Sulla (ri)articolazione della “marocchinità” nel Marocco contemporaneo, tra festivalizzazione del dissenso giovanile e revival sufi by Michela Buonvino

“…The monarchy's discursive strategies required and still require the elaboration of public representations of virtue, particularly of the principle of democratic citizenship, central in the transitional discourses of today's Moroccan state, performed within the framework of national and international festivals. …”
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Nacionalización y nacionalismo cotidiano: una panorámica by Claudio Hernández Burgos, Odilón Caldeira Neto

“…Originality: This article evaluates the theoretical and methodological contributions of the so-called “everyday nationalism” as a way to connect the “micro” and “macro” levels and to capture, through subjectivities, the complexities inherent to the processes of construction of national identity and the multiple ways in which individuals received, answered, or re-signified the discourses and policies of nationalization promoted from power. …”
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Transnational Criminal Law in Transatlantic Perspective (1870–1945): Introductory Notes, Initial Results and Concepts by Karl Härter, Valeria Vegh Weis

“…This conceptional framework allows to study the transatlantic dimension of transnational crime, norms, discourses and practices as the formation of a transnational regime. …”
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The 2022 Copyright Amendment Bill: Implications for the South African universities’ research economy by Keyan Tomaselli

“…In justifying the weakening of copyright protections with regard to the educational arena, the Bill’s proponents have largely applied rhetorical discourses published in the popular media, also aggressively propagated at their public meetings. …”
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The Evolution of Venezuelan Evangelical Involvement in Politics: The Case of the 2024 Presidential Elections by Fernando Adolfo Mora-Ciangherotti

“…This article seeks to document, analyze, and situate these discourses in relation to contemporary theological trends, as an important case of evangelical alignment with left-wing politics in Latin America. …”
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Os Ducas e a recompensa dificilmente dividida by João Vicente de Medeiros Publio Dias

“…However, this claim for shared power produced a parallel identity for the Doukas and corresponding discourses, which lasted after the death of Alexios I and continued to exist during the reign of John II (1118-1143). …”
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Uncertainty, Reduced. A Discussion of Patrik Aspers’ Book by Tobias Werron

“…The analysis leads to the more general argument that modern institutions and discourses also generate expectations that shape the experience of (un)uncertainty. …”
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Photographie et écologie aux États-Unis: l’image à contre-emploi by François Brunet

“…This article seeks to assess the role(s) that photographs, in and of themselves, have played in these artistic-militant enterprises; and to contrast them with the role of discourses (of artists, historians, critics, and so on) in setting forth political contents or intentions that the works themselves have reflected only ambiguously or even, sometimes, flatly contradicted. …”
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Bathing Practices as a Religious and Medical Encounter: Water, Climate and Health Across Monsoon Asia by Francesco Bianchini

“…Notably, the study addresses the complex interplay between religious doctrines, health and environmental factors, drawing connections between āyurvedic principles and Buddhist medical discourses. The findings suggest that while the notion of balance in bathing practices was widespread, its interpretation and implementation varied significantly across regions, reflecting local environmental and cultural influences. …”
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Affects of Resistance: Candomblé Rituals in Contemporary Brazilian Fiction by Parvathi M. S.

“…These rituals counter colonial discourses, facilitating the interaction of folk-festive African cultures with hegemonic Catholicism to fashion Afro-Brazilian identity. …”
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Mises en lumière et zones d’ombre dans l’ouverture au public de la Petite Ceinture ferroviaire de Paris by Ioana Iosa, Cosme Vallet

“…Through an analysis of discourses and actions of the various actors involved (in particular the experiments put in place by the skills groups), we wish to facilitate the reader’s critical analysis of the balance between urban manufacturing methods (close to marketing), and the freedom left to the inhabitants of Paris, Ile de France and Belt residents in the transformation of this collective wealth. …”
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Restoring Autonomy out of Context. Selective Heritagisation of the Drama Theatre in Veliky Novgorod by Ksenia Litvinenko

“…To contextualise these findings, the article contrasts the narratives promoted by the competition with the historical realities and discourses it obscured, including Soviet postmodern and institutional critiques, the constraints and opportunities embedded in the state construction and financing system, and the forms of creativity available to architects within it.…”
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The process of negotiating and balancing digital play in everyday life: Adolescents’ narratives by Fiona M. Loudoun, M. Larsson-Lund, B. Boyle, A. Nyman

“…Play was interwoven in the complexity of routines reflecting the importance of examining the integrated whole of adolescents’ everyday life.Significance These findings are significant in shifting current assumptions and discourses of how digital play is situated in everyday life.…”
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Risk-Generating aspect of public history in digital environment (on the example of Russian video blogging in the 2020s) by Yu. V. Nikulich

“…Since riskiness goes hand in hand with societal instability, uncertainty, and hypervariability, political and corporate suppression of certain discourses and dynamic development of information and communication technologies have been highlighted as risks. …”
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Investigating AI systems: examining data and algorithmic bias through hermeneutic reverse engineering by Nishanshi Shukla

“…Considering Artificial Intelligence systems as boundary objects, which are interdisciplinary objects sustained differently by diverse fields while providing shared discourses between them, this essay summarizes the approaches of examining bias in AI systems. …”
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Man against machine: Debates in the expert community on the lethal autonomous systems by A. Yu. Lipova

“…The author notes that Russian and Western discourses on most of the issues have very much in common and diff erences are found mainly in the intensity of debates — in the West they are much more ac-tive. …”
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Flood Photography and the Visual Component of Environmental American Studies by Sam Hawksford White

“…On the other hand, discourses around social documentary continue to frame how the human impacts of rapidly changing environments are visualised. …”
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Antivaccine, denialist, and conspiracy theorist content on Facebook. An analysis of the No to the New World Order page by Julio C. Aguila Sanchez, Carmen Castillo Rocha, Ángel R. Vargas Valencia

“…With the advent of covid-19, these ideas figure among the main disinformation contents of counter-official discourses. The article aims to characterize the contents of the Facebook page ‘No to the New World Order’. …”
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DYNAMICS OF MEDIA AND SOCIETY INTERACTION IN COMMUNICATIVE SPACE by D. I. Chistyakov

“…The author bases on reflection of sociological theories and discourses of late modern and postmodern and thus shows the transformation of media and their audience on the society’s way to the postmodernity. …”
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Schools as Sites of Homelessness Prevention by Jayne Malenfant, Naomi Nichols

“…Following this, we outline educational discourses, practices, and processes that constitute where something may have been done differently to prevent homelessness. …”
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