From Uncle Tom to Nat Turner: An Overview of Slavery in American Film, 1903-2016 by Melvyn Stokes

“…The reasons for the success of these films—and the failure of The Birth of a Nation (2016)—are discussed in relation to broader changes in American social and cultural attitudes.…”
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Possible paths towards sustainable tourism development in a high-mountain resort by Laurent Arcuset

“…The article investigates the stakes and difficulties of the implementation of sustainable development in Valloire, asks the question of the "cultural revolution" which the actors should achieve to change the model of economic development, and suggest some tracks to reach there. …”
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Using One’s Right of Inspection: Australia, the United Nations, Human Rights and Aboriginal People by Ludivine Royer

“…Worldwide, indigenous people were abused, their lands stolen, their rights scorned, their families torn apart, their communities broken, their cultures despised, their dignity wounded and their future compromised. …”
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A Review on the Criteria of Evaluating the Reliability of Persian Manuscripts by Mojtaba Mojarrad

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L’agenda gouvernemental de croissance saisi par l’expertise environnementale des Organisations de la société civile (OSC) de défense des forêts au Cameroun by Moïse Tchingankong Yanou

“…This tendency, which emerges in confrontation or in opposition with cultural human ecology, analyses essentially power and the fight for power in matters of management of the environment. …”
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„Rasse mit Stil“ by Marcus Hahn

“…The article discusses this variant of the naturalization of the arts using the example of a French-German cultural transfer; since one of the main sources for Benn’s text montage is Hippolyte Taine’s Philosophie de l’art en Grèce (1869).…”
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Les perspectives de la biodiversité en Afrique subsaharienne : repenser collectivement le modèle de gestion by Robert Kasisi

“…Setting out an argument with far-reaching implications for the success of future conservation efforts all over the world, the author examines the basis of emerging conservation approaches in sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on the need to forge a more inclusive conservation practice and open up to the perceptions, representations and cultural universe of the Other.…”
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Memoria mediática y construcción de identidades by Salomé Sola Morales

“…La principal conclusión a la que hemos llegado es que para comprender a fondo el funcionamiento de una cultura o comunidad es necesario analizar el modo como se configuran y conservan dichas comunidades, y la propia memoria cultural, comunicativa y mediática.…”
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La planificación “del desarrollo” en Carlos Matus: una relectura by Celeste Viedma

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Migrant Shepherds: Opportunities and Challenges for Mediterranean Pastoralism by Michele Nori

“…Such migratory flows enable the pursuit, evolution and diversification of an activity increasingly acknowledged as essential to the preservation of the region’s natural and cultural heritage; and yet, it is one that Europeans are practising less and less.Engaging this workforce in the process of adapting and innovating the sector by integrating and empowering them provides the opportunity to help train the shepherds and the breeders of tomorrow. …”
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Notes on the survey of Islamic Archaeological sites in South-Eastern Wallo (Ethiopia) by Deresse Ayenachew, Assrat Assefa

“…These mosques of different styles, as well as the two burial sites visited, invite further historical and archaeological research on the Islamic cultures of this region, which should provide important evidence of medieval Muslim settlements, and of its re-Islamization in more recent times.…”
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Wenjing Guo, Internet à Canton (Chine) – Dynamiques sociales et politiques by Wenjing Guo

“…The fieldwork centered on three groups around specific issues (homosexuality, environmental protection, cultural heritage protection) in the city of Guangzhou. …”
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Le bas-Oyapock : un fleuve, une frontière, des frontières ? by Sylvie Letniowska-Swiat, Valérie Morel

“…With the strengthening of the controls that accompany the establishment of the crossing point by the bridge, the traditional functioning of the living area has been disrupted, revealing a border long erased and denied by the social, economic, cultural and health practices of populations. Today, lower-Oyapock is renewing its margin operation, particularly in its thickness and in the territorial dynamics it generates.…”
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Structural Insights into Ratite Birds and Crocodile Eggshells for Advanced Biomaterials Design by Nerith R. Elejalde-Cadena, Edilberto Hernández-Juárez, Everardo Tapia-Mendoza, Abel Moreno, Lauro Bucio

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Queering the City: Understanding Gravitational Forces by Petra L. Doan

“…Because these forces are unique to each LGBTQ space, the analytic strategy provides for greater generalizability across different sizes of cities, across various cultural and ethnic areas, and a wider array of geographies.…”
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A Critical Analysis of the Book” Ambiguity Function in the Process of Reading a Text” by Maryam Raminnia

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Victorian Designs of Industrial Desire by Béatrice Laurent

“…This form of industrial education resulted in a training of the eye and the mind to operate according to non-mimetic, purely conceptual codes. The cultural impact of this revolution in the act of seeing reached far beyond the field of technical drawing, as this paper proposes to demonstrate.…”
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Shakespeare à l’écran : Makibefo d’Alexander Abela, un exemple extrême d’appropriation culturelle by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède

“…The use of the Antandroy people or “an ancient tribe” who had never even seen a film before, is an example of cultural appropriation or a “transcultural” approach to the play, a complex process of rewriting which consists in a narrative and aesthetic remoulding of the play adapted. …”
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Ecritures autobiographiques, remémoration et enjeux symboliques by Christine Plasse-Bouteyre

“…We will focus ourselves on the status of the autobiography in the intellectual production of professors and on its symbolic, social and cultural dimensions. We wish to account for the social conditions of production of biographical discourses, the mental schemes guiding the presentation of the self and the self-definition of professors in writings of personal and recollective claim. …”
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I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…  This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. …”
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