Cultural Anxieties is a gripping ethnography about Centre Minkowska, a transcultural psychiatry clinic in Paris, France. From her unique position as both observer and staff member, anthropologist ...Stéphanie Larchanché explores the challenges of providing non-stigmatizing mental healthcare to migrants. In particular, she documents how restrictive immigration policies, limited resources, and social anxieties about the “other” combine to constrain the work of state social and health service providers who refer migrants to the clinic and who tend to frame migrant suffering as a problem of integration that requires cultural expertise to address. In this context, Larchanché describes how staff members at Minkowska struggle to promote cultural competence, which offers a culturally and linguistically sensitive approach to care while simultaneously addressing the broader structural factors that impact migrants’ mental health. Ultimately, Larchanché identifies practical routes for improving caregiving practices and promoting hospitality—including professional training, action research, and advocacy.
•Ground and truck-launched air delivery robot operations are analyzed.•For low densities, truck-launched air drones present the lowest operation costs.•For high densities, ground delivery robots ...present the lowest operation costs.•In any case, ground delivery robots generate less externalities.
The e-commerce boom has increased the complexity of last-mile logistics operations in urban environments. In this context, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), also known as delivery drones, and ground autonomous delivery devices (GADDs) show great potentialities. The objective of this paper is to provide strategic insights to adequately match these autonomous technologies with some given characteristics of cities and help define relevant decision variables. Using continuous approximation equations, the operations costs as well as the externalities induced by a) GADDs in association with an urban consolidation center (UCC) and b) truck-launched UAVs are estimated. Then, the developed mathematical formulations are applied in two different use cases: a part of the Paris suburbs (France) and the historical center of Barcelona (Spain). In less dense and larger service regions such as the Paris suburbs, truck-launched delivery drones seem more suitable to reduce the carriers’ operations costs. In denser neighborhoods such as the Barcelona historical center, GADDs are expected to be more economically profitable. In both use cases, GADDs would generate less externalities. Finally, considering the high uncertainty of some input parameters, a sensitivity analysis of the models is done.
Know your limits. This familiar adage is not an inspirational rallying cry or a recipe for bold action. It serves better as the motto for the tortoise than the hare. But, after many false starts over ...the past twenty years, states were well advised to heed it when negotiating the Paris Agreement. While it is still far too early to say whether the Agreement will be a success, its comparatively modest approach provides a firmer foundation on which to build than its more ambitious predecessor, the Kyoto Protocol.
We explore the genesis of the modern power of management and accounting, reviewing two historical episodes that have been claimed to embody aspects of this modernity. For our analysis, we distinguish ...two aspects of double-entry bookkeeping (DEB): first, the basic bookkeeping technique of cross-referencing and analysing doubled entries, and second, 'the full logic' of a closed system tracking an entity's income and expense, assets and liabilities, and 'capital'. Our first episode is Jean-Baptiste Colbert's 'governing by inquiry' (1661-1683), understood as a 'managing' of the French 'administrative state' under Louis XIV, where we see DEB's use as limited to the first technique, undertaken for a forensic auditing of tax revenues to control and amend bad conduct. Second is the episode (1712-1726) of a banking family, the Paris brothers, where DEB is again first deployed similarly, for auditing and control of tax farmer practice, but then proposed as more general means of managing/governing the state. We review the interpretations of the first of these episodes made by Miller and Soll, and that of Lemarchand concerning the second. We draw on Foucault's analysis of today's forms of governing as a 'governmental management', which was blocked in the era of the administrative state, and explain this blockage as a result of principal-agent structures being used to govern the state. In this light, we see Miller as over-interpreting the closeness of Colbert's 'governing by inquiry' to modern 'governmentality', and Soll as over-interpreting modern forms of management and accounting as operative in the governing approach of Colbert as 'Information Master'. We also re-analyse the effective reach of the ambitions of the Paris brothers, as set out by Lemarchand, for the deployment of DEB. We then draw on Foucault's and Panofsky's analyses of 'inquiry' as a 'form of truth' which began as a new twelfth-century way of thinking, and trace this to Abelard's development of 'inquisitio' as a new 'critical reading'. We characterise its modus operandi as a 'graphocentric synopticism', graphocentric since all 'data' are translated into a gridded, cross-referenced über-text, which is then readable synoptically, all-in-one, from an immobile synthesising position. Foucault suggests that 'inquiry' gives way as mode of truth to 'examination' around 1800, and we link the genesis of governmental management to this shift and to the consequent articulation of a 'panopticism' which is multiply semiotic and so 'grammatocentric'. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis Ltd.
When not at war, armies are often used to control civil disorders, especially in eras of rapid social change and unrest. But in nineteenth century Europe, without the technological advances of modern ...armies and police forces, an army's only advantages were discipline and organization - and in the face of popular opposition to the regime in power, both could rapidly deteriorate. Such was the case in France after the Napoleonic Wars, where a cumulative recent history of failure weakened an already fragile army's ability to keep the peace.After the February 1848 overthrow of the last king of France, the new republican government proved remarkably resilient, retaining power while pursuing moderate social policies despite the concerted efforts of a variety of radical and socialist groups. These efforts took numerous forms, ranging from demonstrations to attempted coups to full-scale urban combat, and culminated in the crisis of the June Days. At stake was the future of French government and the social and economic policy of France at large.InControlling Paris, Jonathan M. House offers us a study of revolution from the viewpoint of the government rather than the revolutionary. It is not focused on military tactics so much as on the broader issues involved in controlling civil disorders: relations between the government and its military leaders, causes and social issues of public disorder, political loyalty of troops in crisis, and excessive use of force to control civil disorders. Yet somehow, despite all these disadvantages, the French police and armed forces prevented regime change far more often than they failed to do so.Jonathan M. Houseis the William A. Stofft Professor of Military History at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His previous books includeCombined Arms Warfare in the 20th Century;A Military History of the Cold War, 1944-1962; and, with David M. Glantz,When Titans Clashed: How the Red Army Stopped Hitler.
In refocusing attention on the Paris Commune as a key event in American political and cultural memory, Sensational Internationalism radically changes our understanding of the relationship between ...France and the United States in the long nineteenth century.
The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is
typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book,
Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age,
opening our ...ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the
complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, and sexuality in
seventeenth-century Paris.
The discovery in the French archives of a four-line song from
1661 launched Hammond's research into the lives of the two men
referenced therein-Jacques Chausson and Guillaume de Guitaut. In
retracing the lives of these two men (one sentenced to death by
burning and the other appointed to the Ordre du Saint-Esprit),
Hammond makes astonishing discoveries about each man and the ways
in which their lives intersected, all in the context of the sounds
and songs heard in the court of Louis XIV and on the streets and
bridges of Paris. Hammond's study shows how members of the elite
and lower classes in Paris crossed paths in unexpected ways and,
moreover, how noise in the ancien régime was central to
questions of crime and punishment: street singing was considered a
crime in itself, and yet street singers flourished, circulating
information about crimes that others may have committed, while
political and religious authorities wielded the powerful sounds of
sermons and public executions to provide moral commentaries, to
control crime, and to inflict punishment.
This innovative study explores the theoretical, social,
cultural, and historical contexts of the early modern Parisian
soundscape. It will appeal to scholars interested in sound studies
and the history of sexuality as well as those who study the
culture, literature, and history of early modern France.
The long and spectacular reign of Louis XIV of France is typically described in overwhelmingly visual terms. In this book, Nicholas Hammond takes a sonic approach to this remarkable age, opening our ...ears to the myriad ways in which sound revealed the complex acoustic dimensions of class, politics, and sexuality in seventeenth-century Paris.
The discovery in the French archives of a four-line song from 1661 launched Hammond’s research into the lives of the two men referenced therein—Jacques Chausson and Guillaume de Guitaut. In retracing the lives of these two men (one sentenced to death by burning and the other appointed to the Ordre du Saint-Esprit), Hammond makes astonishing discoveries about each man and the ways in which their lives intersected, all in the context of the sounds and songs heard in the court of Louis XIV and on the streets and bridges of Paris. Hammond’s study shows how members of the elite and lower classes in Paris crossed paths in unexpected ways and, moreover, how noise in the ancien régime was central to questions of crime and punishment: street singing was considered a crime in itself, and yet street singers flourished, circulating information about crimes that others may have committed, while political and religious authorities wielded the powerful sounds of sermons and public executions to provide moral commentaries, to control crime, and to inflict punishment.
This innovative study explores the theoretical, social, cultural, and historical contexts of the early modern Parisian soundscape. It will appeal to scholars interested in sound studies and the history of sexuality as well as those who study the culture, literature, and history of early modern France.
