Transports of Translation: Creativity and Healing by Sara GREAVES

“…Along with the numerous cultural, religious or political functions of translation (establishing religious authority or nation-building, for instance, as with the King James Version of the Bible), along with its didactic use in language-learning and its intercultural one in aesthetic transmission and appropriation, translation can also play a healing role. …”
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Éclairage sur les transformations des structures agricoles dans les Alpes by Thomas Streifeneder, Ulrike Tappeiner, Flavio V. Ruffini, Gottfried Tappeiner, Christian Hoffmann

“…This resulted from various cultural (e.g. relatedness to agricultural traditions, identification of the society with agriculture), agro-political (e.g. …”
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A Critical Review of the Book of Administrative Law by Ghazale Taheri Attar, MohammadAli HasaniNik

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A Critical Review on the Book Corona Economy: Resistance Economy in Corona Virus Age by Wahhab Qelich

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Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…What, if anything, can we learn about English cultural and racial stereotypes from the reviews of this sensational drama? …”
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Beyond Conquest: Decolonizing Adventure Sports through Outdoor Counterstories by Denisa Krásná

“…The analysis highlights how these athletes are not only reshaping the cultural landscape of outdoor sports but also advocating for a shift from competitive dominance to collaborative coexistence, thereby supporting a more equitable and sustainable interaction with the natural world.…”
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Assessing the Compliance of Indonesian Marriage Laws with CEDAW Principles by Aditya Restu Hapriyanto, Desi Syamsiah

“…This study also analyzes the gap between the principles of CEDAW and legal practices applied in Indonesia, taking into account cultural, social, and political factors that influence the implementation of these principles. …”
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“Memory and Desire”: T.S. Eliot, Reaction, Nostalgia, and Poetic Reserve in The Waste Land by Philippe Birgy

“…It first reviews the state of the art and recasts the different critical positions in a historical and cultural perspective, then reflects on what passes off as the fundamental rift between the commentators of Eliot, depending on whether they prescribe a close stylistic scrutiny of Eliot’s poem or a general contextualisation as the premise of their literary assessment. …”
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Aestheticising the Post-Industrial Debris : Industrial Ruins in Contemporary British Landscape Photography by Karolina Kolenda

“…Contemporary landscape photography attempts to reinstate the image of Britain’s industrial past into commonly shared imagination, where the conflicted nature of the country’s cultural identity – the clash between the “Northern” and “Southern” metaphors – reveals itself with particular force.…”
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A Critique and Review on the Book Human Resource Management in Public Organizations by Mohammad Mohammadi, Fatemeh Lali

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Espaço social e cinema latino-americano: considerações educativas sobre culturas políticas e territórios by Francisco Fagundes de PAIVA NETO

“…A proposta também objetivou oportunizar um espaço de entretenimento qualitativo para os envolvidos, com o fito de ampliar a capacidade crítica e relacional, por uma intensificação no processo de formação cultural. Teve duração de um ano, outubro de 2013 a outubro de 2014. …”
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A Phosphorous History: William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain by Antonia Rigaud

“…William Carlos Williams’ In the American Grain is a biography of the American cultural imagination that puts in dialogue the national epic with a perspectival counter history.…”
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New Farming as an Example of Social Innovation Responding to Challenges of Inner Mountain Areas of Italian Alps by Alessandro Gretter, Cristina Dalla Torre, Federica Maino, Andrea Omizzolo

“…Changes in the socio-economic framework that have taken place since the late 1960s have disrupted the multi-centennial balanced models of organisation in mountain communities, leading to a series of challenges in the socio-economical, cultural and environmental spheres. Mountain communities, independently or with the support of local and regional authorities, tried to halt or reverse these processes. …”
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Rescuing the Jews in Lithuania during World War II: Practices of Creating a Lithuanian Museum Narrative by Rūta Šermukšnytė

“…The question is: what narrative schemes of the rescue of the Jews are used in Lithuanian museums, what does the museum want to communicate to the public on the topic of the rescue of the Jews, by what means does the museum create a historical narrative, what historical cultural events promote the emergence of themes of the rescue of the Jews in one or another Lithuanian museum? …”
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Towards a cyber ecology by Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri

“…The first side of the coin – making the natural world into an artificially-enhanced ‘cyborg’ – has already gained momentum and cultural purchase. The other path – animating the artificial world to make it work in harmony with nature and living things – is a place where we have only just begun to take our first steps. …”
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EL INTERMINABLE APOGEO DE LA INTERCULTURALIDAD: ALGUNAS REFLEXIONES CRÍTICAS DESDE LA ANTROPOLOGÍA Y LA FILOSOFÍA by Gonzalo Díaz Crovetto, MARIO SAMANIEGO

“…Proponemos, en este sentido, revelar y cuestionar las implicancias conceptuales y prácticas que la diseminación de la denominada interculturalidad pueda generar en propuestas y modelos que buscan la gestión de la diversidad social y cultural. Para ello, consideramos importante distinguir, por un lado, algunas particularidades emanadas de la experiencia antropológica en relación con el estudio y la configuración de otredades y, por otro, discutir, a partir de la filosofía, la necesidad de que la dimensión vivencial dinamice la interculturalidad como proceso contextual y crítico. …”
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Nature of Science as Portrayed in the Middle School Science and Technology Curriculum: The Case of Turkey by Kemal Izci

“…A conceptual analysis was used to achieve the aims of the study by focusing on aspects of NOS , namely: the empirical, tentative, inferential, creative, theory-laden, and social dimensions of NOS; myth of “The Scientific Method”; nature of theories and laws; and social and cultural embeddedness of science. Analyses indicated that the targeted NOS aspects were insufficiently portrayed in these documents in that some important aspects of NOS (e.g., scientific theories and laws) are not included while some others (e.g., inferential and theory-driven) are implicitly represented. …”
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A Critical Review on the Book The Principles of Behavioral Economics: Individual Decision-Making by Ali Saeedi

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A Critique on the Book "The Meaning of Icons" by Nahid Abdi

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Globalizing opposition to pro-environmental institutions: The growth of counter climate change organizations around the world, 1990 to 2018. by Jared Furuta, Patricia Bromley

“…In this paper, we track the growth of counter climate change organizations around the world and emphasize the role of reactionary cultural dynamics in driving their emergence. As climate change discourse is infused in more areas throughout society, climate change issues become more salient in the public sphere, generating adversarial grievances, identities, and mobilization among oppositional groups. …”
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