A philosopher-filmmaker, Kathleen Collins decisively redefined the parameters of African American film with Losing Ground (1982). This book uses detailed analyses of Collins’s films to contextualise her work in the African American, feminist and world film traditions, and it highlights her contribut...

Thinking in the Box: The Benefits of Artistic Tradition in the Nineteenth Century

Conferences and symposiums

OpenEdition (May 26, 2021)

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Tradition is art history's eternal Other: it is that which must be overcome, resisted, thrown off or, if a compromise must be made, creatively appropriated. The history of the art of the nineteenth century, that 'great' age of innovation, progress and revolution, is more than any other rooted in ant...

Sociological perspectives on emotional recognition processes from the analysis of audio-visual cultural objects : micrological critic of everyday sociality

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Tristan Stohellou (Jun 28, 2021)

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This research aims to question, from a sociological point of view, the contours of the first sphere of recognition such as A. Honneth conceives it. In that respect, it involves understanding the forms of the relationship to others, vector of emotional recognition, which take part in the most everyda...

Towards a better integration of photographic landscape observatories in territorial governance (example of the French region of Brittany)

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Caroline Guittet (Dec 2, 2016)

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In response to legal incentives and social expectations, the reinforcement of the landscape dimension in territorialgovernance is undeniable, in light of the growing number of landscape projects, atlases, plans and charters. Alongsideother tools, an increasing number of photographic landscape observ...

Housing precarity among low-income ageing renters. Ageing and dwelling in the context of gentrification in Montréal.

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Julien Simard (Oct 22, 2019)

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Cette thèse se penche sur la précarité résidentielle vécue par des locataires vieillissantes à faible revenu en contexte de gentrification, à Montréal. Au Québec, la thématique du vieillissement sur place a pris récemment une portée médiatique et politique grandissante dans le sillon de l’adoption d...