 2) the transgressive nature of the publication, which determines the animation of the message and its transgression (movement) in the digital space. PR texts are multi-intentional in nature. Structurally, PR texts in social networks undergo three types of convergence: 1) structural or presentational, 2) discursive, and 3) genre. Structural, or presentational, convergence of PR texts in social media is associated with the allocation in the post structure of the presentation (the actual text and iconic materials) and the reaction (readers’ comments). Discourse convergence of PR-text is associated with 1) diffusion of institutional and intentional types of discourse, 2) inter-institutional discursive interaction (PR and advertising). Genre convergence of PR-texts is a genre symbiosis of three types – convergence of primary and secondary speech genres, convergence of primary simple genres of PR-text, and intermedial convergence.

This research presents the analysis of a comment as a reactive speech genre. The authors focus on its specific variation – Internet comment on various online materials (news, posts, blogs), widely presented in virtual communication. The purpose of the article is to substantiate the position that the Internet comment is a hybrid speech genre which is characterized, on the one hand, by the features of a traditional comment as a secondary genre and, on the other hand, by special features resulting from the virtual communication environment. The research solves several tasks: 1) to identify typological features of a comment as a reactive genre; 2) to establish the peculiarities of the Internet comment genre. The empirical material of the research consists of the contexts selected by a continuous sampling method from various Internet resources (news portals, blogs, entertainment news sites). The research is based on comparative method and the method of discourse analysis. As a result of a complex, intergrated analysis of various types of comments, a number of features inherent with the genre of the Internet comment have been revealed: polysubjectivity, the realization of centripetal and centrifugal tendencies which determine the development of dialogue between users, reflecting the subjective perception of the source text by the authors of Internet comments and their subjective cognitive and speech reactions, the realization of a special communicative purpose, language design and content, expressed through the predominance of modus over dictum, the peculiarities of the text design related to its technical aspect. In the context of paradigmatic and syntagmatic relations, the genre of the Internet comment is characterized by radial and wave principles of organization. Thus, the authors conclude that the Internet comment is a hybrid genre of virtual communication combining the characteristics of the traditional comment and other Internet genres.

Residential location can significantly impact the mental health, wellbeing, and community involvement of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ) young people. While research has explored geographical differences in LGBTQ adult wellbeing, limited knowledge exists regarding LGBTQ young people’s experiences. Using a large Australian cross-sectional survey of 6,620 LGBTQ individuals aged 14–21, this study examined the associations between residential location and wellbeing outcomes. Findings revealed that LGBTQ young people in rural and remote areas reported higher levels of psychological distress. Cisgender young people in rural areas experienced more verbal and physical harassment, while those in inner-suburban areas faced increased sexual harassment. Participants were also particularly vulnerable to experiencing homelessness when living in regional towns and rural and remote areas. Trans young people were more likely to attend LGBTQ events in inner-suburban areas. These results emphasize the need for policy changes to foster diversity and inclusion in rural areas, along with targeted support services to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of LGBTQ young people. Understanding the unique experiences of LGBTQ young people across different residential locations is vital, calling for tailored interventions and support in all settings. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper examines the politics surrounding the construction, implementation, and administration of the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act (stua) between 1944 and 1950. The act is important because it reflects the first attempt by a social democratic government in North America to construct a system of labour law that ostensibly aligned socialist ideas with the rights of workers to form trade union freedoms. This makes the stua unique in Canadian labour and political history because the legislation demonstrated the policy priorities of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (ccf) and the Canadian Congress of Labour as both organizations were attempting to solidify their places in postwar Canada. This history reflects the fact that the ccf and the unions, like the left in general throughout the 1940s and 1950s, defined the working class narrowly, focusing attention on white and male breadwinners with women and racialized workers very much on the periphery. The history also demonstrates the inherent contradiction within social democratic reform politics, as the act extended numerous rights to workers to organize and collectively bargain but when those same workers pushed back against government decision-making during the province's first public-sector strike in 1948, political tensions found many of those same social democrats acting in similar manners to their private-sector counterparts. These tensions within social democratic approaches to labour relations – so evident in the Saskatchewan experience – have become a central contradiction of the movement throughout the postwar period and continue today. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The eleventh and twelfth centuries witnessed either the rise or revival of long-form amorous narratives in at least four courtly language traditions across the southwestern flank of Eurasia: Persian, Georgian, Greek, and French. This coeval occurrence of the "rise of romance" offers fruitful grounds for considering broad literary-historical questions about genre, poetics, and interconnectivity in a comparative fashion. The aim of this article is to give an account of this phenomenon in the early Persian context, with special attention to the role of poetry in transforming popular tales into elite literature. Understanding the implications of this practice may shed some light on possible factors contributing to the romance's (re-)emergence in other twelfth-century literary traditions. As a coda, this article suggests twelfth-century Anatolia and Syria as significant contact zones where all four of the courtly languages mentioned above would have had some opportunity to interact. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Composed of diptych photographs stitched together in a poetic travelogue through nuclear-infused (Indigenous) lands, annie ross's Pots and Other Living Beings reenvisions social and ecological relations, value structures, and knowledge frameworks in its encounter with violated landscapes of the American Southwest. In its embrace of the blighted remainders of nuclear testing, industry, and consumerism, Pots and Other Living Beings is not a typical "environmental" text. Like ross's weaving and visual installations, this work is alive to relations of reciprocity and kinship with more-than-human worlds in what one could best describe as a spiritual engagement with the abandoned, unremarked leavings of nuclearization, industrial capitalism, and waste cultures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans de nombreux pays, les personnes LGBTQ+ sont discriminées, voire persécutées en raison de leur identité sexuelle et de genre. Afin d'échapper à ces violences, certaines se décident à quitter leur pays d'origine. Arrivées dans les pays d'accueil, elles font souvent l'expérience d'autres formes de difficultés ou de violences, en lien avec les différences socioculturelles et les conditions d'accueil. Dans ce contexte, la migration les amène à des processus de questionnement et de reconstruction identitaire qu'il faudra comprendre dans toute leur complexité pour répondre au mieux à leurs besoins dans l'accompagnement psychosocial. Ainsi, nous mobilisons les notions du Self dialogique et d'intersectionnalité pour mieux appréhender les identités et l'entrecroisement de barrières de discrimination et d'exclusion sociale qui les impactent. La prise en compte des identités complexes et multiples qui dialoguent et qui s'entrecroisent nous semble essentielle pour un travail clinique plus décentré et situé. In at least 67 countries, LGBTQ+ individuals face discrimination and persecution due to their sexual and gender identity. For this reason, some decide to leave their countries of origin to escape violence and to seek better living conditions. Regardless of their reasons for migration, it significantly impacts the expression of their sexual orientation and gender identity. Once they arrive in the host country, they often experience other forms of hardship or violence due to socio-cultural differences, the perception of otherness, and hosting conditions. These factors can have either a positive or a negative impact on their identities. In this context, migration leads to a process of questioning and reconstruction of identity, which needs to be understood in all its complexity if we are to adequately meet their needs for psychosocial support. To gain a better understanding of the impact of migration on the identities of LGBTQ+ migrants, we have based our study on the concepts of the Dialogical Self proposed by H. Hermans, and those of Intersectionality developed by K. Crenshaw. On the one hand, the Dialogical Self depicts identity as a dynamic ensemble of relational Self "voices" that can change, be challenged or reinforced based on time and context, allowing for the development of a complex and harmonious perception of the Self. On the other hand, Intersectionality underscores how different systems of oppression operate to create novel experiences for individuals with multiple marginalized identities. Taking into account the complex and multiple identities that engage in dialogue and that intersect with each other seems to us to be essential for the elaboration of a more decentralized and well-founded clinical and psychosocial approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper argues that classroom role-play can be conceptualised theoretically as an oral genre, as defined within Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The work draws on analysis of 15 video-recorded child-led role-plays in which groups of three 4–5 year-old children engage in five different life-like social scenarios. The study is underpinned by SFL register and genre analysis of the children's interactions, and the findings reveal how the children's linguistic choices have a direct impact on the dynamically unfolding role-play, and how imaginary scenarios are construed by the instantiation of individual genre stages, some of which serve to regulate the role-play and others that mimic real life social scenarios. The findings suggest that the two different types of stages construe two separate, but interwoven contexts, with the make-believe context often being dependent on the regulative context. The paper offers new insights into the ways in which SFL can reveal nuances in children's dialogic and dynamic language in play. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

À partir de ma clinique de sujets trans, et dans la continuité des travaux d'Esther Bick concernant la seconde peau psychique et de celle de Didier Anzieu avec le Moi-Peau et les enveloppes psychiques, je propose une nouvelle hypothèse : celle d'une seconde peau et d'un Moi-peau corsets. Ainsi, les corsets psychiques empêchent (seconde peau) ou déploient (Moi-peau) selon les réappropriations psychiques de chacun. Les perspectives psychanalytiques à propos de la peau, avec leurs constitutions développementales psycho-affectives et psychosomatiques tout le long de la vie, restent en effet contemporaines, et ce, plus particulièrement des personnes trans(genres). Ma pratique de psychologue clinicien-psychothérapeute, mes réseaux (RCP-trans) et mes recherches à partir des vécus des personnes trans(genres) m'ont amené à m'interroger à propos d'une métapsychologie du corset. J'expose ici deux situations cliniques de jeunes adultes FtoM (Female to Male) lesquels sont, entre autres situations cliniques rencontrées, particulièrement à la source de cette hypothèse. Deux situations cliniques m'ont particulièrement amené à réfléchir la qualité d'une capacité dépressive authentique, ou dépressivité, que je nomme ici tristesse fluide (sadness fluid) ou fluidité de la tristesse par analogie au gender fluid, la fluidité du genre (ce qui répond à la dysphorie de genre). Sur les plans transféro-contre-transférentiels, la transphobie et la transphilie sont à interroger comme des corsetages qui fluidifient plus ou moins la relation de soins psychiques, l'empêchent ou/et la déploient. Une armature opératoire, en lien aux travaux de l'École psychosomatique de Paris (IPSO), peut s'imposer intrapsychiquement avec un tel parcours, par la complexité et la diversité des vécus, des histoires et des ressources trouvées au sein des différents environnements du sujet. Envisager les besoins thérapeutiques des sujets trans dans leurs parcours et leurs réflexions, amène à considérer les besoins de desserrer, de dénouer certains liens psychiques avec leurs conséquences psychosomatiques. Ce décorsetage favorise une fluidité réflexive, afin que le sujet puisse évoluer avec et dans un authentique Moi-peau corset où il s'appartient. I develop my hypothesis of a two different corsets, the second skin and the ego-skin corset, which respectively prevent or deploy according to the psychic reappropriations of the subjects, specially transgender subjects. My practice as a clinical psychologist-psychotherapist and my research with transgender subjects led me to wonder about a metapsychology of the corset. I expose here two clinical cases. Two cases in particular led me to think about an authentic depressive capacity that I call here sadness-fluid or fluidity of sadness by analogy to gender-fluid, the fluidity of gender. Also, I reflect on the operative armature that can impose itself throughout the transition process, by the diversity of experiences, stories, and resources found in the subject's different environments. The therapeutic needs of trans subjects in their journeys and their reflections lead us to consider the needs to loosen, to untie certain ties. This uncorsetting favors a reflexive fluidity, so that the subject can evolve in an authentic ego-skin corset where it belongs to itself. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Dans cet article nous retraçons l'histoire de la transpsychiatrie depuis le débat avec Sigmund Freud jusqu'à nos jours. L'objectif de cette épistémologie est de montrer comment les psychiatres ont toujours eu le souci des personnes trans à travers une clinique du choix de son genre, l'agenrement. Nous utilisons les sources d'archives et d'histoire de la psychiatrie depuis 1830 afin d'établir les étapes de la clinique du genre : d'une part en retrouvant dans les sources allemandes et américaines les premières consultations et les techniques innovantes ouvrant la voie aux traitements ; d'autre part en situant les différents discours contre la catégorisation binaire. Enfin en situant la parole et l'action des personnes « trans » dans la production des nouveaux savoirs expérientiels. Les résultats démontrent comment la clinique du genre est passée de la catégorisation binaire à une transpsychiatrie participative où les personnes trans et les professionnels de la psychiatrie. En allant de Dorchen Richet à Paul B. Preciado les résultats des techniques chirurgicales et hormonales sont mises en regard des modifications des institutions, des associations et des revues psychiatriques. La discussion entre les psychiatres et les personnes trans est mise en évidence ici à travers les thèmes de l'identité, de la parole des sujets et des protocoles d'accompagnement clinique. La transpsychiatrie est la reconnaissance à la fois de l'agenrement des personnes trans et de la transformation de la clinique du genre par la psychiatrie. In this article we establish the history of transpsychiatry from the debate with Sigmund Freud to the present day. The objective of this epistemology is to show how gender choice, or a-gendering, has always been part of psychiatrists' clinical practice with trans patients. We use archival sources and the history of psychiatry since 1830 in order to establish the stages of clinical work around gender: firstly, by finding in German and American sources the first consultations and the innovative techniques that made treatment possible; secondly, by situating the different discourses against binary categorization; and finally, by situating the speech and action of trans people in the production of new experiential knowledge. The results demonstrate how the notion of gender within clinical psychiatry has moved from binary categorization to a participatory transpsychiatry that includes trans people and professional psychiatrists. Going from Dorchen Richet to Paul B. Preciado, the results of surgical and hormonal techniques are compared with the modifications of institutions, associations, and psychiatric journals. The discussion between psychiatrists and trans people is highlighted here through the themes of identity, subjective speech, and clinical support protocols. Transpsychiatry is the recognition of both transgendering and the transformation of gender, as a clinical entity, by psychiatry. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article concerne les défis actuels pour la psychanalyse que constituent le genre et les incongruences de genre. En effet, bien que le terme genre soit de plus en plus utilisé, il reste un concept plus difficile à définir et à circonscrire qu'il n'y paraît au premier abord. Afin d'apporter un éclairage sur ces sujets, il sera exposé le changement au combien important, qu'est le passage du paradigme du syndrome transsexuel à celui de la santé transgenre. Cet exposé sera alors étayé par deux vignettes cliniques : celle de Claudia dont la transition s'inscrit dans un parcours transsexuel et celle de Rose dont la transition paraît plus s'apparenter à un parcours transgenre. Les vignettes cliniques de Claudia et de Rose permettent d'illustrer ce qui se rapporte à une manière différente d'appréhender la différence des sexes : entre une abstraction qui épouse les contours d'une différence des sexes conçue comme binaire pour Claudia, et un genre fluide pour Rose. Suite à ces remarques, il est proposé de revenir sur le concept de genre afin de mieux le cerner et de le concevoir, notamment dans sa rencontre clinique et théorique avec la psychanalyse. Le genre est alors conçu comme un concept frontière, renvoyant à un troisième corps social au croisement du sentiment personnel et subjectif et du sociopolitique. En référence à la narratologie, le genre est défini comme une construction personnelle et/ou collective visant à donner une cohérence à la différence des sexes, et étayé par une réalisation par la perception, aide possible à la liaison de l'excitation sexuelle associée aux questions relatives à la différence anatomique des sexes d'un point de vue psychanalytique, qui concerne autant l'analysant que le psychanalyste. This article is concerned with the current challenges to psychoanalysis that gender and gender discordance represent. Indeed, although the term gender is increasingly used, it remains a concept that is more difficult to define and circumscribe than it first appears. In order to shed light on these issues, the important shift from the transsexual syndrome paradigm to the transgender health paradigm will be discussed. This presentation will then be supported by two clinical vignettes: that of Claudia, whose transition is part of a transsexual journey, and that of Rose, whose transition seems to be more akin to a transgender journey. Claudia's and Rose's stories allow us to illustrate a different way of apprehending the difference of the sexes: for Claudia, an abstraction that follows the contours of a difference of the sexes considered as binary, and, for Rose, a conception of gender as fluid. Following these reflections, it is suggested that we return to the concept of gender in order to better define and conceptualize it, particularly in its clinical and theoretical encounter with psychoanalysis. Gender is thus considered as a frontier concept, referring to a third social body at the crossroads of personal and subjective feeling and the socio-political. In reference to narratology, gender is defined as a personal and/or collective construction aiming to give coherence to the difference of the sexes and supported by a realization through perception. Gender can be thought of as an aide to the binding of sexual excitation associated with questions relating to the anatomical difference of the sexes from a psychoanalytical point of view, which concerns both the analysand and the psychoanalyst. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Public bathrooms are key sites for understanding gender identities, gender expressions, and sexual orientations that are out of the norm. Research has shown that they are places of discrimination but they also provide opportunities for transgression. Domestic bathrooms, however, have not received much attention. Through the experiences of 27 LGBT+ youth from Bages, an interior region of Catalonia, this research shows how the bathroom at home is a significant place where gender and sexual norms are reproduced and transgressed. Using a qualitative methodology, I examine how LGBT+ youth experience the domestic bathroom, both in the family home and their own home, according to their age, gender, and sexual orientation. The domestic bathroom is shown to be relevant in terms of gender performativity and sexuality and a place of privacy where gender expression is tested and sexual pleasure is enjoyed. The study sheds light on the understanding of how social norms around gender and sexuality work, destabilizing the conception of cisheterosexuality as something innate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Music is a core aspect of human experience/culture, functioning as one of humanity's oldest forms of communication. While music is a popular focus for many forms of scholarly inquiry, there is a relative lack of research on the topic of music genres and their impact. The present study helps address this gap in the literature, detailing a focused proof-of-concept, exploratory examination that uses psycholinguistic analysis to study how song lyrics are written. Specifically, the study uses integrative complexity, which assesses how information is processed and communicated, to compare structural differences in song lyrics across five genres - country, hip-hop/rap, rock, pop, and metal. The findings demonstrate significant complex differences across the groups, indicating that genre expectations play a marked role in how lyrics are conceptualized and structured. Alongside potential avenues for future research, possible cultural, historic, and demographic explanations for the witnessed linguistic patterns are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Résumé: La main‐d'œuvre domestique est l'une des catégories de travailleurs les plus précaires et les moins protégées au monde. La situation est cependant très variable selon les pays. S'appuyant sur le cadre du régime de politiques publiques, l'autrice montre que ces différences de degré de protection juridique entre pays s'expliquent par des variations en matière d'idées, d'institutions et de groupes d'intérêts. Elle postule que la protection des travailleurs domestiques ne peut être forte que si ces trois éléments sont présents et favorables à ces travailleurs. Elle montre ainsi pourquoi les régimes de protection en place en Afrique du Sud, au Pakistan, à Singapour et en Suède sont faibles ou incomplets. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]