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International Congress on Women in A Global World IV: Struggle for Equality (WGW2024), İstanbul: (May 23-25, 2024), (edited by Zeynep Banu Dalaman and Furkan Toz), (e-ISBN: 978-1-80135-293-2), London: Transnational Press London, 2024, p. 121. , 2024
Femicide refers to intentional killing of women (or girls) because they are women or girls. This study focuses on the femicides that took place in the Ottoman Europe between 1903 and 1908 and searches for answers to the questions "What are the main motivations of femicides? Who are the actors of murders? Which tools were used in murders? How common were murders in rural and urban areas? How did the Ottoman security services manage crises that resulted from femicides? What kind of precautions did the Ottoman bureaucracy take against femicides?". Method of the study is case analysis, and the main source is documents accessed through the Ottoman Archive. The chronology starts with the Rebellion of İlinden and ends with the Young Turk Revolution. In addition to archival documents, there are two period photographs of Ottoman women in the study. These photographs were selected from Getty Research Institute Special Collections online catalogue and used with the permission of the Institute. Unlike classical case analysis, the text was structured with the victims of violence at the centre. For this reason, first of all the cases of violence against women in the Ottoman empire which resulted in death were determined. The findings show that the main perpetrators of femicide were bandits. Many women who helped the Muslim community or who were thought to have betrayed (such as reporting) were killed at different times by bandits/gangs/committees. Apart from bandits, we can see family members or friends as perpetrators of murder. There are various scenes of murder such as house, field, forest, neighbourhood and riverside. Rifles, pistols and bombs were frequently used as murder weapons. The only case of beating to death was between two women. The murdered women were predominantly Muslim women. However, there was no distinction of identity in femicides. It is possible to see many murdered Bulgarian, Greek and Vlach women in archival documents. Especially the issue of mass femicides (three-four-five women killed at the same time) are interesting among the findings. The highest number of murders confirmed is seven. The results show that most of the murdered women did not know their murderers. In most of the murders, there were no past relationships between the individuals. This result shows that –apart from few examples- women were killed simply because they were women. Keywords: Femicides, Balkans, violence in the Ottoman Empire.
La question de la scolarisation des élèves d'origine populaire doit être replacée au coeur des transformations scolaires, économiques et politiques ayant affecté la France du XXe siècle. Ses réalités et ses significations sont indissociables des contradictions liées aux politiques d'ouverture de l'école qui ont rendu la poursuite d'études plus impérative que jamais sans créer les conditions de l'égalité. Elles sont aussi liées aux reconfigurations du marché du travail (hausse du chômage, de l'intérim, débandade du groupe ouvrier) qui, parallèlement à la politique de l'offre d'éducation, ont conduit les milieux populaires à chercher leur salut dans les études longues. Enfin, la scolarisation des élèves d'origine populaire prend place au sein d'une société stratifiée, structurée en classes liées par des rapports de domination (économiques, symboliques) au sein desquels l'école a pris une place croissante. En s'imposant comme norme, l'école est venue concurrencer les pratiques socialisatrices des familles, bousculer la relation des enfants au savoir, leurs aspirations comme celles de leurs parents. C'est à la description de ces éléments que se consacre cette notice.
THE SACRED STEPS OF CREATION ; OR, THE REVEALED GENETIC THEOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY GEOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY, 1865
Author: REV. THOMAS MARSDEN THE SACRED STEPS OF CREATION ; OR, THE REVEALED GENETIC THEOLOGY ILLUSTRATED BY GEOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY. IN TWELVE LECTURES, FORMERLY MAWSON SCHOLAR OF CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE , CAMBRIDGE ; SOME TIME VICAR OF CHILD'S WICKHAM , GLOUCESTERSHIRE ; NOW RECTOR OF BURSTOW , SURREY. LONDON: 1865
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In order to have a complete understanding of the dynamics of social change and adjustment with time, it is essential to have awareness not just of social movements and mobilisation, but also of the role that these aspects play. Collaborative efforts are an essential component of social movements and play a vital role in the functioning of these movements. Collaborative efforts are defined as those that are carried out by individuals and organisations with the intention of influencing, opposing, or reversing the trends that are occurring in society. For instance, an effort to either encourage or discourage change in society is an example of a social movement. Initiatives that are structured and coordinated are referred to as social movements. The vast majority of the time, they are formed as a response to injustice or unfairness, and they work towards the objective of bringing about changes in the norms of society, politics, the market economy, or culture. However, they are not always successful in accomplishing this aim. In light of this, the purpose of this research is to analyse the limits of people's mobilisation and to attempt to grasp the idea of social movement.
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The government of Ethiopia has made an ambitious plan of building a carbon-neutral and middle-income economy by 2030. In 2016, the country pledged to restore 15 million hectares of degraded landscapes as part of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR 100). A total of three major forest landscape restoration (FLR) initiatives have been used to achieve this target: participatory forest management (PFM) to engage communities in sustainably managing natural forests; area enclosures/exclosures (AEs) to socially fence hillsides and degraded communal lands and allow these areas regain their productive potential; and sustainable land management program and the Green Legacy Initiative (SLM-GLI) that aim at conserving soil and water resources and planting seedlings to increase forest cover. After describing these FLR initiatives, this study evaluated their impacts on land use land cover change over time and assessed them against the six FLR principles by selecting nationally...
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