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After Roland Barthes had shown a passing interest for Japanese Zen Buddhism, several authors have begun to study semiotic aspects of the Buddhist tradition more in general. In the present article, the author describes the main characteristics of Barthes's interpretation of Zen, in particular his fundamentally Orientalistic and modernist attitude and his distance from classical Buddhist thought. Then the author presents a series of issues and methodologies endowed with an explicit semiotic nature and content as they have been developed within the Buddhist tradition, beginning with the role of semiotics in Buddhist soteriology, and followed by more specific themes such as epistemology, the nature of reality and its representations, and textuality. Next, the author discusses an example of Buddhist strategies of sign remotivation. Finally, he proposes further research possibilities that call for a closer collaboration among semioticians and Buddhologists.
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Dragon Ball, one of the best-selling comics of all time, has recieved alot of fan content all along the years. Some readers of Akira Toriyama's manga series have created fanfictions depicting the main characters in our modern world, transposed as sterotypical muslim chraracters. It began as a simple prank, then initiated a wide debate among the fans discussing the possible parallels between the stereotypes in popular manga series for young boys and the stereotypes associated with men with a cultural muslim background in France and French North Africa. This article is a retrospective about the reasons why Dragon Ball has the reputation to be a manga with almost universal popularity, and focusing on the particular case of its appropriation by the muslim community in France and French speaking Africa.
Keywords: Dragon Ball, Fanfiction, Afrique, Maghreb, Manga, Dragon Ball, Fandom, Africa, Maghreb, Manga
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AbstractThe work of France Daigle embodies a “tortuous relation to language” that is typical of peripheral literatures. Far from the political demands and picturesque mimetism associated with the vernacular in literature, France Daigle's work progressively makes room for Acadian issues and language without ever renouncing the primacy of formal structures in literary creation. Used as elements of a playful and formal organization that produces more ambiguity and irony than definite meanings, Acadian referents lose their emotional and ideological impact. Thus, the fictions of France Daigle allow the representation of a modern Acadia, one that has moved away from past dichotomies and whose meaning remains open.
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Ports play an essential role in the production and distribution processes of companies, as well as in the networks set up by logistics and transportation service providers. However, they are also likely to have to contribute to the development of the territories where they are established. This paper aims at learning more about how this double challenge impacts the investments made by local and regional ports. To this end, 17 individual websites and 3 French port collective websites have been surveyed. Results show that the sampled ports and groups of ports have for the most part properly adjusted both to the constraints posed by the public authorities, and to the needs and expectations of their current and potential customers.
Keywords: Cruise ports, Ports de croisière, cruise port strategy, stratégie des ports de croisière, cruise line strategy, stratégie des armements de croisière, cruise tourism, tourisme de croisière, cruise ships, navires de croisière
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In this interview, Patrick Fougeyrollas, an anthropologist specializing in disability and human rights, and Jean-Luc Simon, an activist and trainer involved in the disability rights movement, retrace the socio-historical dynamic that led to the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities by the UN. This international legislation was the first to be called for and developed "by and for" the public concerned, i.e. people with disabilities themselves. It represents a source of inspiration rooted in experiential knowledge for the affirmation of the human rights of older people. The resistances and advances of the contexts and actors who enabled the adoption of a convention specifically for people with disabilities are proving to be highly instructive and useful information for critical reflection on the relevance and stakes of a new convention specifically for older people. The possible overlap of these two conventions is discussed, as are the risks and winning conditions of either reopening the CRPD, which already covers all ages, to specify the particularities of the elderly, or moving towards a convention specific to the elderly, or a hybrid approach. In the possible scenarios mentioned in this interview, the active participation of representatives by and for the elderly is seen as a major determinant of the affirmation and conditions for the exercise of their human rights.
Keywords: CDPH, Handicap, Personnes âgées, ONU, Droits humains, Convention, CRPD, Disability, Elderly, UN, Human Rights, Convention
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