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AbstractThe transmission of wisdom in discourse is a phenomenon of orality. How does one translate an oral message from English into French? The French tradition, which centres around writing, tends to silence the author's voice, and consequently, the mode of expression, and seeks to transform it into a literary-like construction, blending beauty and clarity. Ethnocentrism is unrelenting as exoticism ferments. But, as Meschonnic warns, what is to become of text meaning? How can one best deal with the dichotomy between translated discourse and its content? The author suggests that the translator — horn in a norm-conscious society — acquire self-knowledge and learn to understand his or her own deeply ingrained habits as a means of escaping the dogma of the day, namely text hyperanalysis.

A Payment for Environmental Services (PES) is a conservation tool that is commonly referred to by practitioners and researchers. Is is presented as an innovative approach that relies on voluntary transactions between suppliers and beneficiaries of a given environmental service, with associated (and previously agreed upon) conditions. Surveys of Indonesian sites have provided the authors with information enabling them to compare the implementation with the canonical and theoretical definition of PES, which applies a Coasean approach and a theory of property rights to the field of environmental services. On-the-ground implementation was also confronted to several important issues that would arise in the perspective of a large-scale application of the tool. Our study leads to the following lessons : (i) PES in practice contrast with the theory for reasons of feasibility ; (ii) economic evaluations of environmental services are under-utilized ; (iii) transaction costs appear to be a major obstacle ; (iv) the impact of PES on the role of public action is not obvious : on the one hand the polluter pays principle is put at risk and the State tends to be substituted by private actors, on the other hand a large-scale replication makes it necessary (and demanded by contracting parties) that public authorities take action ; (v) the activities defined as conditions for payments are productive and do not lead to freezing production in exchange for economic rents, for practical reasons mainly. Last, the gap between theory and practice might be partially due to a top down approach applied to a concept elaborated in the offices of economists, and this explanation is in line with previous analyses of the implementation of economic instruments for the environment.

Keywords: paiements pour services environnementaux, services environnementaux, Indonésie, projets de conservation, politiques publiques, principe pollueur payeur, RUPES, Payments for Environmental Services, environmental services, Indonesia, conservation projects, public policies, polluter pays principle, RUPES

In this article, I propose to analyze the circulation of gender pictures in the context of the Parisian Ballroom scene, a LGBT community of recent appearance on the French territory, but part of a long history of struggle and self-affirmation started across the Atlantic in the 1960s. To better understand the diversity of gender expressed in this context of danced performance, I will rely on my observant participation in about ten events, informal interviews with several members of the community, as well as considering materials such as posts and videos on Instagram, YouTube, etc., supplemented by analysis of films and written works on the subject. I will show that the members of the Ballroom community are built through a course from a state of lability of gender, or instability, to its structured and flamboyant affirmation.

Keywords: Guibert, images, genre, danse, corps, techniques, Guibert, ballroom, voguing, images, gender, dance, body, realness, technics, Guibert, imágenes, género, baile, cuerpo, técnicas

Musicologist and composer Ramon Pelinski studies Kagel's propositions in Exotica from the point of view of compositional strategies, structures and notions about perception prompted by the work. Adopting very resolutely a postmodern and actualistic point of view, the author identifies the ambiguities that result from Kagel's use of "exotic" musics and analyzes in detail which attitude it implies with respect to the concept of the Other.

SummaryThe breaking down of previous economic trends about growth and productivity defines a puzzle for most of prevailing economic theories. It might be an opportunity for economists to reconsider the links between long term growth and technological and industrial changes. The paper proposes first a survey of conventional growth theories and argues that they experience severe difficulties in explaining the succession of long up-swings and down-swings, as well as very contrasted national performances. Therefore an alternative and tentative framework is elaborated. Starting from the radical uncertainty specific to structural — as opposed to maRginal — technical choices, it adopts a bounded rationality approach, in order to build the notion of technical paradigm. Given the related institutionnal and economic factors filtering creation and diffusion of new technologies, the mode of "régulation" combines itself with the technological paradigm in order to generate social, economic and technical trajectories. This opens a multidisciplinary approach in which history and economy can no more be disentangled, whereas sociology and management can help in understanding the growth process in capitalist economies.