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International audience ; The ability of maps to represent territory and geographical phenomena is more and more questioned nowadays. Medium of observation, experience or information, maps appear to be not only a representation item but also a way for action. Maps are now used as artworks, for local participation in development projects, or as a new tool to map sensitive experiences, visible and invisible uses of places, environmental perception or as a point of view on political issues. New approaches are now developed: maps are not anymore considered as pictures of the area but as a way to build a new relation to oneself, to others and to the environment. This communication aims to deal with the conditions of a research-creation approach in geography, that is a practice of geographical tools through experimentation protocols in situ, that are developed in connection with the research situation and shared with people who participate. ; La capacité des cartes à « montrer » des espaces et des phénomènes géographiques est aujourd'hui remise en cause. Médium d'observation, d'expérience ou d'information, les cartes sont davantage utilisées non plus comme représentation mais comme des modes d'agir. Produites en dehors du champ géographique, notamment en art, mobilisées pour la participation habitante dans les projets d'aménagement, développées à travers de nouveaux dispositifs pour cartographier une expérience sensible, certaines cartographies se fondent sur un nouveau registre : on ne peut plus les considérer à proprement parler comme des « images de l'espace », elles fabriquent de nouveaux rapports à soi, à l'autre et à l'environnement. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilité d'une approche de recherche-création en géographie, c'est-à-dire d'une démarche centrée sur l'instrumentation géographique avec des protocoles d'expérimentation in situ, élaborés en lien avec la situation de recherche et en partage avec les personnes participantes.

International audience ; The ability of maps to represent territory and geographical phenomena is more and more questioned nowadays. Medium of observation, experience or information, maps appear to be not only a representation item but also a way for action. Maps are now used as artworks, for local participation in development projects, or as a new tool to map sensitive experiences, visible and invisible uses of places, environmental perception or as a point of view on political issues. New approaches are now developed: maps are not anymore considered as pictures of the area but as a way to build a new relation to oneself, to others and to the environment. This communication aims to deal with the conditions of a research-creation approach in geography, that is a practice of geographical tools through experimentation protocols in situ, that are developed in connection with the research situation and shared with people who participate. ; La capacité des cartes à « montrer » des espaces et des phénomènes géographiques est aujourd'hui remise en cause. Médium d'observation, d'expérience ou d'information, les cartes sont davantage utilisées non plus comme représentation mais comme des modes d'agir. Produites en dehors du champ géographique, notamment en art, mobilisées pour la participation habitante dans les projets d'aménagement, développées à travers de nouveaux dispositifs pour cartographier une expérience sensible, certaines cartographies se fondent sur un nouveau registre : on ne peut plus les considérer à proprement parler comme des « images de l'espace », elles fabriquent de nouveaux rapports à soi, à l'autre et à l'environnement. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilité d'une approche de recherche-création en géographie, c'est-à-dire d'une démarche centrée sur l'instrumentation géographique avec des protocoles d'expérimentation in situ, élaborés en lien avec la situation de recherche et en partage avec les personnes participantes.

International audience ; The ability of maps to represent territory and geographical phenomena is more and more questioned nowadays. Medium of observation, experience or information, maps appear to be not only a representation item but also a way for action. Maps are now used as artworks, for local participation in development projects, or as a new tool to map sensitive experiences, visible and invisible uses of places, environmental perception or as a point of view on political issues. New approaches are now developed: maps are not anymore considered as pictures of the area but as a way to build a new relation to oneself, to others and to the environment. This communication aims to deal with the conditions of a research-creation approach in geography, that is a practice of geographical tools through experimentation protocols in situ, that are developed in connection with the research situation and shared with people who participate. ; La capacité des cartes à « montrer » des espaces et des phénomènes géographiques est aujourd'hui remise en cause. Médium d'observation, d'expérience ou d'information, les cartes sont davantage utilisées non plus comme représentation mais comme des modes d'agir. Produites en dehors du champ géographique, notamment en art, mobilisées pour la participation habitante dans les projets d'aménagement, développées à travers de nouveaux dispositifs pour cartographier une expérience sensible, certaines cartographies se fondent sur un nouveau registre : on ne peut plus les considérer à proprement parler comme des « images de l'espace », elles fabriquent de nouveaux rapports à soi, à l'autre et à l'environnement. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilité d'une approche de recherche-création en géographie, c'est-à-dire d'une démarche centrée sur l'instrumentation géographique avec des protocoles d'expérimentation in situ, élaborés en lien avec la situation de recherche et en partage avec les personnes participantes.

International audience ; The ability of maps to represent territory and geographical phenomena is more and more questioned nowadays. Medium of observation, experience or information, maps appear to be not only a representation item but also a way for action. Maps are now used as artworks, for local participation in development projects, or as a new tool to map sensitive experiences, visible and invisible uses of places, environmental perception or as a point of view on political issues. New approaches are now developed: maps are not anymore considered as pictures of the area but as a way to build a new relation to oneself, to others and to the environment. This communication aims to deal with the conditions of a research-creation approach in geography, that is a practice of geographical tools through experimentation protocols in situ, that are developed in connection with the research situation and shared with people who participate. ; La capacité des cartes à « montrer » des espaces et des phénomènes géographiques est aujourd'hui remise en cause. Médium d'observation, d'expérience ou d'information, les cartes sont davantage utilisées non plus comme représentation mais comme des modes d'agir. Produites en dehors du champ géographique, notamment en art, mobilisées pour la participation habitante dans les projets d'aménagement, développées à travers de nouveaux dispositifs pour cartographier une expérience sensible, certaines cartographies se fondent sur un nouveau registre : on ne peut plus les considérer à proprement parler comme des « images de l'espace », elles fabriquent de nouveaux rapports à soi, à l'autre et à l'environnement. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilité d'une approche de recherche-création en géographie, c'est-à-dire d'une démarche centrée sur l'instrumentation géographique avec des protocoles d'expérimentation in situ, élaborés en lien avec la situation de recherche et en partage avec les personnes participantes.

International audience ; The ability of maps to represent territory and geographical phenomena is more and more questioned nowadays. Medium of observation, experience or information, maps appear to be not only a representation item but also a way for action. Maps are now used as artworks, for local participation in development projects, or as a new tool to map sensitive experiences, visible and invisible uses of places, environmental perception or as a point of view on political issues. New approaches are now developed: maps are not anymore considered as pictures of the area but as a way to build a new relation to oneself, to others and to the environment. This communication aims to deal with the conditions of a research-creation approach in geography, that is a practice of geographical tools through experimentation protocols in situ, that are developed in connection with the research situation and shared with people who participate. ; La capacité des cartes à « montrer » des espaces et des phénomènes géographiques est aujourd'hui remise en cause. Médium d'observation, d'expérience ou d'information, les cartes sont davantage utilisées non plus comme représentation mais comme des modes d'agir. Produites en dehors du champ géographique, notamment en art, mobilisées pour la participation habitante dans les projets d'aménagement, développées à travers de nouveaux dispositifs pour cartographier une expérience sensible, certaines cartographies se fondent sur un nouveau registre : on ne peut plus les considérer à proprement parler comme des « images de l'espace », elles fabriquent de nouveaux rapports à soi, à l'autre et à l'environnement. Cette communication propose une réflexion sur les conditions de possibilité d'une approche de recherche-création en géographie, c'est-à-dire d'une démarche centrée sur l'instrumentation géographique avec des protocoles d'expérimentation in situ, élaborés en lien avec la situation de recherche et en partage avec les personnes participantes.

Commentary on Philip Jones & John Hudson's (2001) use of a transactions cost economic approach to investigating political motivations within British political parties is provided. Although Jones & Hudson's contention that a party attempts to maintain its political identity to preserve voting partisanship, their contention that political parties emerge from groups' attempt to restrict voters costs of searching for information is questioned. In addition, their assertion that political parties' recognition of a consistent political identity motivates parties' desire to emphasize political integrity is challenged. Jones & Hudson's subsequent claim -- that political parties will engage in cooperative behavior since it produces optimal results for the collective -- is deemed representative of the failures of functionalist perspectives. It is concluded that rational choice perspectives must reconsider the relationship between collective political action & democracy. 21 References. J. W. Parker

The role of political office holders in tax administration has been an issue of debates in the political spheres of Nigeria. This is because of the important needs to drive internally generated revenue of the state given the fall in federal allocation attributed to the plunged in international oil price. In view of this, the thrust of this study explicate the role of political office holders in tax administration with emphasis to Kogi State. The study identified political office holders as elected individuals, representative or political appointees who managed the affairs of a Country, State and Local Government Area. The study identified tax administration as the act of making tax policy and execution. The role of Kogi State political office holders in tax administration include regulatory role which is concerned with making laws for effective tax administration; stabilization role, this is concerned with stimulating macroeconomics by promoting employment, price stability and economic growth; distributive role, this is concern with the provision of social or public goods and equitable distribution of income. The IGR status of Kogi was presented. The statistical evidence shows that the advent of political office holders in tax administration is positively felt. This evidenced from the increasing trend of IGR of the State. The study identifies some basic problems affecting tax administration in Kogi State which include: tax evasion and tax avoidance. For effective tax administration, the study finally recommends that stake holders in the State should be involved in review tax laws, Tax laws and policies should be made available to taxpayers and explain clearly to their understanding for effective compliance, there is need for periodic lectures, sensitization and seminars to control tax evasion and tax avoidance. Article visualizations:

FOCUSING ON THE 11 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN PRESIDENTS, THE AUTHOR INVESTIGATES THE IMPACT OF PERSONALITY ON THE POLITICAL BEHAVIOR OF THEM. FOUR PERSONALITY TRAITS ARE EXAMINED: POWER MOTIVATION, ACHIEVEMENT MOTIVATION, ACTIVITY-PASSIVITY AND NEGATIVISM-POSITIVISM. THE EFFECTS OF THESE PERSONILITY TRAITS ON TWO PRESIDENTIAL BEHAVIORS, ACTIVITY AND SUCCESS WITH THE CONGRESS, ARE INVESTIGATED.

Recent global social changes and phenomena like #MeToo and Time's Up Movement, the visibility of feminism in popular media (e.g., Beyonce or the TV series Orange is the New Black), the increase of datafication and fake news have not only put pressure on the media and entertainment industry and the content produced, but also generated critique, change and questions in the public debate on gender in general and (the backlash on) gender studies around the world. But are these phenomena also game changers for research on media and gender? In this thematic issue we want to provide insight in recent developments and trends in research on gender and media. What are the dominant ideas and debates in this research field and how do they deal with all of the changes in the media scape (e.g., platformization, the dominance of algorithms and datafication, slacktivism, and gender inequalities in media production). Moreover, how do current debates, theoretical insights and methods communicate with those in the past? The research field has changed rapidly over the last 10 years with repercussions on the conceptualisation of gender, its intersections with other identities markers (e.g., age, ethnicity, class, disabilities, sexualities, etc.), and media audiences' responses to these developments. We welcome contributions within the scope of gender and media and which are topical in the way they introduce new concepts, theoretical insights, new methods or new research subjects.

In this book, Duncan Kelly excavates, from the history of modern political thought, a largely forgotten claim about liberty as a form of propriety. By rethinking the intellectual and historical foundations of modern accounts of freedom, he brings into focus how this major vision of liberty developed between the seventeenth and the nineteenth centuries. In his framework, celebrated political writers, including John Locke, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, John Stuart Mill, and Thomas Hill Green pursue the claim that freedom is best understood as a form of responsible agency or propriety, and they do so by reconciling key moral and philosophical claims with classical and contemporary political theory. Their approach broadly assumes that only those persons who appropriately regulate their conduct can be thought of as free and responsible. At the same time, however, they recognize that such internal forms of self-propriety must be judged within the wider context of social and political life. Kelly shows how the intellectual and practical demands of such a synthesis require these great writers to consider freedom as part of a broader set of arguments about the nature of personhood, the potentially irrational impact of the passions, and the obstinate problems of individual and political judgement. By exploring these relationships, The Propriety of Liberty not only revises the intellectual history of modern political thought, but also sheds light on contemporary debates about freedom and agency.

'What is to be Undone?: Trickery as Political Resistance', discussion presented at the series Trickster Art: Celebrating Chaos, Challenging Misrule , 26 November 2015

Objective. The relationship between religion and political participation has not been rigorously investigated, typically employing only basic measures of church attendance or denomination. In this study, we utilize precise measures of various religious behaviors, traditions, and beliefs to examine their influence on political participation.Methods. Using data from the Baylor Religion Survey 2005, we demonstrate that merely including measures of church attendance or denomination camouflages much of religion's influence on political participation.Results. We find that religious beliefs are significantly related to national political participation. For religious activities, identifying with a religious tradition reduces participation, but participation in church activities increases political participation.Conclusion. Different types of religious beliefs influence political participation differently. Although some macro religious beliefs significantly increase macro political behavior, believers in an involved God are less likely to participate politically. Individualistic, micro beliefs have no affect on national politics. Thus, the scope of the religious belief fits with the scope of the political activity, in that more macro concerns translate to national political participation.

Cultural education has recently been particularly emphasized as key for the promotion of equal opportunities, social cohesion and political engagement. While the relationship between political engagement and formal education has been extensively discussed, little research has been conducted on non‐formal types of education, such as non‐formal cultural education (NCE) in particular. However, the share of NCE programmes is becoming increasingly important as more and more formal institutions are reducing their cultural education programmes. This article examines, firstly, whether NCE actually promotes political engagement and, secondly, who effectively participates in NCE programmes. Using data from the eighth wave (2016–2017) of the German National Educational Panel Study, we implement a mediation analysis within ordered logistic regression models to disentangle the mechanisms at play. Our results indicate that NCE exerts a small but significant effect on political engagement directly and indirectly via political discussions and political interest. However, participation in NCE is strongly influenced by social strata. The advantages of NCE are therefore not evenly distributed across the German population.

A large literature has emerged in political science that studies the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This article summarizes the lessons learned from this literature, both theoretical and practical. To put this emerging knowledge base into perspective, we review findings along two dimensions of conflict: factors influencing whether states or substate groups enter into conflict in the first place and variables affecting the intensity of fighting at particular times and places once war has started. We then discuss the external validity issues entailed in learning about contemporary wars and insurgencies from research focused on the Afghanistan and Iraq wars during the period of US involvement. We close by summarizing the uniquely rich qualitative and quantitative data on these wars (both publicly available and what likely exists but has not been released) and outline potential avenues for future research.