Social Movements and International Relations: A Relational Framework

Social movements are increasingly recognized as significant features of contemporary world politics, yet to date their treatment in international relations theory has tended to obfuscate the considerable diversity of these social formations, and the variegated interactions they may establish with state actors and different structures of world order. Highlighting the difficulties conventional liberal and critical approaches have in transcending conceptions of movements as moral entities, the article draws from two under-exploited literatures in the study of social movements in international relations, the English School and Social Systems Theory, to specify a wider range of analytical interactions between different categories of social movements and of world political structures. Moreover, by casting social movement phenomena as communications, the article opens international relations to consideration of the increasingly diverse trajectories and second-order effects produced by social movements as they interact with states, intergovernmental institutions, and transnational actors

Gas feed composition modulation in phenol CWAO over active carbon

The long-term stability of active carbon in the CWAO of phenol was investigated in a fixed-bed reactor at steady state operation and different oxygen partial pressures, temperatures, phenol inlet concentrations and gas-liquid flow modes. To further improve the catalyst stability, gas feed composition modulation (air/N2) was tested in the slow mode (large period lengths) to establish in situ oxidation-adsorption cycles. The unsteady operation significantly reduced the active carbon burn-off and performed a higher long-term conversion of phenol. © 2007.Fil: Larruy, B.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; EspañaFil: Ayude, María Alejandra. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas. Centro Científico Tecnológico Conicet - Mar del Plata. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata. Facultad de Ingeniería. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencia y Tecnología de Materiales; ArgentinaFil: Font, J.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; EspañaFil: Fortuny, A.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; EspañaFil: Bengoa, C.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; EspañaFil: Fabregat, A.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; EspañaFil: Stüber, F.. Universitat Rovira I Virgili; Españ

Le bilinguisme, représentations sociales, discours et contextes

International audienc

Le bilinguisme, représentations sociales, discours et contextes

International audienc