We used a multi-method approach to analyze the spatial patterns of shrubs and cover types (plant species, litter or bare soil) in grassland-shrubland ecotones. This approach allows us to assess how fine-scale spatial heterogeneity of cover types affects the patterns of Cytisus balansae shrub encroachment into mesic mountain grasslands (Catalan Pyrenees, Spain). Spatial patterns and the spatial ...

This discussion conjugates La Boétie’s exploration of the negative valency ‘la servitude volontaire’ with a set ancient, early modern, and contemporary images texts – from Homer Cicero, through Montaigne Hobbes, to Racine Kadir Nelson. The force ancient example is registered in repeated haunting body politic by ghost tyranny: across genres, locations, times, one generation after another seems c...