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This paper reflects on the status of ‘negativity’ in contemporary social and geographical thought. Based on a panel discussion held at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting 2021, each contributor discusses what negativity means to them, and considers its various legacies and potential future trajectories. Along the way, the contributors offer ways of attending to negative spaces (voids, abysses, absences), affects (vulnerabilities, sad passions, incapacities, mortality) and politics (impasses, refusals, irreparabilities). However, rather than defining negativity narrowly, the paper stays with the diversity of work on negativity being undertaken by geographers and other scholars, discussing how varying perspectives expand or dismantle particular elements within spatial theory. Collectively, the contributors argue for paying attention to negativity as the faltering, failure or impossibility of relations between body and world, thus situating it in conversation with relational thought, vitalist philosophies and affirmative ethics.

The respect for ethical principles is required during the entire scientific research process, including the dissemination phase. Due to the dynamism of qualitative studies, there are often adverse ethical situations. The aim of this integrative review was to analyze and synthetize ethical dilemmas that occur during the progress of qualitative investigation and the strategies proposed to face them. The search for studies used LILACS and MEDLINE databases with descriptors “research ethics” and “qualitative research”, originating 108 titles. Upon reading all titles, 42 articles were elected according to the inclusion criteria. The main conflicts were related to confidentiality breach, disregard of autonomy, potential damages, confusion about the roles of researcher/therapist/friend, and impasses in the Research Ethics Committees. Various types of conflicts may occur in a research. The solutions proposed are based on self-awareness, reflexivity, continuous consent, and ethical mindfulness.

La « mise sous tutelle de la Grèce » par la Commission et le FMI a été décidée après de longues controverses, car elle a été considérée comme la condition de survie de l'eurozone, mais elle n'a été qu'une expérience de « fédéralisme d'exception ». Le retrait de l'Italie est jugé improbable malgré ses faiblesses, car elle est too big to fail et too big to save. Les séparations de la France et de l'Allemagne sont impensables, car elles marqueraient la mort de l'Union européenne. Les auteurs analysent notamment le discours du président Macron à la Sorbonne et constatent que son message a été faiblement entendu par les partenaires de la France, mais que l'euroscepticisme semble reculer au sein des mouvements populistes, car les programmes basés sur l'abandon de l'euro conduiraient à des impasses économiques. Les auteurs estiment que « l'alliance franco-allemande est sur-jouée », car si les allemands sont attachés à la règle et à la responsabilité, les français en ont une perception relative, étant plus attachés à la solidarité.

Ce travail s'intéresse aux moyens employés par les médecinsanatomistes et les lexicographes dans le processus de dénomination des os du corps humain, particulièrement concernant l'os que l'Encyclopédie recense en la mention de \"télocïde\". Il s'agit, d'une part, de dépeindre l'état de la nomenclature anatomique française aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles et, d'autre part, de proposer des éléments de résolution à un cas précis de flou terminologique. Resumen This work takes an interest in the ways used by anatomists, doctors and lexicographs in the process of denominating human bones, especially concerning the 'telocïde' bone, as it is named in the Encyclopédie. It is meant, in one hand, to picture the state of french anatomical nomenclature during the 18th and 19th centuries and, in another hand, to suggest a response to a particular terminological blur.

Drawing on scholarly discussions on bureaucracy and the anthropology of the state as a relational setting, alongside scholarship that positions affect as central to understanding the political realm, this special issue examines the state as a simultaneous focal point of affective and imaginative investment. We do so by looking at how a variety of documents – whether produced, concealed, kept on hold, discarded, recycled, demanded, missed, lost, found, or circulated within and beyond public and private bureaucracies – both crystallise and evoke (non)citizens’ imaginings of the state and affective investments in it. Expanding their ethnographic scope beyond state bureaucracies, the articles in this special issue offer ethnographically nuanced accounts of how the non-linear workings of private and public bureaucracies – and their ambiguous relations to the state and their fragmented temporalities – create political, affective, temporal and imaginative reorientations in both bureaucrats and (non)citizens vis-à-vis states. We show how affects and imaginings of the state typically emerge from ‘bureaucratic impasses’: temporary stalemates in which both users and bureaucrats strive to understand and interpret, adjust and attune to bureaucratic rules and demands.

Toussaint Louverture's life trajectory is one of \"passages\" in the sense of ascension from the lowest to the highest social echelon. However, few French people know that it was this Black general who, in the Saint Domingue colony, took the French Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man to a level France had never imagined by abolishing slavery. It is so because the \"passage,\" or transmission, of Louverture's memory remained for a long time in archives accessible only to historians and history-lovers. There have been efforts since the 1990s in Nantes, La Rochelle, and Bordeaux to inscribe Louverture's name in spaces easily accessible to the general public. This article shows that the recovery process in Nantes and Bordeaux perpetuates a logic of political recuperation, marginalization, confinement, and of impasses that can be transcended only through political courage and humility.

Since the nineteenth century, Orientalist scholars have been preoccupied with recovering the original order of the Qur’an. In the past fifty years, the question appears to have reached an impasse with no sign of an emerging consensus. Divergences over the anchoring in space and time of the Qur’an have contributed to the diagnosis of “crisis” in (Western) Qur’anic studies. What do the project of determining Qur’anic chronology and its failure tell us about Qur’anic studies in Western academia? What do the current impasses reveal about the nature of the Qur’an as a text and as a theological object? This study analyses disagreements over the Qur’an’s space and time by drawing on tools from literary theory and hermeneutics. It argues for a shift from a positivist to an interpretative paradigm. Moving away from the question of the actual historical order of the Qur’an, this article examines the making and the workings of diachronic readings of the Muslim scripture, with a particular focus on the works of two of the most prominent scholars in the field, Angelika Neuwirth and Nicolai Sinai. The aim of the exercise is double: first, to perform a critical reflection on the networks of meaning that we construct or inherit in our engagement with the Muslim scripture; and second, to apprehend better the nature of the Qur’an as an “open text” (Eco 1962) whose textual characteristics make it particularly prone to a number of interpretations.

Resistance can be a substantive problem that limits treatment efficacy in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). Resistance often arises in a context of client ambivalence about change and has been consistently found to be exacerbated by directive responses and reduced by supportive ones. When not properly managed, resistance can have detrimental consequences for the therapeutic alliance and both proximal (e.g., engagement, homework compliance) and distal (e.g., symptom severity) treatment outcomes. Given its impact, resistance should be considered a key process marker in CBT. Motivational interviewing (MI) provides strategies for ‘rolling with resistance’ and there is mounting evidence that it can be successfully integrated with CBT to improve overall treatment response. This paper will review the research on resistance and ambivalence, particularly research conducted in the context of CBT. MI and its ability to successfully address these impasses will be outlined in detail, together with a clinical illustration.

La répartition des points d'appui opérationnels de la stratégie américaine a fortement évolué depuis deux décennies, avec une forte réduction. La prise de distance et les critiques répétées de Donald Trump vis-à-vis des alliances traditionnelles des Etats-Unis risquent de fragiliser l'ensemble de l'architecture de la présence américaine dans le monde, au-delà des impasses concrètes, réelles, en particulier industrielles, des dispositifs militaires de l'Amérique.