Les miroirs médiévaux : réflexions génériques et genrées by Clémentine Girault, Jeanne Mousnier-Lompré

“…Teresa de Lauretis had clearly identified the role of scholarly discourse in the (re)production of gender, and historiography dedicated to « mirrors » is no exception. …”
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Culturaliser les difficultés scolaires ? L’exemple des politiques éducatives en Picardie face aux classes populaires blanches by Ismail Ferhat

“…This subject is still, by contrast, less studied by French education science scholars. The article is based on the results and materials gathered by a collective and interdisciplinary research on education (named “Preuve”) in the French deprived region of Picardie. …”
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The challenge of the spiral-of-silence theory by Wolfgang Donsbach

“…Noelle-Neumann's ap proach has been discussed and criticised by scholars from different fields. Nevertheless, the empirical evidence up to now seems to underline that it has the potential to explain some of the variance in individual behaviour and in the dynamics of public opinion pro-V cesses. …”
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Primary School Curricula Towards Sustainable Peace Education in Post-genocide Rwanda by Edouard Ntakirutimana, Emmanuel Niyibizi

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İSLAM GELENEĞİNDE TARİHİN ÖZNESİ SORUNU by Ahmet Keleş

“…Allah says that the universe is completely his property and He does everything as he wants. Muslim scholars think that these verses meanings are Allah the unique subject of the history. …”
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Owning the libs: Post-truth in right-wing political discourse by Kris Hartley

“…Emerging in scholarly discussions about political discourse over the past decade, the terms ‘post-truth’ and ‘denialism’ refer to disagreement not on public policy strategies but on the nature of truth itself. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…Thus, this representation provides today a real ‘scholarly rumour’ about the discovery of the childhood during the occidental modernity and constitutes the hard core of a paradigm. …”
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Air Bag Momentum Force Including Aspiration by Guy Nusholtz, Deguan Wang, E. Benjamin Wylie

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Rethinking Social Context in Technological Responsibility - Steven Umbrello, Technology Ethics: Responsible Innovation and Design Strategies by Ayat Mirzaie

“…This review underscores the book’s practical value for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers grappling with technological innovations’ ethical and societal implications.…”
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La notion de « structure » entre anthropologie, études littéraires et littérature by Pauline Mettan

“…I then focus more specifically on its appropriation by literary scholars of Proust’s La Recherche in the 1960s-1970s. …”
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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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The Samurai and the Artist: Henry Miller’s Reflections on the Death of Mishima by Wayne E. Arnold

“…Since the text has been greatly overlooked by both Miller and Mishima scholars, uncovering Miller’s composition process and the Japanese publication history through the use of archival materials will encourage a reevaluation Miller’s search for understanding concerning Mishima’s actions. …”
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Young Christians in Norway, national socialism, and the German occupation of 1940-1945 by F. Hale

“…The subordination of the church to the de facto Nazi state eventually led its bishops and most of its pastors to sever their ties to the government while remaining in their ministries. Churchmen and scholars have explored dimensions of this challenging episode in Norwegian church history, but little has been published about the plight of most of the para-church organizations. …”
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L'injure comme délit. L'approche des fuqahâ' théologiens-légistes musulmans by Yahya Ould al-Barra, Abdel Wedoud Ould Cheikh

“…This text focuses on how Moslem legal scholars deal with a singular form of verbal aggression called qadhf. …”
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Participação, desigualdades e novas institucionalidades: uma análise a partir de instituições participativas em Santa Catarina by Lígia Helena Hahn Lüchmann, Julian Borba

“…A brief discussion on the political participation is carried on in the beginning, rescuing the main theoretical sources of this debate, followed by a presentation of some empirical data regarding the social economical profile (focusing the data of income and scholar) of the political representatives in the experiences analyzed herein. …”
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Usages participatifs des technologies et désir d’émancipation : une articulation fragile et paradoxale by Serge Proulx

“…Since the 1970s, the question of democratic participation has been tackled by communication scholars in both Europe and North America. We suggest some avenues of research for articulating the participative usage of digital technologies – considered simultaneously as facilitators for emancipation and for alienation – and, on the other hand, a set of individual and social practices aimed at the construction of a cognitive democracy. …”
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The Aryans and the Ancient System of Caste by Marianne Keppens

“… Over the last century or two, the dominant accounts of the caste system have looked for its roots in the ancient history of India. More precisely scholars have linked the origin of the caste system to the invasion of a Sanskrit speaking people, the Aryans, who are said to have imposed their language, religion and social structure on an indigenous population called the Dravidians. …”
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Tax Revolts in Yorubaland, 1925-1955 by Abiodun S. Afolabi

“…There are good reasons to believe that there were other significant tax-related considerations, other than taxation, that were responsible for the revolts that were thrown up in late colonial southwestern Nigeria. Some scholars have also noted a comparative process that is currently unfolding; that it was the need to raise money that forced the hands of the colonial authority into democratization and that the despondency of the indigenous population was a major reason for the crises that enveloped Yorubaland from 1925 up to 1955. …”
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From Exchange to Inter-knowledge: Ethnography and the Invisible Facts of Political Work by Julieta Quirós

“…Drawing on ethnographic observation from different contexts- both rural and urban areas-, the case is made for the need to rescue analytically the concept of agency and the importance of personal relations that both common sense and the scholarly literature often consider politically “weak”. …”
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Nebulous Populism and the Constellation of Agencies within the Philippine Catholic Church by Edryan Paul J. Colmenares

“…Many scholars who have studied populism consider it a nebulous concept, given the variety of causes that explain its formation. …”
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