Violence symbolique et résistances populaires by Ugo Palheta

“…This article reassesses the concept of « symbolic violence » which was introduced by Pierre Bourdieu in his works about school systems, and more generally as the French scholar tried to address the enigmatic character of the perpetuation of domination relations. …”
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Manual de Neuroeducación y Neurociencias del Bilingüismo by Alba Vivancos Sánchez

“…The book's depth and focus make it a noteworthy contribution to neuroeducation and bilingualism studies, appealing especially to scholars and practitioners in these fields. …”
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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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THE ETHICS OF PLATO’S IDEAS AND IDEALS by Jonas Balčius

“…A more careful analysis proves that the famous scholar of antiquity is primarily the author of ontoethical philosophical conception. …”
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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. …”

Les fondements de la géographie humaine by Paul Claval

“…The geography it explores is not only that of scholars. Everybody wears in oneself an original version of it.…”
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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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Les sources de l’histoire du duché. Publications et inventaires récents by Pierre Bauduin

“…Recent studies on the history of the duchy have largely drawn on the new light shed on sources available to scholars. The endeavours to publish the narrative texts have materialised not only intonew editions of the major works of the Norman chroniclers, but have also led to a rediscovery of the earliest Norman historiography and sustained debates concerning the processes of transmission of memory and the appropriation by a society of its past. …”
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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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'Plain and Old' by Bas Spliet

“…Previous explanations – diminished purchasing power, overproduction, depleted social distinction potential, budget and space constraints – are tested with a unique database of Amsterdam probate inventories but found insufficient. Following scholars like Jan de Vries and Bruno Blondé, I maintain that the downfall of the painting in Dutch interiors is best explained within the framework of the consumer revolution, on which this case study offers a fresh perspective by arguing that the ascent of fashion gave rise to a consumer version of creative destruction. …”
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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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Early Buddhism and the Greeks by Richard Stoneman

“…Buddhist forms of argument, such as the tetralemma, reappear in Pyrrho. Some scholars have argued that key elements of Buddhism, including the Four Noble Truths, and the doctrine of no self, only arose much later; but archaeological evidence, such as the sculptures of Sanchi, indicate that key doctrines, as enshrined in the jatakas, were circulating in the Indo-Greek period in India. …”
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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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Réformes éducatives sous le Front populaire et mise à l’épreuve des normes professionnelles et pédagogiques. Le cas du livret Fontègne by Jean-Yves Seguy

“…This experiment, established at the instigation of the Secretary of the Front populaire, Jean Zay, had for objective to prepare the scholar guidance of the pupils from the observation of the aptitudes in the class. …”
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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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