The Gig Economy and Its Impact on Women in Iraq by Hawra Milani, Zahra Shah, Rikke Bjerg Jensen

“…This paper traces the experiences of Iraqi women in the gig economy, drawing on both individual and collective insights grounded in the authors’ work in this context. …”
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« Le Paradis de Zahra » : le grand cimetière de Téhéran entre pratiques populaires et rationalité étatique by Sepideh Parsapajouh

“…Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and the deadly war against Iraq (1980-1988), this cemetery has become emblematic of the country's contemporary history, where the construction of traditional and revolutionary religious and political identities is at stake. Drawing on ethnographic data collected in the field over recent years, this article proposes a reflection on the complex articulations between the rationality of a modern state, albeit one that is religiously inspired, the ritual norms defined by religious scholars and scrupulously respected by a centralized funerary administration, and the daily practices of simple believers who, attached to the cult of the dead often observe with more passion than reason. …”
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The rise and demise of the New Public Management: Lessons and opportunities for South East Europe by Wolfgang Drechsler

“…The essay then focuses on the optimal public administration system for South East Europe, for which the experience of the new Member States of the European Union is used for lesson-drawing. Here, too, it is argued that NPM is definitely not suited for the region, especially in current conditions but also generally. …”
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Reasons for the migration of church members from one congregation to another by I. M. Bredenkamp, W. J. Schoeman

“…The answer is not simple in the sense that two tendencies can be identified: ‘push’ factors that activate the tendency to move out of the previous congregation, and a drawing or ‘pulling’ tendency, representing those factors that attract people. …”
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MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia by Lara Cox

“…Firstly, I consider how street art represents queer communities, drawing on human geographer Felix Driver’s paradigm of image-centred or “imaginative geography.” …”
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Affective Evictions: by Anna Meera Gaonkar

“…The article argues that the statements also perform ‘affective evictions’ of racialised-migrantised members of society from the community of the imagined national home. Drawing on critical postmigration studies and a media-analytical approach to affect theory, two instrumentalised figures are accentuated as the haunting specters of this homesick politics: the fi gure of insecurity-creating immigrant boys and the figure of parallel societies inhabited by a ‘brown underclass.’ …”
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INTEGRATING SPIRITUALITY IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES: THE “KAIROS EXPERIENCES” IN THE “FAITH-BASED FACILITATION” PROCESS OF THE SALVATION ARMY by S. Knecht

“…This article examines the concept “Kairos”, by drawing on the philosophical and theological literature, with the aim of formulating a theological rationale for the FBF process and providing methodological aids in dealing with the “Kairos experiences”. …”
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The sociolinguistic foundations of language modeling by Jack Grieve, Sara Bartl, Matteo Fuoli, Jason Grafmiller, Weihang Huang, Alejandro Jawerbaum, Akira Murakami, Marcus Perlman, Dana Roemling, Bodo Winter

“…We argue that to maximize the performance and societal value of language models it is important to carefully compile training corpora that accurately represent the specific varieties of language being modeled, drawing on theories, methods, and descriptions from the field of sociolinguistics.…”
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The surplus approach to rent by Franklin Obeng-Odoom

“…Ely’s, highlighting its power and potential and stressing its critiques and contradictions. Drawing, among others, on the original writings of Ely, it is argued that, while the emphasis on property rights, land as a ‘bundle of sticks’, and rent as surplus rather than income help to advance heterodox approaches to rent, the surplus approach is severely limited in its analysis of inequalities and how they can be addressed, especially in extractivist and rentier societies. …”
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National Allegory in Teju Cole’s Open City by Derek F. DiMatteo

“…This stance is facilitated by its portrayal of the protagonist Julius as suffering not a dissociative fugue but a dissociative amnesia, which I arrive at by using the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) V and a rereading of Ian Hacking to revise prior interpretations of Julius as flâneur-fugueur. Drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson, I read Julius’s amnesia-like repression of his past crimes as allegorical of his adopted nation, the USA, which tends to forget its responsibility for its own historical injustices. …”
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Communicative Functions of Code Glosses in Academic Discourse by Hüseyin Kafes

“…Also scarce are the studies on how academic writers address the needs of their readers and so, through elaboration, manage their interactions with them. Drawing on a corpus of 68 research articles (RAs) from the field of applied linguistics, this study explores how experienced writers (EWs) and novice writers (NWs) elaborate their ideas in their RAs to address their readers’ needs, and in so doing, manage their relations with them. …”
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Class conditioning and class positioning in young people's everyday life with digital media by Danielsson Martin

“…In this article, I explore how social class shapes the conditions and configurations of digital media practice in the everyday life of young people in Sweden. Drawing on Bourdieusian theory and qualitative interview data from two research projects, I complicate the notion of Sweden as a universally wired media welfare state by showing how economic and cultural forces are structuring Internet access and digital media practice along the lines of preexisting social divisions. …”
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Quand la non-activation des règles devient la règle : regard de géographe sur un problème public qui s’éternise. Le cas de la déprivatisation des rives lacustres (Annecy, Léman)... by Alice Nikolli

“…The paper reconstitutes the slow and difficult construction of the public problem and then analyses the strategies used to activate or circumvent the existing political rules. Drawing on this case study, we emphasize on the non-linearity of the construction and resolution of the problem and invite to shift the focus on the multiple retroactions between the early (framing, publicization) and late (agenda setting, public policies) stages of the classical model.…”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Drawing upon Annie Escuret’s epistemocritical method of reading, and on her vision of energy and entropy, this paper considers how, in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, agricultural steam machines begin to colonize the countryside and seem to violate and dislocate the female body. …”
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Quelle(s) épidémiologie(s) pour la santé au travail ? Réflexions à partir des cancers professionnels by Charles-Olivier Betansedi

“…Based on a critical review of the literature on occupational cancers, this article explores the different conflicts arising from the main divergent epidemiological paradigms, and underlines their social foundations and logic. Drawing as it does on various disciplines, occupational epidemiology is therefore subject to competing and contradictory theoretical and explanatory rationales, which are evident in the choice of hypotheses, subjects of study, and variables of interest. …”
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Sexualités en mouvement. Du travail domestique mondialisé à la normalisation des corps sexués by Julien Debonneville

“…Based on an ethnographic analysis of recruitment and training practices of Filipina domestic workers, this article highlights how domestic worker skills are constructed by relying/drawing on certain stereotypes such as "docility", being "hardworking" and able to "adapt” as well as on a control of sexualities. …”
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Computer 3D Scene Simulation of Ecological Landscape Layout Planning by Tong Ling, Yun Ma

“…The experimental result shows: through 3D scene view clipping hierarchical detail model and other techniques, the frame rate of 3D landscape vegetation scene drawing was improved. The interactive 3D scene browsing is realized, and the six-degree-of-freedom omni-directional display of the whole landscape is provided.…”
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Passages adolescents : leurs matérialisations dans les espaces et les temps informels des institutions éducatives by Aurélie Maurin

“…The two notions are indeed caught up in the inherent paradox of their constitution and their function: separating and binding, closing and opening in the same movement.My reflections are drawing on a clinical study in the realm of adolescence, a notion that is itself paradigmatic of the concept of threshold. …”
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Taking a Selfie: Researcher-practitioner positionality and reflexivity in project scholarship by Simon Addyman

“…This paper presents analytic autoethnography as a conceptual frame for explicating researcher-practitioner positionality as one actor. Drawing on prior data from an autoethnography, it studies an autoethnographer's reflexive engagement with participants through the interview process. …”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…In his major work, the Colombières garden in Menton in 1925, Bac applied his principles for the renewal of a Mediterranean art, by breaking with the trend of the pastiche and of exoticism which was then in vogue on the Côte d’Azur. Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and his travel experiences, he recreated in his garden landscape scenes evoking Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Spain under the Arabian and Catholic influences, and Renaissance Italy. …”
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