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2041.More information
Climate change is an existential global crisis that has extensive equitable dimensions and climate justice implications. Confronting the staggering problem of the loss and damage — the legacy of harms left in the wake of insufficient mitigation and adaptation efforts — raises critical fairness and justice questions. This article explores the issue of loss and damage through an equitable lens and explores the emerging global governance framework for addressing loss and damage. It unpacks some of the ways in which climate change will cause disproportionate impacts for people in the world who — by virtue of one or more intersecting identify factors and social constructs such as age, race, gender, geography or socio-economic status — already face systemic discrimination and inequality. It also reveals the challenges of locating responsibility and accountability for the harms of a collective action problem caused by actors with radically different and dynamic emission profiles. Applying a climate justice and equity lens to the issue of loss and damage underscores the importance of ensuring a normative response to climate change that prioritizes safeguarding human rights, Indigenous rights, environmental justice, intergenerational equity, and protection of the ecological foundations upon which all life depends.
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2045.More information
Because World literature in French has generally been reduced to literature writing “in French”, our study aims to show that this has not always been the case. Before the publication of the manifesto of the 44 and the anthology Pour une littérature-monde, the notion, linked to the activities carried out around the Étonnants Voyageurs festival, had largely evolved. By taking a retrospective reading of the geographical spaces modelled by the manifesto discourses and the association of the contributors with a country in the anthologies published under the banner of this movement, we show that this concept refers in turn to a European, postcolonial, extra-hexagonal and international literature in French in France.
Keywords: anthologie, Anthology, geography, géographie, littérature-monde, littérature-monde, Étonnants Voyageurs, Étonnants voyageurs, manifesto, manifeste
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2046.More information
AbstractLouis d'Ussieux (1744-1805) was a prolific Paris-based author, translator, editor and journalist whose varied pre-Revolution oeuvre is widely distributed throughout Europe, yet remains little studied. This article surveys the illustrated short stories from his Décaméron françois that take place in the Orient or in America, outside Europe. The study of Thélaïre, nouvelle mexicaine (1775) shoes how d'Ussieux transforms the idyllic vision of the Aztecs prevalent in Prévost's Histoire générale des voyages (1750s) into a tragedy, thereby tarnishing the questionable glory of Cortes, Spain and Europe.
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2050.More information
The first volume of Dom Augustin Calmet’s Treatise on the Apparitions of Spirits and on Vampires or Ghosts of Hungary, Moravia, etc. (1751) focuses on demonology. In this treatise, he expands on several elements of demonology published in his biblical analyses and dissertations. This article presents the most important themes: the power of evil angels, exorcism, the witches’ sabbath, and God’s permission. On each of these themes, we compare how Dom Calmet relates to his main demonological sources. This scholar of the great demonological treatises defends the existence of the Devil, while refuting several beliefs presented in these treatises. We argue that, in this XVIII century caracterised by the loss of the hegemony of demonologists, Dom Calmet seeks a reasonable path between demonological tradition, popular credulity, and the new criticism of the Enlightenment.
Keywords: Dom Calmet, Dom Calmet, Devil, Diable, Dieu, God, exorcisme, exorcism, witch, sorcière