scholarly journals MIMESIS AND HUMAN GEOGRAPHY IN PAUL VIDAL DE LA BLACHE’S METHOD

Mercator ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (2020) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Guilherme da Silva Ribeiro
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Human Geography ◽  
Brazilian Literature ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Run Time ◽  
French National Identity

Based on the concept of mimesis elaborated by the Brazilian literature theorist Luiz Costa Lima Brazilian scholar, this article aims to analyse the Vidalian human geography. Its particular use of description and its capacity of metamorphosing environmental elements into geographical categories able to revealing the French national identity under the long-run time show how complex and relevant its method is.

scholarly journals Extended and conditional versions of the PASTA property

1990 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 510-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter König ◽  
Volker Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Stochastic Processes ◽  
Point Processes ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Run Time

Two types of conditions are discussed ensuring the equality between long-run time fractions and long-run event fractions of stochastic processes with embedded point processes. Modifications of this equality statement are considered.

The “Latin” Melting Pot

2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-118
Author(s):  
Yuval Tal
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Immigrant Assimilation ◽  
Melting Pot ◽  
The North ◽  
The Creation ◽  
French National Identity ◽  
Nationality Law ◽  
Communal Organization ◽  
Ethnic Origins

Abstract This article explores how, through discussions about immigrant assimilation in fin de siècle Algeria, French republicans contemplated and wrote into law the ethnic traits of French national identity. Republicans assumed that the North Mediterranean immigrants who settled in Algeria shared ethnic origins with French settlers and consequently asserted that France should work to “fuse” the two groups. Assertions about immigrants' ethnicity took different forms. In the colony they appeared either at the margins of colonial administrators' attacks against immigrant communal organization or in literary representations of French-Mediterranean fusion. In the metropole republican legislators portrayed immigrants as innately prone to becoming French and thus supported the 1889 nationality law that naturalized them. The passing of the 1889 law prompted the creation of an explicitly ethnorepublican assimilatory model. The model's proponents combined sociological and eugenicist principles to both socialize immigrants into the nation and promote the transfer of their Mediterranean “vigor” into French bodies. Cet article examine les efforts des intellectuels et des dirigeants républicains pour assimiler les immigrés européens en Algérie à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Il affirme que les identités communautaires et la prépondérance démographique des immigrés ont poussé l'élite républicaine à envisager leur capacité ethnique à s'assimiler à la société française, et montre que l'idée que les Français et les immigrés avaient la même origine ethnique a façonné les débats sur l'assimilation nationale et a influencé la formation des lois républicaines fondamentales. En Algérie, des affirmations à propos de l'identité ethnique des immigrés européens apparaissaient en marge des discussions politiques sur leur organisation communautaire et dans les romans des écrivains algérianistes. En métropole, des législateurs républicains supposaient que la « ressemblance ethnique » entre Français et immigrés assurait l'assimilation rapide de ces derniers et ils ont soutenu la loi de 1889 sur la nationalité qui les a naturalisés. A l'issue de la législation de 1889, une vision de fusionnement des colons français et des membres de la « race méditerranéenne » en Algérie s'est développée. Ses partisans ont combiné des principes sociologiques avec des principes eugéniques dans le but d'incorporer les immigrés européens dans la nation et de faire transporter leur « vigueur » dans les corps des Français.

Laïcité, Republic and Nation in Post-Colonial France

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 136-148
Author(s):  
ROBERT GILDEA
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Opinion Poll ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
French People ◽  
Liberty Of Conscience ◽  
The Republic ◽  
French National Identity ◽  
Selection Of

The question of ‘secularity’ (laïcité) has risen sharply up the French political agenda over the last twenty-five years. Ways in which it is defined and applied are hotly contested and lie at the nerve centre of wide debates about the nature of the Republic, French national identity and indeed of France's colonial past. According to an IFOP opinion poll in November 2015, 87 per cent of French people agreed that was important to respect laïcité at school, 84 per cent of respondents said that it was part of France's identity while 81 per cent thought that it was under threat in France. That said, they did not agree on what laïcité meant. For 32 per cent it meant separating religion from politics, for 27 per cent it meant ensuring liberty of conscience, while 17 per cent said it meant reducing the influence of religion in society. Historians, sociologists and political scientists as well as journalists and activists join battle on the question, and a selection of their recent contributions, from different angles and with different methodologies, are reviewed here.

‘Beyond Ethnicity’ or a Return to Type? Bande de filles/Girlhood and the Politics of Blackness in Contemporary French Cinema

2018 ◽  
pp. 166-182
Author(s):  
Will Higbee
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Black Female ◽  
Female Subjectivity ◽  
French Cinema ◽  
Diasporic Identity ◽  
French National Identity ◽  
Black Actors ◽  
Ethnic Origins

This chapter aims to promote an analysis of black female subjectivity as a means of considering the potential difficulties and contradictions that emerge in reading Bande de filles (Sciamma, 2014) as an example of post-migratory cinema. Drawing on Anthias’ (1998) notion of diasporic identity moving ‘beyond ethnicity’ as both lived experience and mediated reality through cinematic representation, the chapter will question how ethnic origins as a marker of difference are displaced by gender and, to a lesser extent, class in Bande de filles. Finally, the chapter will explore whether the proposed move ‘beyond ethnicity’ simply masks the same problems of stereotyping and marginalization that have traditionally been found in French cinema when black actors appear on the screen. Such questions lead to a related discussion of agency for ‘post-migratory’ artists and performers on both sides of the camera and the production of French ‘national’ identity in contemporary French cinema.

From education to democracy: evidence from long-run time-varying estimates

2017 ◽  
Vol 64 (4) ◽  
pp. 313-325
Author(s):  
Nicholas Apergis ◽  
James E. Payne
Keyword(s):  
Time Varying ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Run Time

A Dry-Borohydride/Injected-Hydrogen-Peroxide Fuel Cell

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
George H. Miley ◽  
Nie Luo ◽  
Kyu-Jung Kim
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Peroxide ◽  
Fuel Cell ◽  
Ionic Conduction ◽  
Average Power ◽  
Cathode Side ◽  
Auxiliary Power ◽  
Long Run ◽  
H2o2 Solution ◽  
Run Time ◽  
Robotic Vehicle

The design and testing of a 20-W (average power with short pulses to 45W) prototype fuel cell is presented. This cell is intended as an auxiliary power supply for a small robotic vehicle. The energy density exceeds 300 Watt-hour/kg. This cell is essentially a dry-borohydride/injected-hydrogen-peroxide fuel cell. This enables extremely long shelf life prior to use. The anode utilizes dry NaBH4 for storage while the cathode chamber is empty during storage. The initiation of cell operation is done by injection of the oxidizer, an aqueous H2O2 solution (stored in a separate container) to the cathode side of the fuel cell. The ionic conduction required for membrane operation is initially helped by the H2O content from the H2O2 solution. Once the electrochemical reaction starts, more water is generated as the reaction product and this continues to maintain a good ionic conductance over the run time of the cell. Continued operation is done with auxiliary fuel tanks to maintain very long run time when required. Once a run is over, the cell can be drain, flushed clean and returned to storage waiting for the next mission. The experimental details of such a cell stack are described in this paper.

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