Arithmetic of the sound of silence by Robert Madoi Nasaba

“…The article finds that while Southern women have managed to use online spaces (periphery) to acknowledge their sisterhood, an awareness of intersectionality in the mainstream (centre) is conspicuously absent. It draws on the feminist communication theory as informed by feminism and finds that men continue to be privileged when online (periphery) and offline (centre) communities are blurred. …”
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'Jami Chadiba Nahin' (We Will Not Leave this Land): Materiality and Imagination in Indigenous Land Ethics by Ananya Mishra

“…This is in the hope that the questions might enlighten and reify contemporary concerns in these respective geographical and intellectual locations, complicating the site and probing the intellectual divide between the Global North and the Global South in area studies, to see how Indigenous concerns globally are aligned in the face of a global climate crisis, as they are disproportionately affected due to historical injustices of empire, settler colonial enterprise, caste orders and religious nationalisms. While I draw from American Environmental Studies to situate the materiality of Indigenous philosophies, the essay affirms the enabling mindfulness of metaphors and how they can inform and strengthen material claims in the negotiation for Indigenous political rights in India, and elsewhere, by resisting co-options of Indigeneity that accompany pitfalls of literality. …”
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The Renewal of the Twenty Years in Theater: Revisions Based on The Danton Case by Stanisława Przybyszewska from 2008 by Katarzyna Fazan

“…The mentioned stage production of the twenty-first century draw attention to the current of aesthetic-political engagement in Polish interwar theater, and inscribe this theme in the program of dismantling earlier theatrical hierarchies built on the concept of a national community united by Romantic myth. …”
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Provocation: Journal experiments in overlay, data and provisionality by Tim Boon

“…Being online rather than on paper always conferred potential benefits that we were keen to promote: the ability to feature very high-definition photographs, to draw on the Museum’s extensive image library, to embed sound and film files, to link elsewhere on the internet. …”
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From Life to Its Online School: An Analysis of Alain de Botton’s ‘The School of Life’ as Strategy and Tactic by Gökçen Karanfil, A. Özgür Gürsoy

“…Through a critical engagement with the literature on the conceptualizations of culture, this article focuses on the possibilities for empowerment and social agency that may be found in manifestations of everyday popular culture and the critiques of this approach that voice their oppressive nature. The article draws on Michel de Certeau’s distinction between strategies and tactics, as qualified by Michel Foucault’s use of the same conceptual pair, in order to develop a conceptual grid that emphasizes their imbrication or mutual conditioning. …”
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Supporting learners with autism spectrum disorders in Lesotho primary schools: Challenges and possible solutions by Mohapi Augustinus Monyane

“…This qualitative study draws on a purposive sample of fourteen participants (two principals, six teachers, and six parents) who have experience working with learners with ASD within two primary schools that practice inclusive education in Lesotho. …”
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Samværsdans i lærerutdanningen – et inkluderende og bevegelig sammentreff by Stig-Ivan Nygård, Solveig Fretheim

“…We lean on Biesta’s (2014, 2017) educational theories, Bandura’s (1997) theory of ’self-efficacy’ and Bresler’s (2018, 2019) ideas on beginner’s mind and ways of knowing. We draw attention to the experiences of engaging, embodied and collective learning processes. …”
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Climate change response measures in South African road transport sector: lessons from BRICS countries by Maijane M. Mashamaite

“…BRICS represents Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa, a group of developing economies working together to strengthen their economic and political influence. This article draws lessons from BRICS countries and conclude that South Africa should decrease fossil fuel use in the road transport sector for climate-friendly options.…”
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Regulatory and policy analysis of employment and health protections in Indonesia’s creative economy by Afrilies Marlia Hafny, Naili Yuris Tri, Lina Angie Angel

“…The research highlights critical gaps in health coverage for workers with less than six months of employment and suggests that expanding social security coverage, increasing legal literacy, and enacting targeted regulatory reforms are essential for creating a more inclusive and sustainable creative economy workforce. The study also draws lessons from Vietnam’s successful implementation of Social Health Insurance. …”
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Conversations with Miss Jane by Geneviève Fabre

“…Most importantly this essay will analyse the resonance of an eventful and often dramatic era on her sensibility and conversely show how her evolving sensibility informs that history and draws attention to aspects that might have passed unnoticed or be forever silenced. …”
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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Changing the Content of Social Media Advertising by Andrea Seberíni, Miroslava Tokovska

“…Promotion plays an important role within the marketing mix, as its aim is to draw the attention of potential buyers. The main purpose of this study is to find out how social media, especially advertising, changed its content during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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How rural school teachers can support the learning adjustment of left‐behind children under the ‘double‐reduction’ policy by Xuedi Pi, Jianping Huang, Jiong Niu

“…Teachers are the important adults in the lives of the LBC who spend much time staying with each other. This study draws from interviews with 16 rural primary and secondary school teachers. …”
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Papež Alexandr VII. (1655–1667) a biskupství v Hradci Králové by Jakub Zouhar

“…Rome's view. The work draws on archive documents located in the National Archive in Prague, in the State's Regional Archive in Zámrsk, the Secret Archive of the Vatican as well as any editions and literature available. …”
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Pour une approche génétique de L’Éducation sentimentale (1869) : état présent, perspectives, démarches by Déborah Boltz

“…In view of these two works in progress on the text and the “avant-texte” of L’Éducation sentimentale, the time has come to draw up a critical and descriptive evaluation of the work produced on this corpus. …”
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Overview on the characteristics of houseboats in the Royal Belum State Park, Perak, Malaysia by Rohaslinda Ramele Ramli, Norashikin Ahmad Kamal

“…Detailed field investigations focus on houseboat types, tourism activities, and design characteristics. Measurements and drawings clarify the spatial usage and structural details of the houseboats. …”
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Configuring parents as citizens and consumers: local variations in informational material about school allocation and choice in Sweden by Hanna Sjögren, Baki Cakici

“…The aim of the paper is to 1) identify different ways in which Swedish municipalities configure parents in local school choice settings and 2) relate these configurations of parents to different ideas about the purpose of education. We draw on theoretical insights from Science and Technology Studies (STS) on how technical systems shape their own (future) users as well as the theoretical conceptualisation of education as a private and public good. …”
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Polarization of homogeneous groups of territorial entities by S. Sh. Aslaeva

“…The article shows optimal leveling limits. The author draws a conclusion, that among municipal districts of the same typological group, gaps are formed and further polarization occurs. …”
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Ewolucja tureckiej polityki bezpieczeństwa by Magdalena Kumelska-Koniecko

“…Balancing moves can cause geopolitical alienation and limit Turkey's freedom of action, reducing the effectiveness of diplomatic efforts, which are an essential tool for resolving international conflicts. The article draws on interviews the author conducted with Turkish researchers. …”
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Formation and creative manifestation of functional ensembles of intellectual agents based on live information in various spheres of life activity by Evgeny Bryndin

“…Neural networks with deep learning and reinforcement are able to compose poetry and music, draw paintings, and write short stories, as well as come up with scripts for films. …”
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Cartes et mémoire, droits et relations by Sian Sullivan

“…Examples now abound of the complex, ambiguous and sometimes contested outcomes of CBNRM initiatives and processes. In this paper I draw on archival, oral history and ethnographic material for north-west Namibia, particularly in relation to indigenous Khoekhoegowab-speaking Damara / ǂNūkhoen and ǁUbun peoples, to explore two issues. …”
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