The CEO Art Museum Director: Business as Usual? by Jennifer A. Donnelly

“…This essay explores the evolving relationship between art historical expertise and business and administration skills amongst art museum directors in the United States. …”
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O Ponto Cego de Wilson Martins: Identidade paranaense e as transformações no espaço intelectual brasileiro by Natalia Romanovski

“…The book A different Brazil: essay on the phenomena of acculturation in Paraná, written by the literary critic Wilson Martins, is considered a milestone in the area of Studies of Paraná. …”
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Constitutions as Chains? On the Intergenerational Challenges of Constitution-Making by Konstantin Chatziathanasiou

“…In this essay, I explore the ambiguity of the competition’s title “Constitutions as Chains”, and distinguish between two intergenerational challenges in constitution-making: the challenge of intergenerationally just constitutional provisions, and the challenge of creating a stable institution which is accepted by successive generations. …”
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Os convivas da morte no banquete das almas: presença de eguns em um conto de João Antônio by Gilberto Figueiredo Martins

“…In the short story analyzed in this essay - "Eguns" - João Antônio (1937-1996), a writer from São Paulo, presents a narrator who describes in detail an unusual religious celebration held in Bahia, meant for the cult of ances- tors. …”
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Phenomenographies: describing the plurality of atmospheric worlds by Federico De Matteis, Mikkel Bille, Tonino Griffero, Andrea Jelić

“…The descriptive practices of lived space, however, entail several theoretical questions, concerning the potential and limits of giving voice to first-person experience. In the introductory essay of the 2019 special issue of Ambiances, we address the methodological perspectives emerging from the articles and discuss several question concerning the theory of atmospheres and the practices aimed at describing them.…”
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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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Reactive Ethnic Formations and Panethnic Identities: The Creation of Latinos in the United States by Ramón A. Gutiérrez

“…Specifically, it explores how individuals from Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Central America and South America came to think of themselves as tied politically as Latinos. This essay argues that such panethnicity can come from above, from state action to gather distinct national and ethnic identities, or it can come from below, from communities that band together for a common purpose.…”
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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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Condiciones de posibilidad de las atribuciones mentales en la díada humano-inteligencia artificial by José Miguel Biscaia Fernández

“…This essay discusses the limits of mental attribution between humans and intelligent machines. …”
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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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Political Principles and Ideologies in Charles Johnson’s Middle Passage by Raphaël Lambert

“…Presented as pacifist and egalitarian, the Allmuseri will prove as bellicose and self-serving as their oppressors once in control of the ship. This essay demonstrates that both political models are in fact similar in nature as they have Utopian foundations whose ideals their proponents could never live up to and yet still claim to live for.…”
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The School of Hawthorne: New England Women Writers after the Civil War by Marek Wilczyński

“…The main argument of the essay is that New England women writers of the late 19th century, such as Mary E. …”
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Generational Shadows: Parties of Memory and Hope in El Salvador by Ellen Moodie

“…This essay contemplates generation and memory in the recent history of El Salvador. …”
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À la recherche de la femme idéale… Les stéréotypes de genre et de race dans le commerce de « promises par correspondance » by Gwenola Ricordeau

“…This essay deals with erotic fantasies in the advertising materials of the mail-order bride industry, which are distributed mainly on the Internet. …”
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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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