Le langage de la diversité by Sara Ahmed

“…Feminist and postcolonial scholars have offered powerful critiques of the language of diversity. …”
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Entre document immédiat et fiction de mémoire : Histoire et enjeux du désenchantement des actualités visuelles  by Émilie Houssa

“…If "memory is fiction," as many scholars claim (such as Jacques Rancière, Bernard Stiegler and Paul Ricoeur), it seems more and more difficult to set up a space and a time of fictionalisation in this stream of images experienced as the trace of a present and presented soon forgotten. …”
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Inquiry into the Conceptual Dimensions of Project Portfolio Management by Pedro Bruno de Souza, Jorge Carneiro, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello

“…By building from a review of the scant literature on project portfolio management , conversations with expert scholars on project management, interpretations provided by managers, and theoretical reflection by the authors of this study, it was possible to identify main aspects that seem to tap how the degree of “accomplishment” of project portfolio ma nagement can be conceptually defined and operationally measured.…”
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Workplace violence: Prevalence, risk factors and preventive measures across the globe by Daniela ACQUADRO MARAN

“…The investigation of this phenomenon is essential, because the knowledge about the nature of the prior relationship victim-perpetrator, the behaviour acted by the perpetrator and the strategies adopted by the victim to cope with the experience of victimization, the consequences on individuals, society and organization, give to scholars and practitioners significant information that could be useful to improve the organizational prevention and intervention. …”

A Comparative Study of The Yorùbá News and Aláròyé Newspapers by Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…Despite the series of scholarly writings on The Yorùbá News, much work has not been geared towards a comparative study of the newspaper with any other be it old or contemporary. …”
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The structure and dynamics of Luther's Catechism by K. Zwanepol

“…Next some remarks are made on Luther’s purpose in bringing out this Catechism. The more as scholarly discussion about it raised attention is paid to the structure of Luther’s Catechism. …”
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Henri Duveyrier et Cheikh ‘Othmân, cartographes du Sahara by Dominique Casajus

“…This shows how much the author owed to local informants for their contribution, including scholar Sheikh 'Othman, who, in a way, acted as his mentor during his stay in Tuareg country. …”
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Medicalisation of Birth in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century. A Subject to be Investigated by Luminiţa Dumănescu, Ioan Bolovan

“…A research tool like a historical population database could help the scholars to address the issue of birth medicalisation, starting from the main research question: can we discuss the medicalisation of birth given that more than half of the women assisted in the delivery of just one child?…”
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The Multiple Modernities of Sweden by Janina Gosseye

“…Through twelve contributions by a group of international scholars, Mattsson and Wallenstein aspire to initiate the construction of an emblematic Swedish modernism. …”
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Internet et ses espaces : vers une économie politique de la production urbaine par les centres de données by Émile Pronovost, Julia Frotey, Morgan Mouton

“…Ever since the early development of the Internet, scholars in urban studies and geography have sought to examine the infrastructures that subtend the development of this new telecommunication network. …”
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Gathering and Scattering Emily Dickinson’s Poetry by Antoine Cazé

“…It has fiercely divided scholars over what it has meant to “collect” Dickinson’s poems. …”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson, ou le génie de l’imitation by Thomas Constantinesco

“…This prospective impulse is however undermined by the subject’s realization that he is “warped by [his predecessors’] attraction clean out of [his] own orbit, and made a satellite out of a system” (“The American Scholar,” 59). That tension between originality and imitation, creation and quotation, leads the Emersonian subject to boast his inalienable right to plagiarism, counterfeiting and despoilment. …”
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The Print and Digital Editions of Lyn Hejinian’s My Life by Chloé Thomas

“…This paper considers the various versions of My Life and describes their effects on scholarly and pedagogical work on the text, as well as on its position in the American poetic canon. …”
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Kreis in Verse: Robert Duncan and the Masters in Poetics Program at New College of California by Nicholas James Whittington

“…The paper plays on the aural cognates (to the ear most accustomed to English) of the German kreis and the French crise to show how this close circle of poets and scholars banded together to face the perceived crisis of professionalization and careerism represented by the explosive growth of the creative writing complex and the long devaluation of poetry as a vital form of knowledge.…”
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Los límites de la humanidad. El mito de los ch’ullpa en Marcapata (Quispicanchi), Perú by Pablo F. Sendón

“…This paper presents and discusses the myth of the ch’ullpa – beings of the pre-solar time – such as it is narrated by the members of the ayllu Collana from the district of Marcapata (province of Quispicanchi, Cusco) in relation to three kind of sources: a) the archaeological information about the geographical and spatial localization of the mortuary monuments which received that name in the Central Andes; b) the ethnological information about other versions of the myth registered among other indigenous-peasant populations from Southern Peru and the Bolivian altiplano; c) the ethnohistorical information which, in relation with the myth, has been registered by several scholars. The main objective of the review is to lay the foundations of a comparative perspective of the myth with the aim to transcend the specificities of a case study.…”
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Conflict Resolution by Fred Casmir

“…Rather than approaching any given negotiation situation with a fixed, preconceived action model already in mind, communication scholars will have to begin their work much earlier. …”
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The goal of maturity in Ephesians 4:13-16 by E. D. Mbennah

“…This article provides the modern church an alternative way to view the theme and structure of Ephesians and an interpretation of Ephesians 4:13-16. New Testament scholars as well as church leaders, decision-makers in church work, generally, and Christian education planners will find this article quite engaging. …”
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Are You Ready to Tie the Knot? A Quick Checklist by Lisa M. Leslie, Victor W. Harris

“…The inventor, statesman, and scholar Benjamin Franklin provided some wise advice to all those thinking about tying the knot. …”
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Kenelm Digby (and Margaret Cavendish) on Motion by Daniel Whiting

“…Despite this, Digby’s account of what motion consists in has yet to receive much scholarly attention. In this paper, I advance a novel interpretation of Digby on motion. …”
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Reconstructing rhetorical strategies from the text of Galatians - syntax-based discourse analysis as a monitoring device by G. J. Swart

“…Using Galatians as sample text, the author compares three different approaches: analysis presupposing a rhetorical scheme (as proposed by Hans Dieter Betz), the reconstruction of a rhetorical strategy from the text itself (as advocated by Francois  Tolmie), and the so-called semantic (though ultimately syntactic) discourse analysis of Galatians published by a group of South African New Testament scholars. By means of this comparison, the author illustrates the value of a syntactically based method of discourse analysis for verifying conclusions regarding rhetorical strategies. …”
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