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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Henry Rider Haggard’s Posthumanist Eco-consciousness by Sinan AKILLI

“…In this essay I argue that the late Victorian and early Edwardian novelist Henry Rider Haggard had a distinct eco-consciousness that was reminiscent of twenty-first century posthumanist philosophies as early as the 1880’s. …”
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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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Motyw nadziei w najnowszej poezji Dmitrija Strocewa by Bartosz Osiewicz

“…The methodological basis of the research is focused on the observations on hope made by the French philosopher Gabriel Honoré Marcel in the essay Outline of the phenomenology and metaphysics of hope (1942), and by the priest Józef Tischner in the essay Binding of Hope (1973). …”
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Nonsense as Autobiography: The Children’s Poems and Family Secrets of Laura E. Richards by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Richards’s (1850-1943), the first lady of American nonsense poetry, was among the few nineteenth-century professional women writers who composed literary autobiographies, and the only one who wrote two, one for adult readers and one for children. The present essay argues for reading Laura E. Richards’s nursery and Nonsense rhymes as her third autobiography. …”
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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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The EU global regulatory state and the search for transnational democracy – reflections from the edges of Europe by Maria Weimer

“…In this essay, I reflect on the evolving role of the European Union (EU) as a global regulatory state against the backdrop of Christian Joerges’s influential work on European constitutionalism. …”
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‘Caught between a rock and a hard place’ by Andreas Anderberg

“…The question has also been raised whether juvenile offenders should be dealt with, within an entirely separate system. The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the conflict area and show a development in the legislature on juvenile offenders. …”
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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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Can Democracy Survive AI? by Gina Neff

“…This essay examines the fundamental tension between artificial intelligence technologies and democratic governance, arguing that AI’s inherent tendencies toward centralization and control pose significant challenges to democratic societies. …”
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Science et Fiction by Annie Escuret

“…Among the happy epistemocritics, we will find famous French names such as Michel Serres, Henri Atlan, Michel Foucault and many others. This essay first seeks to delineate the main epistemological turning points in the 19th century. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“…In addition to offering new insights into the relevance of Olowe to Ikere, this essay posits a re-examination of the birth year of Olowe. …”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. …”
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The Use And Interpretation Of Myths by S.O. Biobaku

“… A reprint of an essay from ODO: Journal of Yoruba and Related Studies, Jan­uary, 1955, No. l. …”
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