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In recent years, feminist legal geographers have pressed for deeper engagement with the lived experience of law’s spatial logics including methodologies that extend beyond the study of legal discourse, practice, and enforcement to include ethnographic and other qualitative approaches that centre the experiences of those living with legal precarity. Building upon the work of feminist political geographers concerned with intimacy geopolitics, the concept of everyday geo-legalities emphasizes the ways that people interpret the spatiality of law, legal practice, and state policing and how it affects their lives, livelihoods and im/mobilities. This research reveals how undocumented im/migrants in a small, rural poultry town interpret and socially negotiate their racialized legal status in terms of im/mobility, heighted workplace pressure, increased job-related health risks, persistent fears of immigration raids, family separation and deportation, and prejudice and policing due to discourses of racialized criminalization. Social and familial relations, however, are central to the everyday negotiation of these dynamics, as community connections and care emerge from experiences of marginalization. This paper thus emphasizes how social relations are central to analysing the complexities and contradictions of everyday legal geographies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper explores disabled people's experiences of 'everyday' hate within and around their home. The characteristics of the home make it a particularly interesting site of analysis, as many of the features offer protections and risks simultaneously. Moreover, the home is a particularly important space within our everyday lives, particularly for disabled people who may encounter marginalization within other social spaces. In this article, I consider how encounters within the home shape the way in which the space is made, and how disabled people are able to be within them. I explore the home as a space where persistent and repeated violence can occur, which in turn, shapes how bodies come to occupy (or not), their homes and to what meanings the home takes on. In an attempt to explore this, I offer different conceptualizations of the home as a site of refuge, control and containment, avoidance, and resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Dans le contexte poétique contemporain marqué par l’absence de grandes écoles, la prolifération de démarches individuelles hétérogènes, et une position de minorité dans le panorama littéraire général, le quotidien semble avoir acquis une importance particulière. Cet article souhaite étudier l’œuvre des poètes Jean-Michel Maulpoix, James Sacré, Antoine Emaz, et Yves Leclair, pour déterminer jusqu’à quel point la présence du quotidien dans le paysage poétique contemporain constitue une nouvelle voie d’exploration poétique capable de changer la conception du statut du poète et de son rapport au lecteur contemporain, et ainsi de porter un nouveau regard sur le monde actuel. Contemporary poetry is characterised by a lack of literary schools, a proliferation of individual and varied approaches, and a subordinate position in literature. In this context, everyday life seems to have a special importance. This article aims to reflect on the work of contemporary poets Jean-Michel Maulpoix, James Sacré, Antoine Emaz and Yves Leclair. We determinate to what extent the presence of everyday life in French contemporary poetry represents a new type of poetic exploration that has contributed to a change of the notion of the status of the poet and of his relationship with contemporary readers, as well as his perspective of the contemporary world.

This paper moves beyond conceptualisations of austerity as a fiscal policy towards understanding austerity as lived and felt in everyday life, with a particular focus on its affective life. Through an ethnographic focus on public libraries, this paper argues that austerity can take the form of an affective atmosphere. Bringing together psychoanalytic and Spinozist-Deleuzian accounts of affect this paper explores austerity as an uncanny atmosphere, in which austerity is lived through a series of unknowns that re-emerge throughout the library space. Paranoia subsequently emerges as a way in which to live with uncanny austerity – to make known the unknowns generated by austerity. This paranoia cannot be attributed to 'paranoid individuals', but to practices that become paranoid due to the blurring of reality and fiction that uncanny austerity generates. As austerity continues year after year, the uncertainties that emerge as a result of continual budget reductions are at the same time felt as something already known. In other words, there is a felt sense that austerity will inevitably lead to the contraction of the library service. Lived austerity, therefore, now carries such weight and has a particular depth of experience due to the innumerable previous years of, and encounters with, austerity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In this article, we seek to challenge some of the ways in which the '2015 Mediterranean migration crisis' has been scripted by elites. Situated within – and contributing to – a flourishing research agenda on everyday geographies and ontologies of personal (in)security, we aim to bring non-elite knowledge and experience to the foreground. We do so by examining the diverse grounded perspectives of those on the move who are arguably the key dramatis personae in the so-called 'crisis' and yet whose voices are often absent in dominant representations of it. Specifically, we focus on the dynamic interplay between contemporary European Union border security apparatuses and mobile subjects who encounter, negotiate and challenge these apparatuses. Drawing upon 37 in-depth qualitative interviews with recent arrivals as part of a multi-sited research project across the Mediterranean region, we offer a historicized and geographically situated analysis of the contested politics of 'irregularity' on the island of Malta. As a geopolitically significant site along the central Mediterranean route, the changes in migratory dynamics witnessed in Malta over the past two decades offer an instructive lens through which the 'crisis' narrative can be usefully problematized and disaggregated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cet article will examine quelques enjeux de trois romans contemporains ayant une existence romanesque de nouvelle orientation pour réprésent le quotidien. Drôle du temps by Benoît Duteurtre, Tu attends la neige, Léonard? et Du virtuel l à romance by Pierre Yergeau se trouvent parmi les textes romanesques difficiles à classer ou a identifier in a seule appellation générique ou sous une seule structure formelle. Notre étude cherchera à trouver a relationship between fragments and micro-récits de ces récits et la volonté de leurs auteurs d'and transcrire le quotidien. Cela dit, nous allons plutôt essayer de justifier et d'examiner the relation three intime was created between the form of concision et la poétique du quotidien. Il est vrai that forms fragmentée et hybride n'est pas une nouveauté dans la littérature contemporaine. D'ailleurs, the deuxième moitié du XXe siècle témoigne de l'apparition des romans multiformes mais notre étude tenter d'explorer the signification d'une telle forme plurielle dans ces textes.

Loneliness is known to every human being. It has a particular echo in women's lives. It often takes the form of constraint rather than choice. It's a question here of putting in tension lived space and isolation, at different scales and to decipher the mechanisms of factory of solitudes. Several aspects are envisaged in order to identify a typology of the solitudes and the relation to the world that they underlie. This is the case with accompanied loneliness's, which result more particularly from the lifestyles and global dynamics of a metropolis, then from the processes of social control that act on chosen loneliness, and conversely uses loneliness it undergoes to reinforce itself. The proposition is to consider loneliness as a democratic issue, that it becomes a possible choice to withdraw from the world as much as to stop or slow down. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Cet article parle de la masculinité post-moderne, c´est-à-dire, d´une façon de réfléchir les attributs ancestraux de la masculinité en phase avec le présent. On doit chercher à déconstruire le mythe d'une virilité offensive, mais sans oublier qu'il faut comprendre comment les jeunes garçons d'aujourd'hui construisent leur masculinité, et comment ils arrivent à affirmer leur virilité sans tomber dans les travers du machisme. En effet, nous nous demandons : comment parviendront-ils à construire une identité masculine en phase avec les nouvelles normes de l'égalité des sexes?

RESUMO:O presente artigo tem como objetivo principal discutir a possibilidade de a narrativa da montagem do funk carioca orientar práticas educacionais mais emancipatórias. Enquanto uma prática musical da diáspora negra fortemente presente no cotidiano da escola municipal carioca de ensino fundamental em que trabalho (e de tantas outras escolas municipais, certamente), a narrativa da montagem do funkcarioca abre possibilidades bastante férteis no deslocamento das relações neocoloniais que tecem a educação escolar, mais especificamente no enfrentamento da própria questão racial. Sobretudo, pelo fato de posicionar esta mesma questão não nos limites biológicos (fenótipo), geográficos (favela) ou culturais institucionalizados (O Funk), mas sim no âmbito das chamadas práticas (musicais) cotidianas.

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In this article, we develop and advance the concept of the lit world by bringing together literatures about everyday lighting, automation in everyday life and human perception, along with our ethnographic research into people’s experience of automated lighting in Melbourne, Australia. In doing so we formulate and argue for an approach to automation that situates it as part of everyday mundane worlds and acknowledges its entanglement with the emergent and experiential qualities of everyday environments as they unfold. We demonstrate this through the example of automated lighting, understood as a situated technology that has contingent effects and participates in the making of particular ways of seeing and feeling the world. We thereby argue for an account of automation that reaches beyond its potential for the management of human (and other) behaviour, to ask how the qualities and affordances of automated technologies might seep out of their intended domains, and create new perceptual and experiential opportunities. In a context where automation is increasingly prevalent in everyday life, such attention to the experience and use of automated technologies which already exist on a large scale is needed. Urban lighting is an example par excellence of automation in the world because it has a long history beyond the recent association of automated technologies with code and digital infrastructures. As scholars debate how automated technologies will become part of our future digital lives, understanding how people live in a lit world offers a starting point for considering how we might live with other anticipated algorithmic forms of automation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper traces key themes in contemporary experimental fieldwork - explorations of ordinary places by artists, writers, activists, enthusiasts, students and researchers - to the works of Georges Perec. Preoccupations of this work - including playfulness, attention to the ordinary, and writing as a fieldwork practice - are all anticipated and elaborated in Perec's oeuvre, where they converge around an 'essayistic' approach. Exhibiting these traits, some contemporary fieldwork is more convincingly Perecquian than psychogeographical or Situationist, despite the tendency to identify it with the latter. Through Perec, it is therefore possible to bring contemporary experimental fieldwork into focus, identifying a coherence and sense of project within it, while speaking to the question of what it means and could mean to conduct fieldwork experimentally. Particular attention is paid in this paper to Perec's most accomplished and sustained field texts, both of which have been translated into English: An Attempt at Exhausting a Place in Paris (2010, from 1975 original in French) and Species of Spaces (1999/1974). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Est-ce que l´avènement de la postmodernité amène une nouvelle façon de regarder la société ? Dans cet article, on dit que oui à cause des alchimies festives et de la pusissance des émotions. C´est à dire que des « communions émotionnelles » sont un nouvel espace propice à un réenchantement du monde. Il s´agit aussi sur le rôle de l´immatériel, celui du culturel et aussi du spirituel. Tels sont les caractères essentiels de la religiosité postmoderne.

Cet article parle de la postmodernité mais aussi d´une non-contemporanéité, parce que l’idée même de postmodernité évoque une difficulté sémantique quant à l’identification même de notre époque, puisque elle sous-tend un après quelque chose. Mais elle a cependant l’avantage d’ouvrir le spectre des interprétations possibles, et c´est exactement cela qu´on fait avec l´idée d´une non-contemporanéité, en reprenant ici une autre notion de ce genre. On dirait, donc, que l’esprit de notre temps est plus proche de la non-contemporanéité, même si cela semble paradoxale.

L’omniprésence et l’abondance des images associant en une figure dirigeants français et allemands dans les médias européens contemporains tendent à laisser penser que ce motif a toujours été là, disponible pour dire et écrire l’actualité. Pourtant, il semble peu probable qu’au sortir de la seconde guerre mondiale il en ait été de même. Dans cette perspective, l’article vise à déconstruire cet effet d’évidence en interrogeant le rôle et la place tenus par les images périodiques dans la construction et l’institution d’une figure du « vivre-ensemble » franco-allemand. Cette opération prend la forme d’une analyse socio-sémiotique : la réflexion porte à la fois sur les images — photographies et caricatures — et leurs légendes, sur leur agencement dans la page de journal et sur leurs conditions de production. La démarche procède également d’une double comparaison : en diachronie, dans un temps relativement long (de 1949 à 2012), et en synchronie, sur la base d’une confrontation de deux titres de presse quotidienne nationale de « référence », l’un français et l’autre allemand, Le Monde et la Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Une interrogation sur les conditions de possibilité de la présence de l’image dans ces deux périodiques permet d’abord de dégager combien la place de l’imagerie franco-allemande ne va pas de soi, mais résulte d’un processus de longue haleine. Toutefois, malgré défis et obstacles, à la fois techniques et idéologiques, la figure franco-allemande s’impose par le biais de la stabilisation de modèles de représentation qui en font un motif naturel et incontournable. Ainsi, des cadres éditoriaux pérennes favorisent son implantation et sa reconnaissance au quotidien. À l’intérieur de ces cadres, à la surface des images, la figuration de la ressemblance et de la proximité entre les dirigeants français et allemands contribue à forger la représentation d’une indéfectible unité binationale. Tout comme le fait l’actualisation continue d’un motif européen donné à voir à leurs côtés. Media images depicting French and German leadership as a “fellowship” (omnipresent and abundant as they are) tend to convey the impression that this portrayal has always existed, and are readily available as an endorsement in the rendering of news. And yet, it hardly seems likely that this would have been the case at the close of the Second World War. This article aims to deconstruct this presupposition by examining the function and importance of media images in the construction and implementation of Franco-German “fellowship” by way of a socio-semiotic analysis of both the images (photos and political cartoons) and their legends, page location, and conditions of production. The analysis is two-pronged: the first aspect, diachronic, spans a relatively long period (1949-2012); the second, synchronic, is based on the confrontation between two notable national dailies in France and Germany: Le Monde and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). An analysis of the conditions enabling the presence of the depiction in these two periodicals demonstrates how this Franco-German image is not self-evident, but rather the result of a long and drawn-out process. And despite challenges and obstacles, both technical and ideological, the Franco-German image still manages to impose itself through the stabilizing effect of representational models which render it natural and unavoidable. Thus, entrenched editorial frameworks encourage its establishment and recognition on a daily basis. Within these frameworks, on the image surface, the depiction of similarity and harmony between French and German leaders helps forge the appearance of an unwavering binational unity, aided by the inevitable presence of the European logo at their side. A onipresença e a abundância de imagens que associam dirigentes franceses e alemães nos meios de comunição europeus dá a impressão de que essa parceria sempre existiu e que se tratava de uma realidade a ser endossada e retratada pelas notícias. No entanto, é pouco provável, ao final da Segunda Guerra Mundial, que isso fosse acontecer. Nessa perspectiva, este artigo busca desconstruir esse “efeito de evidência”, interrogando o papel e o lugar ocupado pelas imagens periódicas na construção e na instituição de uma “convivência” franco-alemã. Para isso, será realizada uma análise socio-semiótica: uma reflexão que deve tratar dar imagens – fotografias e caricaturas –, das legendas, do seu agenciamento na página do jornal e de suas condições de produção. A análise também propõe uma dupla comparação: uma diacrônica, aplicada a um período relativamente longo (de 1949 à 2012); e a outra sincrônica, feita a partir de uma confrontaçãoentre dois veículos da imprensa nacional de “referência”, um francês e uma alemão, Le Monde e Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ). Um questionamento sobre as condições que possibilitam a presença da imagem nesses dois periódicos permite ainda perceber em que sentido o lugar ocupado pelas imagens franco-alemãs não resulta do acaso, mas de um processo mais longo. Contudo, apesar dos desafios e obstáculos, técnicos e também ideológicos, o retrato franco-alemão se impõe pelo viés da estabilização de modelos de representação que fazem dessa imagem uma causa natural e incontornável. Dessa forma, enquadramentos editoriais perenes favorecem sua implantação e reconhecimento no quotidianodos leitores. No interior dessas quadros, na superfície das imagens, a figuração da semelhança e da proximidade entre os dirigentes franceses e alemães contribui para forjar a apresentação de um indefectível unidade binacional. Soma-se a isso o fato delas se situarem a favor de uma atualização contínua da causa europeia.

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