Ilio Collio [Minicuento - Texto completo.] Juan Rodolfo Wilcock

https://ciudadseva.com/texto/ilio-collio/?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Cuento_043_-_Ilio_Collio_-_Wilcock_-_10jun26_(Se)&utm_medium=email ¿Puede un hombre cumplir su deber cuando su propio cuerpo se rebela? En el cuento "Ilio Collio"(1978) el argentino Juan Rodolfo Wilcock (1919-1978) convierte una tragedia diaria en una pesadilla: un asistente social cubierto de aceite intenta ayudar a los demás mientras se desliza por el suelo. El humor negro de este cuento es exquisito. Pulsa el título para leer el texto en CiudadSeva.com.

Aquellos días en Odessa [Cuento - Texto completo.] Heinrich Böll

https://ciudadseva.com/texto/aquellos-dias-en-odessa/?utm_source=BenchmarkEmail&utm_campaign=Cuento_042_-_Aquellos_d%c3%adas_en_Odessa_-_B%c3%b6ll_-_03jun26_(Po)&utm_medium=email ¿Qué sentirías si estuvieras a punto de subirte a un avión que probablemente te llevará a la muerte, pero el cielo nublado te concede una tregua inesperada? En "Aquellos días en Odessa" (1950), el alemán Heinrich Böll (1917-1985) nos sitúa en el frío y hostil invierno ucraniano durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, donde un grupo de jóvenes soldados alemanes espera, entre la desesperación y el miedo, ser enviado al frente. Pulsa el título para leer el texto en CiudadSeva.com.

Elemental Ethnography: A Proposition By Cymene Howe

https://www.academia.edu/168308325/Elemental_Ethnography_A_Proposition?email_work_card=title The elements are all around us, all the time. They create our context in the disposition of weather. But they also compose us, giving us our bodily form through structures such as carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. Elements are also, historically and into the present, objects and processes that comprise and transform the world: earth and wood, air and water, fire and ether, space and metal, cloud and fog. Given all that the elements are, all that they make, and all that they make possible, this essay asks: What might an elemental ethnography offer to us? ...

Governance inertia and forest loss in Zambia’s Game Management Areas: lessons from Greater Kafue Simon M. Munthali* [1] , Phillip Muyoma [2] , Masha Muguswi [2]

https://www.academia.edu/2997-6006/3/2/10.20935/AcadEnvSci8125 Introduction: Community-Based Natural Resource Management (CBNRM) has long been promoted in southern Africa as a participatory model for conservation, yet persistent implementation failures have been widely documented. This paper aims to analyze governance inertia and forest loss in Zambia's Game Management Areas (GMAs) surrounding Kafue National Park, and to assess how systemic failures in CBNRM contribute to ecological decline and community disengagement. Materials and methods: This case-informed policy analysis draws on 30 months of practitioner engagement, situating local observations of inactive Community Resource Boards (CRBs), fragmented institutional support, opaque benefit-sharing, and political inertia within the broader critical literature on CBNRM. Results: The study illustrates how governance failures manifest in practice, translating into accelerating forest loss and weakening community participation. Comparative insights from southern Africa reinforce the evidence that statutory ambiguity and lack of transparent benefit-sharing undermine co-management effectiveness. Conclusions: Revitalizing community governance in Zambia's GMAs is essential to restoring ecological integrity and community legitimacy. Adaptive co-management models, statutory clarity, and transparent benefit-sharing mechanisms are urgently needed to strengthen conservation outcomes in one of Africa's most significant landscapes. https://www.academia.edu/journals/academia-environmental-sciences-and-sustainability/articles?source=journal-top-nav

Le tournant végétal des avant-gardes cinématographiques By Marianne de Cambiaire

https://www.academia.edu/76233421/Le_tournant_v%C3%A9g%C3%A9tal_des_avant_gardes_cin%C3%A9matographiques?email_work_card=title&li=0

Local Perception of the Socio-Economic and Environmental Impacts of Typha domingensis (Pers.) in the Sahelian agro-systems of Niger By European Scientific Journal ESJ

https://www.academia.edu/168360306/Local_Perception_of_the_Socio_Economic_and_Environmental_Impacts_of_Typha_domingensis_Pers_in_the_Sahelian_agro_systems_of_Niger The uncontrolled proliferation of Typha domingensis in the wetlands of Niger poses a major challenge. It disrupts the habits of local communities by altering their way of life and causes damage to their environment. Therefore, this study was conducted to provide some answers regarding the real impact of this species on the life of communities and on the environment, on the one hand, and, on the other hand, to clearly determine the opportunities it offers. It covered two sites more than 1000 km apart along the country's Sahelian agro-ecological zone and 392 vegetable and/or rice farmers out of a total of 1009 producers. The methodological approach adopted was based on individual surveys combined with village general assemblies and interviews with agents from state technical services. The results show that Typha domingensis was first observed in the 1970s in southeastern Niger (Zinder region), while in the west of the country, it only appeared in the 1980s. The majority of respondents (73.2%) attributed its appearance to natural causes, while others (26%) favored supernatural ones. The remaining 0.8% believed it was introduced by humans. All respondents agree that the presence of Typha domingensis has significant negative impacts on agricultural production, fishing, and livestock farming. In addition to these drawbacks, the results also show that Typha domingensis is used in "construction and housing development" (88.1%), "human and animal food" (78.81%), "crafts" (7.3%), and "health" (0.3%). Regarding control techniques used to contain and/or eradicate Typha domingensis from wetland ecosystems, weed cutting remains the primary method. Although utilizing Typha as a source of biomass or biomaterials for construction or crafts is not in itself a method of species control, it can nevertheless contribute to its management by reducing the cost of certain operations and generating additional income. ... https://www.academia.edu/?u=gL9V68

"The Law as a Frontier? Process and Difference in Medieval Poland's 'Polish' and 'German' Law Courts," Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa 18 (2025), 129–171. By Piotr S Górecki

https://www.academia.edu/168360706/_The_Law_as_a_Frontier_Process_and_Difference_in_Medieval_Polands_Polish_and_German_Law_Courts_Krakowskie_Studia_z_Historii_Pa%C5%84stwa_i_Prawa_18_2025_129_171?email_work_card=title The frontier ranges in meaning between the literal—a zone of physical separation—and the abstract—a difference across a gradient of high-order cultural attributes. In medieval Poland, one such attribute was the law: drawn as a sharp distinction between “Polish” and “German” law, two comparable yet substantively different legal systems. This article explores this frontier through close examination of judicial cases, in what I designate here as “Polish” and “German” courts. The source material is hundreds of stories about what happened in courts, embedded in charters and in records of Kraków’s civic court, spanning the years 1280–1370. The article opens with a survey of these courts (as they appear in that source material), then closely compares the court cases along their full course on the two sides of the supposed ethnic divide. The result is a wide range of similarity, analogy, and difference in the working of those courts. Rather than two sharply distinct legal systems, “Polish” and “German” courts comprised a complex, internally varied institutional universe. Within that universe, curiously invisible is transformative influence—diffusion—across the frontier from one side to the other—above all, from "German" to "Polish" courts. ****** This article is under Open Access; as is, in its entirety, the journal of legal history, published at the Jagiellonian University, where the article appears. The journal mixes publication in Polish with original (not translated!) publication in other languages, above all English. I cannot recommend it strongly enough, for quality as a source of literature, and as a publishing venue. ...