Morte e rinascita di una risorsa sostenibile: le terre d’acqua e il riso Gigante Vercelli by Davide Porporato

“…This essay provides a first insight on the recently resumed production of the “Gigante (Giant) Vercelli”, a rice cultivar created in 1936, but whose production had ceased in the 1960s. …”
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Memory and history of the Great(er) War and India: from a national-imperial to a more global perspective by Thierry DI COSTANZO

“…This essay explores memorial and historiographical aspects of British India in World War One. …”
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Italo Calvino in Spagna: presenze e assenze di uno scrittore altro by Chiara Giordano

“… This essay focuses on the fluctuating reception of Italo Calvino in Spain, in the period between 1959, when the Italian writer made his first trip to Majorca, and the present day. …”
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Locke’s Composition Principle and the Argument for God’s Immateriality by Tyler Hanck

“…Locke’s argument for God’s immateriality in Essay IV x is usually interpreted as involving a principle that in some way prohibits the causation of thought by matter. …”
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O campo é um laboratório para a gestão ambiental by Neli Aparecida de Mello-Théry

“…In this way, reality becomes an essential laboratory, vital for understanding the complex processes between nature and society and for understanding different ways of doing management. This methodological essay aims to point out some paths for the elaboration of territorial environmental management plans, covering from the choice of the place to be studied to the final stage of participatory restitution. …”
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Mysticism and the Reformation: a brief survey by B. McGinn

“…Today a more adequate understanding of the mystical element of Christianity as a deeper awareness of God’s presence in the life of believers suggests a new evaluation of the relation of Protestantism and  mysticism, beginning Martin Luther, and continuing with figures like Johann Arndt, and a number of the “Spiritual Reformers,” such as Andreas Karlstadt, Sebastian Franck, Valentin Weigel, as well as the theosophical Lutheran Jacob Boehme. This essay is designed to reopen the question of the relation between Protestantism and mysticism. …”
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Needlework and John Ruskin’s “acicular art of nations” by Rachel M. W. DICKINSON

“…This essay outlines Victorian cultural critic John Ruskin’s use of needlework. …”
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The “Africanization” of an African Diaspora Household: Toyin Falola and the Idea of Diasporic Home-Making by Babatunde Jaiyeoba, Adeshina Afolayan

“… This essay is an exercise in the interrogation of cultural globalization, and how the idea of transnationalism generates identity responses. …”
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Local communities on-line: mapping local Web-TVs in Italy by Giacomo Andreucci

“…A specific role is being played by local communities (neighborhoods, social centers, parishes, etc.) which, thanks to the on-line spreading of video content, can have their own TV channel to reach their members and promote themselves in global networks. This essay will map the distribution of these locally-originated web TVs in Italy investigating their ways of strengthening communication within the community and at the wider level of the global Internet network.…”
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Kütüphan-e Türkiye Project with WH Questions by Ahmet Çelik

“…In Turkey, for this purpose, General Directorate of Public Libraries and Hacettepe Technopolis - Technology Transfer Center have initiated a R&D Project called Librar-e Turkey Planning and Piloting. In this essay, the Project is described from different aspects.…”
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Nuove esplorazioni verbovisive. Forme e applicazioni di scrittura visuale negli artefatti contemporanei by Ludovica Polo

“…With the beginning of the 21st century and digitalization, verbo-visuality has indeed found fertile ground in the concepts of multimedia, design hybridism, and in the visual potential of digital typefaces. This essay aims to explore and highlight the contemporary directions of the word-image dualism, developed both through the use of analog tools - as for some forms of asemic writing - and, mostly, through the applications of new technologies - including e-poetry, variable fonts, and machine learning applied to typography.…”
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Rhétorique de la futurité : scénarios, design fiction, prototypes et autres modalités évaporées de la science-fiction by Paul Graham Raven

“…This essay proposes that science fiction is actually a subgenre of a far larger, medium agnostic genre of stories that portray imagined futures, and that by looking at the choices and strategies used during the production of these stories, we can get an insight into the way they frame the future they present. …”
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“Frizioni famigliari”. Lavoratori, salute e conflitti in un’area industriale siciliana by Andrea Filippo Ravenda

“…The essay focuses on local conflicts related to the presence of an oil refining plant in Milazzo, north-western Sicily. …”
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Amnesia of Death: The Unsettled Endings of the Dead Who Don’t Know They’re Dead by Richard Hardack

“…In this essay, I try to explicate the recent prominence of texts and films that feature protagonists whose memories have been erased, and particularly who don’t remember their own histories, and especially the paradoxical fact that they have died. …”
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The Deer Hunter : essai de topologie imaginaire américaine by Jacques Pothier

“…This essay centers on Michael Cimino’s film on the Vietnam War to explore how the mythology of space in the American imagination is revisited at the end of the twentieth century. …”
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Controvérsias geográficas: epistemologia e política by José William Vesentini

“…Yet, they existed and they have been important for the building of geographical knowledge. This essay retrieves three meaningful controversies for/of geography. …”
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The Outstaring Eye: Belfast in John Duncan’s photographs by Michaela Marková

“…This essay is devoted to the photographic work of John Duncan (1968-), born in Belfast, whose pictures explore the townscapes of his home city and its immediate environment, focusing especially on the visual signs of post-Troubles and the Ceasefire era. …”
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Les limites de l’acceptable : petites et grandes « perversions » by Julie Mazaleigue-Labaste

“…This essay retraces the history of a divide that is central for the conceptualisation, theorisation and experience of sexuality in individualistic and liberal democratic contemporary societies: the divide between “minor” and “major” perversions, which draws the boundaries of acceptable sexuality. …”
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Discourse of Slavery: Freedom and the Negotiation of Power and Identity in Context by Lori Lee

“…The contextual creation of slave narratives and the processes of their construction and reconstruction resulted in a negotiation of power over the authentic discourse of slavery. In this essay, narratives of former U.S. slaves recorded in the 1930s and 1940s are examined to explore how context and narrative negotiate identity and power within these contexts. …”
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Bolivars et bousingots by Erwan De Fligué

“…L’article montre, à partir de sources imprimées diversifiées, comment au gré des régimes, de 1815 à 1848, des accessoires (cocarde, pipe, canne, chapeau…), des choix capillaires, des vêtements par le jeu des couleurs et des imprimés, ont fonctionné comme un langage compris de tous et permis à des hommes, opposants desdits régimes, de manifester leurs appartenances (libérales, ultras, républicaines et in fine socialistes), alors que des lois successives persistaient en vain à essayer de les interdire dans l’espace public.…”
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