Imaginaries by Michel Porret

“…The essay analyses the epistemological status of the notion of the social imaginary as it developed in French culture and in the thought of Bronislaw Baczko. …”
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The Representation of Poverty and the Poverty of Representation by Pablo J. Boczkowski

“…In this essay I draw upon both my reporting at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, United States, and my ethnography of the digitization of mental health work in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to examine the representation of poverty and the poverty of representation in contemporary social and political discourse.…”
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Imagens das contradições nas regiões metropolitanas da Paraíba by Júlia Diniz de Oliveira

“…This essay makes a commented analysis of images that present contradictions between the norms and urban practices in the metropolitan regions of the state of Paraiba. …”
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Teaming up with termites—Appraising termites’ contributions to earth technologies in West Africa by Jan Jansen, James R. Fairhead

“…This essay explores the role and impact of termites in the social and cultural history of West Africa. …”
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Italian feminism, workerism and autonomy in the 1970s by Patrick Cuninghame

“…This essay discusses some of the differences between Italian workerist feminism and liberal, socialist and separatist feminisms during the 1970s. …”
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Fautes virales by Licia Reggiani

“…In this essay, after providing a definition of linguistic error and emphasizing the cultural significance of this notion, examples of linguistic errors with viral characteristics are sought in order to try to understand which of these characteristics are functional to the propagation of error, also in the light of the notion of linguistic and cultural imaginary.…”
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Akinwumi Isola. Treasury of Childhood Memories. Translated by Pamela J. Olubunmi Smith. Austin, TX: Pan­ African University Press, 2016. 192 pp. by Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“… Review essay of Akinwumi Isola's Treasury of Childhood Memories. …”
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Éloge de l’inauthenticité: le dix-huitième siècle à l’écran, autour de 'Barry Lyndon' de Stanley Kubrick by Alexis Tadié

“…This essay considers the representation of the eighteenth century on screen, starting with Norbert Carbonneaux’s film Candide, ou l’Optimisme au XXe siècle (1960). …”
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Using "peer review" method for language assessment by Irina V. Korovina, Daria V. Konstantinova, Olga S. Safonkina

“…As a result of the study the authors developed such evaluation criteria that can evaluate the specific features of such genre as an essay. That effects stylistic and functional characteristics that differ the essay from an article. …”
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Tourism and Erotic Imaginaries in Wartime Paris: French and Germans during the Occupation, 1940-1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…This essay focuses on the intersections of tourism, war, and erotics in occupied Paris during the Second World War. …”
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Voltaire et Contant d’Orville: le 'Voltaire portatif' (1766), une lettre inconnue, un remerciement à l’auteur, et une réplique voilée à l’archevêque d’Auch by John R. Iverson

“…The essay begins by transcribing Contant d’Orville’s full letter, which was printed in a brochure in 1766, along with Voltaire’s response, but which subsequently has not been included in editions of Voltaire’s correspondence. …”
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La dimension atlantique des révolutions hispano-américaines by Federica Morelli

“…This essay examines the different interpretations historians have attributed to Hispanic American revolutions over time. …”
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On Uncertainty and Uncertainty Reduction by Ugo Corte

“…This essay introduces a Debate Section of Sociologica discussing Patrik Aspers’ book Uncertainty: Individual Problems and Public Solutions (Oxford University Press, 2024). …”
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L’art radiophonique : histoire d’un médium de masse devenu médium artistique by John Barber

“…This essay outlines the history and several examples of radio art to demonstrate the use of radio beyond its traditional role of commerce and/or control. …”
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La finesse du paysage by Franco Farinelli

“…In “The arguzia del paesaggio”, the article presented here in translation (which is part of an essay published in I segni del mondo, 1992) F. Farinelli presents a critical and a historico-philosophical analysis of the concept of landscape as it was developed in geographical sciences (particularly in the reflection of Humboldt) and as considered today (though the article was published in 1991) in the social sciences.…”
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What is spirituality? by K. Waaijman

“… This essay provides, first of all, a historical perspective on the nature of spirituality by investigating its early forms, followed by a discussion of two approaches in the last century. …”
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Marianne Moore and the Lessons of Multiplicity by Heather Cass White

“…The intrinsically multiple work of American poet Marianne Moore (1887-1972) presents special challenges to her editors, as evidenced by the ever-increasing number of editions of her work. In this essay the author, editor of three such editions, reflects on questions about poetic making and representation that underlie editorial work, focusing in particular on the virtues and pitfalls particular to print and digital editions.…”
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«Las ignotas caras del amor» by Eduardo CHIRINOS

“…This essay presents a new reading of the poem «El botánico» (Fábulas, 1971) written by the Argentinean Juan Gelman. …”
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Friedrich Creuzer (1771-1858) à l’Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres by Sotera Fornaro

“…This essay is an overview of the cultural and personal context, that determined the fortune of Friedrich Creuzer's (1771-1858) work Symbolik und Mythologie. …”
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Brava gente brasileira e o “Brasil 500”: o espetáculo do descobrimento by Kátia da Costa Bezerra

“…Based on studies of Diana Taylor, Anthony Pagden and Jean Starobinski, this essay examines how the film Brava gente brasileira, dramatizes some of the conflicts present in the reenactment of the discovery during the celebrations of the “Brazil 500.” …”
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