Beach practices. Models for design-driven seaside regenerations by Vincenzo Cristallo, Ivo Caruso

“…Among these is the seaside environment, and the beach in particular, examined in this essay on the basis of the results of two research projects with field and desk contents, which recognize that seashores are an integral part of the very metaphor of inhabited space. …”
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Religious Freedom and the Law: A Reality or Pipe Dream for Prisoners in South Africa? by H. Puleng Motlalekgosi

“…Through an analytic design of change over time, this essay seeks to conduct an analysis of prisoners' freedom of religion in South Africa. …”
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Ìgbélárugẹ Èdè: Akinwumi Isola’s Model for Promoting African Languages by Akinloye Ojo

“…We set out to achieve two goals in this essay; first contributing to the ongoing discussions on African mother tongues, their vital roles in African literatures while characterizing pointers on proficiency and performance. …”
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“When the war is over […] we will all enlist again” (The Lice): W.S. Merwin P(r)o(ph)etic by Hélène Aji

“…This essay takes Kenneth White’s description of “a quiet apocalypse” as a starting point to read the complexities of W.S. …”
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Inside Digital Dinah Craik: Feminist Pedagogy, Cognitive Apprenticeship, and the TEI by Kailey Fukushima, Karen Bourrier

“…In this essay, we describe our collaborative work as students and teachers on a TEI edition of Dinah Mulock Craik’s correspondence. …”
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Louis H. Sullivan: that Object He Became by Dan Snyder

“…Through a close reading of his writings with particular attention paid to his often-encrypted references to Walt Whitman, together with a close reading of selected sources from his library, this essay interrogates his understanding. Sensitive to the question of ‘queering’, it focuses on his conception of fused identities and its effects on gender and sexuality. …”
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ANALISIS KEMAMPUAN BERPIKIR KRITIS SISWA DALAM PEMBELAJARAN BIOLOGI by Desi Nuzul Agnafia

“…The technique that use to fix the data is essay written test that developed by critical thinking ability indicator, based on Facione opinion. …”
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On Wale Ogunyemi’s Translation of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart into Yoruba, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo: A ‘within-to-within’ Approach of its Challenges by Gabriel Ayoola

“… This essay examines the proverbs, and other wise-sayings as used in Achebe’s Things Fall Apart vis-à-vis the Ogunyemi’s Yoruba translations of the novel, Ìgbésí Ayé Okonkwo. …”
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Transcendentalist Women in Conversation: Margaret Fuller, Sophia Ripley, and “Woman” by Alice de Galzain

“…This essay focuses on Sophia Ripley’s 1841 article “Woman,” which was published in the Dial two years before Margaret Fuller’s “The Great Lawsuit. …”
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‘Dolls in Agony’: Vernon Lee in Southern Spain by Leire Barrera-Medrano

“…Lee’s open repulsion to the Catholic country and especially to the Spanish representations of the Virgin Mary would prompt her to write ‘The Virgin of the Seven Daggers’, the most consciously Decadent of all her works: a sacrilegious tale in which Catholic and Moorish Spain are intertwined to explore notions of spiritual and moral perversity. This essay thus examines the relatively unnoticed visit that Lee made to Southern Spain and suggests that, besides its disturbing character, the grotesque Spanish Catholicism that Lee found in 1889 resulted in fruitful productivity: it contributed to shape Lee’s pacifist aesthetic conscience and awakened her imagination.…”
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Le Flaubert de Charles Du Bos by Jacques Neefs

“…The connection between his essay “Sur le milieu intérieur chez Flaubert”, written in 1921, and extracts from his Journal, from 1923 to 1937, the comparisons with Gogol, Thomas Hardy, Tolstoy, Baudelaire, and Henry James that run through the writings of Du Bos, allow us to follow what he terms “the spiritual experience” of a materiality encompassed in the conquest of the triple demand of the Beautiful, the Living, the Truth. …”
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Cultural heritage and energy transition – A lesson from the past by Xavier Casanovas, José A. Alonso Campanero, Tiziana Campisi

“…The energy adaptation associated with conserving this heritage must preserve the Mediterranean identity this essay aims to address; traditional technologies are still relevant today, while modern energy technologies require harmonious integration. …”
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Ìwà l’ẹwà: Towards a Yorùbá Feminist Ethics by Olayinka Oyeleye

“…The theoretical implications of Feminist narrative ethics is then applied to the philosophical imports of Yorùbá proverbs about women as a way to tease out how female subordination is grounded in Yorùbá ontology and ethics. Spe[1]cifically, the essay interrogates the ethical and aesthetical trajectory that leads from ìwà l’ẹwà (character is beauty), a Yoruba moral dictum, to ìwà l’ẹwà obìnrin ([good moral] character is a woman’s beauty). …”
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Moradores de cortiço, capitães da areia e cobradores urbanos: personagens excluídos da construção da ordem nacional by Eliana Kuster

“…This essay provides an overview of urban issues in Brazil from the point of view of the construction of a national order that accrues for the organization of urban space and their dilemmas concerning the issues of dwellings. …”
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Resilient Design. A synoptic framework by Claudio Germak

“…It has learned to plan for what can place the system in crisis, developing collaborative actions to adapt to the internal causes such as exceeding the limits of development, migration, ageing, as well as mitigation regarding those external causes, such as natural disasters, even if these often depend on the first causes. This essay is intended to provide a wide panorama, almost a synoptic framework, of the contribution that Design can offer society in terms of ‘resistance’ and ‘resilience’, also considering critical events as an opportunity to evolve its orientations and practices.…”
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TO EMPTY THE SEA WITH A THIMBLE: READERLY EXPLOITS, DISCOVERIES AND LOSSES by Piotr Nowak

“…On the one hand, there will be the minority of those who read ceaselessly, even obsessively; on the other - those who never touch books unless planning to make a purchase. This essay examines the consequences of non-reading for culture. …”
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The Interface Between the Written and the Oral in lfa Corpus by Omotade Adegbindin

“… While the modernists in the field of African philosophy embrace writing as a precondition for philosophy and forcefully maintain the need to cast philoso­phy in the image of science, the traditionalists insist that African philosophy is essentially a philosophical reflection on African oral traditions, morals, and re­ligious practices. This essay argues that the intransigent relationship between the modernists and the traditionalists persists because the two dominant schools have failed to recognize the need to furnish a paradigm of interaction between their projects. …”
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The role of violence in the classics of Brazilian Social Thought by Bruno de Souza Lessa, Jaqueline Silinske

“…This essay had the objective of problematizing the role of violence in Brazilian social life and of discussing the relevance it poses in three classics of Brazilian Social Thought. …”
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Language and the African Philosophical Traditions by Kọ́lá Abímbọ́lá

“…Building on these and other works, this essay argues that: (i) incommensurability of “worldviews,” “perspectives,” “paradigms,” or “conceptual schemes” springs from deeper, more fundamental cognitive categories of logic that are coded into natural languages; and that (ii) consequently, as long as African reflective reasoning is expressed solely (or predominantly) in European languages, the authenticity of the “African” in African philosophy is questionable. …”
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Quando a linguagem é imprescindível à sobrevivência: Ó, de Nuno Ramos by Mayara Ribeiro Guimarães

“…Following this track, Nuno Ramos’ novel breaks lose from the traditional concept of realism and representation in literature on behalf of the staging of both literary tradition and the act of writing. This essay tries to portrait the problems engaged in this novel involving the debate of how contemporary brazillian literature brings back important issues questioned by brazillian literary tradition represented by pioneers of contemporary literature, such as Clarice Lispector.…”
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