Community Media 2.0: A Report from the ‘Co-Creative Communities’ Forum by Edmond Maura

“…Drawing on forum transcripts and follow-up research the essay describes some of the key trends shaping how community-interest media organisations and independent producers are working with participatory digital culture, and with what success.…”
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Ungdomskriminalitetsnævnet by Anne Julie Boesen-Pedersen, Maria Libak Pedersen

“…The Board consists of a judge, a police employee, and a municipal employee who have the authority to determine if a referred child/adolescent is to be enrolled in a prevention and rehabilitation programme (forbedringsforløb), to impose an immediate reaction (straksreaktion) on the child/adolescent, to decide on a combination of the two or to decide on no action. In this essay, we highlight some of the most important experiences from the first three years with the Youth Crime Board – what works, and what does not – based on the findings from five out of six partial evaluations of the Board conducted by the Ministry of Justice’s Research Division. …”
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Flann O’Brien’s Anti-Manifestos by Julian HANNA

“…Yet O’Brien’s work is rarely read as avant-garde per se. This essay attempts to gain a new understanding of his oeuvre by reading a particular sliver of it – his manifestos – in the context of the historical avant-garde in Europe. …”
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Defoe’s Mothers of Alterity : Moll Flanders and Roxana by Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

“…Inspired by Bhabha and borrowing from modern feminist theory—in particular, Luce Irigaray’s statements on placental tolerance of the other within—this essay will investigate the womb as an alternative/third space where otherness originates and where the boundaries between self and Other become so blurred that the notions of subjectivity and alterity call for a redefinition.…”
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Is Every Theory about Photography a Critical Action? Looking at the Book “Photography: A Critical Introduction” by Mohammad Khodadadi Motarjemzadeh

“…This essay is trying to analyze and review the book, according to determined measures. …”
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La collaborazione femminile al sacerdozio nelle istituzioni ecclesiali di primo Novecento: il caso delle Figlie del Cuore di Gesù davanti al Sant’Uffizio by Liviana Gazzetta

“…The resulting initiatives and theories found a deep correspondence in female aspirations and desires for a new role in the religious world. However this essay shows that these innovations faced a great opposition and an early concern for the female desire for priesthood within the Catholic institutions. …”
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Laying The Foundations: New Beacon Books, Bogle L’Ouverture Press and the Politics of Black British Publishing by Philippa IRELAND

“…It places their activities and the publication of specific texts within the context of shifting cultural and political agendas during a period of profound change within British publishing.Whilst providing examples of their joint involvement in cultural and political events, this essay also brings the differences between these two publishers to the fore. …”
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Oscar Wilde and la critique impressionniste by Richard Hibbitt

“…It shows how Wilde’s views of criticism in the essays collected in Intentions are prefigured by Anatole France and Jules Lemaître, and how the dialogic discussion of art in ‘The Critic as Artist’ itself prefigures a real-life debate between France and the conservative critic Ferdinand Brunetière, who rejected the ‘subjective’ approach as ‘impressionist criticism’. …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…The Expanse envisions a colonized solar system, replete with a United-Nations-controlled Terra and Luna, a military dictatorship on Mars, and a densely populated asteroid belt. This essay proposes that The Expanse offers an image of a worlds-system, by which we mean an interplanetary system of capital accumulation that reproduces the structure of twentieth-century geopolitical economy at the level of the solar system. …”
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C. McGinn. Why Is It Good to Be Alive? / trans. from Engl. R. L. Kochnev by R. L. Kochnev

“…The essay raises the problem of the value of life. For living organisms like us, it appears to be an unconditionally good. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…In addition, evidence reveals that within the Yorùbá belief system, some cultural practices are evident in support of the ecofeminist thought spanning various contexts in politics, warfare, or conflict resolutions, as well as Yorùbá Òrìṣà cults. Therefore, this essay seeks to explore the feminine relevance and significance in some contexts of herb or plant growth and their nature. …”
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The Notions of Fūkei, Ba, and Fukkō in a Community Art Project by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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L’esthétique au prisme de la trans‑caribéanité : Perspectives décoloniales sur l’art jamaïcain et martiniquais by Frédéric Lefrançois

“…It is a contention of this essay to answer this question by correlating the evolution of two Caribbean artistic movements with similar aspirations: the Atelier 45, born in Martinique, and the Jamaican Art Movement which appeared in Jamaica.…”
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Presence and Absence in Margaret Atwood’s Dearly by Pilar Sánchez-Calle

“…Drawing on critical studies of elegy in contemporary English-language poetry and on the role of elegy in Atwood’s poetry, this essay analyses the elegiac dimension of Dearly (2020), Atwood’s most recent poetry collection. …”
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The Enduring Conflict in Somalia: Analyzing the Dynamics of Instability and the Path to Sustainable Peace by Zoia Malik

“… Somalia has faced prolonged instability for over three decades, ranking among the least peaceful nations in the Global Peace Index 2024. This essay examines the origins and dynamics of the Somali conflict, analyzing its historical, political, economic, and social dimensions. …”
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Practice to Theory: Making Connections Between Assessment and Evaluation Through a Reflective Practice Assignment in the Bachelor of Education Program by Terri Jackson

“…Through this reflective essay, I share my instructional decisions, how I enacted them, and reflect forward. …”
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Dissemination Models for Communication of Cultural Heritage: ‘di sotto in su’ Perspective Domes in Andrea Pozzo’s Work by Leonardo Baglioni, Marta Salvatore

“…This type of experimentation concerns perspective, in particular, the perspectives of fake hemispherical domes defined ‘di sotto in su’ (from below) painted by Andrea Pozzo between the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The present essay explores the relationship between the true form of the dome and its perspective, with particular reference to the case of St. …”
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L’évolution de la philanthropie juive française à l’époque contemporaine (1791-1939) : un essai de synthèse by Laura Hobson Faure

“…This review essay traces the evolution of French Jewish philanthropy from the emancipation of the French Jewish population through the interwar period. …”
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Archives judiciaires et archives de la folie. Ou comment un repris de justice, en s’enfuyant de l’asile où il était enfermé, remit en question tout un système (Cagliari - Italie, 1... by Cecilia Tasca, Mariangela Rapetti

“…The essay analyses the events relating to the construction of the psychiatric unit of the new city public hospital of Cagliari, in Sardinia, through the cross-examination of sources. …”
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"He told me to hold my tongue" : de la violence physique à la subjectivation politique dans The History of Mary Prince by Frédéric Regard

“…She was then taken under the protection of Thomas Pringle, who would soon edit Prince’s autobiography, typed by a friend of his, Susanna Strickland.In this essay, I try to demonstrate that Prince’s narrative—through Strickland’s mediation—uses rhetoric to transfigure herself, from an animal into a British lady, thus challenging the classic distinction between the savage slave and the civilized European. …”
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