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Today, mediascapes (see Appadurai) play a predominant role in the construction of modes of human existence. How do they determine our agency? How do they form screens for our emotions, how do they build non-negligible spaces in which our dramas play out? Do they support us or, on the contrary, do they limit us? I pose these questions in relation to Holy Motors (2012), a film by the French director Leos Carax. His film presents man's postmodern condition as well as state of the art nowadays. The hero of Holy Motors is the absolute actor, a set of his avatars, the postmodern Proteus doomed to live and experience repeatedly a parody of "all the same." My thesis is that mediascapes only seem to strengthen our agency. They offer us a plural existence and an easy ability to enlarge the borders between illusion and reality, but in fact, they make us part of a system of the urban "desiring machine," they make our identities and our bodies into a sort of spectacle directed by external forces.

The paper regards a problem of realization and function of the motifs of emigration and wandering that occur in a complementary arrangement in Old Serbian literature. They consist of a specific scheme of presentation and exegesis concerning the historical, religious and cultural reality. The motifs are a characteristic strategy of the expression of collective fate – the tragic experience of the Great Exodus in 1690. They find an extraordinary realization in brief literary form – the notations wherein the motifs establish a definite semantic collection, combined with many already consolidated ideas and ideological constructions. That collection is to met with a favourable response of the subsequent cultural phenomena and conceptions, creating a unique image of the Serbian community. Those phenomena constitute a sort of topic structure, based on the already established imaginative conceptions, especially the messianic image of the "chosen nation" and "nation-martyr" that create a new character of the Serbian community, or make the previous one concrete, henceforth described not only in the categories of election and martyrdom, but also of "emigration from the Turkish land", wandering and homelessness in the land of Hungary.

This article examines three key concepts in the analysis of the problems of capitalist development in the first two decades of the 21st Century. First, extractivist capitalism or capitalist development in its extractivist form, which refers to the advance of capital invested in the acquisition of land and the extraction of natural resources for export in primary commodity form. Second, the debate around the theory of value-labor that has assumed renewed strength in the context of the advances of extractive capital as part of the development of productive forces. Third, the concept of superexploitation advanced by Ruy Marini, with reference to mechanisms that allow for the remuneration of labor on the periphery of the world system at a level below the value (the value of labor power, the commodity that workers seek to exchange against capital for a living wage). Fourth, the formation of a global reserve army of intellectual labor, qualified to participate in the construction of scientific knowledge concentrated in centers of technological innovation. Finally, the article addresses the dynamics of productive and social transformation that accompanies each advance of capital in the development process.

AbstractScholarship on lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) politics argues that political claims, such as access to the military and marriage, are most effective when representatives from the group articulate that the desire for inclusion and participation in those institutions is similar to the desires held by their straight and nontransgender counterparts. This strategy of assimilation has yielded many positive legal changes. And yet the Donald Trump administration marks a period in which these gains have been repeatedly challenged and particular segments of the LGBTQ group are increasingly under attack. This article offers a preliminary analysis of how LGBTQ politics has been impacted by the 2016 election. Using a historical case study of LGBTQ identity construction and agenda development during the second half of the 1990s, I ask: how might the LGBTQ group mine its recent history for clues to rethink its political agenda and political strategies? Having shown that opportunities to advance a different movement—one focused on more radical, broadly inclusive changes—were bypassed during this period, I conclude by putting forward several recommendations for contemporary LGBTQ movement building and resistance strategies.

Research in Dialogue Interpreting (DI) has traditionally drawn on qualitative analysis of verbal behaviour to explore the complex dynamics of these 'triadic' exchanges. Less attention has been paid to interpreter-mediated interaction as a situated, embodied activity where resources other than talk (such as gaze, gestures, head and body movement, proxemics) play a central role in the co-construction of the communicative event. This article argues that understanding the complexity of DI requires careful investigation of the interplay between multiple interactional resources, i.e. verbal in conjunction with visual, aural, embodied and spatial meaning-making resources. This call for methodological innovation is strengthened by the emergence of video-mediated interpreting, where interacting via screens without sharing the same physical space adds a further layer of complexity to interactional dynamics. Drawing on authentic extracts from interpreter-mediated interaction, both face-to-face and video-mediated, this article problematizes how the integration of a multimodal perspective into qualitative investigation of interpreter-mediated interaction can contribute to the advancement of our understanding of key interactional dynamics in DI and, in turn, broaden the scope of multimodality to include new, uncharted territory.

AbstractThe people are the company. This study aims to examine the structure of relationships between company culture, performance, corporate social responsibility (CSR), and reputation, as seen from the employee's perspective, to determine which company culture factors most influence CSR practice and, as a result, sustain a company's development and improve its performance. To accomplish this goal, we conducted a survey among employees of Polish construction companies regarding CSR practices in their organizations. We applied a structural equation model based on 539 individual cases. For a better understanding of the employee's perception of CSR practice, the model included control variables such as company size and position in the company. Our findings suggest that company reputation is a strong mediator of the CSR practice and company performance relationship, and the cultural dimension of long‐term orientation has the greatest influence on CSR practice. The study advances the knowledge on the subject using a microlevel approach to stakeholders' engagement in CSR by exploring the personalized employee‐centric view of organizational culture, CSR practice, and company reputation to sustain a company's development and improve its performance.

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The awakening or crisis of individual self-consciousness has been frequently included in the study of online selfie culture, while the reinforcement of public self-consciousness, the strengthening of civil confidence, and even the resurgence of national confidence can be detected from its popularity when studied with the application of Lotman's cultural semiotics, especially the unique dialogic mechanism as well as Lotman's viewpoint on the space–time structure of the semiosphere. With dialogue situation created and meaning generated, textual dialogues help the construction of self-consciousness through the "I–I" and "I–s/he" system; cultural dialogues make it ultimately welcomed by mainstream culture, which embodies the enhancement of mass self-consciousness. In the semiosphere, selfies reconstruct our self-consciousness in the time–space structure of cultures. The shift of self-consciousness from low-profile to high-profile represents the booming confidence of the Chinese. As a work of art is a finite model of an infinite universe, a "picture of the world," selfies are also the pictures of growing national confidence.

This article sets out to examine, from a socio-historical standpoint, the administrative change process specific to Cameroon. By analyzing the mechanisms and processes driving the administrative reforms put in place since the end of the 1980s, the study pinpoints the regularities characteristic of the national trajectory of administrative reform in Cameroon. The article is divided into three sections. The first presents the analytical approach chosen. The second part presents the various repertoires of the reforms put in place, as well as an overview of the main programs. The third, finally, sets outs the lessons drawn from the study.Points for practitionersThe article explores the dynamic relationship between the production of administrative reforms and the impact of reforms on the politico-administrative order in Cameroon. It is thus demonstrated that while reform has become considered over the years as a specialized know-how and an objective framework for the construction of public action, it continues to be plagued by rationales that are foreign to the organizational purpose, and comes across as the "art of doing."

The author reflects on the issue of epistemological limitations in the process of media imaginings of political reality. Using reference theory and description theory the author tries to answer the question of what makes up the image of political reality as verbalized in media coverage. His conclusion is that attempts to reflect the factual image in the media presentation of politics produce a specific politico-journalistic construction of this reality, the apparent reality. Therefore, the category of truth in media communications concerning the field of poli- tics usually fails. One should thus expect that this traditional realism, which is expressed on the one hand by the factual nature of the media, and on the other by the morality of the media, will constitute a pillar that supports the image of political reality that is presented, interpreted and commented on in the media. In principle, this should not be a naïve realism, giving priority to individual cognitive spontaneity rather than to reflection, analysis and experience, or a spiritual realism seeking the truth about reality through human spirituality.

In this article, I examine human attempts to control water, and water's inherent potential for disorder, by focusing on the Volta River and Akosombo Dam in Ghana. I suggest that, in regard to the work of Wittfogel, Kwame Nkrumah's famous vision of Ghanaian nationalism and pan-African sovereignty was a kind of Wittfogelian reading of waterscapes as manipulated to facilitate political power. In the conception and construction of the massive Akosombo Dam in the traditional area of the Akwamu people in southern Ghana, Nkrumah attempted to reshape society through the control of water. Local Akwamu people have different visions about who can control water, how water can (or sometimes cannot) be controlled, and how deities are the most authoritative actors in any human engagements with water and its flow. Akwamu understandings of hydro-sociality can be seen as a critique of Wittfogelian models of hydraulic societies. I also draw on the work of Fontein and also Keane, to suggest how water's 'indexical' (causal or connective) relationship to power is always a matter of contest, and water's material properties means it ultimately escapes definitive human control.

In this article, we respond to Emma Bell and Amanda Sinclair's call for reclaiming eros as non-commodified energy that drives academic work. Taking our point of entry from institutional ethnography and the standpoint of junior female academics, we highlight the ambiguity experienced in the neoliberal university in relation to its constructions of potential. We elucidate how potential becomes gendered in and through discourses of passion and care: how epistemic and material detachment from the local is framed as potential and how masculinized passion directs academics to do what counts, while feminized and locally bound care is institutionally appreciated only as far as it supports individualized passion. The way passion and care shape the practices of academic writing and organize the ruling relations of potentiality are challenged through eros, an uncontrollable and un-cooptable energy and longing, which becomes a threat to the gendered neoliberal university and a source of resistance to it. By distinguishing between passion, care, and eros, our institutional ethnography inquiry helps to make sense of the conformity and resistance that characterize the ambiguous experience of today's academics.

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This article explores the intersections between economic resources of refugees and integration. It measures processes of adaptation of Syrians by focusing on the legal-political and socio-economic dimensions of integration. The focus of my analysis of the situations of Syrian refugees in Turkey is on class and related to financial resources that help Syrians to reach a kind of stability and security to those who lack rights. The key theoretical undertaking of this article is an attempt to develop the concept of 'class-based integration'. The data consists of 120 semi-structured interviews conducted with Syrian refugees in Istanbul, Ankara and Gaziantep. I argue that Syrian refugees in Turkey go through 'class-based integration', which is in favour of refugees who do investments and who are skilled and leaves out refugees who are unskilled and do not have economic resources to invest in the receiving country from the integration processes. The article also shows that having economic resources could also support the construction of social bridges with members of the receiving society and overcoming the legal barriers to integration.

Cet article examine un aspect, largement négligé par les recherches sur le formalisme russe, de la notion de sujet ( sjužet ) inventée par Viktor Šklovskij. Le concept de sujet ne désigne généralement ni le résultat de transformations ni le niveau ou le plan où ces transformations interviennent, mais le processus de la construction artistique, un moment de la « forme ». Šklovskij conçoit le sujet comme energeia . Il partage la conception aristotélicienne de l'origine de l'art, lequel ne résulterait pas d'une croissance organique, d'une transmission du passé ou d'un héritage, mais de l'acte de faire, πόειν . L'accent mis sur la fabrication correspond au concept central de la Poétique d'Aristote, la ποίησις , « réunion d'événements ». Le concept de sujet correspond à la catégorie ontologique d' ἐνέργεια , c'est-à-dire d'« actualité » (« ce qui est à l'œuvre ») ou d' ἐντελέχεια (« étant arrivé à destination et y demeurant »). Le sujet est ἐνέργεια , l'actualité, l'âme de l'œuvre narrative. Ce double aspect du concept de sujet chez Šklovskij, pouvoir énergétique au sens moderne et energeia au sens aristotélicien, détermine l'essence du récit.

Engaging in youth sports is a major investment, and it requires choosing and balancing between an athlete's life and other practices and ways of life important to adolescents. In this Foucauldian year-long ethnographic study on Finnish 18–20-year-old elite male ice hockey players I consider an athletic career as a moral question and examine what aspects of their behaviour are affected when these players submit to the external and internal control they encounter when advancing themselves and their careers, and how they problematize the codes that govern their actions. The players expressed six modes of subjection altogether that were important to cultivation of the self: exercising, nutrition, rest, motivation, player role and emotions. The processes of cultivation were strongly guided by coaches and well internalized by the players. However, the hockey players were also young people with interests and choices quite different from a disciplined athletic life, and the coaches also helped in the construction of these spheres. I propose in this study that these spheres may be important in managing the training load and the career pressure that athletes necessarily face during the 'investment years' (15+) in sport.

Militant lyonnais d'origine tunisienne. Il est issu d'une famille très fortement engagée contre la présence coloniale française en Tunisie. Il a été un acteur important de la construction de l'islam de France hors région parisienne au cours des années 1980. En effet, il fut, entre autres, l'une des chevilles ouvrières de l'Union des Jeunes Musulmans de France qu'il a cofondée à Lyon en 1987. Très tôt sensible à la cause des plus démunis, de la condition coloniale et postcoloniale, il a milité dès son plus jeune âge dans différentes structures associatives ou au sein de mouvements politiques à l'instar de Lutte Ouvrière. Dans l'entretien accordé à Confluences Méditerranée , Abdelaziz Chaambi revient, sans ambages, sur les grandes étapes de ses engagements successifs et multiples dans la cité, sur la façon dont il articule foi musulmane et militantisme, sa lutte sans relâche contre les effets du capitalisme néo-libéral, le regard qu'il porte sur la situation de l'islam de France, le conspirationnisme dans les milieux musulmans, etc., notamment dans le contexte post-attentats de 2015 qu'il a vécu avec beaucoup de tristesse et de sidération.