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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Motyw nadziei w najnowszej poezji Dmitrija Strocewa by Bartosz Osiewicz

“…The methodological basis of the research is focused on the observations on hope made by the French philosopher Gabriel Honoré Marcel in the essay Outline of the phenomenology and metaphysics of hope (1942), and by the priest Józef Tischner in the essay Binding of Hope (1973). …”
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Nonsense as Autobiography: The Children’s Poems and Family Secrets of Laura E. Richards by Etti Gordon Ginzburg

“…Richards’s (1850-1943), the first lady of American nonsense poetry, was among the few nineteenth-century professional women writers who composed literary autobiographies, and the only one who wrote two, one for adult readers and one for children. The present essay argues for reading Laura E. Richards’s nursery and Nonsense rhymes as her third autobiography. …”
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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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The EU global regulatory state and the search for transnational democracy – reflections from the edges of Europe by Maria Weimer

“…In this essay, I reflect on the evolving role of the European Union (EU) as a global regulatory state against the backdrop of Christian Joerges’s influential work on European constitutionalism. …”
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‘Caught between a rock and a hard place’ by Andreas Anderberg

“…The question has also been raised whether juvenile offenders should be dealt with, within an entirely separate system. The purpose of this essay is to illustrate the conflict area and show a development in the legislature on juvenile offenders. …”
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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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Retorica e politica nel Risorgimento: la Repubblica romana del 1849 by Silvia Tatti

“…The essay aims to illustrate how a revolutionary rhetoric was built in the years 1848-49. …”
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Imagens do funcionamento institucional e arranjos sociais da Área de Proteção Ambiental de Jenipabu by Michel Andrade da Silva

“…This essay investigates the institutional functioning and social arrangements created among the actors of the Jenipabu Environmental Protection Area (APAJ), through commented images. …”
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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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TURKEY'S TRADITIONAL MIDDLE EAST POLICY AND OZALIST DIPLOMACY: GULF CRISIS REVISITED by Şaban Çalış

“…This essay is primarily designed to make an humble contri-bution to a theoretical debate concerning the conventional patterns of modern Turkish foreign policy in general, Turkey's Middle Eastern politics in particular and the role of leadership in decision making process vvithin the context of the Second Gulf Crisis and Özalist Diplomacy.…”
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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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