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International audience This article sets out to explain why the narrative of the Transaqua project should be understood prior to any analysis and why it is appropriate to think this initiative in terms of the constructivist approach to international relations. For several decades, the issue of the rescue of Lake Chad by the waters of the Congo has dominated both the African regional universe and the international chronicle. It is also the backdrop for several scientific publications covering various fields. In International Relations, the issue has been explored more under the anchor of classical theoretical approaches. Very little research has attempted to address the initiative according to the analytical logics of critical theoretical approaches such as constructivismwhich is powerful for its multi-causal explanation of social phenomena, its emphasis on social context, intersubjective arrangements, the social construction of national interest and the constitutive nature of initiatives and actors. When we try to comb through the existing literature on the issue of mega water transfer projects such as Transaqua, we cannot help but notice that much of the literature on the politics of large-scale water infrastructure is centred on classical theoretical schemes enshrining the centrality of the state, the West, urban development and even urban modernism [1]-[6]. Too often, case studies have focused on river bodies, transboundary basins, shared basins, shared water resources…in developing countries [7]. These approaches focus on issues of territorialisation of governmental power, legitimisation of state power, nationalisation, sovereignty and other forms of political competence [8]-[10]. With the inter-basin transfer to Lake Chad, social scientists have focused more on 'hydropolitical' analysis, such as Magrin's [11] political-ecological research on Lake Chad. Of course, Magrin sees the inter-basin transfer of water to restore the mythical disappearance of the lake as being motivated by various political interests. ...

International audience Research Framework: In France and Belgium, since mid-1990, legislative provisions have tightened the conditions for concluding unions between a citizen and a non-European national and permitting the latter of stay. The suspicion of the immigration system, delineating a selective access to the nation by the construction of eminently normative forms of "making family", impact couples' intimacy.Objectives: This article examines the changes in binational couples' intimacy in the light of their encounters with the immigration system.Methodology: The empirical material comes from a multi-site ethnography conducted by collecting the life histories of the partners (foreign and national) of about one hundred couples—analyzed with the method of "biographical policies' evaluation"—and by participant observations within associative structures in French and Belgian cities.Results: Over the course of administrative formalities, the couples' privacy becomes "public" as they are invited to perform the "lovers" as the immigration system wishes. The resulting effect on the boundaries of their intimacy differs according to the permeability of the relationship to state interference. Different types of intimacy in adherence or in contrast with the state logic stands out, they are defined as "two-speed", "resilient", "in exchange" and "in splinters".Conclusions: The intimacies identified are the results of a "pact" between partners and the work that they have performed at the borders of the state encounters. In the wake of "intimate citizenship", such work articulates private decisions and public practices, and moral dilemma relating to "family life".Contributions: The article shows the interweaving of institutional boundaries, worked by public policies, and conjugal, worked by emotions, expectations and exchanges, thanks to the sociology of preformative and intimate practices. ; Cadre de la recherche : En France et en Belgique, depuis 2000, des dispositions législatives ont renforcé les conditions pour ...

For industrialized economies, a strategically important area is developing active methods for industrial use of carbon dioxide emissions to produce marketable products. A rational approach to the problem of clean generation should be based on the complete coordination of the output parameters of the CO2 discharged from the power plant and the input (working) CO2 parameters of the consumer, which will reduce the cost of emissions conditioning, and maintain power plant efficiency. The CO2 parameters from fossil fuel power plants and CO2 consumers' potential were analyzed for three main indicators most sensitive to power generation: the amount of CO2, operating pressure, and purity considering the level of technological maturity and market attractiveness. Based on the analysis, three types of energy-industrial symbioses were identified with a cost-effective Power Plant - Consumer model without an intermediate unit for matching input and output parameters of CO2 (without a CO2 capture and conditioning system). A hybrid solution combining modern IGCC and the latest thermodynamic cycles based on oxy-fuel technologies is offered as a generalized configuration of the energy part of the promising complex. The concept and key technological solutions of the promising energy-industrial symbiosis "Power Generation Unit - CO2-based production"are being developed at Ural Federal University. Such symbiosis ensures the low-cost supply of CO2 to industrial consumers using mineralization technology. It will allow utilizing not only technogenic carbon but also ash, slag, and construction industry waste to produce marketable products (cement, concrete, and other materials). © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. ; The work was supported by Decree 211 of the Government of the Russian Federation, contract No. 02.A03.21.0006.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- The Last Journey -- Sail and Anchor -- Like a Landscape -- Thirst -- Dawn -- Finding an Elder -- Know Your Own Bone -- Finding Nonviolence -- Rain Clouds -- Finding Oneself -- Coming to Rest -- A Handmade Death -- The Last Yurt -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Chronology of a Life -- Time-Lapse Photographs of Yurt Raising -- About the Authors.

Wo stehen die 18 niedersächsischen Regionen im Vergleich nach Stärken und Schwächen der Zukunftsfähigkeit? Diese Frage untersucht die Studie anhand von 27 evidenten Nachhaltigkeitsindikatoren

Beetham and Lord provide concise and analytical coverage of a key topic within the European Union, that is, the legitimacy of European supra-national governance.

Who makes WiFi? Why do different makers matter? What do barbeques and backyards have to do with the internet? This book explores how WiFi is made from the ground up, or in this case from the backyard out. Forged around barbeques, made of found, adapted and off-the-shelf materials and installed in ordinary domestic spaces, this book documents the collective work of individuals committed to making 'Ournet not the internet'. Drawing on rich ethnographic material, Jungnickel's research on community WiFi networking provides an overdue account of the innovative digital cultures and practices of ordinary people making extra-ordinary things. What make-do methods, mods and tales of resourceful ingenuity permit is another way of seeing how technologies come into being. It brings to life an Australian version of WiFi, enriching global studies of wireless technology by signalling the potential of comparative studies. Critically, the book presents the first sustained study of homebrew high-tech backyard technologists who imbue a DIY ethos but do not do it alone - they Do-It-Together (DIT). This timely critique of collective DIT innovation in an increasingly networked society will be of interest to scholars and practitioners of maker culture.

This remarkable book shines a fierce light on the current state of liberty and shows how longstanding restraints against tyranny—and the rights of habeas corpus, trial by jury, and due process of law, and the prohibition of torture—are being abridged. In providing a sweeping history of Magna Carta, the source of these protections since 1215, this powerful book demonstrates how these ancient rights are repeatedly laid aside when the greed of privatization, the lust for power, and the ambition of empire seize a state. Peter Linebaugh draws on primary sources to construct a wholly original history of the Great Charter and its scarcely-known companion, the Charter of the Forest, which was created at the same time to protect the subsistence rights of the poor

"Das Sammelwerk beeinhaltet sechs Aufsätze zum Thema umweltfreundlicher Städtebau nach europäischen Ansätzen und Beispielen unter Mitarbeit von Tjeerd Deelstra, Ann Branson, Keith Horton, Gerard Brakkee, Bernard Chamussy, Annika Schéele, Peder Duelund Mortensen und Seppo Kjellberg. Der Tagungsreader ist auf Deutsch und teilweise Französisch." [Redaktion USB Köln]

This article deals with methodological challenges and presents solutions for the study of people who depart from state-subsidized housing in Ethiopia, Morocco, and South Africa. Having sold or rented out their units, these people have left and now live at dispersed locations. Assuming that many "missing people" leave state housing because of project-related shortcomings, studying the reasons for their departure is crucial to understanding standardized housing programs. "Missing people" urge scholars to emphasize the afterlives of housing policy interventions as a necessary analytical dimension. However, such research is confronted with three major methodological challenges: How is it possible to approach and study people who have disappeared from the area of a housing intervention? How can one link exploratory, in-depth qualitative accounts, rooted in subjective perceptions of the everyday, to potential structural deficiencies of standardized housing interventions? What kind of methodologies may help take into account the temporalities of displacement and resettlement? In order to overcome these challenges, the article presents innovative forms of purposive sampling and discusses analytical strategies, which - based on Clapham's framework of "housing pathways" - bridge relational and structural perspectives to housing programs.