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The Parisian Pierre de L'Estoile was an obsessive compiler of politically motivated, obscene ephemera in the reign of King Henri III (1574–89). This article explores how and why L'Estoile kept on adding to a vast archive of vile materials that he purportedly despised. Examining L'Estoile's manuscripts at close quarters, the article traces a complex practice of censure and self-censorship alongside similar practices by contemporary writers (Henri Estienne and Pierre de Brantôme). L'Estoile's contribution to the history of sexuality is that of a self-aware critic, legitimating his inability not to disavow the obscenities he has chosen to preserve.

Charles Loyseau's Traité des ordres et simples dignitez (1610) is well known to historians for its apparent "anatomy" of France's social hierarchy in the Ancien Régime. Whilst Loyseau was mostly preoccupied with the elites and their varying levels of dignity, his treatise nonetheless provides an important window on the multitudinous plebeian orders. Loyseau hesitantly stratifies four tiers of "viles personnes" (cultivators, artisans, casual workmen, and beggars). Each of these groups puts strain on his conceptual framework of dignity and order; only beggars emerge as fully vile. The plebeian multitudes of the Traité des ordres engage in menial, unstable, but in many cases still worthwhile occupations. By comparing Loyseau's views with those of contemporaries (Louis Turquet de Mayerne and Antoine de Montchrestien) we may better understand his conception of "viles personnes" as the first stages of an emergent discourse on political economy: harnessing the economic potential of France's poorest.

This article proposes a new reading of Pierre Matthieu's La Guisiade (1589), a polemical tragedy written at the height of France's Wars of Religion (1562–98). La Guisiade constitutes an incandescent response to the assassination on 23 December 1588 of the Duc de Guise, the charismatic leader of the uncompromising ultra-Catholic faction (the Ligue) on the verge of toppling France's much-maligned monarch, Henri III. Matthieu was a militant ligueur when he composed La Guisiade, seeking to vilify those he deemed responsible for Guise's murder: the king, his various mignons, and his malevolent counsellors. This article will show how the language of villainy that pervades La Guisiade has much in common — and more so than previously assumed — with the inflammatory pamphlets (libelles) circulated by the Ligue in the late 1580s and early 1590s. Matthieu's hybrid tragedy combines the vitriolic rhetoric of a pamphleteer with a humanist's classicizing sensibility. Viewed as such, it becomes necessary to question the scholarly orthodoxy that Matthieu's villains are predominantly 'Machiavellian'. Instead, Machiavelli is but one symbol of ligueur hatred alongside other deeply reviled figures, including the Huguenot, the Turk, the politique, and the sorcerer, whose villainy is conceptualized as mutually reinforcing.

Personal and intimate consequences of cultural globalization have received little critical attention in comparison to scholarship on politics, finance, or the environment. Taking digital technology practices of young adult expatriates as an entry point to understand the emotional and affective consequences of transnational mobility, in this article we research the interrelated cultural politics of emotion, migration, and digitization of middle-class mobilities. Presenting a case study of digital experiences of young adult expatriates (aged fifteen to twenty-five years) living in the Netherlands, we seek to better understand how emotions and affects of middle-class transnational mobility are mediated through digital technologies. Our empirical argument draws from thirty-one semistructured, face-to-face in-depth interviews with young adult expatriates and smartphone photo-elicitation exercises. We develop the notion of transnational digital intimacy practices to address how transnational mobile subjects negotiate emotional precarity through selective smartphone and social media practices. Finally, we call into question the notion of "expatriates" as supposed elite mobiles with global privilege. This article is part of the Global Perspectives, Media and Communication special issue on "Media, Migration, and Nationalism," guest-edited by Koen Leurs and Tomohisa Hirata.

Institutional work focuses on the role of actors in creating, maintaining, or disrupting institutional structures. The concept has its origin in organisational studies. In this paper, we rethink and redefine institutional work to make it fit for use in the multi actor and multi-level context of environmental governance. We survey key approaches to institutional change in the literature, and argue that institutional work should have a central place within this theorising. Drawing on the insights from this literature, we argue that studying institutional work should involve a look at both the actions taken by actors, as well as the resulting effects. We identify a critical need for attention to the fundamentally political character of institutional work, the cumulative effects of action taken by multiple actors, and communicative and discursive dimensions. Overall, the concept of institutional work opens up new possibilities for unpacking the longstanding challenge of understanding institutional change in environmental governance.

This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran J. W. Patterson (1831- ), dated from 1912. ; 1 leaf ; 2 pdf pages. ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). United Confederate Veterans. R.E. Lee Camp No. 158 (Fort Worth, Tex.) ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html

Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies involved, the extent to which these planning tools equip cities to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios is unclear. This article draws upon emerging knowledge in the fields of urban planning and urban climate governance to explore complementary insights into how cities can pursue ambitious and inclusive climate action to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios. We observe that urban planning scholarship is often under-appreciated in urban climate governance research, while conversely, promising urban planning tools and approaches can be limited by the contested realities of urban climate governance. By thematically reviewing diverse examples of urban climate action across the globe, we identify three key categories of planning dilemmas: institutional heterogeneity, scalar mismatch, and equity and justice concerns. We argue that lessons from urban planning and urban climate governance scholarship should be integrated to better understand how cities can realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios in practice.

Cities around the world are facilitating ambitious and inclusive action on climate change by adopting participatory and collaborative planning approaches. However, given the major political, spatial, and scalar interdependencies involved, the extent to which these planning tools equip cities to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios is unclear. This article draws upon emerging knowledge in the fields of urban planning and urban climate governance to explore complementary insights into how cities can pursue ambitious and inclusive climate action to realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios. We observe that urban planning scholarship is often under-appreciated in urban climate governance research, while conversely, promising urban planning tools and approaches can be limited by the contested realities of urban climate governance. By thematically reviewing diverse examples of urban climate action across the globe, we identify three key categories of planning dilemmas: institutional heterogeneity, scalar mismatch, and equity and justice concerns. We argue that lessons from urban planning and urban climate governance scholarship should be integrated to better understand how cities can realise 1.5 °C climate change scenarios in practice.