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Détermination de ferraillage complet d'une poutre en flexion simple (à l'état limite ultime)
2024 •
This essay aims to examine the concept of “phantasmagorical imaginaries” and its various approaches to the question of power relations. I aim to focus on a tactic employed by artists: addressing personal or collective contradictions while attempting to subvert cultural restraints and standardisation. I argue that through these visual representations, artists seek to challenge conventional understandings of how politics is conveyed in artworks by employing phantasmagorical language. My aim is to examine the role of fantastical imagery in contemporary aesthetics within this context and explore the possibilities of formulating a new perspective on these art practices. To do so, I will first outline the significance of phantasmagorical connotations and how they serve as a means to address socio-cultural themes indirectly. After expanding the scope of inquiry, the second section of this essay will delve into the works of several artists whose creations epitomise this concept.
2018 •
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has a long history of internal and international migration. In 2015, UNDESA estimated that about 33 million of Africans were living outside their country of nationality, representing 14% of international migrants worldwide. These numbers mask substantial differences between migration flows originating from North Africa and SSA. While in the first case the great majority of migrants cross the continental borders to reach Europe, people in SSA tend to move mostly to neighbouring countries or within the region. While African overseas migration makes the breaking news and generate heated discussions worldwide, yet a stubborn reality is that SSA migration mostly takes place within Africa and is likely to remain as such in the future. SSA is « in motion», but mainly within the limits of the continent.
2017 •
This paper endeavours to explore the promises and potential of cross-fertilization between the two disciplines of adaptation studies and possible worlds theory. Possible worlds theory lends the conceptual tools that are potentially fruitful in the study of adaptation.
Religion and Trade: Cross-Cultural Exchanges in World History, 1000-1900, eds. Francesca Trivellato and Cátia Antunes (Oxford University Press)
Religion and Cross-Cultural Trade: A Framework for Interdisciplinary Inquiry2014 •
This historiographical essay examines disciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches to the subject of trade across religious boundaries. It shows that this field of inquiry emerged in the wake of World War II, enabling scholars such as Clifford Geertz to reflect on both interfaith relations and economic development in a non-Western context. The field developed further by the century’s end, as multiculturalism, globalization, and fundamentalism stimulated cultural anthropologists, world historians, and institutional economists to explore the intersection of religion and trade. The author criticizes unreflective uses of “religion” as a category of analysis in scholarship on cross-cultural trade; he also points to problems with the construction of cultural and religious typologies by sociologists and economists ultimately interested in explaining why Protestant societies or European nations developed more effective capitalist institutions. Instead, he argues for the need to pay close attention to local religious responses to foreign commerce. He draws attention in particular to the urban spaces where contentious exchanges took place and to the material objects that provoked theological or legal reactions. These spaces and these commodities served, he argues, to mark symbolically an otherwise fluid frontier between cultures. Finally, he shows how medieval Islamic jurists thought concretely about things such as Christian sandals, wax candles, holy books, horses, pork, wine, and slaves, when they reflected on their cross-cultural entanglements.