Beyond Conquest: Decolonizing Adventure Sports through Outdoor Counterstories by Denisa Krásná

“…By presenting Indigenous and other marginalized perspectives, these narratives critique and subvert Western colonial ideologies, promoting a more inclusive and ecologically mindful approach to outdoor sports. …”
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Return of Benin Objects to Nigeria: Perceptions and the Law by Afolasade A. Adewumi

“…The article also carries out a critique of the Executive Order Notice No. 25, Order No. 1 of 2023, and concludes by stating that though the executive order is invalid, its invalidity is inconsequential with respect to the dictates of customary law, human rights law, and international law. …”
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Canaanism: The Search for an Alternative Identity to Zionism in Israel by Fahri Danış

“…Led by poet-journalist Yonatan Ratosh, the movement, known as the "Young Hebrews," critiqued Zionism's vision of identity and proposed an alternative nationalist discourse. …”
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Conservation refugees and environmental dispossession in 21st century critical Geography by Scott William Hoefle

“…Historical geographers have recently taken up these concepts from contemporary Environmental History, and when with allied to the concepts of environmental ethics from Radical Ecology and Environmental Studies and nature enclosures from Political Ecology, a novel critique is produced of the role of full conservation units in debates surrounding global climate change. …”
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Challenging Islamophobia through Intermediality: Anida Yoeu Ali’s Performance Art by Martina Pfeiler

“…It stands out as a feminist, transnational critique of an unprecedented “undermining [of] Muslim voices” (Azam 125). …”
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Hopkins in the Age of Maxwell by René Gallet

“…Dans ses textes, Hopkins lui-même s’est intéressé surtout à cette autre révolution scientifique, allant jusqu’à commencer un livre critique envers Light, ouvrage de Tait, physicien de renom et ami de Maxwell. …”
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Condição humana, condição cidadã: um ensaio sobre a dignidade da política e os desafios do novo Estado democrático by Adelia Maria Miglievich Ribeiro

“…Key words: social theory, postmodern critique, social movements.…”
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Hopkins in the Age of Maxwell by René Gallet

“…Dans ses textes, Hopkins lui-même s’est intéressé surtout à cette autre révolution scientifique, allant jusqu’à commencer un livre critique envers Light, ouvrage de Tait, physicien de renom et ami de Maxwell. …”
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Cinematic Orientalism: East-West Perception in Netflix's 'Swimmers' by Kemal Çelik

“…The themes, characters, and locations in the film are evaluated in the context of the critique of orientalism and self-orientalism, analyzing how ideological themes are processed and reinforced. …”
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Review of The Persian Translation of Heidegger and Christianity by Maryam Soltani Kouhestani

“…In this review, after introducing the book and introducing the formal and content of the work, the critique of three of the world’s leading scholars on Heidegger and Christianity has been examined, and then the points and defects of the work have been examined formally and content. …”
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A Study on Risk and Expense Evaluation of Agility Supply Management of Machinery by Mohammad Heydari, Kin Keung Lai

“…We provide a technical assessment and critique of the existing literature via highlighting problems associated with conceptualization and technical improvement of agility practices. …”
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The Metaphoricity of Corruption: Exploring Ghana's Electoral Manifestos under the Fourth Republic by Daniel Dwamena Ofosu, Sanka Washew

“…Opposition parties used these metaphors more frequently to critique incumbent governments and influence voters. …”
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The Ecstasy of Communication. Critical remarks on Jean Baudrillard by Pieter Duvenage

“…The point is that with the “… greater mediatization of society … we are witnessing the virtualization of our world.”2 This contribution briefly reconstructs, firstly, two phases in Baudrillard’s intellectual career – phases that shifted from an early neo-Marxist critique of the modern consumer society to a post-Marxist or postmodern view of society (which include engagements with socio-anthropology; psychoanalysis, sociology, semiology and media theory), and eventually ends in a kind of anti-theory with an extreme fatal vision of the world.3 In section 2 the implications of these two shifts in Baudrillard’s intellectual career are contextualized in the field of media and communication studies – and specifically his concept of the “ecstasy of communication”. …”
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self by Lucía Bennett-Ortega

“…Through a confessional and feminist style that resonates with French feminists’ concept of “écriture féminine,” Pine’s writing transforms personal experience into political critique. The first part of the analysis is dedicated to the representation of the body and its vulnerability, especially in relation to the bodily elements of menstruation and scars. …”
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RACIONALAUS KONSENSUSO PROBLEMA: J. RAWLSAS VERSUS J. F. LYOTARD’AS by Nida Vasiliauskaitė

“…LYOTARDNida Vasiliauskaitė Summary The article deals with the problem of a rational consensus in contemporary political philosophy, arosed by postmodern critique of modern Reason. In this context two important ideas – an „Overlapping consensus“ of John Rawls and „the Differend“ of Jean-Francois Lyotard – are discussed, compared and criticized. …”
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The Criticism of Standard and the Standard of Criticism by Gholamreza Fadaie

“…As a result, the criticism of standard and standard of criticism are two main criteria for critique.…”
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Democracia, expertise e burocracia: relações entre política, técnica e participação by Frank de Paula Ribeiro

“…The concepts of expertise and expert, originating in Social Studies of Science and Technology (SSST), are applied to the analysis of the political control of bureaucracy in public administration, using as a reference model the public communication of science. Subsequently, a critique is made of the “public knowledge deficit” approach, a model that considers the public as composed of uninformed laypeople and whose fundamental task is to improve communication of knowledge from experts to the public in general. …”
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Vernacular Architecture as Self-Determination: Venturi, Scott Brown and the Controversy over Philadelphia's Crosstown Expressway, 1967-1973 by Sebastian Haumann

“…The aesthetic criticism exemplified in their study of Las Vegas found parallels in the political critique embodied by the alternative scheme they developed for the Philadelphia citizen group. …”
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Interpreting the Erotic as An Agency: A Study of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood by Smaranika Chakraborty, Himangshu Sarma

“…Drawing on the feminist critique of Audre Lorde, who contends that the power of the erotic is an empowering force that is latent in women, we argue that when women take agency over their body and reclaim their sexuality, they emerge as empowered beings in all aspects of their lives. …”
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"Out there in that cabin in the middle of nowhere in Montana": Narrating the Geographical and Mental Deviance of the Unabomber by Robert Winkler

“…Projecting cabinsanity, in turn, enables the dismissal of the Unabomber's critique of technologized society as delineated in his manifesto. …”
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