Après le boom : la laborieuse mise en œuvre de nouvelles régulations dans le secteur minier guinéen by Johannes Knierzinger

“…Since 2003, after a long period of liberalization, more than a dozen African countries have adopted new mining codes which distinguish themselves markedly from their liberal predecessors. Drawing on fieldwork in Guinea, the article retraces the different stages of the implementation process of such a “progressive” mining code, including its modification in 2013 due to the pressure of the mining industry, the adoption of application texts and the adaption of mining contracts, and the introduction of new practises and their supervision in and around the mines.…”
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Growing, grown, gone. The ephemeral status of pets among the Madiha (Kulina) of the Peruvian Amazon by Andrea Zuppi

“…By analyzing pet keeping practices against notions of mastery/ownership, feeding and child adoption, as well as by drawing on the work of specialists of the region, this article shows that pet keeping does not have as its purpose the creation of an adult animal, nor can it unproblematically be considered under the prism of adoption since the animals kept as pets are inevitably de-familiarized.…”
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La terre, dernier élément de Charles Darwin by Michel Prum

“…Yet Darwin’s last opus was also a brilliant plea for the theory of the accumulation of small variations (drawing upon Lyellian uniformitarism) and for a new positioning of Man in the animal kingdom that departed from the old Judaeo-Christian tradition. …”
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The Socio-political Dynamics of the Citizen’s Revolution. Political Work as the ‘Art of Serving’ that Separates and Unites State and Society by José Antonio Villarreal Velásquez

“…This article analyses the relations between politics and society during the so-called citizen’s revolution in Ecuador. Drawing on ethnographic research focused on political brokerage or the ‘art of serving’, the article analyses the particularities of political work by analysing the linkages and tensions that are constructed between the population of a suburb of the city of Guayaquil, the members of the governing political party of the Citizen’s Revolution, Movimiento Patria Altiva i Soberana (Alianza PAIS) and State functionaries. …”
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Evaluation of Innovation Efficiency of High-Tech Enterprise Knowledge Supply Chain Based on AHP-DEA by Huiyuan Han, Xiaomin Gu

“…This paper introduces a qualitative analysis on the efficiency evaluation of the knowledge supply chain by combining the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) with data envelopment analysis (DEA), drawing on existing literature to determine the index weight through the scoring of industry experts, and selecting appropriate input and output indicators to construct a knowledge supply chain efficiency evaluation system. …”
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Knowing from a Distance by Sophia Deterala, Eula Bianca Villar

“… Through a dialogical exchange about disasters, we explore the notion of “knowing” by drawing on our own experience and research about improvisation and disaster management. …”
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A Faith that Does Justice:The Public Testimony of Oliver Tambo by Jonathan D. Jansen

“…Yet, less is written about the faith of these men, and more about their politics; even less studied is the spiritual life of political leaders,what Nelson Mandela, in reference to his struggle companion, Oliver Tambo, called ‘the essence’ of man. Drawing on the construct of interiority, this article offers a re-assessment of public testimonies about the ANC’s longest serving president, demonstrating how the internal workings of Tambo’s faith came to be expressed in the external life and leadership of this devout Christian activist. …”
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Assessment, creativity and learning: A personal perspective by Richard Hickman

“…I look in particular at assessment practices and detail my understanding of the nature of learning, focusing on creativity and the tensions associated with schooling and creative behaviour. Drawing upon and developing my earlier work in the light of further research and experience, I give an overview of assessment practices and approaches to teaching and learning and argue for a learner‐centred approach with a focus on practical work and an environment that promotes creative problem‐solving across the whole curriculum. …”
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Developing Markets for Recycled Organic Products in Florida by Mohammad Rahmani, Alan W. Hodges, Clyde F. Kiker

“… Issues on various aspects of recycled organic products are drawing increasing attention from public and private sectors. …”
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Quantifier pour manager. L’émergence des paiements pour services environnementaux au sein des politiques publiques environnementales françaises by Rémy Petitimbert

“…In fact, it seems that ecosystem services and payments for environmental services register in this new philosophy. Drawing on this, this paper proposes to consider the production’s conditions of tools and monetary evaluation procedures in environmental policies. …”
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Les enjeux idéologiques et argumentatifs de la formule « same sex marriage » by François Labatut

“…This article presents a qualitative and computer-assisted, corpus-based analysis of the use of the “same sex marriage” formulae during the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act debates in Great Britain in 2013. By drawing on Krieg-Planque’s work (2009), I want to show the reasons why same sex marriage may be assimilated to the discursive notion of formulae. …”
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Explorer la dimension spatiale des ressorts biographiques de l’engagement by Félicie Roux

“…Drawing upon a field study on social mobilizations of pupils' parents' in Seine-Saint-Denis, this paper discusses the role of local attachment and relations to place, analyzed through parents' individual trajectories, among social determinants of political involvement. …”
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Climate change and occupational health: Escalating risks and prevention strategies by Cyril Cosme

“…The impacts are greater in countries of the global south where many people work outdoors and standards of protection are inadequate.In this interview, Cyril Cosme, director of the French office of the International Labour Organization (ILO), discusses the risks related to climate change that workers face and describes the ILO’s role in documenting these risks, drawing up standards for protecting workers and helping governments implement them, especially in countries that lack the capacity to manage these challenges alone.…”
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Developing Markets for Recycled Organic Products in Florida by Mohammad Rahmani, Alan W. Hodges, Clyde F. Kiker

“… Issues on various aspects of recycled organic products are drawing increasing attention from public and private sectors. …”
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SPATIAL METAPHORS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION IN ROMANS 5:12-21 by A. Potgieter

“…This article investigates persuasion in Romans 5:12-21, drawing on spatial metaphors. …”
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Brumes et brouillards de Bleak House à Heart of Darkness by Audrey Sabathier-Lepetre

“…It will notably draw a link between mist or fog and a double process of mythification and mystification. …”
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Right to housing for young people: On the housing situation of young Europeans and the potential of a rights-based housing strategy by Veronika Riedl

“…Recommodification, financialisation and the withdrawal of the state as housing provider have transformed housing markets and affected the housing situation of young people. By drawing on various data sources, especially on the EU-Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC), I aim to present a differentiated assessment and comparison of current housing conditions and problems in Europe with a focus on young people. …”
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Les photographies de l’ethnologie : objets exposés, objets projetés by Anaïs Mauuarin, Carine Peltier-Caroff

“…Besides the photographic documentary uses, which led to an intense production and accumulation of images from the late 19th century, several forms of visual exhibition were also used within the discipline. Drawing on the case of the Musée de l’Homme, the article seeks to emphasise the way photographs were used in ambitious exhibitions and their role in illustrated presentations. …”
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