Le Labyrinthe littéraire de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

Depuis ses débuts avec la nouvelle « La Cale » en 2014, les textes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr connaissent un succès qui ne se dément pas. Terre ceinte en 2015, Silence du chœur en 2017 et De purs hommes en 2018 ont remporté des prix littéraires de grand renom. Enfin, le jury du prix Goncourt a opté en 2021 avec La plus secrète Mémoire des hommes pour un roman qui offre une métaréflexi…

Law and Language in the Middle Ages

Law and Language in the Middle Ages investigates the encounter between law and legal practice from the linguistic perspective. The essays explore how legal language expresses and advances power relations, along with the ways in which the language of law legitimates power. The wide geographical and chronological scope showcases how power, legitimacy and language interact, moving the discussion b…

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions : Focus on South-East Asia

Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘…

Knowing - Unknowing : African Studies at the Crossroads

This book emerges at a time when critical race studies, postcolonial thought, and decolonial theory are under enormous pressure as part of a global conservative backlash. However, this is also an exciting moment, where new horizons of knowledge appear and new epistemic practices (e.g. symmetry, collaboration, undisciplining) gain traction. Through our critical engagements with structural, relat…

Justice and food security in a changing climate

"The UN's Sustainable Development Goals saw the global community agree to end hunger and malnutrition in all its forms by 2030. However, the number of chronically undernourished people is increasing continuously. Ongoing climate change and the action needed to adapt to it are very likely to aggravate this situation by limiting agricultural land and water resources and changing environmental con…

Jesuits in the North American Colonies and the United States : Faith, Conflic…

From Eusebio Kino to Daniel Berrigan, and from colonial New England to contemporary Seattle, Jesuits have built and disrupted institutions in ways that have fundamentally shaped the Catholic Church and American society. As Catherine O’Donnell demonstrates, Jesuits in French, Spanish, and British colonies were both evangelists and agents of empire. John Carroll envisioned an American church in…

Islamic States in Java 1500-1700 : Eight Dutch Books and Articles by Dr. H.J.…

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ISBN/ISSN

978-90-04-28700-6

Collation

vii, 213 pp.

Series Title

Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, Volume: 70

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Tradition and Power in the Roman Empire = Proceedings of the Fifteenth Worksh…

This volume focuses on the interface between tradition and the shifting configuration of power structures in the Roman Empire. By examining various time periods and locales, its contributions show the Empire as a world filed with a wide variety of cultural, political, social, and religious traditions. These traditions were constantly played upon in the processes of negotiation and (re)definitio…

Through the Prism of Gender and Work = Women’s Labour Struggles in Central …

This book examines women’s activism in and beyond Central and Eastern Europe and transnationally within and across different historical periods, political regimes, and scales of activism. The authors explore the wide range of activist agendas, repertoires, and forums in which women sought to advocate for their gender and labour interests. Women were engaged in trade unions, women-only orga…

Hybrid Investigative Journalism

Buku akses terbuka ini merupakan contoh langka dari studi etnografi jurnalisme investigasi. Buku ini mengeksplorasi upaya-upaya wirausaha untuk menggabungkan jurnalisme investigasi tradisional dengan cara-cara alternatif untuk mengorganisir pekerjaan ini. Buku ini melampaui proyek-proyek investigasi daerah aliran sungai dan mendukung cara-cara di mana para pelaku baru (warga, ahli teknologi, bl…