I am hated, therefore I am: The Enemy in Yorùbá Imaginary by Abimbola Adelakun

“…  This essay will study how the Yorùbá conceptualize “ọ̀tá” or the enemy, a trope that recurs in various cultural phenomena such as music, prayers, and other social rituals. …”
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Aesthetics and Politics: The Afterlives of Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891) by Xavier GIUDICELLI

“…That is why The Soul of Man under Socialism, his most overtly political essay, published in The Fornightly Review in February 1891, has often baffled critics and elicited contradictory responses. …”
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Aporia of Participatory Planning: Framing Local Action in the Entrepreneurial City by Ryan Love

“…In this first section of the essay, Adorno's analysis of the Culture Industry is reconsidered alongside Berger’s and Bourdieu's critical sociology. …”
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Revisiting Post-May 1968 French Theory: Critical Thought and Data Capitalism by Alex Taek-Gwang Lee

“…This essay explores the critical crisis stemming from the normalization of data-driven capitalism in the neoliberal era. …”
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Società e ‘ndrangheta. Il caso Reggio Calabria by Gregorio Sorgonà

“…The essay analyses the relationship between Calabrian civil society and the ‘ndrangheta from the late sixties to the present day. …”
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Feminist Mothers and Daughters in Top Girls and Yerma by Florentina Gümüş

“…Through feminist theories of motherhood, this essay discusses the mother-daughter relationship, a dominant feature of two British plays, Top Girls (1982/1991) by Caryl Churchill and Yerma (2017) by Simon Stone, the latter being an adaptation of Federico Garcia Lorca’s (1934/1968) play with the same title. …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“… The essay investigates the application of cosmotechnics in architecture through a case study of a large international construction venture, the Zambia World Bank Education Project. …”
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The Floor is not the Ground by George Papam Papamattheakis

“…Space structure is defined by logistics-influenced ‘functional diagrams’ and is reduced to mere transitory settings. This essay is an effort to challenge the contemporary ‘fulfilment’-influenced, network-based perception of human transportation spaces, towards, instead, a relational, and effectively political, understanding of them. …”
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Ọmọ Tí A Kò Kọ́: Globalization and Cultural Education among New Generation Nigerian Yorùbá by Michael O. Afolayan

“… This essay critically explores the semantic, phonological and philosophical implications of the sound “kọ” (build) in the Yorùbá proverb  ́ Ọmọ tí a kò kọ́ ni yóò gbé ilé tí a kọ́ tà (the child that is not taught will eventually sell the house that is built). …”
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George Eliot’s ‘Greek Vocabulary’ Notebook (c. 1873) as Commodity and Rare Artefact by Linda K. Hughes

“…The material object on which this essay focuses, a notebook bound in leather (originally with blank pages), is one of thousands sold by stationers and others in the later decades of the nineteenth century. …”
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American Studies in Sweden: Navigating an Archipelagic Field by Jenny Bonnevier, Adam Hjorthén, Christin Mays

“… This essay sets out to map the teaching of American studies in Sweden. …”
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Writing (at) the End: Thomas Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge by Brian Chappell

“…In doing so he has done more than any American author to reveal to readers the posthuman future. This essay seeks Pynchon’s human(e) response to these eschatological forces. …”
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There and Back Again by Owen Hopkins

“… This essay explores the defining role that council housing has played in populist politics in Britain from the post-war era to the present. …”
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A «new society will come»: C.L.R. James in American Civilisation by Matteo Battistini

“…While historiography has taken the manuscript into account for its contribution to cultural studies, the essay considers it as his “political manifesto” for the United States. …”
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"Christ transforming culture"? Nagedink oor die aard van die gereformeerde geloof by D. Smit

“… The essay pays tribute to the honoree by reflecting on the nature of the Reformed faith and tradition, in which he was called to play a leading role during challenging times. …”
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The Evolution of Woman. George Eliot’s“Woman in France: Madame de Sablé” by Barbara Pauk

“…For Shirley Foster, who compares her to the notorious antifeminist Sarah Ellis, the essay documents her antifeminism. Other critics, who mention this rarely-analysed essay, use it to illustrate Eliot’s feminist credo or, like Frederick R. …”
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Being True, Sounding False by John T. Lysaker

“…The essay explores multiple senses of “true,” arguing that truth not only has a performative sense, but that certain performances can themselves be true as when a friend is a true friend. …”
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Vanishing Point: Joan Didion and the Horizons of Historical Knowledge by Kenneth Millard

“…This critical study situates Joan Didion’s memoir Where I Was From in the context of debates about the textuality of history in contemporary culture. In particular the essay is a critical examination of Didion’s interest in the concept of origins. …”
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The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…This essay examines the memories of slavery shaped by Nate Parker in The Birth of a Nation. …”
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On Norman Mailer’s “The White Negro” (1957): More Than Six Decades Later by Andrew Urie

“…This article engages in an examination of Norman Mailer’s fascinating yet problematic essay “The White Negro” (1957). Drawing from humanities and social sciences perspectives, I employ an interdisciplinary approach that historically contextualizes Mailer’s essay while also examining how it continues to speak to contemporary American racial, cultural, economic, and socio-political issues.…”
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