The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…It considers how their physical forms, connected to ‘toy books’, integrate play and religious instruction. This essay considers one example of this popular genre, The Little Picture Testament, published by Charles Tilt in 1839. …”
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«Siamo una famiglia». Occupazioni abitative, sociétés à maisons e alienazione residenziale a Milano by Giacomo Pozzi

“…Starting from ethnographic research begun in 2015, the essay seeks to analyse some specific forms of relationship and “family-making” in the context of a squatting project in the outskirts of Milan. …”
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Thematic Preoccupations of D. A. Ọbasá and Ṣóbọ̀ Aróbíodù on Religion and Colonialism by Ìyábọ̀dé Baliquis Alága, Luqman Abísọ́lá Kíaríbẹ̀ẹ́

“…Besides, both poets see colonialism as a movement that brings to the fore African modernization. The essay concludes that Ṣóbọ̀ and Ọbasá are both social poets in the areas of religion and colonialism. …”
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Walking in the Brontë Dining-room as Literary Influence by Kate Lawson

“…Employing the materialist theories of Thomas Rickert, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, and Karen Barad, the essay explores how the complex web of the sisters’ everyday lived experiences could constitute literary influence. …”
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The Proliferation of Yorùbá Religion in the Atlantic during the Nineteenth Century: The Portability of the Orisha by Sheneese Thompson

“…Orisha worship managed to eclipse the religious practices of a more populous and well-established group like the West Central Africans. This essay argues that the highly organized and urbanized socio-religious structure of the Yorùbá Orisha lent itself to transportability. …”
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The Role of the Family in the Restoration and Preservation of Yoruba Cultural Heritage by Emmanuel Oluwasegun Awofeko, Olatunji Olusegun Oyebanjo, Oluwaseyi N. Shogunle

“…This is the thrust of this work. The essay is therefore approached from historical and ethical perspectives with phenomenological methodology to examine the cherished Yoruba cultural heritage. …”
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Vulnerability and Shame in the Writing of the Female Body: Emilie Pine’s Notes to Self by Lucía Bennett-Ortega

“…This article examines the representation of the female body in Emilie Pine’s (2018) personal essay ‘Notes on Bleeding & Other Crimes.’ Drawing on vulnerability studies and feminist criticism, I argue that the vulnerability and shame surrounding women’s bodies are reframed as agentic forces, motivating Pine to craft a distinctly feminist narrative. …”
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Restoring an Onkwehonwehnéha ecosystem by Jasmine Jimerson

“…This is a reflective essay on Akwesasne Freedom School’s effort to recreate a community of Onkwehonwehnéha (language and culture of the Original People) knowledge-sharing for healthier and more sustainable ways of living in alignment with the natural world, for the betterment of our people, the environment, and our Haudenosaunee (They Make a House, or the Six Nations) languages. …”
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Can Democracy Survive AI? by Gina Neff

“…This essay examines the fundamental tension between artificial intelligence technologies and democratic governance, arguing that AI’s inherent tendencies toward centralization and control pose significant challenges to democratic societies. …”
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Science et Fiction by Annie Escuret

“…Among the happy epistemocritics, we will find famous French names such as Michel Serres, Henri Atlan, Michel Foucault and many others. This essay first seeks to delineate the main epistemological turning points in the 19th century. …”
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Ikere-Ekiti in Art and Cultural Narratives by dele jegede

“…In addition to offering new insights into the relevance of Olowe to Ikere, this essay posits a re-examination of the birth year of Olowe. …”
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Miss-Taken Identities: The Comedy of Misrecognition in New Woman Short Stories by Margaret D. Stetz

“…This essay will illuminate a surprisingly common trope in British New Woman comic short stories from the late-1880s through the end of the nineteenth century—that is, the social misrecognition of women (almost always young women) by men. …”
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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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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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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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Global Democratic World Order: Utopia or Reality? by An. A. Gromyko, Al. A. Gromyko

“…This debate focuses not only on the shifts in balance of power after the end of the Cold War but also on the erosion of the legal and normative framework of the world order. This essay makes a contribution to intellectual deliberations on these crucial issues. …”
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Virginia Woolf’s “Modernist Renaissance” in “Anon”: A Singular Counter-History by Anne Besnault

“…It is this very notion of rebirth that Woolf rewrites in her drafted essay “Anon,” the unfinished chapter of her “Common History Book” that she left in the form of an incompletely revised typescript in 1940 and that was posthumously published. …”
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Uncertainty, Reduced. A Discussion of Patrik Aspers’ Book by Tobias Werron

“…The essay discusses Patrik Aspers’s recently published book Uncertainty. …”
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Talking Back to Virginia Woolf in Her Own Words: Gendered, Racial, and Literary Passing as Forms of Counter-Interpellation in Kabe Wilson’s “Dreadlock Hoax” by Valérie Favre

“…Unbeknownst to his audience, Wilson’s speech was yet another literary recycling, this time of Woolf’s 1937 essay, “Craftsmanship”. Wilson’s performance thus highly relied on both the notion and practice of passing, in terms of gender, race, and language. …”
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