Las políticas de ayuda y de evacuación de los refugiados españoles en Francia durante la ocupación nazi by Ángel Herrerín López

“…Spanish organizations such as the Servicio de Evacuación de Refugiados Españoles (SERE) and the Junta de Auxilio a los Republicanos Españoles (JARE) took care of them. This essay analyses the distribution of aid and the sending of refugees to America by both organizations, with special attention to the JARE, not forgetting questions that affected their work, as the extradition requests by the Franco regime and the policy of accepting refugees by the American countries.…”
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Housing for a Lonely Generation by Marija Maric

“…Organised around the advertising language for three co-living platforms—WeLive, Quarters (now Habyt), and the Collective—this essay frames the corporate housing model as inseparable from the digital media infrastructures that distribute its contents. …”
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Courbet, Catlin, and the Exploitation of Native Americans by Jane M. Roos

“…This essay interrogates connections between Gustave Courbet’s The Painter’s Studio (1855; Musée d’Orsay) and the visual culture of American Indian performance in Paris. …”
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The critical commitment of philosophy. On Marcuse’s critical project by Mauricio García Echeverri

“…The present essay is not intended to be something new about Herbert Marcuse. …”
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Impressionist Art in Private Clubs: The Case Study of the Union League Club (1886-1902) by Claire Hendren

“…Not only did impressionist art become a way for club members to assert their advanced taste in art, but the Union League Club’s early praise of Impressionism, this essay argues, was key to the country’s reception of the movement.…”
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Theoretical Model of Engagement in the Context of Brand Communities by Flávia D\u2019albergaria Freitas, Victor Manoel Cunha de Almeida

“…This essay proposes to refine the concept of consumer engagement in the context of brand communities. …”
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Small Elegies for America by Lindsey Freeman

“…Many contemporary artists are utilizing small-scale artworks to represent difficult truths of contemporary American life, such as alienation, disenchantment, precarious housing, and economic insecurity writ large. In this essay, focusing on the artists Michael Paul Smith, Thomas Dolye, and James Casebere, the imaginations that encircle homes, neighborhoods, and small towns are complicated through utopian and dystopian art works that draw attention to past attachments to the future and the need for large changes now. …”
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Spirituality, theology and the critical mind by P. G. R. de Villiers

“… This essay investigates aspects of the critical nature of spirituality as a discipline. …”
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Changing Perspectives on the Problems of Democracy, 1970 to 2020: An Organizational Approach by László Bruszt

“…In this short essay, originally presented at the Center on Organizational Innovation’s COI@25 25th Anniversary Conference, I discuss a number of predominant perspectives on the singular problems posed by liberal democratic polity over the last 50 years. …”
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“Dimmi di che morte dobbiamo morire”: dinamiche di persuasione strutturale nel post-terremoto del Centro Italia (2016-2017) by Francesco Danesi

“…This essay analyzes the earthquake victim’s representations of the emergency response of the State in the post-disaster phase after the Italian earthquake (2016-2017). …”
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Learning from Nature: Feminism, Allegory and Ostriches in Olive Schreiner’s The Story of an African Farm (1883) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…This essay explores the interconnections between the discourses on animals, the Empire and women, three domains in which the confidence of the late-Victorian male was being tested at the end of the nineteenth century. …”
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Prohibited Mountains and Forests in Late Imperial China by Vincent Goossaert

“…This essay explores the various types of spaces, primarily montane forested areas, where human access was restricted, either conditionally or entirely, during late imperial times. …”
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Transnational Relationships, US Feminism, and the Labor of Dark Foreign Men in the “New World” of Europe in Louisa May Alcott’s Diana and Persis by Leslie Hammer

“…This paper examines romantic relationships between U.S. and non-U.S. citizens in Diana and Persis, Louisa May Alcott’s 1879 sentimental novella set in Europe and based on May Alcott’s life. The essay argues that Alcott uses sentimental, transnational relationships and the adulation of France and Italy to question gender and racial inequities in the U.S., as well as to encourage U.S. …”
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Yoruba Traditions in the Midst of Foreign Influences, A Critical Evaluation by Kola Adekola

“…Tis jealously guided heritage believed to have been handed down from ancient times has however suffered greatly from modern influences owing to contacts with foreign cultures. Tis essay highlights the measures to preserve the Yoruba heritage and the militating problems in the light of the unbridled contacts with foreign cultures. …”
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‘Everything is Plastic’:The Faith of Unity Movement and theMaking of a Post-Catholic Religion in Uganda by Asonzeh Ukah

“…Based on an ethnographic investigation of a new religiousmovement in Uganda, this essay mobilizes some of the analytical concepts developed by Chidester to think through the material dynamics of African religious life in the context of changing socio-economic, cultural,and political contexts of Africa. …”
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The Dream House of American Culture: Archives of the Self, Visions of the Future by Myrto Drizou

“… In this essay, I argue that American literature and culture help students draw more expansive geographies of their selves and more articulate narratives of their experiences. …”
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Towards a Tektology of Tektology by Tompsett Fabian

“…This essay explores the diffractive relationship between Aleksandr Bogdanov and Otto Neurath. …”
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Inżynieria genetyczna w świetle dialektyki oświecenia by Ryszard F. Sadowski

“…This article presents the ambivalent character of the Enlightenment’s legacy, which aside from promised progress brought also new dangers. The essay also presents historical examples of creating a “new world” and “new human” and dangers connecting with these attempts. …”
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Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli by Davide Porporato

“…This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. …”
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality by Tyler Hanck

“…Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in Essay IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter. …”
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