The man standing on the globe by M. A. Vishnyakova

“…The forthcoming 134th birthday of Nikolai Vavilov has in spired the editors to publish the essay The Man Standing on the Globe written by Dr. …”
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À l’intérieur des images by Joséphine Alida Jacquier

“…In a striking essay, Jean Seznec could show in how far the almost surrealist character of Flaubertʼs La Tentation de saint Antoine is grounded on scientific readings such as the Symbolism by Friedrich Creuzer. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…This essay considers the original Collier’s Weekly serialization of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw (1898) from a materialist and sociological perspective. …”
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“Just Fabric”: The Becoming Black of the (Post)Human in Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021) by Agnibha Banerjee

“…In Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun (2021), Klara is an AF (Artificial Friend), one among a range of humanoid automatons manufactured with the objective of keeping affluent, genetically augmented teenagers company. As this essay argues, a disturbing historical parallel to the position of the AFs in the social hierarchy is that of slaves. …”
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On Display by Nitzan Zilberman

“…The focal point of this essay is the turn from the display of objects to the display of environments, a change that blurs the line between the body and the display, and arguably absorbs the subject into the object. …”
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Cibo e rifugiati nella città capitolina, tra pratiche di emergenza e tentativi di agentività by Donatella Schmidt, Giovanna Palutan

“…This essay aims to tie food practices to refugees and asylum seekers who live in temporary or emergency settings, focusing on two specific ethnographic cases located in the city of Rome. …”
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Ramiro Ledesma Ramos: años de literatura (1924-1930) by José-Carlos Mainer

“…The present essay studies the youthful literary work of one of the Spanish Fascism's founders. …”
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‘Poor little princess’: Queen Victoria’s Court as a Site of Imperial Conquest by Chandrica Barua

“…This essay illuminates the elusive and messy archives of an unusual presence in the Victorian court, that of Princess Victoria Gouramma (1841‒1864), daughter of the deposed King of Coorg, Chikka Virarajendra and goddaughter and namesake of Queen Victoria. …”
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Privatized Futures, Climate Control, and Resistance in Recent Scottish Dystopian Fiction by Peter Clandfield

“…The essay shows how these novels also anticipate recent critical perspectives on climate change and dystopia, particularly Amitav Ghosh’s call (2016) for fiction that confronts the potentially intractable effects of global weather events, and Tom Moylan’s advocacy (2020) of works that resist presenting dystopian spectacles for passive consumption and instead call upon readers for active, constructive interpretation.…”
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The Necessary Accidental by Ashraf Jamal

“… This essay on William Kentridge’s ideas and practice, in particular regarding his multi-media theatrical works, was prompted by a visit to Zeitz MOCAA to see his retrospective in 2019. …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…  One may compose an essay on another essay, and possibly an even longer one than the essay being studied, long as that one is, when one is confronted with one of those things one has to say something about after encountering them. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…It considers how their physical forms, connected to ‘toy books’, integrate play and religious instruction. This essay considers one example of this popular genre, The Little Picture Testament, published by Charles Tilt in 1839. …”
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«Siamo una famiglia». Occupazioni abitative, sociétés à maisons e alienazione residenziale a Milano by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Starting from ethnographic research begun in 2015, the essay seeks to analyse some specific forms of relationship and “family-making” in the context of a squatting project in the outskirts of Milan. …”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù, the two intelligensias of Yorùbá poetry, have been the focus of earlier scholarly works in Yorùbá, with little attention given to the comparative study of their poetry. Therefore, this essay is a comparative analysis of the two poets’ poems with particular reference to issues relating to religion and colonialism. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…Employing the materialist theories of Thomas Rickert, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and Karen Barad, the essay explores how the complex web of the sisters’ everyday lived experiences could constitute literary influence. …”
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Three-Level Supply Chain Coordination under Disruptions Based on Revenue-Sharing Contract with Price Dependent Demand by Qinghua Pang, Yuer Chen, Yulu Hu

“…To solve the problem, this essay introduces two improved forms of revenue-sharing contract: a mixed contract form based on a quantity discount policy and a pure form, which are characterized by antidisruption ability. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…Orisha worship managed to eclipse the religious practices of a more populous and well-established group like the West Central Africans. This essay argues that the highly organized and urbanized socio-religious structure of the Yorùbá Orisha lent itself to transportability. …”
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The Role of the Family in the Restoration and Preservation of Yoruba Cultural Heritage by Emmanuel Oluwasegun Awofeko, Olatunji Olusegun Oyebanjo, Oluwaseyi N. Shogunle

“…This is the thrust of this work. The essay is therefore approached from historical and ethical perspectives with phenomenological methodology to examine the cherished Yoruba cultural heritage. …”
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self by Lucía Bennett-Ortega

“…This article examines the representation of the female body in Emilie Pine’s (2018) personal essay ‘Notes on Bleeding & Other Crimes.’ Drawing on vulnerability studies and feminist criticism, I argue that the vulnerability and shame surrounding women’s bodies are reframed as agentic forces, motivating Pine to craft a distinctly feminist narrative. …”
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Restoring an Onkwehonwehnéha ecosystem by Jasmine Jimerson

“…This is a reflective essay on Akwesasne Freedom School’s effort to recreate a community of Onkwehonwehnéha (language and culture of the Original People) knowledge-sharing for healthier and more sustainable ways of living in alignment with the natural world, for the betterment of our people, the environment, and our Haudenosaunee (They Make a House, or the Six Nations) languages. …”
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