Los desafíos de la emigración centroamericana en el Siglo XXI by Manuel Ángel Castillo

“…This essay presents the recent migration problems Central American populations. …”
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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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Controvérsias geográficas: epistemologia e política by José William Vesentini

“…Yet, they existed and they have been important for the building of geographical knowledge. This essay retrieves three meaningful controversies for/of geography. …”
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Le cas du Président Schreber. Un exemple de délire d’influence by Bénédicte Abraham

“…The importance of Freud’s essay on the Schreber case is widely recognized, representing as it does one stage in the thinker’s inquiries into paranoia and the progressive understanding of the mechanism of neurosis. …”
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Phenomenographies: describing the plurality of atmospheric worlds by Federico De Matteis, Mikkel Bille, Tonino Griffero, Andrea Jelić

“…The descriptive practices of lived space, however, entail several theoretical questions, concerning the potential and limits of giving voice to first-person experience. In the introductory essay of the 2019 special issue of Ambiances, we address the methodological perspectives emerging from the articles and discuss several question concerning the theory of atmospheres and the practices aimed at describing them.…”
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Más allá de la conmemoración: la independencia de México de 1821 by Manuel Chust, Joaquín E. Espinosa Aguirre

“…2021 represents for Mexico the opportunity to reevaluate the history of its nation state, which emerged two hundred years ago, but also to recover and submit to review ancient characters that have been considered as "consumers", and who, for better or worse, played a prominent role in the later stage of Independence War. This essay offers a short review of the historical production in the bicentenary year organized by academic and governmental institutions, and analyzes as well the official discourse with which the regime carried out the whole pandemic commemoration.…”
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The Outstaring Eye: Belfast in John Duncan’s photographs by Michaela Marková

“…This essay is devoted to the photographic work of John Duncan (1968-), born in Belfast, whose pictures explore the townscapes of his home city and its immediate environment, focusing especially on the visual signs of post-Troubles and the Ceasefire era. …”
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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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From One Crisis to the Other: History and Literature in The Crisis from 1910 to the Early 1920s by Lamia Dzanouni, Hélène Le Dantec-Lowry, Claire Parfait

“…This essay investigates the role of literature and the links between literature, news-reporting, and history in the NAACP magazine The Crisis between 1910 and the early 1920s. …”
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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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Les limites de l’acceptable : petites et grandes « perversions » by Julie Mazaleigue-Labaste

“…This essay retraces the history of a divide that is central for the conceptualisation, theorisation and experience of sexuality in individualistic and liberal democratic contemporary societies: the divide between “minor” and “major” perversions, which draws the boundaries of acceptable sexuality. …”
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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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Istoria literară şi provocările actualităţii. modele, teorii, practici discursive by Antonio Patraş

“…The present essay endeavours to illustrate a few of the most characteristic methods of inquiry into the literary phenomenon, by working on the current distinction between literary criticism (which is supposed to be synchronous) and literary history (implicitly, a diachronic approach). …”
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