Exploring and Transforming Practices in Higher Education Within the Framework of Reconnection to Self, Others, and Nature: An Introduction by Mona Rechberger, Mariana Tolkatser

“…The collection includes this introductory paper on the project background, process, and outcomes, an essay on the experiences from the Value Creators (VC) and Managing Projects for Sustainable Development (MPSD) semesters, and two research articles on transformative teaching and spirituality in education. …”
Get full text

Formfunktionen der Sonatenform. Ein Beitrag zur Sonatentheorie auf der Grundlage einer Kritik an William E. Caplins Verständnis von Formfunktionen by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Jahrhunderts veranschaulicht wird. // This essay offers a critical view of a frequently adopted understanding of the term ›formal function‹, which had been established in North America in response to the theories of Erwin Ratz. …”
Get full text

Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“… The essay investigates if and how Greco-Roman theorists attempted to motivate altruistic behaviour and devise a social-welfare ethics. …”
Get full text

Pathology of Editing in Persian Literature Books of High School by Mohammad Reza Pashaei, Saeed Ghasemi

“…According to the title of the article, the purpose of this essay is the expression of some problems and shortcomings in the field of editing Persian textbooks of the High school as a statistical society. …”
Get full text

White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…Focusing on the dialectical tension between memory and history, she discusses several questions ranging from the genesis of the book project to her regrets at censoring herself in anticipation of criticisms. The essay sheds new light on her personal experience of the Southern Civil Rights Movement—especially her participation in the Albany Freedom Ride in 1961, the role of religion in her commitment to the Movement, and her feelings about the movement’s evolution after 1964. …”
Get full text

“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…Through an analysis of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976/1998) by the Asian American writer Hualing Nieh, this essay focuses on the negative outcomes of coerced mobility and transnationalism. …”
Get full text

North, Iran-Contra, and the Doomsday Project: The Original Congressional Cover Up of Continuity-of-Government Planning by Peter Dale Scott

“…(One of the two Committee Chairs was Lee Hamilton, later co-chair of the similarly evasive 9/11 Commission Report).Recently I have written about the extraordinary power of the COG network Doomsday planners, or what CNN in 1991 described as a "shadow government...about which you know nothing." Returning to my 1989 essay, I see the essential but complex overlap between this Doomsday Committee and the Iran-Contra secret "junta" or cabal described by Theodore Draper and Senator Paul Sarbanes within the Reagan-Bush administration. …”
Get full text

Czy Muminki mogą zmienić współczesny świat? Na marginesie recenzji książki Hanny Dymel-Trzebiatowskiej Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. Perspektywa filozoficzno-literacka (2024)... by Dorota Michułka

“… This essay is an attempt at contextual interpretation of Hanna Dymel-Trzebiatowska’s book Przechadzki po Dolinie Muminków. …”
Get full text

Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Olaju and the Multilateral Modernity by Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay confronts two orthodoxies at the heart of the modernity debate. …”
Get full text

A FEMININE OF NO ONE’S OWN IN CHARLOTTE TÁBUA RASA by Eider Madeiros, Letícia Simões Velloso Schuler, Mariana Pinheiro Ramalho, Hermano de França Rodrigues

“… This paper aims to essay an open and constructive dialogue between the very rupture that the trans female body evokes and the recent concept of “feminine of no one”, through an inductive approach that the latter could make it possible to be kept in a state of infiniteness, of openness, of incompleteness, of non-wholeness, the aspect that characterizes the surrounding and expressive territories of each one of the specific bodies that allow themselves to be situated more leaned onto the feminine. …”
Get full text

Cormac McCarthy´s The Stonemason and the Ethic of Craftsmanship by Federico Bellini

“…On the one hand, craft is represented as the quintessential value; on the other, it is measured against the real world in which values have to be constantly renegotiated in order to be useful. In this essay, I analyze how the tension between the ideal of the “craftsman hero,” represented by Papaw, and Ben’s attempt to live up to it traverses The Stonemason through three distinct if intertwined levels. …”
Get full text

Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British nationalism. …”
Get full text

ASIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S MIDTERM EXAMINATION MATERNAL INSTINCT DEPICTED IN VERENATAY'S BROKEN by Ruly Indra Darmawan

“… In this essay, I want to analyze how maternal instinct is depicted in one short story which has South East Asia as a setting of place because this maternal instinct has became one of the most debatable issues in feminist study until nowadays. …”
Get full text

Hollywood sur la Lune : les « Scientifilms », les Pulps et l’imaginaire science-fictionnel by Jay P. Telotte

“…This essay examines how the movies, the movie industry, and a movie consciousness filtered into the pulp magazines during sf’s formative, pre-World War II era. …”
Get full text

Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…This essay shows how poetical elements may be integrated to a prose genre, the crime fiction narrative, and the perturbations they may generate. …”
Get full text

The Conspiracist Strategy: Lessons from American Alternative Health Promotions by Gad Yair

“…Hofstadter's classic essay "The Paranoid Style in American Politics" opened a floodgate of analyses of fear and conspiracy theories in American culture. …”
Get full text

Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
Get full text

APPLIED ECOLOGY FOR IRRIGATION ENGINEERS by R. E. Regel, A. A. Fedotova, N. P. Goncharov

“…As an introductory article, we offer a brief essay on Regel’s scientific and organizational activities, which describes his role in the establishment of applied botany as a scientific discipline in Russia.It is supplemented by new archival documents.…”
Get full text

House Vision by Cathelijne Nuijsink

“…However, the intensification of neoliberal policies after a decade of severe economic crisis in the 1990s drove architects towards social involvement once again, initiating a housing trend based on sharing, renovation and re-use of the existing housing stock. This essay will highlight the work of the House Vision think-tank and full-scale building exhibitions – initiated in 2011 by Japanese designer and art director Kenya Hara – as one response to the socio-economic and political conditions after the neoliberal turn. …”
Get full text

Transcalar project of nature-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda. Innovations and interconnections by Roberta Ingaramo, Maicol Negrello, Lousineh Khachatourian Saradehi, Arin Khachatourian Saradehi

“… The essay offers a reinterpretation of nature-based solutions (NbS), viewing them not only as devices for the architectural design of urban space but also as highly efficient and cost-effective solutions capable of competing with other strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the 2030 Agenda. …”
Get full text