The platform of spoof videos: The case of Tudou.com by Li Henry Siling

“…Using Tudou.com, one of China’s most popular video-sharing sites, as a case study, the paper discusses how video-sharing sites facilitate and curtail the self, and how they negotiate and balance among users, clients and the state, teasing out the complex politics of platforms in China. Particular reference is made to three “star users”, Jiaoshou, Hu Ge and Corndog, who gained fame for themselves via the popularity of their spoof videos on this platform.…”
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The interpretation of the New Testament as the study of texts and contexts: hermeneutics, identities, communities by J. Punt

“…The latter also establishes the context, as the social setting of Paul’s letters with their rhetorical use of Othering was the Roman Empire with its identity politics. The rhetorical power of Paul and his scriptural texts contributed to discursive formations, since a strong sense of being and identity was negotiated through these texts, even when admitting that such formations are always in process, mutating and reformatting. …”
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A testemunha e a memória. O paradoxo do indizível da tortura e o testemunho do desaparecido by Castor M.M. Bartolomé Ruiz

“…The victim¿s testimony grows in a new political event that narrates the dark side of the violence, denied by the politics of forgetfulness about the victim and winners. …”
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KÜRESELLEŞME VE KÜRESEL TEOLOJİ ARAYIŞLARI by Şamil Öcal

“…At the begining the globalisation was observed in economy, commerce then it has expanded its scope to all areas ranging from education, politics to international relations and religion. This study aims at examining the influences of globalization for Christianity and particulary İslam, regarding their new geographical and theological borders that has been fashionining with the Globalization. …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…The origins of its economic and political dominance can be traced back to the beginning of the German Empire’s formation. …”
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Revendications morales et politiques d’une révolte. Les émeutes du Mzab en Algérie (2013-2015) by Laurence Dufresne Aubertin

“…From the ordinary representations of politics and local production of the feeling of injustice, this article focuses on the meaning of the riotous engagement in the Mzab, which goes beyond communitarian reading. …”
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Dilema da identidade: os rataplãs do Olodum, políticas de significado e o campo etnopopular no Brasil by Edson Farias

“…Upon the application of the figurative-procedural model, in this article, we focus on the Afro-Bahian musical band and carnival group Olodum as heuristic of the correlations between culture, politics and economics. These are triangulations through which the group has achieved national and international recognition for its recreational-artistic presentations. …”
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La guerre, des lieux et des noms. L’Ukraine à l’heure de la décommunisation by Alexia Kis-Marck

“…An attempt is made to assess the inhabitants’satisfaction, tolerance or resistance to the renaming process taking place in their city and to show how their attitudes towards the new street names reflect their way of experiencing the ongoing conflict and the new Ukrainian politics.…”
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L’hispaniste Antoine de Latour (1808-1881) by Manuel Bruña Cuevas

“…Great scholar, in constant contact with Spanish cultural circles, he was also the secretary of a key figure in Spanish politics of the nineteenth century: the Duke of Montpensier, son of King Louis-Philippe of France and pretender to the Spanish throne. …”
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L’inflation à la mode Kayapo : rituel, marchandise et monnaie chez les Xikrin (Kayapo) de l’Amazonie brésilienne by César Gordon

“…Surprisingly enough, money and goods have become embedded in every domain of Xikrin life, including kinship, economy, politics and ritual. In this paper, I try to show that this sort of consumerism results of a complex interaction between general principles of Kayapo sociocosmology and the particular historical conditions in which such principles operate and are actualized.…”
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Die missionêre uitdaging van die arbeidslewe by J.J. Kritzinger

“…Meanwhile there is an unreached weekday world of economy, politics, labour and finance. People spend the majority of their waking hours working, or longing to work. …”
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German Dependency on Russian Gas by Werner Gleißner, Florian Follert

“…However, global crises such as the international financial and economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic or the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine as well as the resulting energy policy issues show that governmental risk management needs to be systematically integrated into the political decision-making process. This paper aims to sensitise decision-makers in politics and society to the need for state risk management and to identify instruments and institutions that, taken together, could be capable of reducing the current “risk blindness” in order to further develop the Federal Republic of Germany into a “robust state” from a risk management perspective.…”
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Nigerian Translingualism: Negotiation and Desirability of Language in Nigerian Literature by Toyin Falola

“… The power to communicate effectively and the politics of language were over the years intertwined, compelling writers used foreign languages to reach a wider audience, make sense of our world, describe different worlds, and create other experiences. …”
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Caring For Performance: Recent Debates by Hanna B. Hölling

“…Enhanced by short philosophical reflection surrounding conservation and its entanglement with the world, this essay reviews the debates that took place on the occasion of the international colloquium devoted to the conservation of performance, Performance: The Ethics and the Politics of Care. The colloquium was organized at Bern University of the Arts on May 29-30, 2021 within the research project Performance: Conservation, Materiality, Knowledge (Swiss National Science Foundation, 2020-24). …”
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Le Remix comme forme littéraire : essai sur les publications récentes de Caroline Bergvall by Vincent Broqua

“…But Bergvall’s remixability is not formal or technological, it is a poetics and a politics of multiplicity that seeks to define how to live together now.…”
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Brasil: da identidade à marca by Maria Celeste Mira

“…Throughout our history, the idea of Brazil has been the subject of several elaborations, in general combining political and aesthetic aspects. However, at the turn of the third mil- lennium this process has taken a new shape. …”
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Bouvard et Pécuchet et le désir amoureux by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…It reveals the erasure of erotic details, as well as politics and history, which end up condensed in the final text. …”
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Sergei Eisenstein in the Proletkult by Biggart John, Bulgakowa Oksana

“…During these years the Agitprop Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, at Lenin’s behest, was taking steps to reduce the scope of activities of the Proletkult, discredit Bogdanov as a thinker, and exclude him from politics.…”
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Reality-Illusion of the Climate Policy of Germany by Rupert Pritzl

“…There are multiple reasons: Politicians seem unwilling to sufficiently learn and appear unable to concede they are wrong. Politics get entangeld in distributional conflicts with EEG lobby groups and orchestrate their pretend efforts in public. …”
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Printemps arabe et nouvel ordre géopolitique au Maghreb by Smail Kouttroub

“…In the Maghreb as in the Mashreq, recent social upheavals have constituted a milestone announcing a break with the past and a new political order. Social change has also raised the specter of a return of identity politics, internal migration and social instability, stoking public fears and raising old insecurities. …”
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