Race, Gender, and Empire: The Strange Career of Women’s Voting Rights in Wyoming by Virginia Scharff

“…Historians have long puzzled over the fact that the earliest victories for women’s voting rights in the United States were won in the American West, far from the most prominent centers of women’s political activism. This essay argues that women won the vote in Wyoming Territory in 1869 due to a convergence of the post-Civil War politics of Reconstruction and the dynamics of white supremacist settler colonialism. …”
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American Studies in Europe or : Brother, can you paradigm ? by Rob Kroes

“…Il comporte deux parties, l'une proposant une définition du paradigme des études américaines dans une perspective internationale, l'autre à travers des études d'images publicitaires essayant de montrer comment la culture de masse américaine influe sur les cultures européennes.…”
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Lost Happiness — Loss of Life Satisfaction in the Corona Crisis by Michael Ahlheim, Stefan Bruckmeyer, Kai A. Konrad, Lisa Windsteiger

“…Building on the data collected by Windsteiger et al. (2020) and their internet interviews at the peak of lockdown measures, and looking at specific population subgroups, this essay illustrates that many solo self-employed and women report a significant decline in life satisfaction, and that these effects are strongest where solo self-employment coincides with economic losses and childcare responsibilities for women with children of dependent age.…”
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In a historic environment, design with order an ostensible disorder by Emanuele Walter Angelico

“…The essay examines the relationship between the built and its regeneration. …”
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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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O deslocamento inaugural de Laços de família by Carlos Magno Gomes

“…This essay presents a reading of women’s place in the tales “Amor” and “Os laços de família”, from the collection Laços de família (1960), by Clarice Lispector. …”
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Aira como autor de si-próprio? by Luciene Azevedo

“…The essay intends to discuss the relationship between the constitution of a work and the development of an authoral fi gure, discussing the relationship between the process of elaboration of the literary workings, available to be read by inspecting the work, and the outline of a trajectory of formation of an author’s name, what is done in order to relativize the simplicity of a direct association between work and life. …”
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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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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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Venezuela such as an example of a stable dictatorship in Latin America by Alejandro Diaz Castro

“…Abstract   The following article aims to analyse the current situation in Venezuela, identifying some helpful information written by academics on this topic. Thus, this essay will focus on the five stages a government faces when it loses legitimacy, as described by Samuel Huntington in his book Democracy's third wave. …”
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A paper Caliphate: understanding the Islamic State through its documents by Diogo Bercito

“…The Islamic State is a terror organization that distinguishes itself from other similar groups by the establishment of a bureaucratic structure that projects the image of a state. This essay investigates documents produced in Iraq under the banner of the caliphate. …”
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Of an Apocalyptic Tone Recently Adopted in Theatre: British Drama, Violence and Writing by Dan Rebellato

“…In the twenty-first century, however, these representations have evolved in a new way, characterised both by an escalation of the scale and intensity of the violence, to a point one could call apocalyptic, coupled with specifically non-realist dramaturgical and theatrical modes of production. The essay explains these phenomena as two sides of an attempt to resist neoliberal capitalism’s totalising colonisation of our experience of the real and to imagine the unimaginable end of capitalism.…”
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C. McGinn. A Religion of Hate / trans. from Engl. V. A. Sergeeva by V. A. Sergeeva

“…The essay examines universal hate as an alternative foundation to Christianity. …”
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How Was the Restructuring of Antisemitism Used to Fuel German Nationalism (1871-1890)? by Flora Warshaw

“… This essay seeks to explain through textual analysis of speeches and writings of key antisemitic figures of the time, how German nationalists used antisemitism as a unifying force for citizens, who were disappointed with the lack of German cultural homogeneity in the wake of German unification in 1871. …”
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The problem of governance by Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili

“…For all its insight, this essay makes a case that governance remains especially significant to promote peace and prosperity in fragile states. …”
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La Créolité, vingt ans après by Jean Bernabé

“…About twenty years after the publication of the essay In Praise of Creoleness, it was necessary to come back to the concept that constitutes its main theme, even if it meant revisiting, or even revising, in a self-critical perspective, some of its ideological and political implications. …”
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Histoire, mémoire et fiction dans le cinéma américain contemporain by Elie Yazbek

“…This essential issue about the connection between history, its representation in films and the condition of the viewer involved into a scheme in which his “ memory flow”, emotions, and souvenirs are concerned, a scheme trying to replace the elapsed memories, is the subject if this essay.…”
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Edith Stein, Une Sainte controversée by Yael Hisch

“…Her holiness shocked many members of the Jewish communities, who perceived in the choice of the Church a desire to put the specificity of the Holocaust. This essay aims at showing that Edith Steins’ holiness stands at the center of a religious controversy, at the very moment when Catholics and Jews are attempting to establish a “fraternal dialogue” after the decisive turning point of the Second Vatican Council, and the declaration Nostra Aetate regarding the Jews.…”
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World Religions in the World by David Chidester

“…Yet, the notion of ‘world religions’ has been enthusiastically embraced by advocates of inclusive citizenship in democratic societies and by advocates of indigenous empowerment in postcolonial societies. This brief essay reviews the terms of engagement for critically reflecting on the various deployments of ‘world religions’ as a prelude to thinking about religion in the world. …”
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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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