Context, Community, and Capital by Susanne Schindler

“…This essay focuses on the language architects use to navigate the intersection of architecture, housing, and neoliberalism. …”
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Performing Grief Inconsolable: Land, Lament and Love in Marina Carr’s Portia Coughlan by Vicky ANGELAKI

“…The article concentrates on Marina Carr’s seminal play Portia Coughlan (1996), examined through an ecocritical and ecofeminist lens. As the essay argues, the play’s recent revival at London’s Almeida Theatre (2023), directed by Carrie Cracknell, designed by Alex Eales and featuring Alison Oliver in the lead role, made a considerable contribution towards highlighting the roots of discomfort as well as the embodied experience of Carr’s eponymous heroine, towards emphasising concerns of grief and inconsolability, but also towards asking how consolation and agency may be conceivable for spectators within an environmentally focused staging and reading of the play. …”
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ACADEMIC WRITING AND ITS DEVELOPMENT IN RUSSIA: GENRE APPROACH by T. В. Alenkina

“…In the focus of Russian teachers and researchers are the genres of academic writing which are important and interesting for students (e.g., essay, letter of recommendation, grant proposal etc), thus the genre approach is being applied. …”
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4D printing for modular construction components – Applications and main developments by Renata Morbiducci, Salvatore Polverino, Caterina Battaglia

“…However, despite being able to contribute to mitigating the effects of climate change, they are still scarcely used. This essay intends to analyse the main peculiarities of 4D printing techniques for the production of modular elements for architecture, highlighting their main limitations and potentialities that influence their use.   …”
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Spatial design. Experiences and experiments of urban regeneration for a possible taxonomy by Carlo Martino, Meltem Eti Proto, Silvia Cosentino

“…Through recent case studies, this essay proposes an embryonic taxonomy of public space, basing its perspective upon the scientific principle of the recurrence of certain design solutions.…”
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Humanity, Nature, and the Supernatural in Washington Irving’s “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by Sabri Mnassar

“…In its study of Irving’s representation of the natural environment, the essay claims that nature is portrayed as a character that is not only omnipresent but also more powerful than human beings and their attempts to dominate and subdue it. …”
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From Commons to Capital: The Creative Destruction of Coastal Real Estate, Environments, and Communities in the US South by Andrew W. Kahrl

“…But while histories of the Sunbelt recognize the role of vacation and leisure-based development in the region’s economic transformation in the second half of the twentieth century, the social and environmental effects of coastal development remain under-examined. This essay uses a case study of Daufuskie Island, a barrier island on the South Carolina coast, to demonstrate the ties that bound capital accumulation, racial injustice, and environmental degradation together in the making of the modern South, and to call attention to the critical role of local governments in facilitating the most predatory and unsustainable features of real estate capitalism. …”
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Escrituras en escena: Teresa de la Parra y el teatro de lo íntimo by Nathalie Bouzaglo

“…She distances herself from Venezuelan readers and, at the same time, proposes to rethink the Venezuelan nation in terms of a Hispanic-American project. The essay shows how Teresa de la Parra strategically participates in the editorial politics of the lettered city and manages to become a celebrity at a time when fame was not easy for a Latin American woman in the early 20th century.…”
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Cinephemera Round Trip. Postcards for and by Anselmo Ballester by Stefania Babboni, Sara Martin

“…The essay analyzes the postcards by Anselmo Ballester, the famous painter, illustrator, and poster designer. …”
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Transformar hasta el oxímoron : cuerpos diversos, pero no tanto by Mónica Otaola Barranquero, María de las Mercedes Serrato Calero, Eva Moral Cabrero

“…However, this campaign attracted considerable criticism for having taken without consent the image of several women for the design of the poster and also modified the body of one of them in order to hide the prosthesis she wears on one of her legs. This essay analyses this case as a clear expression of the internalised and institutionalised disability that makes it possible to signify a non-normative body due to disability as unpresentable, even leading to its erasure in the sphere of communication. …”
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Blood on the Leaves / Blood on the Roots by Brendan Brown

“…This paper, then, demonstrates a previously undiagnosed influence of Nietzsche on Wynter and the role that anarchy plays in her construction of the ‘human being as praxis’. The essay concludes with an amelioration of Schürmann’s epochal genealogy to account for a racialized lacunae present in his Western genealogy of thought. …”
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Official Sanctity alla Veneziana: Gerardo, Pietro Orseolo and Giacomo Salomani by Karen McCluskey

“…Despite the existence of an abundance of religious cults in Venice, in the 13th and 14th centuries only three local beati attained official recognition by the Republic: the bishop and martyr Gerardo da Venezia (d. 1046); the doge Pietro Orseolo (d. 976), and the Domincan friar Giacomo Salomani (d. 1314). This essay examines their state-sponsored imagery, in San Marco and elsewhere, to shed light on the reasons why these three Venetian holy men were singled out as worthy of attention by their government. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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„Rasse mit Stil“ by Marcus Hahn

“…Man is “the race with style”, according to Gottfried Benn’s essay Dorische Welt (1934), a text providing a transition between his political commitment to National Socialism and his ‘inner emigration’. …”
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Femmes, artistes et immigrantes : la discrimination multiple à l’égard des écrivaines contemporaines de la diaspora africaine by Zoly Rakotoniera Rakotondravelo

“…Indeed, much of contemporary African writing emanates from writers living and working outside the countries in which they were born. This essay explores aspects of the literary status of English-speaking African women writers in the diaspora based on the question: How does the intersection of race and gender influence the identity and status of African women writers who have immigrated to Northern countries? …”
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Metz/Divodurum, cité des Médiomatriques : apport de deux fouilles récentes (place de la République et rue Paille-Maille) à la question des origines by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Christian Dreier, Sandrine Marquié

“…This essay’s aim is to present the current state of knowledge about the origins of the Roman town of Metz/Divodurum. …”
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Theorizing American Studies : German Interventions into an Ongoing Debate by Sabine Sielke

“…Partly due to the transdisciplinary agenda of the field, the development of American Studies has been accompanied by intensive debates about methods and theories. This essay relates a—necessarily reductive—narrative about how, throughout its history, German American Studies has intervened into and contributed to these debates; and how, with the emergence of parameters and politics of difference, on the one hand, and poststructuralist thought and notions of différance, on the other, the early debate on methods of American Studies transformed into discussions of theories of American literature, culture, history etc. …”
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Ageing population and urban spaces – New digital challenges for elderly well-being by Maria Rosario Chaza Chimeno, Rosaria Revellini, Cristiana Cellucci

“… The essay proposes a critical reading of some of the main issues currently underway globally concerning the growing percentage of elderly people living in urbanised contexts affecting their well-being. …”
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Avatars de Napalm Girl, June 8, 1972 (Nick Ut) : variations autour d’une icône de la Guerre du Vietnam by Anne LESME

“…This essay examines and analyses the iconic status of Nick Ut’s Vietnam photograph Napalm Girl (“Vietnam Napalm”, 1972) and its recycling in postmodern art and various media. …”
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The Trump Phenomenon and the Racialization of American Politics by Serge Ricard

“…Barack Obama’s election was atypical, not Trump’s. The following essay attempts to throw light on the permanence of the race factor in American society, its impact on the 2016 election, either by means of its unabashed activation or through a coded rhetoric, its centrality in the Trumpian discourse, the heyday of white nationalism under a President prone to stoking the flames of division and prejudice, together with the disquieting signs of a “new civil war” in a disunited nation.…”
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