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The methodological challenge of engaging project stakeholders intersects with the application of the project-grounded research approach, which leverages design tools to create projects that integrate research objectives. The Urocyclus research project, focused on agricultural recycling of human urine, employs this approach to investigate its stakeholders. Drawing on this project-grounded research, the paper demonstrates how different categories of stakeholders are motivated to speak through the project and examines the conditions under which this occurs. The design project creates a novel in situ context that encourages participants to express themselves during the inquiry process. The elements designed and produced within the project are analysed in the research's methodological framework to uncover the connections and interactions that enable the collection of diverse forms of discourse. The conceptual framework of Urocyclus is also presented, clarifying the socio-ecological issues underpinning the project and its stance regarding social acceptability. Finally, the strengths, weaknesses, and limitations encountered during the project-grounded research experimentation are critically examined. While the situated nature of this method constitutes a strength, its grounding in the field and the active participation it requires can also pose challenges to its implementation. Moreover, the dissemination of this approach presents a pedagogical challenge. As project-grounded research remains in its early stages, the analysis developed in this article contributes to strengthening empirical knowledge on the subject and outlines potential directions for advancing design research.
Keywords: Recherche-projet, méthodologie, enquête de terrain, recyclage de l'urine, design, épistémologie, Project-Grounded Research, Methodology, Fieldwork, Urine Recycling, Design, Epistemology
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In the Anglo-American discipline of International Relations (ir), the boundaries between ir and International Law (il) have become increasingly unclear during the 20th Century. Traditional and critical theories of ir altogether tend to treat il in an instrumental manner. Many theories do have something empirical to say about International Law ; however, few have managed to incorporate law as a constitutive dimension in their theoretical framework. This article seeks to explore two attempts to develop such a relation with juridical categories. The first is Jürgen Habermas' tentative to renew a cosmopolitan vision of ir ; the second is Benno Teschke's one to articulate an historical sociology of ir with the concept of social property regime.
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Borders, conventional lines tracing the limits of political territories, work more and more as network devices. However, we witness a multiplication of material artifact in these spaces, which meaning is complex. Here, we aim at understanding both the closing up of border landscape by walls and the multiplication of art works on and around these symbolic lines. The illustration by the analysis of the USA/Mexico landscape and “artscape” allows us to evidence the theoretical “visual turn” which this article explores.
Keywords: frontières, sécurité, murs, coopération, territorialité, regard, simulacre, borders, security, walls, cooperation, spatiality, gaze, simulacrum, fronteras, seguridad, muros, cooperación, territorialidad, mirada, simulacro
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AbstractThe international co-operation with Africa at the beginning of this millennium is dominated by the partnership policy. Partnership has thus became one of the major themes of international relations at the era of globalisation. This study approaches partnership as an international fact which, on the theoretical basis, renews and enriches the analysis of international relations by combining realism, transnationalism and ethics and, in a practical way, expresses a specific world vision and redefines the world's influence game. Partnership as an international co-operation policy articulates power politics with ethical norms. Facing the partnership dynamic, Africa is being integrated into the globalised economy on the one hand and on the other is modifying its status and position in the global world. Partnership is also a practical field of the expression of power politics in African international relations.
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