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AbstractThe purpose of this paper is to explore the implications of the multi-layered patchwork of investment agreements for theories of global governance and international relations. In particular, it examines more closely the concept of intersecting regime and its applicability to the case of international investment rules. It argues that rules on investment constitute a specific kind of intersecting regime that has not yet been considered in that literature. The case study describes the problem of overlapping rules in the governance of foreign direct investment in the hemisphere and demonstrates how these overlaps are due to competing legalization projects stemming from different political visions about the regulation of foreign investment ; how it is manifested in sets of overlapping and contradictory norms and rules ; and discusses the effects of this institutional overlap.
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The study of religious schools and colleges in Spain is lacking in sources that explain the school and extracurricular activities that they carried out throughout the 20th century. The so-called Memorias escolares (Yearbooks) provide important information on these topics. The first objective of this article is to present this documentary source published by an important group of schools and colleges of education controlled by male religious orders and congregations in Spain. The second is to analyze the function of these annual publications, where story telling are narrated, prepared by the centers themselves and with great information on their activities. Third, we want to highlight the role of yearbooks and their relationship with the construction of the memory of students, through editors, photographs or their professional orientations. Therefore, yearbooks are an important documentary source for knowing not only school practices, but also the link they have with students to shape an identity and build a memory for the future.
Keywords: annuaires scolaires, Espagne, ordres religieux, écoles privées, XXe siècle, sources, yearbooks, Spain, religious orders, private schools, 20th century, sources, memoria escolar, España, órdenes religiosas, escuelas privadas, siglo XX, fuente
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This article discusses the challenges of assembling and teaching a course on vernacular religion in an Institute of Religious Studies. The interface of folklore and folklife studies with religious studies in the classroom offers rich opportunities for students to learn about the lived religion of others as well as themselves.
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AbstractThe survival and vitality of the French language in Canada today are influenced by opposing trends towards linguistic épanouissement on the one hand and linguistic attenuation on the other. These contradictory trends are global as well as national. In certain regions of Canada and some parts of the world, the number of Francophones is increasing. In Canada, Francophone linguistic rights have been expanding since the 60s. But several regions outside Quebec are showing disturbing demographic trends that are leading to a general weakening of Francophone communities and a loss of the French language. A case study of one of these threatened regions, such as Saskatchewan, should take into account the external factors that influence this community's internal trends. In particular, these external factors must factor in world trends in the use of French and where Saskatchewan sits within the contradictions of advanced capitalism under the American hegemony.