Metamorfoses do cinema brasileiro na era da mundialização neoliberal: em busca de uma identidade estética? by Jorge Nóvoa

“…This essay intends to define from a conceptual argument related to underdevelopment, growth, underdeveloped movies, movies of the colonized and of the conqueror, the historical phases of the evolution of the Brazilian movies, arriving to the present phase, of the neoliberal globalization of the national economies, and, consequently, of the Brazilian one. …”
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Towards an anthropology of youth in Africa by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…Deconstructing the “young people” category in Africa, in order to place its study on new foundations: such is the aim of this anthropological essay. Understood through its emergence and its historical establishment, particularly during the sequences of events that followed decolonisation, the “young person” category is separated out from the tangle of connected concepts (cadet social, junior, young generation), enriched with components of its construction that have gone unnoticed (calendar age, demographic and political category), explored taking account of the uncertainty surrounding the delimitations and characterisations of that phase of human development. …”
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Alliance between the right to identity and the right to family life as a constitutional/conventional basis to rethink adoption in a contemporary key by Marisa Herrera

“…In this essay we propose to rethink the centrality of the right to identity as the base human right or backbone of the adoptive legal system in Argentine law. …”
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Congenital Extrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts: Spectrum of Findings on Ultrasound, Computed Tomography, and Magnetic Resonance Imaging by Pankaj Gupta, Anindita Sinha, Kushaljit Singh Sodhi, Anupam Lal, Uma Debi, Babu R. Thapa, Niranjan Khandelwal

“…Focal liver lesions, most commonly nodular regenerative hyperplasia, are an important clue to the underlying condition. This pictorial essay covers imaging characteristics in abdominopelvic region.…”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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Revendiquer un point de vue situé. L’exposition « Tanesashi: Remembrance of the Shore » à Aomori en 2013 et la série photographique de Sasaoka Keiko by Catherine Grout

“…The aesthetic analysis in this essay focuses, first, on photographs by Sasaoka Keiko. …”
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Paesaggi di coesistenza, ovvero come attorno ad un passeriforme si articola l’abitare in una zona di montagna by Lia Zola

“…Based on field research carried out in three alpine valleys, Valle Susa, Val Chisone and Val Troncea, my essay tries to broaden the understanding of landscapes of coexistence by arguing that they are complex sites of relationships where humans and non humans alike shape and co-shape them through interactions but also frictions and conflicts that revolve around a small bird, Petronia petronia. …”
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La Société des Américanistes de Paris : une société savante au service de l’américanisme by Christine Laurière

“…In the third part, this essay sketches out the main geographical, disciplinary and subject trends of the articles published in the Journal.…”
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The Resilience of urban agriculture in the European context by Maicol Negrello, Daniele Roccaro, Kevin Santus, Isabella Spagnolo

“…Through a historical excursus and a subsequent analysis of contemporary case studies, the paper provides design tools for intervening in the built environment with strategies ranging from the urban to the architectural scale. The essay presents a replicable morpho-typological approach that can be applied and used by planners and policymakers to increase urban resilience. …”
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Cataloging minerals, part 1: The categories of colonialism and extraction by Selby Hearth, Carrie Robbins

“…Yet those connections are not recorded in traditional mineral catalogs, which treat specimens as divorced from context. This essay examines the roots of those omissions, and situates mineral cataloging in the larger body of literature on knowledge organization systems and power. …”
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Music’s Vibratory Enchantments and Epistemic Injustices. Reflecting on Thirty Years of Feminist Thought in Music Theory by Judy Lochhead

“…These new perspectives have, in part, resulted in an increased diversity in the demographics of musicology, but there have not been changes of sufficient significance in either content or methodology in North American music theory and the demographics of music theory remain dominated by white, male practitioners. In this short essay, I propose two ways that music-theoretical practice can be transformed in order to overcome the “epistemic injustices” of past work in music theory. …”
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Tourismus und erotische Imaginationen des besetzten Paris: Französinnen und Deutsche während der deutschen Besatzung von 1940 bis 1944 by Bertram M. Gordon

“…Dieser Essay beschäftigt sich mit den Intersektionen von Tourismus, Krieg und Erotik im besetzten Paris während des Zweiten Weltkriegs. …”
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Rousseau’s errors: they persist today in educational theory by Peter Gray

“…In this essay, the author contends that the approach to education described by Rousseau in Émile is not only impractical but is founded on four misconceptions concerning human nature and development. …”
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‘Of war and war’s alarms’: W.B. Yeats from On the Boiler (1939) by Adrian PATERSON

“…In any analysis of modernist nonfictional prose concerning war, On the Boiler should not be ignored. This essay argues that On the Boiler, hybrid and contradictory as it is, does not represent an anomaly, but a continuation. …”
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Exposer la science dans l’après-guerre. Hommage à Léonard de Vinci et Rembrandt, étude photographique et radiographique au laboratoire du musée du Louvre by Camille Bourdiel

“…This essay will explore, through two exhibitions, a key moment in the history of the Laboratoire du Musée du Louvre. …”
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The New Turn to Mecca by Michael Laffan

“…Taking the extensive Java notebooks of Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) as a lens, this essay discusses the globalising forms being adopted in Java’s Islamic schools in the late nineteenth century. …”
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BERTRAND RUSSELL'IN FELSEFE ANLAYIŞI ÜZERİNE BİR İNCELEME by Fikri Gül

“…On the other hand, however, he reduces its value by viewing it as a subordinate element of science. In this essay, Russell's own ideas about philosophy are studied systematically, and some critical material the objections that were raised against the opinions held by the thinker is presented.…”
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Performing the Return of the Repressed: Krzysztof Wodiczko’s Artistic Interventions in New York City's Public Space by Justyna Wierzchowska

“…This essay discusses two projections by Polish-born artist Krzysztof Wodiczko carried out in Union Square in the city of New York. …”
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Apocalypse Now? Kate Atkinson Reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses by Barbara Weiden Boyd

“…Kate Atkinson’s short story collection, Not the End of the World (2002), has typically puzzled reviewers, unsure of its goals and hesitant about its success. This essay offers an alternative, by reading the collection through the lens of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. …”
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A ascensão dos pobres a posições de elite político-administrativa no contexto do Cabo Verde pós-independente by Crisanto Barros

“…This article aims to analyze the rise of grassroots individuals to the political and administrative elite with the institutionalization of the National State from 1975 onwards. In the scope of this essay, we will focus our analysis on the trajectories of the political and administrative elite coming from the most disadvantaged social strata of the Cape Verdean society. …”
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