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The accession of the House of Bourbon to the Spanish throne after the death of the last Habsburg king, Carlos II, in 1700 brought important changes for the court high nobility. Historians have seen Philip V’s reign as the beginning of the titled nobility’s withdrawal from the front line of politics. The process, encouraged by the Bourbon’s reformism during the War of the Spanish Succession, was carried out by the nobility in several ways. This article will analyze the careers of aristocrats such as Pedro Manuel Colón de Portugal and José Solís y Valderrábano, dukes of Veragua and Montellano, and Rodrigo Fernández Manrique de Lara, Count of Frigiliana, who adapted their actions to the new regime’s politics in order to enjoy the patronage of new political actors. They took part in royal court circles to achieve important political positions without renouncing their right to oppose change through strategies linked to the political culture of the previous dynasty: for example, their involvement in political gatherings and their absence in important court celebrations. My article posits that, although the relations between the House of Bourbon and these nobles were undoubtedly complex and ambivalent, as their career at court shows, they were far more nuanced and fluid than has previously been revealed.
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Balzac was fascinated by the idea of an occult network operating in parallel with the established legal system, and offering a critical perspective for realist observation. In his later novel Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, he develops a counter-society through the world of criminals and courtesans. This underground network can be productively read through the lens of Michel Foucault’s “heterotopias”, which he designates as “other spaces” that are structurally necessary, and that reflect and disrupt the established order of place. While Foucault does not consider the position of those who must inhabit and maintain such other spaces, Balzac seeks to give voice to those characters, in particular the courtesan Esther and the master criminal Vautrin, whose perspectives shed light on the public and hidden faces of a world that remains fundamentally egotistical, conservative and colonial.
Keywords: Honoré de Balzac, Splendeurs et misères des courtisanes, Michel Foucault, hétérotopie, Vautrin
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AbstractBased on a certain amount of films but also from thoughts led by anthropologists, the authors of this article wish to show that the cinema is a type of knowledge merely used in social science, especially in France as it may have a function not only illustrative but epistemologic. According to this, the process engaged in the triple temporality of the cinematographic set up (shooting, editing and viewing) allows to make anthropology complex, enables it to be more precise empirically, more rigorous methodologically and more demanding theoretically.
Keywords: Boukala, Laplantine, anthropologie audiovisuelle, cinéma, temps, espace, dispositif, Mauss, Boukala, Laplantine, audiovisual anthropology, cinema, time, space, cinematographic set up, Mauss, Boukala, Laplantine, antropología audiovisual, cine, tiempo, espacio, dispositivo, Mauss
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AbstractEarly cinema routinely made use of stereotypes. In particular, the representation of women depended upon this tradition, with female figures regularly coded as recognizable types. Even though these stereotypes attest to a certain patriarchal vision within the new institution, they also employ common knowledge in the service of a minimal and cognitively induced narrativity. Highly monstrative, stereotypes also function as narrative vectors or “short cuts.” For this very reason they took on an important role in the development of the “cinema of attractions,” which occurred within the scope of many institutions of popular entertainment.
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Dating sites constitute an ideal field to observe relations of gender, race, ethnicity, class, age and sexuality. In this article, these sites are to be understood as normative spaces that participate, through their function, in defining and regulating the diverse sexual profiles in society. The author analyzes dating sites as spaces from where appear dynamics of power in the field of sexualities, that is norms, representations and different forms of control regarding sexuality, romantic relationships and conjugality in the public sphere. Using an intersectional approach, she uses this topic to question the relevance, limits and potential danger of the concept of erotic capital, as defined by sociologist Catherine Hakim. The author therefore seeks how what's erotic is considered as such and try to clarify the dynamics of power that shape the definitions of eroticism and acceptable sexualities, in and through dominant popular culture.
Keywords: sites de rencontres, scripts sexuels, critique intersectionnelle, représentations sociales, espace public, catherine hakim