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While the consequences of climate change are becoming more and more visible and it is not possible anymore to avoid them, pesticides use in agriculture is subject to a profound call into question due to environmental, economic and sanitary reasons. Agriculture is thus confronted with a double challenge: adapting to climate change and evolving towards less dependence on pesticides. These stakes are particularly significant in the Rhine Valley. Indeed, in this space where the consequences of climate change could be intense, traditional models with high pesticide use (intensive crop cultivation and reputed wine growing) cohabit with organic and biodynamic farming productions, mostly in wine growing. The local context could thus form an injunction to ecologically improve agricultural practices. Yet, decreasing pesticides use and adapting to climate change are sometimes contradictory objectives, even if many strategies allow reconciling both. To enlighten this paradox and understand the role of multiple borders in this cross-border space, we based on the comparison between sectors (crop cultivation and wine-growing) on the one side, and between countries (France and Germany) on the other side, to bring out the technical, regulatory, even cultural accelerators and obstacles to the implementation of these win-win strategies of a heterogeneous and rather complex agricultural transition: farmers indeed seek to reconcile different objectives, adaptation to climate change and/or its mitigation, decrease in pesticides use and preservation of biodiversity. Certainly, this is sometimes used as a commercial argument. Still, it also has to do with a real personal conviction for which social interactions play an important role: information spread by the agricultural organizations, exchanges between farmers, personal reflections and trials, and experiences abroad. The cross-border context of the Rhine Valley takes all its importance and, in spite of multiple borders, favours decision-taking facing environmental stakes.
Keywords: changements climatiques, adaptation, pesticides, biodiversité, grandes cultures, viticulture, Fossé rhénan, France, Allemagne, climate change, adaptation, pesticides, biodiversity, crops, viticulture, Rhine Valley, France, Germany
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This is the second of four issues in the special series investigating Contemporary Educator Movements: Transforming Unions, Schools, and Society in North America. This issue focuses on the “red” statewide K12 education strikes in the United States in the spring of 2018, contributing substantive analyses of the relatively understudied contexts of the walkouts for scholars and organizers. Together, the pieces in this issue suggest the importance of attending to the unique and deeply contested political geographies of the nation’s more rural regions and the significance of these regions to contemporary educator struggles.
Keywords: Social justice unionism, social movements, teachers unions, labor movements, teacher organizing
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It can be useful to return to some fundamentals when thinking about what gives gossip its power, whether words spoken aloud or words that spread and leave their indelible traces throughout the digital realm. As a novelist and storyteller, I’d like to employ some lines of thought about what we do when we read fiction in order to consider gossip as an act of creative reading. Gossip, like a gift, depends on being received by someone, is defined by the intention to be received. Current fMRI studies have shown the empathetic capacities generated in individuals after reading works of fiction. I want to consider what happens when we imagine something about someone else, and how the engaged creativity of the recipient is essential to the act of gossiping.
Keywords: gossip, potins, l’écouteur, listener, la lecture créative, creative reading
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Implication Statement The Community Health and Social Medicine (CHASM) Incubator is a social impact venture that gives medical and other health care students the opportunity to develop initiatives that sustainably promote health equity for, and in partnership with, community partners and historically marginalized communities. Students learn how to develop projects with project management curricula, are paired with community health mentors, and are given seed micro-financing. As the first community health incubator driven by medical students, CHASM provides a framework for students interested in implementing sustainable solutions to local health disparities which extends the service-learning opportunities offered in existing curricula.
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This article analyses the new models of biodiversity conservation in Tanzania as an "apparatus" that is accompanied by a rhetorical arsenal legitimizing the removal of villages or significant parts of village land. Taking as a starting point the constancy of the exotico-colonial imagination in Western representations of biodiversity in Tanzania, the article raises the question of the legitimacy of so-called "illegal" forest occupations as a result of what could be described as environmental injustices. Conservation models with a "participatory and inclusive" label are more related to the criminalization of practices and uses prior to the devices and promote the multiplication of guards and police, rather than proposing a particular awareness within a broader vision of political ecology. While the stated objective of so-called participatory models is to go beyond "fortress conservation", they accentuate land conflicts in the interstices of conservation areas. Despite the international financial flows that irrigate the development and environmental conservation projects, the resistance engaged by the occupants, who have become "illegal" contrasts with the technical and depoliticized rationality of the imposed maps and borders.
Keywords: Gestion « participative » de la biodiversité, imaginaire exotico-colonial, Tanzanie, vallée du Kilombero, Fortress Conservation, Wildlife Management Areas, Community-based natural resources management, exotico-colonial imaginary, Tanzania, Kilombero Valley
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Presented here in conversation, guitarists Frannie Holder (Dear Criminals, Random Recipe) and Éléonore Pitre (Rosier, Star Académie house band) discuss the pandemic as a moment to reflect on their lives as musicians and to focus more on the “why” of their work. Both musicians also describe the singular experience of performing in person during the pandemic.