Narración y autoconciencia. Una lectura crítica a los postulados dantianos sobre el fin del arte by Pablo Olvera, Mariano Martínez

“…Se propone una crítica, a partir de la relación entre esencialismo, historicismo y pluralismo, para examinar su controversial tesis sobre la clausura histórica del arte por agotamiento de su impulso cognitivo.…”
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Archives numériques aborigènes, parenté et création by Jessica De Largy Healy

“…Benefiting from an institutional policy conducive to the digital repatriation of sources, this Indigenous archival turn was accompanied by epistemological reflection by local experts on legitimate processes of transmitting this returned knowledge. From initial controversies surrounding the centralisation of clan knowledge on one single server, to the development of complex policies on the access and use of this data, modelled on the kinship system (gurrutu), the digitisation of Aboriginal knowledge reflects social issues that are far from virtual. …”
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Dissections in Phoebe Gloeckner’s A Child’s Life (1998, 2000) by Hélène Tison

“…Phoebe Gloeckner’s anatomical drawings and écorchés, her often blunt and jarring graphic narratives centered on abusive relations, are inevitably controversial; they fly in the face of feminist attacks on such representations as debasing to women and they complexify and redirect the debate about child sexuality. …”
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Cannabis cultivation in the world: heritages, trends and challenges by Pierre-Arnaud Chouvy

“…Worse, the limited data available about cannabis cultivation is most often inaccurate, unreliable, and highly controversial. While this has always been problematic, in terms of sheer knowledge and informed policy-making, it has now become even more acute of an issue as global trends towards decriminalisation and legalisation are already provoking negative unintended consequences in poor producing countries. …”
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Dams and Development in the French Alps in the Inter-war Period by Anne Dalmasso

“…The heated discussions and controversies over large dams that marked the start of the 21st century have led us in this article to examine the conditions under which Alpine dams were received during the first construction phase of the 1920s and 1930s. …”
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Barrages et développement dans les Alpes françaises de l’entre-deux-guerres by Anne Dalmasso

“…The heated discussions and controversies over large dams that marked the start of the 21st century have led us in this article to examine the conditions under which Alpine dams were received during the first construction phase of the 1920s and 1930s. …”
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Qui a dit racisme systémique ? by Stacey Caceus, Consuelo Vásquez

“…Compromises on both sides, as well as a ban on the use of potentially controversial terms, lead to a form of neutralization of systemic racism, reinforcing the organizational whiteness of diversity management programs.…”
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De l’usage de l’intertexte biblique dans quelques poèmes de George Herbert et de John Donne by Jean-Louis Breteau

“…Controversial as the underlying theology of metaphysical poetry may be, such poets as George Herbert and John Donne extensively resorted to the use of the biblical intertext, and they had a thorough knowlege of both the hermeneutics and the poetics of their time. …”
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French Beliefs: Walter Pater and Contemporary French Fiction by Bénédicte Coste

“…However Pater proved adroit in reviewing both controversial writers and recognized authors such as Feuillet, Lemaître, Filon, Fabre, Amiel, subtly pitting both camps to make his own opinions more indefinite but more importantly considering the question of belief since all texts and authors discussed are notable for their confronting the question of belief. …”
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Cartographies policières : la dimension vernaculaire du contrôle territorial by Melina Germes

“…Crime mapping in police work is subject to many controversies, which underestimate two important elements. …”
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A rare complication in management of traumatic optic neuropathy by Sushad Prasad, Priya Sivakumar

“…Corticosteroids despite controversies, form an important line in the management of traumatic optic neuropathy (TON). …”
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Big pictures after Dawn: ‘ontology’ for historians and utopians by John Tresch, James Poskett

“…It draws on two recent developments in anthropology: first, Graeber and Wengrow's sweeping overview of social forms in The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, and second, the controversial ‘ontological turn,’ which takes seriously ethnographic reports of alternate realities, refusing any shared metaphysical baseline for evaluation. …”
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Industrial heritage, a new tool for Olympic promotion? A comparative analysis. by Helena Roux

“…Faced with the controversies surrounding the Olympic Games (OG), they are moving towards a greater integration of local challenges – economic, social and environmental. …”
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Ville durable et nouveaux territoires du corps by Guy Di Méo, Karen Foussette

“…This leads them to explore the city and exploit its growing resources (cycle tracks, sports arenas, familial gardens, pedestrian areas, tattoo-shops, and various other accommodations) until they mix their bodies with the places in which their practices take place. More than the controversial building of eco-neighbourhoods, more than discourses on local democracy (that has aborted) or sustainable development (that is very blurred), this new spatial corporeity and its exigencies in terms of urban transparency (that is to say in terms of environmental and socio-spatial justice desire, of security and civility, of nature) polarize the political stakes of the sustainable city.…”
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‘We are all Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn’: Insecurity, Ethno-regional Hegemony and Resistance in Southwest Nigeria by Babajide Olusoji Ololajulo

“…Drawing from online news reports and qualitative data obtained through interview the article argues that Àmọ̀tẹ́kùn together with the controversies that follow the launch illustrates a particular way in which the Yorùbá of southwest Nigeria construct and as well resist real or imagined ethno-regional hegemony. …”
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Appropriation scripturale et subversive de l'espace urbain à São Paulo by Timothée Engasser

“…Written form's originality and the habits of pixadores are very unique, and this will be very interesting to understand what this movement put at stake in this town, and identify which paradigms are involved within this controversial practice. To do so, we will try to illustrate a movement from actor's points of views, with the help of several interviews. …”
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The Role of Liver Biopsy in the Management of Patients with Liver Disease by Florence Wong

“…The role of liver biopsy in the diagnosis and management of liver disease is a controversial issue even among hepatologists. Although most causes of elevated liver enzymes can be determined, or at least suspected, on the basis of a careful history and laboratory tests, histological assessment remains the gold standard for most liver diseases. …”
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O multiverso predatório dos deuses canibais: o legado de Joanna Overing by Els Lagrou, Luisa Elvira Belaunde

“…As the only woman in the anthropology department at the London School of Economics for much of the eighties, she faced pioneering controversies about kinship, gender, rationality, temporality, aesthetics and creativity with elegant, clear and theoretically dense writing, making room for women in academia. …”
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Narrativität hören by Kerstin Hausbei

“…Based on (neuro-)psychological aesthetics and narratological controversies over the concept of voice, using theoretical considerations and audio-versions of Kafka’s The Trial and Cervantes’s Don Quijote by Buhlert, Paetsch, Cassel, Hochmair et al., 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. …”
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Advance in clinical application of Traditional Chinese Medicine collapse therapy in the treatment of hemiplegia after stroke (中药塌渍治疗中风偏瘫的临床应用进展) by ZHANG Nannan (张楠楠), TUO Yuhong (庹玉红), GENG Qingwen (耿庆文), HE Xuelian (何雪莲), LIU LI (刘丽)

“…The TCM prescription adopted in collapse therapy remains controversial, and more efforts should be paid to clarify the standard operating procedure of collapse therapy. …”
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