Freedom of Expression: what lessons should we learn from US experience? by Ronaldo Porto Macedo Junior

“…Court decisions based on balancing rhetoric is becoming dominant in Brazilian Constitutional court and usually try to avoid some epistemological issues concerning objectivity and moral justification. …”
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La hantise du précédent en photographie. Généalogies médiumniques et formes de revenances dans la photographie industrielle by Pierre LANNOY

“…On this basis, the paper suggests that the haunting precedent is a situation with a dynamical structure, that states of mind are pragmatic frames to be handled with, and that references to predecessors appear in a few of typical forms. The main epistemological challenges raised by the method used are also considered.…”
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From ‘no space’ to ‘scholarly space’: a reflection on the place of scholarship in the third space by Silvina Bishopp-Martin, Ian Johnson

“…Through reflecting on these personal journeys, we present scholarship as a vehicle that can enable those working across boundaries in higher education to contribute to the theoretical and epistemological foundations of their praxis. We argue that a critical contributor to this effect is the increased visibility within our own and surrounding professions. …”
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Community Participation in the South African Local Government Dispensation: A Public Administration Scholastic Misnomer by Ntwanano Mathebula

“…This paper seeks to challenge the notion that community participation is a substitute in its ontological and epistemological form and connotation for public participation. …”
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(De)Globalization, the Global Imaginary, and Religious Narratives: A Theoretical Framework and the East Asia Litmus Test by Beilei Bai

“…The secular imaginary had fostered a homogenous narrative that has caused both ontological and epistemological crises. The resurgence of religious discourse within the narratives of deglobalization is to be understood as part and parcel of competing interpretations of the global modernization process, since the latter obeys both secular and religious forces. …”
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Vida y muerte en el pensamiento indígena iku (arhuaco) by Ginna Marcela Rivera Rodríguez

“…This work follows methodological and epistemological principles of an anthropology that, in contexts of death and violence, is dedicated to listening, understanding, and highlighting local interpretations that emerge as comprehensive factors of life’s fractures, as well as the forms, times, spaces, and social resources available to confront and reconstruct them.…”
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Comparison of Psychotherapeutic Supervision Paradigms: A Literature Review by Greta Kaluževičiūtė-Moreton, Paulius Skruibis, Marija Vaštakė, Neringa Grigutytė

“…Considering the theoretical underpinnings of each tradition, the paper discusses epistemological assumptions that could determine the effectiveness of supervision in the context of each therapeutic paradigm. …”
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Doing urban geography in times of crisis: introduction to the forum “Urban geography in times of crisis” by H. Hilbrandt, J. Ren

“…Our starting point in this forum is the diagnosis of a dual crisis: on the one hand, the epistemological crisis put forth in post- and decolonial scholarship and, on the other hand, the ubiquity of worldly crises – variously described as the pluri-crisis, polycrisis, or socio-ecological crisis. …”
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Liberating the open and distance learning model from the chains of oppressive education theories by Mackenzie Ishmael Chibambo, Joseph Jinja Divala, Aggripa Chingombe

“…While some scholars may find these parallels unremarkable, the reality remains that existing ODL policies and practices continue to perpetuate epistemological injustices, stifling human agency, and curtailing various freedoms. …”
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Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet by Ginés Mateo-Martínez, Antonio Vázquez-Sellán, María Luisa Díaz-Martínez, María Carmen Sellán-Soto

“…Method: Based on the epistemological paradigm of phenomenology, the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism, and the methodological perspective of phenomenological reduction, a qualitative discourse analysis was performed through different strategies (thematic content analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis, applying ad hoc techniques). …”
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Drawing the Map: Siting Architecture by Anne Bordeleau, Liana Bresler

“…Focusing on the phenomenological dimension of drawing and the epistemological bearings of mapping, the paper reveals some of the ways in which architects can question the relation between architecture and time through their graphic representation.…”
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Pratiques historiennes croisées de la mémoire et expériences de l’histoire dans L’Invention du quotidien (1980) de Michel de Certeau et Le Passé d’une illusion (1995) de François F... by Daniel Poitras

“…Instead of thinking memory as a “something” for which it would suffice to identify its characteristics, we will outlined a few characteristics defining how historians use memory, a use that consists less of a theoretical and systematical articulation than of a epistemological sensibility which is itself solidary of a feeling of historicity. …”
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Connecting resonance theory with social‐ecological thinking: Conceptualizing self‐world relationships in the context of sustainability transformations by Florian Brossette, Claudia Bieling

“…In distinguishing between self and world and highlighting the role of relationships, resonance theory brings ontological and epistemological clarity, while overcoming a strict dichotomy between social and ecological. …”
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Ubuntu as a Dramaturgical Tool for Building Community in Protests by Refiloe Lepere, Tebogo Radebe

“…The purpose of this study was to explore how ubuntu, as an epistemological and dramaturgical tool, can deepen the understanding of protest and community dynamics through performance. …”
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The case of the preferred worker - three guidelines to a decolonial research agenda on meaningful work by GUSTAVO SANTOS DIAS BARRETO

“…Abstract Coloniality is an epistemological process that regards European modernity as the pinnacle of all civilizational trajectories on the planet. …”
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Les rendez-vous manqués de l’ethnologie et de la primatologie de terrain (1960-2010) by Vincent Leblan

“…For the other part, by comparing how ethnologists and primatologists engage with the beings under study: their field practices seem able to constitute more solid epistemological grounds for bridge-building than the positivist conception of culture elaborated in a period of ethnology’s formation and nowadays borrowed by primatologists. …”
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Being young and resilient in times of AI, disasters, and crises by Veselin Mitrović

“…However, some inconsistencies in the above interpretation induce an epistemological and existential crisis. First, the everyday life of some disadvantaged groups can be described as catastrophic and miserable whether the general community recognizes it or not. …”
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Subjects of proof in criminal proceedings on the offences in the economic sphere by A. Yu. Repchonok

“…It has been determined that evidence in criminal proceedings on crimes in the economic sphere is a structured epistemological and praxeological activity of authorized subjects, which is implemented on the grounds and in the manner prescribed by criminal procedural legislation, and consists in collecting, verifying and evaluating evidence about the circumstances of commiting the named criminal offenses and other circumstances relevant to criminal proceedings. …”
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FORECASTING PRACTICES IN ACADEMIC IR: METHODOLOGICAL MAINSTREAM AND UNSOLVED PROBLEMS by I. V. Fomin, K. P. Kokarev, B. I. Ananyev, N. Yu. Silaev, A. A. Sushentsov, A. D. Chekov

“…The methodology of Teaching, Research, and International Policy project was applied for a more detailed epistemological profiling of the field. It showed that academic forecasting in international relations is dominated by quantitative methods and positivist non-paradigmatic approaches. …”
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Louis Pasteur face à la maladie du ver à soie (1865–1870) : du chimiste au biologiste by Carton, Yves

“…He devoted 5 years of his life (1865–1870) to it, years in which he discovered biology, which represented for him a real epistemological rupture and a profound paradigm shift: from the chemist he was, he discovered and converted to biology. …”
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