Cesser de croire aux mensonges, apprendre à se voir dans sa beauté, son unicité. Voir l'ordonnancement parfait de notre vie, afin de nous permettre de réaliser au mieux le projet de notre âme. Apprendre à faire confiance à la vie. Arrêter de se plaindre, d'accuser les autres, de croire au drame. Partir à la recherche de qui nous sommes profondément. Être le créateur conscient de sa vie. Prendre ses peurs à bras-le-corps, rentrer en soi, apprendre à s'aimer et commencer à vivre pleinement. Nous avons reçu la vie, cet incroyable cadeau, cette aventure passionnante, qu'en faisons-nous?

Colpito da una pallottola in fronte a trentuno anni, durante la terza battaglia dell’Isonzo, Renato Serra non era consapevole del prezioso contributo che il suo approccio avrebbe dato alla nostra letteratura. Di indole pigra, inconcludente, scontroso, restio alle scadenze lavorative, d’animo riservato, scettico verso la comune opinione, Serra resta una delle figure più complesse del Ventesimo secolo. In lui c’è l’assidua ricerca di un’identità non soltanto letteraria, ma principalmente umana, che lo pone in uno stato di permanente disadattamento con la vita e con il mondo. Il suo è uno sguardo limpido e assoluto sulle cose, risolto con l’onesta lucidità intellettuale della ragione che si realizza in un’inesorabile incertezza dei principi capaci di governare le azioni umane. Esame di coscienza di un letterato riproposto in quattro lingue in un’unica edizione, è un discorso aperto sul senso di prendere parte alla guerra, sulla coscienza morale e sulla necessità di essere contemporanei. Abattu d'une balle en plein front à l'âge de trente et un ans lors de la troisième bataille de l'Isonzo, Renato Serra n'avait pas conscience de la précieuse contribution que son approche apporterait à notre littérature. D'un tempérament paresseux, peu concluant, grognon, peu enclin à respecter les délais de travail, réservé dans son esprit, sceptique à l'égard de l'opinion commune, Serra reste l'une des figures les plus complexes du XXe siècle. Il y a chez lui une recherche assidue d'une identité non seulement littéraire, mais avant tout humaine, qui le place dans un état d'inadaptation permanente à la vie et au monde. C'est un regard limpide et absolu sur les choses, résolu avec la lucidité intellectuelle honnête de la raison qui se réalise dans une incertitude inexorable des principes capables de gouverner les actions humaines. L'examen de conscience d'un homme de lettres, réédité en quatre langues dans une seule édition, est un discours ouvert sur le sens de la participation à la guerre, sur la conscience morale et la nécessité d'être contemporain.

The chapters in this book provide in- depth insight into the gender norms and contexts in which women work in the expanding informal mining sector in sub- Saharan Africa. Collectively, the research here provides a nuanced account of women’s livelihood strategies in artisanal and small- scale mining (ASM, as its generally known) in ways that challenge images of women— as either victimized by mining or empowered by mining livelihoods, or both— that tend to dominate the growing array of donor and policy interventions in this sector. The authors come from different disciplinary traditions— anthropology, economics, political science, mining engineering, law— but all place questions of gendered power front and centre in their analyses of sociocultural, institutional, economic and political relationships, practices and arrangements within which women navigate their mining livelihoods. The physical or representational presence (and sometimes absence) of women in ASM sites is a linking theme, with the chapters exploring different dimensions of mining and gender— the gendered divisions of labour, migration, land ownership, cultural norms, and gendered authority relations— but also how ‘women’ materialize and are seen and unseen in the growing array of transnational interventions in this sector. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal of African Studies.

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