A dança das paisagens: Transformações e dinâmicas entre o Rio Uruguai, o Bairro do Passo em São Borja - BR e Santo Tomé -AR by Alex Sander Barcelos Retamoso, Ulisses Souza Gonçalves

“…The study concludes that although the River Uruguay still has great importance for the region, the transformations linked to the construction of the International Bridge have reconfigured its role and also the role of the Passo neighborhood, eliminating the “comércio formiga” in the river and deconstructing the flow of boats in the river, causing economic retraction in this context.…”
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Ethnobiology! Until when will the colonialist legacy be reinforced? by Sofia Zank, Cristiane Gomes Julião, Adriana de Souza de Lima, Marciano Toledo da Silva, Carolina Levis, Natalia Hanazaki, Nivaldo Peroni

“…We recognize that ethnobiological research has advanced in recognizing the rights of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC), but we believe that we still have a long way to go in deconstructing colonialism in ethnobiology. In order to be truly respectful, ethnobiologists need to collaborate with IPLC to achieve an ethical science with equity between knowledge systems, fostering the co-production of knowledge from an intercultural science perspective. …”
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HipHop und Postkolonialismus by David Chemeta

“…By analyzing the linguistic evolutions of hip hop in Germany using concepts from Postcolonial Studies, I seek to highlight the way many rappers with migration backgrounds, as well as part of the people from migration backgrounds living in Germany, have deconstructed the classical idea of “germanity”, often in order to reshape it into a more hybrid form.…”
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« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…The starting point of this reflection lies in the paradigmatic shift embodied by The Boys, following the cinema of Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 2009 and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016), which consists in proposing a realistic rereading of the mythologies of the superhero, whose traditional model is thus strongly criticized, even deconstructed. Similarly, the authors will show how the use of the science- fictional imaginary, notably through the use of the film-matrix Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981), composes a clear genealogical source while, at the same time, The Boys renews its relationship to cinephilic memory and to media and political criticism in a formal synthesis of New Hollywood.…”
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The Dickensian Tropism in Contemporary Fiction by Georges Letissier

“…initiate an in-depth reflection on Dickens’s reception in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century from a sample of texts revisiting, recycling, ‘reprising’ or deconstructing their Dickensian hypotexts. This article draws from Jay Clayton’s study on Dickens and postmodernism to track down different contemporary responses from Kathy Acker to Sarah Waters and the Antipodean rewritings of both Peter Carey’s Jack Maggs and Lloyd Jones’s Mister Pip.…”
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« The Enduring End » by Andria Pancrazi

“…Algernon Swinburne deconstructs the reader’s expectations and construes the textual end as a present absence that haunts the text. …”
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Risquer le pédagogique, entre héritage et modernité by Loïc Chalmel

“…The transition from education to history is not just a matter of epistemology: writing the history of educational ideas, it's both be able to project themselves into the world of other, supportive of his loneliness, and to understand what motivates choice, forced his freedom of action, deconstructing a functioning unit to clarify the linkages between different types of knowledge that constitutes it.…”
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L’art transgenre, vers d’autres expériences corporelles du temps by Luc Schicharin

“…Finally, the performances of Kris Grey’s "Untitled" and Cassils’ "Cuts: A Traditional Sculpture" question the body as a living sculpture: they deconstruct the idea that the medical identification of sex is "the fruitful moment" (Lessing) of gender and the eternal "biological bedrock" (Freud) of subjectivity. …”
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Le viol : un crime spécifique. Quelques pistes de réflexions issues de l’anthropologie by Véronique Nahoum-Grappe

“…This article attempts to define 'wartime' rape from a social science rather than a legal point of view: the term is a cliché that needs to be deconstructed in order to better describe the facts: the 'systematic rapes' committed in the former Yugoslavia (1991-95) are different in terms of their political meaning and concrete practice from those more conventionally described as rewards and spoils for warriors in the event of military victory. …”
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Pater’s Poikilia — auto-références, métaphores et impressions dans Platon et le platonisme (1893) by Jean-Baptiste Picy

“…Building on William Shuter’s 1997 challenge to this traditional view, the aim of this paper is to demonstrate Pater’s unchanged attitudes and assign a positive value to his difficult, puzzling but eventually coherent use of imagery and inter-textual self-reference. Deconstructing Plato’s supposed rejection of « Poikilia » (confusing variety of imitative reference), Pater is shown to go beyond the dialectic opposition of Plurality vs. …”
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La nuit américaine dans Noir de Robert Coover by Marc Amfreville

“…Robert Coover’s yet unpublished (in its original English version at least) latest novel Noir forces its reader by addressing him/her directly to acknowledge and deconstruct various clichés of the City. Drawing from recognizable romances and tales of detection (early English, American and Victorian Gothic), but also from classic writers such as Hawthorne and Conrad, not to mention Chandler and the film adaptation of The Big Sleep, Coover takes us into an urban nightmare in its horizontal labyrinthine dimension and its vertical and spectral depths. …”
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Pratiques de gestion et rapports d’âge en milieu de travail by Yolande Pelchat, André Campeau, Julie Bradette, Michel Vézina

“…During an exploratory study conducted within the Quebec public service, we decided to follow an entirely different path by examining how various actors in workplaces (employees and managers) construct and deconstruct age identities. The analysis shows direct links between these identities and work organization, more specifically management practices. …”
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La transdisciplinarité à l’épreuve de l’engagement, réflexions à partir de l’application de la méthode photovoice by Anastasia-Alithia Seferiadis

“…The vision of transdisciplinarity developed in this article places it within an engaged perspective of deconstructing the power relations inherent in knowledge co-construction processes.…”
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La contribution des études féministes et neuroqueer à la production des savoirs sur le genre et l’autisme by Marion Coville, Mélanie Lallet

“…For instance, several studies grounded in feminist approaches to science deconstruct gendered theories of autism (such as the theory of the extreme male brain or the naturalisation of the sex-ratio), while more recent research relates the lived experience of gender and sexuality by autistic persons themselves.…”
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Speculative Revisions of Film History: A Curator’s Notes by Rasha Salti

“…While attempts to trace shared sensibilities and extract resonances may be a subjective academic exercise, the reading or deconstructing of films within the context of shared cultural poetics is not an entirely useless or meaningless speculative exercise. …”
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The Indian Ocean and Swahili Coast coins, international networks and local developments by John Perkins

“…One of the most durable remains of archaeological material culture in these towns, the coins, has not received the same attention, despite their being one of the keys to further understanding the Swahili stone towns. By deconstructing the previous hunt for precedents, it is argued that the coins are a stand-out marker of the Swahili stone town culture and not simply poor copies of other Islamic Indian Ocean coinages. …”
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Corporalidade brasileira na fabricação da identidade nacional by Ana Lúcia Castro, Renata Pires Pinto

“…In order to better understand how this change in the idealized Brazilian female body unfolded, it is important to deconstruct beauty standards – focusing on those that apply to Brazilian women as seen from abroad – and their relationship to modern consumer culture. …”
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L’innovation à l’épreuve de l’anthropocène. Compte rendu de lecture de L’Innovation, mais pour quoi faire ? de Franck Aggeri by Agnès Labrousse

“…In this incisive, interdisciplinary book on innovation, Franck Aggeri gives pride of place to the critical social sciences—critical management studies, institutional economics, sociology of innovation, environmental history etc.—to deconstruct some of the myths surrounding innovation. …”
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Virginité des filles et rapports sociaux de sexe dans quelques récits d’écrivaines marocaines contemporaines by Isabelle Charpentier

“…In a country where Islam, religion of the State, is both doctrine and organization, culture and history, they participate more widely to deconstruct and challenge gender relations and project the debate in the heart of the Moroccan contemporary public sphere. …”
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Shakespeare à l’écran : Makibefo d’Alexander Abela, un exemple extrême d’appropriation culturelle by Anne-Marie Costantini-Cornède

“…The process is paradoxical, as it is not so much meant to deconstruct the play as to reconstruct its essential meaning in a novel, powerful and visionary way, thus offering an alternative reading of the play.…”
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