Review on Social Welfare Crowdfunding in China Based on PEST-SWOT Model by Jing Liang, Ao Chen

“…From the perspective of PEST-SWOT model, this paper sums up the research trends and development status of social welfare crowdfunding, deconstructs the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats faced by social welfare crowdfunding from the aspects of politics, economy, society, and technology, and puts forward a feasible analysis of relevant development strategies to provide a reference for its future sustainable development.…”
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: Another Industrial Revolution Leaving Black Women Behind? by Malaika Mahlatsi

“… In 2016, Klaus Schwab – founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum (WEF) – introduced a term that would have significant consequences for global politics, economics, science, and the way in which the world is organised. …”
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Die Suid-Afrikaanse Kapelaansdiens (SAKD) en staatsbeleid tydens die Grensoorlog, 1966-1989 by I. Bredenkamp, A. Wessels

“…This article gives an historical perspective on the question whether chaplains were able to function independently, in accordance with the doctrines of their respective denominations, or whether they became liveried servants to state politics during the Border War. Diverse cultures, underpinning different socio-political viewpoints, were involved, as is evident from the oral testimonies of chaplains serving during the time of the war. …”
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Petits arrangements avec le vivant dans le bocage pavillonnaire by Pauline Frileux, Élodie Paillocher

“…Clean maintenance guides the way of gardening and relations to living, but practices are gradually changing thanks to environmental politics, nature organizations and legislation. The neat garden still acts as a model, but the recent keen interest in domesticated herbivores – under environmental motivations (to reduce waste), and edible productions could be the fore-runner of an agricultural and ecological recovering of the housing bocage.…”
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What is not in a name? Toponymic ambivalence, identity, and symbolic resistance in the Nepali flatlands by Darshan Karki, Miriam Wenner

“…This article highlights the complexities and contradictions in place naming processes when entangled with ethnic politics and territorial restructuring.…”
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Women on leadership? Perspectives from postgraduate theology students through the lenses of social identity by I. A. Nell

“… South Africa has experienced a long history of patriarchal leadership in the spheres of politics, economics and culture as well as in the sphere of religion, in particular. …”
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Substitution for Substitution in Measure for Measure by Anton Schütz, Chantal Schütz

“…Law appears together with religion and politics as one combined powerful normative order. …”
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Demographic Changes and Their Spatial-Settlement Consequences: Lessons from East Germany and Hungary by Tibor Kovács

“…Theoretical research and development activities in practice are further aggravated by the mono-minded mentality of society, economy and politics fallen a victim to charms of ‘growth’; the slow recognition of the fact of spatial-urban shrinkage and the reluctance to deal with the problem (especially on the semi periphery). …”
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The Fourth Industrial Revolution and Nigeria: A Policy Conundrum and High Stakes for the Future of the African Continent by O.A. Ladimeji

“… This article argues that it is necessary to take into account political, cultural, and economic factors when evaluating potential responses to the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). …”
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La pratique de la parenté : politique factionnelle, redoublement et réitération d’alliance chez les Katukina (Brésil) by Jérémy Deturche

“…Understanding factional politics then becomes necessary to explain the patterns of marriages and helps to perceive how kinship nomenclature is “practiced” in the political dynamics that underlie the compositions of local Katukina groups. …”
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« Spirit of the dead, rise up! […] and claim your story ». Représentation de l’esclavage et esthétique de la résistance dans Sankofa (Haile Gerima, 1993) by Claire Dutriaux

“…In Sankofa, Gerima developed a politics and aesthetic of resistance. While the film’s political, ideological, and historical dimensions have been extensively analyzed, this essay focuses on its aesthetic dimension, which is the cornerstone of its ideological discourse on resistance to slavery.…”
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La pintura francesa en los primeros años de La Ilustración Española y Americana (1870-1880) by Lola Bermúdez Medina

“…Through its pages it effectively spreads European developments in the arts, society, politics and culture throughout the Spanish-speaking world. …”
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Soulèvement populaire au pays de Chávez by Julien Rebotier

“…Its historical, socio-political and economical contexts allow making connexions with current Latin-American challenges. …”
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EMPIRE AS A CONCEPTUALIZATION OF ‘INTERNATIONAL’ IN THE AGE OF GLOBALISATION by Muhammed Kürşad Özekin

“…Theprimary objective of this article is to present an up-to-date and analyticallyvalid conception of contemporary international politics by mainly drawing onthe seminal work of Hardt and Negri (2000) called Empire. …”
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Devenir reine kakataibo. Performance, séduction et genre en Amazonie péruvienne by Magda Helena Dziubinska

“…This performance can be understood through the transformations that are taking place in Amerindian villages, and related closely to education, modes of gender construction and more generally to the new politics of the body. Privileging a pragmatic and interactionist approach, we initially focus on the spectacular and mimetic aspects of the event (training, costumes, choreography), and then proceed to examine the performative dimension of this specific play of being the Other.…”
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GIUSEPPE VERDI: UN BALLO IN MASCHERA by Júlia KÖPECZI KIRKÓSA

“…As it was the case many times throughout history, the genesis of this work was also influenced by the politics of the day. Due to strenuous political times, Verdi was compelled to change the setting of his opera and also alter the names of the characters in order not to create havoc for the entire art scene on Italy. …”
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Human rights in a secularized society by Willem Jacobus Eijk

“…This has caused the secular understanding of human rights that dominates Western politics to be increasingly distant not only from the Catholic interpretation of them, but also from their original expression in the UN Universal Declaration. …”
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À volta do casamento do infante D. Pedro by Douglas Mota Xavier de Lima

“…Such consortium is analyzed in the context of the Iberian diplomatic relationships, especially between Portugal and Aragon, and of the matrimonial avisin politics of the first decades of the 15th century. …”
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L’identité francophone, la francophonie et la canadianité multiculturelle contemporaine : vers un renouvellement des formes de solitude ? by Aurélien Yannic

“…Eventually Canada asserted its collective identity in the 1980s as a multicultural American society.In this context, one may wonder what the place and influence of French speaking Canadians can be today, confronted as they are with the increasingly organised claims of Québec and the overwhelming pressure of an American-ness modelled on the example given by the USA.We propose to confront in the following pages the various ways in which this question spells itself: Will Francophonie be displaced by the larger concept of Canadian-ness spawned by multicultural politics, or is it compatible with it? And is it possible to hold with Paul Martin that Canada is the first post-modern state in history?…”
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Slowly climbing a slippery slope: Trade unions at COP by Jeremy Anderson

“…Whatever trade unions decide to do or not do inside the COP process, there is an enormous need for climate activism in a range of other spaces, from the workplace to national politics. That being said, I will argue that trade unions should continue to engage in COPs, as it is a key forum where the new climate economy is being shaped. …”
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