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Experts review the leading social policy scholarship from the past year in this comprehensive volume. Published in association with the Social Policy Association, the latest volume in this long-running series addresses current issues and critical debates throughout the international social policy field with a particular focus on employment policy, housing policy and climate justice. Contributors also explore key developments including researching during the COVID-19 pandemic, migrants' access to social benefits in Germany, the right(s) to healthcare in Italy, American and European homelessness policies and much more. This annual review is essential reading for students and academics in social policy, social welfare and related disciplines

Le phénomène de la corruption ordinaire au Mali se déclinant en passe-droits et autres faits de clientélisme suppose une inégalité de traitement, une personnification des échanges. Il incarne les règles de base d'une société de cour et s'oppose ainsi au bon fonctionnement de l'État bureaucratique reposant sur des normes d'impersonnalisation, garantes de l'égalité des traitements. Partant de ces deux registres distincts, certains anthropologues expliquent la récurrence et la généralisation du phénomène de la corruption ordinaire par un phénomène historique d'enchâssement de registres normatifs distincts. Autrement dit aux principes de la société de cour précoloniale sont venus s'ajouter, sans les faire disparaître, les principes propres au fonctionnement bureaucratique mis en place par la colonisation française. Or, l'analyse des archives dans la zone de Bandiagara au Mali montre, tout au contraire, que le pouvoir colonial n'a jamais mis en place des règles du jeu différentes. Il n'a fait que renforcer les principes propres aux sociétés de cour et a perpétué les figures du favori, du banni et du courtisan. Et cette continuité n'a pas toujours été faite de manière consciente autorisant ainsi sans se médire à porter des jugements moraux tels que l'idée d'une décolonisation trop précoce au vu de l'ampleur de la corruption ordinaire actuelle.

Le coaching en entreprise relève d'une perspective d'optimisation de soi, en liant performance et bien-être au travail. L'article propose de réinscrire ce dispositif dans une histoire longue des relations entre psychologie et management, saisie à partir de l'entre-deux-guerres et dans le contexte français. Le retour sur cette généalogie permet de dégager la spécificité des idéologies du coaching – d'une part, la « réalisation de soi » et la figure de « l'entrepreneur de soi » ; d'autre part, le « savoir-être » et la figure du « manager-coach » ou du « leader » – et de les resituer au sein des transformations du capitalisme.

THE CONFERENCE RATIONALE Environmental studies and management are singular in that they entail the development of holistic thinking and action for which a transversal approach is a must. We are testing this singularity in a range of themes as diverse as biodiversity management, agro-ecology, community participation, and the study of environmental science and technology. Unlike the "pure" natural sciences, environment and sustainability studies entail an "ecological" approach for which the various types of knowledge (biological, chemical, physical, etc., but also legal, economic, sociological, and so on) have to be tamed in order to be able to link them up. It is more a matter of grasping the many social and technical dimensions of the issues that are studied and taught than of making forays into a so-called interdisciplinarity in which the tensions between (scientific) fields replace the tensions among the tangle of practices and practical knowledge that are manifested by the stakeholders themselves. The boundaries of environmental issues are by nature moving, changing, and closely related to the technical development and needs of society. They often put themselves forward at the outset in the form of controversies, scientific and technological uncertainties, and the complex network of interdependencies that they reveal. As such, they challenge the separations between scientific disciplines. Far from the usual practices of university education and training, such controversy, uncertainty, and complexity can be seen as genuine resources for quality education that is open to the realities of today's world. From this standpoint, they also raise new challenges of collaboration among the staff in charge of the education and training. If we take a pragmatic approach (Dewey 1938), such subjects lend themselves excellently to the mobilization of 'situated' approaches, that is to say, learning approaches that focus more on active experience (Masciotra and Morel 2010). This entails either having students experience real-life situations that are shared by the practitioners themselves or putting them directly in a situation. Their learning will come then from what they make of the situation and how they experience it. What kind of university graduate do we need? Alongside top specialists who focus on mastering specialized techniques and knowledge, more and more importance is being given to the training of environmental 'general practitioners' who are able to circumscribe issues and challenges that often lead them away from the territories of their original disciplines. In that respect, acquiring the skills needed to explore unstable and non-stabilized environmental situations is a must. When they hold managerial or leadership positions they will have to cope with a range of stakeholders, each of whom often has very different types of knowledge, ways of acting, world views, and responsibilities that must be brought together. Linking up these different elements is as much a necessity as a challenge. How can we prepare our students for such trials? How can we equip them with the theoretical, methodological, and human resources required to cope with such situations? Given that one of the particularities of environmental education and training is to avoid cutting the subjects' scientific and technical dimensions off from their political and social dimensions, it is important to explain very clearly and to develop a genuinely critical mind in such programs. This means not only the critical mind that prompts one to develop or use such and such technical analytical protocol strictly, but, more basically, the critical mind that evaluates the societal consequences of a given piece of knowledge, theory, organizational choice, management scheme, and so on. The demands that employers make of their young university graduates have more to do with their abilities to take stock of existing technologies and policies, and even alternatives thereto, reliably; deal with specific problems in the field; and understand their implications for society, much more so than the ability to provide optimal hypothetical solutions. Aims of the seminar The purpose of the seminar is threefold: 1. The starting point of this seminar is to exchange experiences on courses or seminars that are aimed at recognizing and taking account of the controversial, complex, and uncertain nature of environmental issues and their management. 2. Once these empirical foundations have been laid, we shall then share theories or conceptual propositions that make it possible to equip these teaching approaches and to give them theoretical and methodological foundations. 3. Finally, we shall focus on the transition from practices to teaching methods/instruments as pedagogical innovation, that is to say, we shall ask about the value, use, and transferability of these initiatives outside the contexts of their creation: How can a course or seminar be turned into a teaching instrument for other curricula (as for natural sciences or applied sciences), even in other areas of education? The purpose of all this being to enable a broader, heterogeneous student body to benefit from an approach that invites them to experience this environmental complexity.

CIAT has worked in Ethiopia for 30 years, in collaboration with the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research (EIAR) and regional agricultural research centers. Initially focused on bean variety development − getting improved, better beans to communities, improving their nutrition and incomes − our work has broadened to include soil fertility management, sustainable land management, climate change and climate information services. Ethiopia has one of the most diverse agro-ecological zones in Africa, with an ambitious restoration plan and climate-resilient, green economy strategy. Together with national research institutions, farmer organizations, and the private sector, our approach has focused on mainstreaming research into the country's development and research priorities, contributing to major Ethiopian development agendas such as the Growth and Transformation Plan (GTP2), Sustainable Land Management Program (SLMP2), and Climate-Resilient Green Economy (CRGE). Aligning with the government's Sustainable Land Management initiative, we support climate-resilient landscapes in partnership with local communities. Our cutting-edge science helps policymakers, the private sector, scientists, civil society, and farmers respond to the pressing challenges of our time. Drawing on international expertise and the world's largest collections of beans and livestock forages, we tackle poverty, food insecurity, malnutrition, climate change, and environmental degradation. We support and complement government efforts to create 'climate resilient landscapes,' developing and piloting frameworks, tools, options and evidence generation of restoration efforts across the country. We contribute to the agricultural transformation agenda of the country through improving agronomic and management practices, contributing to fertilizer recommendation efforts and leading the effort to build "digital agriculture" through Big Data analytics.

Archaeological discoveries in Jerusalem capture worldwide attention in various media outlets. The continuing quest to discover the city's physical remains is not simply an attempt to define Israel's past or determine its historical legacy. In the context of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict, it is also an attempt to legitimate—or undercut—national claims to sovereignty. Bridging the ever-widening gap between popular coverage and specialized literature, Finding Jerusalem provides a comprehensive tour of the politics of archaeology in the city. Through a wide-ranging discussion of the material evidence, Katharina Galor illuminates the complex legal contexts and ethical precepts that underlie archaeological activity and the discourse of "cultural heritage" in Jerusalem. This book addresses the pressing need to disentangle historical documentation from the religious aspirations, social ambitions, and political commitments that shape its interpretation.

Le grand siècle ressuscite. Par delà les ruines du romantisme, chaque jour le rapproche de nous. L'on s'aperçoit enfin de l'ampleur, de la violence, de l'actualité même des débats qui le déchirèrent, et que le masque cérémoniel d'un classicisme de convention ne parvient plus à dissimuler. Deux livres fort importants et d'un égal talent, quoique d'une visée légèrement différente, ont récemment entrepris de pénétrer au coeur de ces problèmes. Et comme tous deux relèvent d'une critique toute nourrie de larges préoccupations humaines ; que tous deux voient dans les oeuvres littéraires non pas les produits gracieux de quelque élevage de série, ni les anémiques rejetons d'une série de filiations livresques, mais l'expression directe d'une morale, d'un état historique des esprits et des moeurs, un visage de l'homme enfin, —les Annales se devaient d'accueillir ces deux ouvrages avec sympathie et d'en souligner l'importance.

The article is devoted to the problem of the studying of fashion and protests in the modern society.Within the work some classical and modern theoretical methods of the regarding of protests and the forms of their realization are viewed. It is stated that in the most cases a protest is studied with the observing of either common behavior or actions, public or social movements, or various ways of political involving and participating.Also, there the terms of 'political participating' and 'political protest' are differentiated in the modern political discourse.As a matter of fact, in the article it is proposed to consider 'fashion' as a complicated structured phenomena that, on one hand, is an innovation (an individualization) and, on the other hand, an inheritance (a massif dissemination, a social equalization).Likewise, there are analyzed possible variations of cooperation between fashion and protests under conditions of the progressing mobility. Hence, it is decided that fashion stimulates participants of actual protests and, at the same time, expands their number with so-called 'passive component'. For example, the black color has united the most spectacular representatives of the cinema regarding one problem that is connected with the Golden Globe Film Festival. However, such a massif dissemination of the black dress-code could have made all the guests of the festival accept the common idea.So, it is concluded that the dissemination of protests causes the appearance of legitimate social movements and organizations, as well as destructive modes of common behavior. In the light of above mentioned, it should be stressed that teenagers are in the group of the most possible risk who are very active participants of meetings, tumults that provoke the spreading of antisocial behavior in the society.In addition, in the article is proclaimed the idea that the cooperation between fashion and protests in the modern mobile society is presented by two variants. They are 'fashion in protests' that is characterized by the presence of fashion symbols in any protest and 'fashion problems' that occur constantly.As for the first variant, a certain list of examples can be proposed: individual demarches, group and collective actions that expect their popularization in the entire society (or, at least, in some of its parts). Protest practices prove that this popularization is based on the transformed classical scheme of the existence and functioning of culture in the society (for example, the appearance of fashion symbols such as the orange color during the events in Ukraine in 2004).As for the second variant, we can suggest as an example the fact that at the end of the XXth century and at the beginning of the XXIst century were widely discussed problems of humans` and parents` rights, the support of healthy life style and etc. For this reason, there were the Movement for humans` rights, the Movement for parents` rights, the Life Without Drogues Movement, the Eco Food Movement and many others.