Mythe et colonies dans l’Allemagne de Weimar by Catherine Repussard

“…Contemporary postcolonial scholars, whose approaches focus on the perception of the Other using a counter-gaze from the ‘peripheries’ towards the ‘centre’, are not alone in having endeavoured to deconstruct colonial thought. In his last film Tabu, eine Geschichte aus der Südsee (1931), Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau denounced the destruction of non-European cultures (Polynesian in that case) under the influence of the political, economic and cultural European interventionism. …”
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Crescere nella migrazione. Generi e sessualità fra gli adolescenti di origine straniera by Federica Tarabusi

“…Giving voices to the children of immigrants, the empirical data helps us to deconstruct, through the lens of sexuality, gender and bodily practices, essentialist ideas and stereotypical representations attached to the so-called second generations as well as to discuss the role play by structural inequalities and exclusionary processes in shaping their experience of being adolescents.  …”
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Faire face aux tensions liées à la reconfiguration du système universitaire italien : la voix des professeurs(es) by Fabrizio Chello

“…The second phase, making use of semi-structured interviews, aimed to bring out and deconstruct the dominant representations of professional action. …”
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„Das wäre doch ich !“ Autorinszenierung am Beispiel von Marlene Streeruwitz und Thomas Brussig by Alessandra Goggio

“…Finally, this study shows that—by shaping a new image of the two writers and their authorship that goes beyond all the labels and evaluations ascribed to them by the critics—this particular way of self-staging also aims at bolstering (Streeruwitz) or deconstructing (Brussig) the role that these specific authors play in the literary field.…”
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De (re)conto e (des)encanto: uma leitura de Fita verde no cabelo by Elvya Ribeiro Pereira

“…As the sub-title indicates - new old story - Rosa's narrative reframes traditional versions of Little Red Riding Hood, projecting the story amid the be-wilderment of the modern world, deconstructing certainties, shifting fantasies. Based on reflection about oral tradition, narrative and memory, denial of the contemporary world experience, we aim to show how the tale of Guimarães questions the protagonist’s trajectory, Green-Ribbon, unfolds in a symbiosis with speechfact of a narrator plotting the destiny of this legendary girl, now in a dramatic situation, evoking gestures and archetypes that escape through the spaces of her disenchanted consciousness. …”
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Edmée Chandon : femme pionnière, scientifique invisible. Les ressorts de l’injustice épistémique dans le champ astronomique du premier XXe siècle by Charly Pellarin-Régis

“…Then the third and last part, with the help of her work archives tries to deconstruct the epistemic injustice in order to shed light on Edmée Chandon’s contribution to the scientific production of the first part of the twentieth century.…”
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The Transnationalism of Democracy and Power Multiplicity in Indonesia: A Critical Perspective by Ade Marup Wirasenjaya, Purwo Santoso

“…The author emphasizes the importance of recognizing power multiplicity as a new way to perceive power, given the current historical structure that has produced various actors, transformed institutions, and deconstructed political arenas from traditional models to contemporary ones. …”
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Diegetic Pregnancy in Jesse Greengrass’s Sight (2018), or the Ethics of Building Bodies in(to) Literature by Maxence Gouleau

“…By investigating scientist/object relationships alongside mother/daughter relationships, Sight formulates the beginning of an ethics of looking at and of writing about bodies, which lies in a practice of parenthood that acknowledges both curiosity for and discomfort with bodies. The novel thus deconstructs the metaphor of writing as pregnancy and childbirth and points to an ethical way of incorporating bodies, especially female ones, into literature.…”
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«Puliamo San Siro»: lottare contro lo stigma territoriale in un quartiere di edilizia popolare di Milano by Paolo Grassi

“…Despite their different visions, the two committees pursue a very similar objective when they implement actions aimed to set up a “clean” and “nice” public space: deconstructing the territorial stigma, i.e. demanding a spatial justice against their marginalization.…”
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Cine documental y 15-M, un diálogo a múltiples voces by Laura Grifol-Isely

“…By assuming this role, the documentary has helped to deconstruct those anchorages of a self-satisfied democracy whose postulates, as the facts show (a huge crisis which presupposes a crisis of the Transition model), has weakened to the point of proclaiming the need to be subjected to questioning.…”
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Popular culture and the 'crisis of masculinity' by Jennifer Lemon

“…In this article an attempt is made to deconstruct some of the new notions of masculinity in the light of the contempo rary 'crisis of masculinity', and the new popular culture representations of men In the mass media. …”
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The construction of Chineseness in the Chinatowns of the Hague and Amsterdam. by Yuyao Mei, Ilse van Liempt

“…Moreover, they rework the concept of Chineseness to achieve the goal of city officials’ ideas of an ‘ideal’ Chinatown. This article deconstructs the intangible and ambiguous aspects around the concept of Chineseness through a geosemiotic lens. …”
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‘Splendid Little Soldiers’—Invasion, Empire and the Fantasy of Dominance in Saki’s When William Came by Petra Rau

“…In representing the Germans as admirable imperialists, Saki deconstructs national difference—the very criterion upon which both invasion fiction and imperialist politics are based. …”
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La numérisation des dispositifs de participation de la Mairie de Paris by Nicolas Douay

“…Our question is thus to deconstruct the impact of digital in the definition and appropriation of a new offer of participation. …”
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The Necessary Accidental by Ashraf Jamal

“…This has always been Kentridge’s approach – his animated works are exercises in a deconstructive erasure. I have addressed this matter elsewhere, in my essay ‘Faith in a Practical Epistemology: On Collective Creativity in Theatre’ (Predicaments of Culture in South Africa, 2005), but on this occasion, while watching the documentary, it was Nietzsche’s view in Contra Wagner which proved the trigger, namely, that ‘Wagner’s art is sick. …”
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Gender and performance disparity in mathematics: A study of South Western Uganda by Amos, Musimenta, Francis Akena, Adyanga, Denis, Sekiwu

“…The major findings revealed that variation in Mathematics performance cannot be attributable to gender. The study deconstructs the common gender-biased assumption that girls are naturally a ‘weaker sex’ and hence likely to embrace subjects that are considered ‘soft’ such as language, literacy, communication skills, social sciences among others. …”
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Review of the Book “Hegemony: The New Shape of Global Power” by Rasoul Afzali, Mohammad zohdi Gohar, Akbar Valizadeh

“…There have been three theories on the issue of hegemony so far.  Deconstructing concepts and a critical approach in the context of a new theory have made this book different. …”
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Re-Creation of the Character and Subjectivation in The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mesut Günenç

“…In opposition to the idea of living inside the confines of universally accepted rules, the play offers a different and autonomous definition of subjectivity which deconstructs accepted rules. The subject tries to exist in a form of power that classifies the individual in society and stigmatises him/her with his/her own individuality. …”
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Legitimacy and Rationalization in European Criminal Law: A Critical Analysis of the Criminalization of Migrant Smuggling by Raquel Cardoso

“…The study systematically deconstructs migrant smuggling as a legal concept, evaluates its alignment with broader criminal law functions, and critically assesses the legal and ethical implications of current European Union incrimination strategies. …”
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Comment la connaissance de la diversité posturo-locomotrice des primates a-t-elle transformé la compréhension de celle des hominines ? by Mathilde Lequin, François Marchal

“…While fossil discoveries are often presented as the driving force of theoretical change in this discipline, we show that studies on primate locomotor diversity have also played a fundamental role in deconstructing certain interpretative schemes frequently used in the analysis of hominin fossil remains. …”
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