« Danser la relation » by Marie Mazzella di Bosco

“…In a brief ethnography of the gestures, postures and sensory perceptions at work, this article analyses how danced interactions are induced, begun, developed and interpreted, thus shedding light on the nature of these relational modes proper to dance.…”
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Le Laboratoire de paysage d’Alnarp en Suède : une expérience de « gestion créative » by Catherine Szanto

“…The research is based on observation, through drawings and measurements, but also on action (“creative management”): the forest is accompanied in its evolution by the traditional gestures of the foresters who provide original forest spaces, thus offering an alternative to a normalisation of the landscape.…”
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La mère, la directrice, la pédagogue et la lectrice : de l’utilisation du sexe comme variable pédagogique chez Pauline Kergomard by Bérengère Kolly

“…L’éducation maternelle dans l’école (The maternal education at school) appears as a new educationalist proposition which intends, by taking its new principles from family context, maternal gestures and home habits to think the education during early childhood. …”
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Dramatic transfers: Mural painting and religious theatre in the Western Alps during the sixteenth century by Marianne Cailloux

“…It analyses some examples of iconographic transference, like composition, precise gesturing, attributes and accessories but also characters designation. …”
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Vers une climatique du littoral. Une ethnographie sensible au milieu ambiant by Jean-Paul Thibaud

“…If sensitivity to climate change exists, we hypothesize that it is expressed in sensory perceptions, material traces, daily gestures, ordinary conversations, and local landscapes. …”
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L’analyse a priori, un outil pour « penser » les ajustements didactiques en classe de mathématiques ? by Aurélie Chesnais, Lalina Coulange

“…These examples show how a priori analysis allows the researcher to apprehend adjustment gestures in the study of teaching practices and their potentially differentiating effects on mathematics learning. …”
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Teatro folk e sciamanesimo in Corea by Giovanni Azzaroni

“…In Korean dances, various parts of the body are interconnected, delicate aesthetic gestures indicative of the dances that inspire them are displayed, and the upper body is emphasized. …”
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L’injonction à participer au monde numérique by Serge Proulx

“…To participate supposes that the individual takes part in the situation in such a way that he can possibly modify the state of things by his contributive gestures. Does the rhetorical insistence of analysts to find the existence of this “participation” not tantamount to playing the game of the big companies of the Internet ? …”
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In asperis carceribus et in fame dolore et magna miseria : de quelques violences seigneuriales pendant la « guerre du vicomte » à Narbonne et dans ses environs (1381-1382) by Vincent Challet

“…Beyond the obvious continuity of a certain number of gestures and destructions, of which we can already identify the beginnings during feudal times and which are all markers of seignorial domination, the originality of the Narbonne documentation resides in the specific description of a number of devastations operated by the viscount troops and in the recognition of the victims. …”
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Contrarracionalidade no centro de Campinas: a (sobre)vivência dos trabalhadores da alimentação frente à imposição do planejamento estratégico by Livia Cangiano Antipon

“…The analysis of the popular food market spaces proved to be a vital element for the reflection of the urban crisis in Campinas, highlighting the presence of the hidden hunger in the city and the counter-rational gestures of the poor social subjects who organize their own economic spaces.…”
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Reading the Nonhuman:Literary Studies in the Anthropocene by Tadeusz Rachwał

“…Roland Barthes’s “deauthoration” of literary works clearly gestures towards an opening to the other, which in more recent approaches has been adapted into complex networks and connections with Donna Haraway’s companion species. …”
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« Parlez-vous franglais ? » La galimafrée des langues dans Henry V  by Jean-Michel Déprats

“…It is in part up to the actor to individualize speech and find idiosyncrasies that will enable him to impersonate a particular character. Similarly, gestures and stagecraft can contribute to make up for the losses and deficiencies in the translation of the ‘French’ scenes in Henry V, whereas neither conserving Shakespeare’s dated and faulty French nor its translation into modern French is true to the original bilingualism of the play. …”
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Gestes et images du voyage en Orient by Monique Sicard

“…Indeed, he closely witnessed the complex gestures and production of paper negatives, beautiful photographic objects whose novelty cannot have left him indifferent. …”
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What We Didn’t Know a Recipe Could Be: Political Commentary, Machine Learning Models, and the Fluidity of Form in Nineteenth-Century Newspaper Recipes by Avery Blankenship

“…These recipe-adjacent texts, which are both recipe and not, offer a broader picture of short-form political commentary in the nineteenth century which can include genres and forms once thought unable to gestured beyond the confines of the kitchen.…”
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La contingence des guidages en danse by Lucile Lafont, Marie-France Fanton-Bayrou

“…The interactive episodes analyzed qualitatively with regard to the students’ behaviors for each of the situations show more contingent and emancipating verbal and gestural guidance in the case of the CS in comparison with the TS.…”
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Narrativität hören by Kerstin Hausbei

“…., the article examines how naturalization processes are involved in making the perception of audiobook versions of literary narrative texts a sensual-gestural experience of narrativity. Naturalization processes promote an anthropomorphic unison perception of the narrative voice, despite the fact that narrative voice is always polyphonic in the audio book. …”
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Points de vue et créations paysagères. Être un paysan agroforestier by Olivier Bories, Jean-Pascal Fontorbes, Anne-Marie Granié

“…It talks about emotions, agroforestry landscapes, and about the people who discreetly write who they are in the territory by planting trees in their plots. We filmed their gestures as a silent agroforestry word. We discovered that in these lines of trees, the agroforesters are building a path of sustainable thought and agro-ecological practices, a relationship with the world.…”
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The Illusion of Power or Relentless Reality? Ceremonial and Ritual Practices at the Court of Moscow in the Middle of the 17th Century through the Eyes of the Imperial Diplomats by Monika Konrádová, Rostisalv Smíšek

“…These mutual encounters of at the first sight completely different worlds of thoughts and value systems could not avoid cultural clashes and misunderstandings (the arguments about the usage of right titles, about rules of precendence, the Tsar’s inappropriate gestures during official meetings, the Russians, imposing of their arrogant behaviour on the Habsburg diplomats). …”
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#mycityoftomorrow. A think tank on cities and territories of tomorrow by Francesco Alberti, Stefania Cupillari, Eleonora Giannini, Sara Naldoni, Lorenzo Nofroni

“…The sudden revision of rules of social coexistence, the temporary suspension of activities, the modification of everyday gestures, physical public spaces replaced by digital spaces, are only some of the phenomena which happened simultaneously in 2020 due to the pandemic. …”
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Sociabilidade e cidadania: os espaços públicos de Salvador como entrelaçamento do concreto, do simbólico e do imaginário by Cíntia San Martin Fernandes

“…For this purpose, the author chose Salvador, in the state of Bahia, Brazil, as a constitutive example of a city that builds its sociability, its daily interlacement, not on instrumental rational relationships (ruled by objective and regulating ends and means), but on sensitive reason (ruled by sensitivities, such as art, aesthetics, the body and gestures). The article is divided in three parts: the first one briefly presents some approaches of the concept of network in order to situate the authors perspective among others; the second one elaborates on this approach; the third part describes elements of the nagô [which some call Yoruban] communication, which is seen as a foundation for the interpersonal communication that prevails in the city of Salvador.…”
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