Narrative mourning : Joyce, Freud, Kincaid, Derrida

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Jumping on the Bandwagon: Differentiation and Security Defection during Conflict

When confronted with mass uprisings, governments deploy their security forces for crowd control or repression. However, sometimes security agencies choose to side with the opposition movement. Recent work shows that “fragmentation” contributes to defection: fragmenting the security forces into parallel units leads to oversight problems and grievances among soldiers, which raises the risk of members of the security forces defecting to the opposition movement. However, I argue that the effect on defection is strongly moderated by the circumstances under which states choose to fragment their military: fragmentation for the purpose of security specialization, called “differentiation,” even decreases its risk. Employing Bayesian multilevel modeling, the findings corroborate this distinction. The study contributes to the fundamental discussion on civil–military relations, shedding light on why some conflict situations see security defections while others do not. Understanding this phenomenon is a pivotal element to explaining how conflicts develop, escalate, and end

Social media in democratic transitions and consolidations: what can we learn from the case of Tunisia?

© 2018, © 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. The aim of this paper is to analyse the use of social media in the stages of uprising, democratic transition and democratic consolidation using the case study of Tunisia. While the impact of social media in uprisings has been widely documented in past research about the MENA region, Tunisia provides new evidence to the use of Internet in the processes of democratisation. Consequently, this research focuses in detail on the benefits but also the pitfalls of social media in transitions and consolidations. Data collection was based on interviews with Tunisian social media activists. The analysis is valuable to social media practitioners and researchers alike

Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning : Joyce's Dubliners

That "every bond," in the words of James Duffy, "is a bond to sorrow" confronts us with the urgent task of checking our libidinal expenditures. Although Joyce weaves deftly the threads of two socio-economic models of libidinal management into the texture of Dubliners, he does not seem to privilege either ; quite to the contrary, he seems to maintain that both models serve eventually to foster the paralysis endemic to most Dubliners. Focusing on a selection of characters from Dubliners, this essay seeks to lay bare the patterns of psychic behaviour operative vis-à-vis the coiling horizon of eros and mourning.Si « tout attachement », comme l'affirme James Duffy, « est un attachement à la », alors il est urgent de restreindre nos investissements affectifs. Bien que Joyce, dans Dubliners, fasse s'interpénétrer avec maestria deux modèles socio-économiques de gestion libidinale, il ne semble en privilégier aucun. Il paraît au contraire suggérer que tous deux ne font que contribuer à accroître la paralysie qui frappe la plupart des Dublinois. A de quelques personnages tirés des nouvelles de Dubliners, cet article essaye de les mécanismes psychiques à l'œuvre face à l'union indissociable de l'amour et du deuil.Gana Nouri. Horizons of Desire, Horizons of Mourning : Joyce's Dubliners. In: Études irlandaises, n°28 n°1, 2003. pp. 25-43