Mexican Pointy Boots and the Tribal Scene: Global Appropriations of Local Cultural Practices in the Virtual Age by Helena Simonett, César Burgos Dávila

“…In this essay, we examine music and its performative power by engaging in issues such as the localization of global cultural practices, the embracing of cultural practices based on a shared sense of marginalization and peripheralization, as well as the appropriation and resignification of “odd” cultural practices for global consumption, resulting in a cultural mutation of such practices and their objects from “low” to “art.” …”
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The Demise of the Dollar? by Benjamin J. Cohen

“…The dollar offers unique advantages that are unmatched by any other currency. The essay begins with a review of the attributes that are most essential to the international status of a currency. …”
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The challenges of being an in-house AI ethicist and how to overcome them by Dafna Burema

“…Reflecting on my own experience working as an in-house AI ethicist at an academic institution, this essay discusses three challenges of the profession: ambiguous objectives, conflict of interest, and epistemological differences. …”
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Simulation-based learning and digital tools. A trial for Pharmacy Services by Fabrizio Bracco, Maria Carola Morozzo della Rocca, Federica Delprino, Silvia Pregaglia

“… This paper focuses, amidst a collective desire to re-appropriate sociality and a focus on the use of digital and ‘phygital’ practices to promote inclusion and diminish the human impact on the planet, on the choice of hybrid, physical or virtual modes of interaction as a function of punctual rather than generalised needs to foster a conscious and sustained digital transition in university education. The essay deals with the simulation method as an established tool in learning medical disciplines, declining it in an unprecedented scenario such as pharmaceuticals and experimenting with its digitisation. …”
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Lieu partagé, jeu magnifié : protocole spectaculaire à la pré-Renaissance anglaise by André Lascombes

“…This essay argues that certain key factors lie behind the successful rapport that existed between late XVth and early XVIth interludes and their socially mixed audiences. …”
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Sur les ailes du vautour. Genre, violence et « résistance » dans un récit nahua de voyage à Chiknâujtipan, le monde des morts (Mexique) by Dominique Raby

“…On the wings of the vulture : gender, violence, and « resistance » in a Nahua tale of a trip to Chiknâujtipan, the land of the dead (Mexico). This essay analyzes four versions of a contemporary Nahua Orpheus tale (Mexico), inherited from a pre-Hispanic myth and colonial exempla, to underline how the intersection of gender and economic occupation influences the message and morality given to the tale by the storytellers. …”
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Festa, spazio, territorio by Alessandra Broccolini

“…In order to answer these questions, the essay seeks to explore the festivity-territory-inhabitation relation through the spatial analysis of a specific ethnographic case, the feast of the Madonna del Monte di Marta (Viterbo, Lazio), broadening the gaze from the inhabited space of the town-city, where the feast is often (but not always) produced in its ceremonial moments, to the entire territory that the feast encompasses and helps to define, both in the construction of a ‘sense of place’ and in the experience and practical action of the same. …”
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In the Midst of the Revolution by Lutz Robbers

“…Abstract The purpose of this essay is to explore the political agency of the rond-point, an element of infrastructural design which, since the 1980s, has become a ubiquitous feature of urban planning across the French territoire. …”
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Nigerian Translingualism: Negotiation and Desirability of Language in Nigerian Literature by Toyin Falola

“…The adoption of literary translingualism is a knotted discourse, but the texts of Wole Soyinka, Amos Tutuola, Chinua Achebe, Ben Okri, and Chimamanda Adichie reviewed to examine this loosely defined term. This essay dissects the essence of literary translingualism in inspecting individual attempts to adhere to linguistic differences, reviewing how selected writers have shown the necessity for translingualism in their work.   …”
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What is Animal Dignity in Law? by Visa Kurki

“… This essay attempts to understand dignity in the context of primarily European animal law. …”
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Koselleck, a história dos conceitos e as temporalidades by Jose D\u2019Assunçao

“…The primary reference is the book Future Past, written by Koselleck in 1979 –an essay in which one the german historian establish his main considerations about the three levels of temporality– Past, Present and Future –using the concepts of “experience space” and “horizon of expectation”.…”
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Portrayal of Social Vices in Obasa’s Poetry by Abiodun Oluwafemi Daniel

“… Tis essay examines sub-themes of social vices like wickedness, disobedience, stubbornness, jealousy, deception, greed, laziness, corruption, treachery, foolishness and ignorance, extremism etc. in Obasa’s poetry. ́ …”
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Sémiotique de l’enterrement prématuré : le féminisme à l’ère du postféminisme by Mary Hawkesworth

“…This essay investigates the strange coincidence of the unprecedented growth of global feminism over the past four decades with recurrent proclamations of feminism’s death. …”
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The Philosomer by Anthony Gritten

“…Other questions are possible. This essay considers some of these questions. …”
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How nonhumans are included in relationships by Trosper Ronald L.

“…Because consciousness extends to nonhumans, good relationships require including them. The essay describes six rules that are followed by those who wish to create and maintain good strong relationships, with examples of applying the rules both among humans and among humans and nonhumans. …”
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Situation de la connaissance du babouvisme by Stéphanie Roza

“…Il revient sur près de deux siècles de recherche et de débats, en essayant d'en expliciter les enjeux idéologiques successifs parfois difficiles à saisir d'un point de vue contemporain, et de faire la part du contenu scientifique par rapport aux partis-pris ou aux déformations doctrinales. …”
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The Politics of Circularity in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) by Guillaume Mouleux

“…In the wake of the worldwide box office and critical success of Todd Phillips’s movie Joker (2019) and of the controversies which accompanied its release, this article focuses on the notion of circularity both in the film’s storytelling and its interactions with the viewer, especially through the numerous intertextual references and evocations which are developed on screen. The point of this essay is to establish how circularity allows the film to deliver both macro- and micro-political statements, not only addressing issues relevant to society as a whole but also asserting against all odds the film’s place in the official canon of DC Comics. …”
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Život a dílo Josepha Flavia by Steve Mason

“…Yet how can we use his material if we do not know what he meant by it? This essay provides a brief orientation to Josephus’ life and to reading his works as intelligent compositions. …”
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RALPH WALDO EMERSON’S PRINCIPLE ON ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS by Fuad Hasyim

“… This paper aims at examining Ralph Waldo Emerson’s view on the principle of environmental ethics as reflected in his essay entitled “Nature.” The study of this research applied to content analysis. …”
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Juan Sánchez Cotán’s Still Lifes and Artistic Ingenio in Early Modern Toledo by Carmen Ripollés

“…This essay brings new light on the creation and early reception of the still lifes of the Toledan painter Juan Sánchez Cotán. …”
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