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Matthew Sharpe and Michael Ure, "Philosophy as a Way of Life: History, Dimensions, Directions."
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La consommation de chocolat et ses topoï dans la fiction des Lumières: Français
No full textThis article investigates chocolate in Ancien Régime society through a selection of treatises, dictionaries, and novels from the Enlightenment. These texts provide valuable information on its benefits, preparation, and consumption – revealing new dietary as well as social rituals, closely linked to the libertine imagination. In addition, the novels inform the evolution of descriptive practices. The analysis of short excerpts enables us to propose a few topoi, such as “to take one’s chocolate,” “to invite to take chocolate,” “to feel pleasure with chocolate” or “(to attempt) to administer poison or narcotic in chocolate.”
Cet article enquête sur le chocolat dans la société d’Ancien Régime à travers une sélection de traités, dictionnaires et romans de l’époque des Lumières. Ces textes fournissent des indications précieuses sur ses bienfaits, sa préparation et sa consommation – dévoilant de nouveaux rituels, tant alimentaires que sociaux, surtout liés à l’imaginaire libertin. Les romans témoignent par ailleurs de l’évolution des pratiques descriptives. Les analyses d’extraits permettent de proposer quelques topoï comme « prendre son chocolat », « inviter à prendre le chocolat », « éprouver plaisir lié au chocolat » ou encore « (tenter d’) administrer poison ou narcotique dans chocolat ».
 
Islamist Discontent in the Sadat Years: Considering the Structures of Anti-Sadat Islamist Thought
No full textThis paper will consider the growing Islamist opposition to Anwar Sadat’s presidency in Egypt in the 1970s. It will explore the tenets for what became an extreme dimension of Islamism in the form of groups like Takfir wal-Hijrah and Egyptian Jihad, the latter being the organization of Sadat’s assassin Khalid Islambouli. This is done by tracing the ideological and social trajectories of Islamism in the country, and this paper engages with the thought of figures like Abd-as-Salam Faraj and Sayyid Qutb along with commentaries on their social and theological influence. Sadat’s own public comportment, policies like his Infitah (open door), and the accompanying sociological changes and economic malaise prompted a turn to Islamism and its potent ideological aspects by a disillusioned youth. In considering the interplay between ideology, structural realities, and Sadat’s government’s policies, this paper will demonstrate how the pervasive anti-Sadat sentiment from a crucial part of Egyptian society was realized
Indigeneity, Sovereignty, Anarchy: A Dialog With Many Voices
No full textGord Hill is a member of the Kwakwa̱ka̱ʼwakw nation. In addition to numerous zines and articles, Hill is author of three widely-read illustrated histories: The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements (2018); The Anti-Capitalist Comic Book: From the WTO to G20 (2012); and 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book (2010; revised and expanded ed., 2021). He maintains the Warrior Publications website -- warriorpublications.wordpress.com – “to promote warrior culture, fighting spirit, and resistance movements.”
Allan Antliff is Professor of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Victoria. He is author of Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde (2001), Anarchy and Art from the Paris Commune to the fall of the Berlin Wall (2007), and Joseph Beuys (2014). Antliff is also editor of Only a Beginning: An Anarchist Anthology (2004) and Director of the University of Victoria’s Anarchist Archive. In addition to serving as editor of ADCS, he is art editor for the interdisciplinary U.K.-based journal, Anarchist Studies
Everyday stories in a forest: Multimodal meaning-making with Ojibwe Elders, young people, language, and place
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HOW IMPORTANT IS A SCHOOL? EXAMINING THE IMPACT OF REMOTENESS FROM A SCHOOL ON CANADIAN COMMUNITIES’ ATTRACTION AND RETENTION OF SCHOOL-AGE CHILDREN
No full textMany Canadian communities, especially rural communities, are concerned about youth outmigration as a cause of population decline, which is associated with fewer services and amenities. Proponents of keeping underattended schools open argue that removing a school from the community means that fewer families will want to live there, and that more families will consider leaving. Others view school closures as a rational response to population decline. Still other perspectives complicate the correlation between schools and population, noting phenomena such as children “learning to leave” and “place attachment” that modulate the temptation to move away. This paper offers an empirical test of discursive connections between school closures and mobilities by studying the population change of school-age children in Canadian census subdivisions indexed by distance to the nearest school. Based on this method, we conclude that there is a positive correlation between the school-age population in a community and proximity to a school in that community. Although our data do not answer the question of whether school closures cause population decline, or such a decline causes school closures, or both, we provide a quantitative foundation on which to ask it