Cet article propose un rappel des fondamentaux et une analyse des processus à l’œuvre dans l’élaboration d’une approche nationale visant à évaluer et à comparer la manière dont les universités australiennes s’engagent auprès des communautés locales et régionales. Au sein des universités publiques au...

“Le Tétraque se perdait dans un rêve”: Concordance between Flaubert’s Hérodias and Hérodiade by Milliet, Grémont and Massenet

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Clair Rowden (Sep 8, 2019)

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Commentators have traditionally downplayed the the links between the opera Hérodiade (Millet, Grémont and Massenet, 1881) and Flaubert’s “conte” Hérodias (1877). However, if the two works are viewed through the wider lens of two contextual issues – social and moral debate about the place of religion...

Queering (Inter-sectarian) Heterosexual Love in Lebanon

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Sabiha Allouche (Dec 5, 2018)

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This paper draws on a yearlong ethnography conducted among cis heterosexual couples in contemporary urban Lebanon in order to examine the links between romantic love and the category of sect. The paper embraces a political understanding of love and recognizes emotions as a valid source knowledge. It...

Histories of technology, the Environment and Modern Britain

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(Jan 1, 2018)

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Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first...

Early Canadian Botanical Photography at the Exposition universelle, Paris 1867

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Brendan Cull (2016)

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Sites et végétaux du Canada was an early photographic experiment in botanical illustration. Presented at the 1867 Paris exposition, the album’s 35 albumen prints were part of the Canadian displays. The photographs were a collaborative effort between Joseph-Charles Taché, Canada’s Executive-Secretary...

The social uses of online pornography and the constructions of masculinity: A materialist sociology of media reception

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Florian Vörös (Nov 20, 2015)

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From 19th century erotic postcards to 21th century online browsing, sexually explicit viewing practices have become everyday life practices. Based on an audience reception study conducted in Paris, this PhD dissertation investigates the material and cultural contexts through which gay and heterosexu...

The social production of sacred space in urban Oslo

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Daniel Enstedt (Jan 1, 2015)

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This article examines two recent expressions of religion in the multi-religious setting of the Norwegian capital Oslo. The Muslim group Ansar al-Sunnah's claim of the district Grønland is scrutinized in relation to the public and cultural image of Islam in Norway, and a Christian response to the con...

La cohérence visuelle et formelle des tubes pornographiques : le cas de la catégorie Asian sur un tube gay

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François-Ronan Dubois (2013)

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After discussing the contradictions and difficulties of the new cultural approach to porn studies, this paper analyzes the seriality of the pornographic websites' videos from a formal perspective. It describes the global functioning of what appears at first to be a collection of heterogeneous units...

The bitter–sweet portrayals of expressing and maintaining “non-normative” genders and sexualities in Thai mainstream cinema from 1980 to 2010

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Atit Pongpanit (2011)

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