Crisi ecologica e processi di “identizzazione”. L’esempio delle estrazioni petrolifere in Basilicata by Enzo Vinicio Alliegro

“…The oil industry is located close to a National Park, in a territory rich of water and landscape resources where there is a very important agricultural tradition. The essay, through field research and the use of extensive archival documentation, seeks to analyze the conflicts and the cultural changes products by the presence of oil companies that have produced a capillary redefinition of cultural identity, here called "identizzazione". …”
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The Imperial ambassador, the nuncio and the favourite: The Count of Pötting, Vitaliano Visconti Borromeo and Juan Everardo Nithard at the time of the Spanish crisis (1668–1669) by Rafaella Pillo

“… The essay aims at touching different aspects of Spanish policy during the regency of Mariana (1665–1675), the interest in the political and physical weakness of the heir to the throne Prince Charles and future King Charles II, the last Hapsburg on the Spanish monarchy. …”
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Baczko and the French Revolution. Plot of an Imaginary by Alessandro Guerra

“…The essay reconstructs Baczko’s thinking on the French Revolution. …”
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Arte e criação artística em contexto urbano: um estudo de caso de política pública em Porto Alegre (RS, Brasil) by Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha, Cornelia Eckert

“…It is worth mentioning the performance of one of its coordinators, who reports her experience with the origins of the contest and its unfolding as a public policy. It is a reflective essay on the place of public art in the contemporary urban space.…”
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Phantom Writing by Michael Hirschbichler

“…In this visual essay I present a body of artistic work done within informal urban and suburban heritage sites in Kyoto. …”
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The CEO Art Museum Director: Business as Usual? by Jennifer A. Donnelly

“…This essay explores the evolving relationship between art historical expertise and business and administration skills amongst art museum directors in the United States. …”
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Resurgent Fundamentalism, Politics, and the Anti-Liberal Agenda: Challenges for South Africa’s Constitutional Democracy by Dale Wallace

“… Against the background of changes in the religion-state relationship in South Africa since 2009, this essay provides the foundational history of a resurgent fundamentalist Christian alliance that seeks to exert influence in politics, state institutions, and civil society. …”
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Designing the identity by Gerardo Semprebon

“…The aim of the paper is discussing the theoretical foundation of the concept of identity, through a selection of significant contributions and case-studies. Additionally, the essay highlights weaknesses and potentialities of this concept, and reflects on the various directions the design project for historical cities can undertake.…”
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Constitutions as Chains? On the Intergenerational Challenges of Constitution-Making by Konstantin Chatziathanasiou

“…In this essay, I explore the ambiguity of the competition’s title “Constitutions as Chains”, and distinguish between two intergenerational challenges in constitution-making: the challenge of intergenerationally just constitutional provisions, and the challenge of creating a stable institution which is accepted by successive generations. …”
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Towards a Tektology of Tektology by Tompsett Fabian

“…This essay explores the diffractive relationship between Aleksandr Bogdanov and Otto Neurath. …”
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Dysfonctions mécaniques dans les interstices de l’infrastructure by Paul Fabié, Joaquin Ruiz Zubizarreta

“…This ethnographic essay proposes a reflection on machines from the interstitial geographical situations in which two Guarani peoples on either side of the Paraguay-Brazil border are reduced. …”
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Juhan Liiv’s Comprehension of Poetry by Tanar Kirs

“…These connections arise from Liiv’s essays, which have not been studied so far. I analyse Liiv’s essay Ääremärkused (Marginalia) and formulate the main theses in his comprehension of poetry. …”
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The Heidelberg Catechism on prayer: relevance of a 16th Century confession for 21st Century households? by E. Mouton

“…In view of this challenge, the essay explores the potential of the third part of the Heidelberg Catechism (on prayer) for moral formation in Christian households. …”
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Discourse of Slavery: Freedom and the Negotiation of Power and Identity in Context by Lori Lee

“…The contextual creation of slave narratives and the processes of their construction and reconstruction resulted in a negotiation of power over the authentic discourse of slavery. In this essay, narratives of former U.S. slaves recorded in the 1930s and 1940s are examined to explore how context and narrative negotiate identity and power within these contexts. …”
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Fille d’Octobre. Générations, engagement et histoire by Malika Rahal

“….* Ego-histories are commissioned biographical essays in which the author is invited to explore his or her vocational choices. …”
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"Informing of the child's understanding, influencing his heart, and directing its practice": Jonathan Edwards on education by K. P. Minkema

“…In particular, the methods and principles he employed as a teacher, both of English and Indian children and young people, are distinctive. Next, the essay turns to some selected figures within the Edwardsean tradition to show pedagogical changes and continuities. …”
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Aristocracia, monasterios y conflictos por la tierra. Reforma eclesiástica y relaciones sociales en León (siglos XI-XII) by Mariel Pérez

“…This paper examines a series of disputes over land between the Benedictine monastery of Sahagún and Leonese noble families in order to understand the transformations in the relationship between laymen and clerics in the Kingdom of Leon after the impact of the Gregorian Reform. The essay posits that those disputes were an expression of the development of a more competitive kind of relationship between the aristocrats and the monastery in which pious donations got integrated into a negotiated logic of reciprocal exchange.…”
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Housing for a Lonely Generation by Marija Maric

“…Organised around the advertising language for three co-living platforms—WeLive, Quarters (now Habyt), and the Collective—this essay frames the corporate housing model as inseparable from the digital media infrastructures that distribute its contents. …”
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality by Tyler Hanck

“…Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in Essay IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter. …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…This essay interrogates connections between Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio (1855; Musée d’Orsay) and the visual culture of American Indian performance in Paris. …”
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