This study examines interactional management practices and narrative co-construction in lawyer-asylum seeker consultations in Flanders, Belgium. Drawing upon linguistic-ethnographic fieldwork, it presents a case study of a consultation between an Afghan applicant for international protection, his adviser, and his lawyer. The purpose of the consultation is to prepare the applicant for testifying at the upcoming asylum hearing. Data analysis focuses on (i) the reorientation of the asylum narrative from an authentic-experiential towards a more objectified formal-institutional account; (ii) the participants’ positioning work that indexes this reorientation process; and (iii) their fluctuating alignment of local-interactional and translocal-gatekeeping perspectives. In the discussion, we analyse the consultation in terms of competing legal and experiential voices and views on participant roles/responsibilities. We reflect on how this ambiguity of roles and ideologies relates to the constructed character of credibility, which reveals the importance of adequate legal assistance in this linguistically challenging context. (Legal consultations, asylum procedure, linguistic ethnography, narrative performance, credibility assessment)*

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<p>Tropical peatlands have the potential to be significant sources of methane (CH<sub>4</sub>) to the atmosphere but their contribution to the global methane budget remains uncertain. Although much prior work has focused in Southeast Asia, other tropical regions, such as the Congo and the Amazon, have a much wider diversity of peatlands with more variable CH<sub>4</sub> emissions. Our work aims to better understand CH<sub>4</sub> production and emissions in these diverse peatlands, and how they are controlled by hydrology, geochemistry and vegetation. Using stable isotope and radiocarbon measurements, we assess the production pathway for methanogenesis and its carbon source at sites across the Pastaza-Marañon basin in Peru. As the largest peatland complex in the Amazon, this region is home to many peatland types, from palm swamps to open peatlands to pole forests. We find clear links between site geochemistry, hydrology, and CH<sub>4 </sub>production. In rain-fed ombrotrophic sites (pH 3-4), we observe low emissions and highly depleted δ<sup>13</sup>CH<sub>4</sub> values (as low as -100‰). The lack of external nutrients and acidic conditions likely limit methanogenesis, and hydrogenotrophic methanogenesis dominates. In more minerotrophic sites (pH 5-6), more enriched methane (-75 to -60‰) suggests a contribution from acetoclastic methanogenesis. Emissions rates are also higher, likely fueled by external nutrient inputs from seasonal flooding. Across sites, modern, vegetation-derived inputs are the dominant carbon source for methanogenesis, with a limited contribution from old peat carbon in some ombrotrophic sites. The strong relationships we observe between peatland hydrology, vegetation, geochemistry and methane emissions will enable future work to upscale methane emissions across the region.</p>

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Cet article se propose d’interroger l’articulation et la négociation de différents registres identitaires chez des adolescent(e)s sud-africain(e)s appartenant à des milieux défavorisés et issus de groupes infériorisés dans l’ancienne hiérarchie raciale de l’apartheid. Il s’attache à montrer la diversité des expériences sociales de ces adolescents, ici saisie à travers le contexte de scolarisation. En se plaçant du point de vue des intéressés, l’expérience de l’adolescence se révèle être un parcours qui sinue entre des mondes en tension – école, église, quartier, famille, espaces publics –, lesquels véhiculent des valeurs et des normes contradictoires que les jeunes bricolent de façon plurielle. Grandir dans un environnement à risques est le cadre concret de la socialisation de ces jeunes, mais grandir à l’écart des catégories raciales héritées en constitue le défi symbolique que permet l’immersion dans une culture juvénile globalisée.