Le processus de conversion politique d’un pasteur chaux-de-fonnier au cours de la Grande guerre : quand Jules Humbert-Droz devint un révolutionnaire suisse (1914-1919) by Clément Fontannaz

“…This article presents how biographical work helps understand the more global mechanisms of an individual’s political conversion. …”
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La parentalité, une contribution au capital des femmes des classes supérieures ? by Julie Landour

“…Based on a three-year ethnography and fifty biographical interviews, this article questions maternity in the light of parental engagement and cultural capital, and analyzes its distinctive dimensions and political ambivalences.…”
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New documents on the arrest of family of General N. N. Stogov in 1919 by A. V. Ganin

“…The study, which is theoretically based on a biographical method, sheds light on the features of the repressive practice of the Cheka during the Civil War and on the history of the confrontation between the Chekists and the white underground in Moscow. …”
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Velours rouge et piquets de grève : la grève du music-hall à Londres en 1907 by John Mullen

“…Writings on the music hall strike in London in 1907 have usually been limited to biographical anecdotes on the role of the stars in the dispute. …”
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‘Silence is the sentence’: adult learners’ experiences of a co-created curriculum constructed through free writing tasks by Howard Scott, Pete Bennett, Craig A Hammond

“…We outline how our developing praxis situates students’ self-concepts in confronting past biographical experiences of education and empowers them to improved literacy and purpose. …”
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As Camp as a Row of Pink Tents: Stephen’s Portrait of Mr W. S. by Samuel Slote

“…In the ‘Scylla and Charybdis’ episode of Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus presents a theory about Shakespeare’s biographical motivations for writing Hamlet, which he ultimately claims, perhaps disingenuously, to not believe. …”
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Difficulties and Achievements: formation of Siberian Directorate of Military Educational Institutions of the Red Army (1919–1920) by I. V. Fedotova

“…The theoretical basis of the study is a combination of anthropological and systemic approaches, problem-chronological, comparative-historical and biographical methods. The author comes to the conclusion about the key role of the Soviet military leaders M. …”
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Kulturelle Alterität als Exilerfahrung by Sabina Becker

“…Döblin’s explicitly intercultural positioning as a representative of literary modernism and urbanism should be analyzed in relation to the biographical dimension of his exile and leads to the consideration of whether and how intercultural writing in exile can be linked with the experience of alterity in a foreign environment. …”
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« Un coup de dés jamais n’abolira le hasard » : quelques cas de conversions esthétiques au flamenco (XXe-XXIe siècles) by Vinciane Trancart

“…Based on interviews with the artists, this study takes into account the part of «biographical illusion» presented by P. Bourdieu: through souvenirs and discourse, these memories exposed are a result of the reconstruction of their experiences. …”
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Présence des pauvres. La fouille de texte dans les sources de langue arabe du Maroc moderne (xviiie‑xixe siècles) by Antoine Perrier

“…This paper presents an experiment in text mining – i.e. keyword searching – on a corpus of sources from early modern Morocco: the administrative correspondence of a pasha of Fez (19th century), a biographical dictionary, a hagiography and a dynastic chronicle, three texts written between the 18th and 19th centuries. …”
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Climate Science as Counterculture by Daniel Cunha

“…The constitution of climate science is reconstructed by taking the IGBP’s Amsterdam Declaration as historical archive, and by discussing biographical aspects of representative scientists, in mediation with their work and their world-historical context. …”
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Analyse du parcours d’un élève « multi-dys » : être inclus ou s’inclure ? by Anne Dizerbo

“…This paper is based on a research in the field of biographical research in education and is interested in school inclusion as a process at the intersection between institutional prescriptions and the individual life courses of the participants involved. …”
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Intérpretes e notáveis da literatura e da cultura popular do Maranhão by Igor Gastal Grill, Eliana Tavares dos Reis

“…We analyzed Academic Profiles and Popular Culture Profiles taking into consideration: (i) the social and political position of the agents (biographers and biographiers), defined by the resources on which their “reputation” and their inscriptions are based on cultural and political struggles; (ii) the structuring strategies of the works, observing the selection and hierarchization of the cases, available space, assigned classifications, among others; (iii) and the contents, adjectives, definitions, finally, the representations explained in the pre-texts and laudatory texts. …”
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Aspekte der Aneignung in Klaus Manns Gide-Rezeption by Ralph Winter

“…He published a certain number of essays on Gide as well as an extensive biography and, by doing so, he contributed to a wider spreading of Gide’s works and ideas in the German speaking world. Within these biographical writings traces of a clearly induvial, even identificational reception of Gide’s works can be observed and described. …”
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Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer en los años treinta: los sacerdotes amigos / Josemaría Escrivá in the 1930s: priest friends by José Luis González Gullón, Jaume Aurell

“…The study is based on documents already published on Saint Josemaria together with unpublished material on the biographical details of the priests who associated with him during these years.…”
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The case of the «Volga Espionage Organization». 1919 by A. V. Ganin

“…The theoretical basis of the study is a combination of the anthropological approach, problematic and biographical methods. As part of this case, along with other persons, several students of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army were arrested, who were suspected of a counter-revolutionary conspiracy. …”
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Memorias del tránsito by Griselda Späth

“…The aim of this work, and the doctoral thesis in which it is developed, is to analyze the way in which families in transit children, build their identity.  From a biographic approach, depth interviews were conducted to construct life stories. …”
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