Beyond nationalism? The inter-war period and some features of the complex transformation of southeastern Europe by Basciani Alberto

“…Agrarian reforms, changes in political structures, increasing urbanisation, population growth, and ad hoc legislation for minority rights protection were some of the most important issues addressed in those years. This essay aims to elucidate the main knots and contradictions in the internal and international life of the countries of Balkan Europe, showing how efforts to change political and social structures encountered enormous obstacles in the intrinsic weakness of those socio-economic structures, but also in the will of important segments of the Balkan ruling classes, especially those who had realised the nationalistic dreams of the decades before the Great War, to reassert the supremacy of their respective power and ethnic groups. …”
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Traditional Songs of Ìlọrin: Enacting Identities, History, and Cultural Memories by Hakeem Olawale

“…As a response to this concern, traditional songs of Ìlọrin like dàdàkúàdà, bàlúù, agbè, wákà, kèǹgbè, orin ọlọ́mọ-ọba Ìlọrin, among others sung in Yorùbá language become a site of contestation of ethnic and cultural identities. Te focus of this essay is to analyze Ìlọrin traditional songs as they portray and contest ethnic identities, reconstruct history, and revitalize cultural memories of indigenes. …”
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Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities

“…Drawing from the authors&#146; current research programs, this essay explores the basic dimensions of online communities and the concomitant need for scholars to rethink the assumptions that undergrid historic paradigms about the nature of social interaction, social bonding, and empirical experience (<a href="#cer">Cerulo, 1997</a>). …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. This essay examines the depiction of postcolonial disillusion and neo-colonial woes in Nigeria as represented in Akińwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá’s Saworoide translated, as The Brass-Bells Drum by Pamela Olubunmi J. …”
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Will decarbonising buildings be enough? Constrain and redistribute growth in floor area by David Ness

“…In reviewing growth projections, and employing creative systems thinking and ‘innovability’, the essay introduces the role of ‘sufficiency’ in avoiding, reducing and prioritising demand in the built environment, coupled with novel ways of meeting service needs enabled by digitalisation. …”
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Formfunktionen der Sonatenform. Ein Beitrag zur Sonatentheorie auf der Grundlage einer Kritik an William E. Caplins Verständnis von Formfunktionen by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Jahrhunderts veranschaulicht wird. // This essay offers a critical view of a frequently adopted understanding of the term ›formal function‹, which had been established in North America in response to the theories of Erwin Ratz. …”
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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“… The essay investigates if and how Greco-Roman theorists attempted to motivate altruistic behaviour and devise a social-welfare ethics. …”
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…Focusing on the dialectical tension between memory and history, she discusses several questions ranging from the genesis of the book project to her regrets at censoring herself in anticipation of criticisms. The essay sheds new light on her personal experience of the Southern Civil Rights Movement—especially her participation in the Albany Freedom Ride in 1961, the role of religion in her commitment to the Movement, and her feelings about the movement’s evolution after 1964. …”
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“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…Through an analysis of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976/1998) by the Asian American writer Hualing Nieh, this essay focuses on the negative outcomes of coerced mobility and transnationalism. …”
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North, Iran-Contra, and the Doomsday Project: The Original Congressional Cover Up of Continuity-of-Government Planning by Peter Dale Scott

“…(One of the two Committee Chairs was Lee Hamilton, later co-chair of the similarly evasive 9/11 Commission Report).Recently I have written about the extraordinary power of the COG network Doomsday planners, or what CNN in 1991 described as a "shadow government...about which you know nothing." Returning to my 1989 essay, I see the essential but complex overlap between this Doomsday Committee and the Iran-Contra secret "junta" or cabal described by Theodore Draper and Senator Paul Sarbanes within the Reagan-Bush administration. …”
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Is Modernity Single and Universal?: Olaju and the Multilateral Modernity by Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay confronts two orthodoxies at the heart of the modernity debate. …”
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Insurrection and Integration: The Indian “Mutiny” of 1857 and the Theatrical Renegotiation of Ethnic Alterities by Marty Gould

“…For contemporary British observers, the Indian Mutiny of 1857 was not so much about India as it was about Britain. The following essay examines the culturally introspective nature of the “Mutiny plays” and their persistent exploration of British nationalism. …”
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ASIAN ENGLISH LITERATURE'S MIDTERM EXAMINATION MATERNAL INSTINCT DEPICTED IN VERENATAY'S BROKEN by Ruly Indra Darmawan

“… In this essay, I want to analyze how maternal instinct is depicted in one short story which has South East Asia as a setting of place because this maternal instinct has became one of the most debatable issues in feminist study until nowadays. …”
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Rhyme or Reason: Three Patterns of Poetic Interference in the British Crime Novel by Camille Fort-Cantoni

“…This essay shows how poetical elements may be integrated to a prose genre, the crime fiction narrative, and the perturbations they may generate. …”
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Arthur ainda vive? by Isadora Cristine Martins

“…Virginie Greene questions the pertinence of using the term “messianism” in the Middle Ages and argues that it cannot be used in the same sense as used by historians to refer to Modernity4.In this essay we try to withdraw the analysis from the courtly environments in which they were reproduced, through some selected chronicles, from a History from Below perspective, to understand who are the people waiting for Arthur’s return and whether this hope represents more than a speech constructed by the chroniclers.From a crossing between chronicles and archaeological studies, we try to map cults, traditions, and pilgrimages linked to Arthur that circulated through Great-Britain under the Norman rule. …”
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APPLIED ECOLOGY FOR IRRIGATION ENGINEERS by R. E. Regel, A. A. Fedotova, N. P. Goncharov

“…As an introductory article, we offer a brief essay on Regel’s scientific and organizational activities, which describes his role in the establishment of applied botany as a scientific discipline in Russia.It is supplemented by new archival documents.…”
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House Vision by Cathelijne Nuijsink

“…However, the intensification of neoliberal policies after a decade of severe economic crisis in the 1990s drove architects towards social involvement once again, initiating a housing trend based on sharing, renovation and re-use of the existing housing stock. This essay will highlight the work of the House Vision think-tank and full-scale building exhibitions – initiated in 2011 by Japanese designer and art director Kenya Hara – as one response to the socio-economic and political conditions after the neoliberal turn. …”
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Transcalar project of nature-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda. Innovations and interconnections by Roberta Ingaramo, Maicol Negrello, Lousineh Khachatourian Saradehi, Arin Khachatourian Saradehi

“… The essay offers a reinterpretation of nature-based solutions (NbS), viewing them not only as devices for the architectural design of urban space but also as highly efficient and cost-effective solutions capable of competing with other strategies for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals promoted by the 2030 Agenda. …”
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Toyin Falola@65 Conference: African Knowledge and Alternative Futures by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…I shall use these encounters as pivots in exploring the significance of the conference in the body of this essay. …”
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Dylematy nauczania etyki w środowisku szkolnym by Grzegorz Stolarski

“…This essay is an metaethical reflection on the character of teaching ethics in school and academic realities of Poland, the aim is to show the type of ethics which is the best in achieving the syllabus and educational assumptions of the discipline. …”
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