By bringing together contributions from several disciplines, this book promotes a comparative perspective and a collaborative approach to disasters in Southeast Asia. Hazards affect all aspects of human life, having impacts on the environmental, social, economic, political and biological systems. In order to better understand the effects produced by these disastrous events – including the mechanisms of resilience – it is necessary to understand in depth the issues involved. They are embedded in multiple dimensions – affective, psychosocial, cultural, architectural... Disasters pose the challenge of questioning the consequences and determining factors that contribute to their occurrence, but also to their experience. Through the multiple perspectives it offers, this book aims to lead to a better problematisation of the notions of risk, resilience and adaptation. Olivier Servais (PhD, 2003) is a historian and anthropologist. He is full professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He teaches the anthropology of symbolic systems and their relationship to the so-called «natural» or «artificial» environment. He has conducted fieldwork and documentary research in Canada, the Philippines, Mauritius, France, Belgium and in digital worlds. In his current research, he studies the imaginaries of virtual worlds, online et off line sociability, including rituals, resistance and resilience through or to digital, and the organization of groups at the margins, including indigenous people. Lionel Simon (PhD, 2017) is an anthropologist. He is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Louvain in Belgium. His work focuses on ontologies, local knowledge and human-environment relations. He has been conducting research with the Wayuu of Colombia (Guajira Peninsula, since 2006) and the Mentawai of Indonesia (Siberut Island, since 2017).
By bringing together contributions from several disciplines, this book promotes a comparative perspective and a collaborative approach to disasters in Southeast Asia. Hazards affect all aspects of human life, having impacts on the environmental, social, economic, political and biological systems. In order to better understand the effects produced by these disastrous events – including the mechanisms of resilience – it is necessary to understand in depth the issues involved. They are embedded in multiple dimensions – affective, psychosocial, cultural, architectural... Disasters pose the challenge of questioning the consequences and determining factors that contribute to their occurrence, but also to their experience. Through the multiple perspectives it offers, this book aims to lead to a better problematisation of the notions of risk, resilience and adaptation. Olivier Servais (PhD, 2003) is a historian and anthropologist. He is full professor at the University of Louvain in Belgium. He teaches the anthropology of symbolic systems and their relationship to the so-called «natural» or «artificial» environment. He has conducted fieldwork and documentary research in Canada, the Philippines, Mauritius, France, Belgium and in digital worlds. In his current research, he studies the imaginaries of virtual worlds, online et off line sociability, including rituals, resistance and resilience through or to digital, and the organization of groups at the margins, including indigenous people. Lionel Simon (PhD, 2017) is an anthropologist. He is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the University of Louvain in Belgium. His work focuses on ontologies, local knowledge and human-environment relations. He has been conducting research with the Wayuu of Colombia (Guajira Peninsula, since 2006) and the Mentawai of Indonesia (Siberut Island, since 2017).
African and notably sub-Saharan African film’s relative eclipse on the international scene in the early twenty-first century does not transcend the growth within the African genre. This time period has seen African cinema forging a new relationship with the real and implementing new aesthetic strategies, as well as the emergence of a post-colonial popular cinema. Drawing on more than 1,500 articles, reviews, and interviews written over the past fifteen years, Olivier Barlet identifies the critical questions brought about by the evolution of African cinema. In the process, he offers us a personal and passionate vision, making this book an indispensable sum of thought that challenges preconceived ideas and enriches an approach to cinema as a critical art.
Le printemps revient. L'aubépine fleurit. La chaleur du soleil balaie la place. L'enfant joue au pied de la stèle sous le regard de sa mère et de son père. Il lève de temps à autre la tête vers le graveur qui s'affaire patiemment. L'enfant ne sait pas encore lire. Quelle importance pour lui ? Les noms ne sont rien. Ils finiront par disparaître eux aussi. Ils finiront par ne plus rien signifier pour personne et l'on détruira la stèle pour faire passer une route à la place. L'enfant ne sait pas ce qui a été et ce qui sera. Cette pierre ne signifie rien pour lui mais la souffrance reste. La souffrance des combattants, celle des victimes, est éternelle.
D'ombres et de lumières - Le temps de l'innocence" est le premier volet du récit de la vie d'Antoni Nowak, acteur torturé à la recherche de sa vérité.Antoni débarque à Paris à l'orée de ses vingt ans avec des rêves de célébrité en tête. Se prenant à rêver qu'une vie unique l'attend, notre héros démarre une quête frénétique et désorganisée de l'amour. Convaincu d'être la victime d'un destin injuste, il choisit de devenir l'acteur d'une vie fantasmée, l'amenant sur le chemin de ses propres errements. Bientôt apprenti comédien, son obsession pour l'amour va l'emmener dans des sphères oniriques, avant que la réalité ne le rattrape et ne le conduise à se remettre en question pour enfin comprendre qui il est vraiment : le nouveau Messie venu souffler un vent d'amour sur Terre ou juste un homme cherchant à prendre sa revanche sur la vie ?
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