The Spatial Extensions of the Right to Seek Asylum by Melina Philippou

“…It was the first time after the Second World War that Europe addressed statelessness in its territory. This essay discusses the spatial articulations of the EMR political reality through the analytical frame of the ethics of admissions. …”
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Fragmentation sociospatiale à Brasília et Curitiba : villes différentes, villes inégalitaires by Igor Catalão

“…This is more obvious in the metropolises, which are more complex and heterogeneous spaces. This essay proposes to analyse how differences and inequalities, combined contradictorily, lead to the fragmented city. …”
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Birds of a Feather: Alexander McQueen’s Victorian Bestiary by Ariane Fennetaux

“…With fur, feathers, corals, antlers or butterflies a constant feature of his creations, Alexander McQueen created designs that gave the animal world pride of place whilst his fashion and the imagery of his catwalk presentations were deeply influenced by Victorian sartorial and visual culture. In this essay the Victorian inspiration of his retro-futuristic designs will be studied to illustrate the uncanny persistence of some of the animalistic fantasies of the Victorian era into the contemporary world. …”
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A Comparative Study of The Yorùbá News and Aláròyé Newspapers by Adefemi Akinseloyin

“…In the light of this, this essay therefore attempts a comparative study of The Yorùbá News and Aláròyé, a fast-selling contemporary Yorùbá newspaper. …”
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Reflection on the theology of Joseph Ratzinger (Pope Benedict XVI) by J. Corkery

“… This essay looks at ways in which the theology of Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, shows affinities with Reformation theological thought. …”
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Metabolic cities of the future. Between Agriculture and Architecture by Leonardo Zaffi, Michele D'Ostuni

“…Resuming the fascination of mega-structures proposed in the second half of the twentieth century, in the gap between utopia and dystopia, this essay investigates models and solutions for the integration of agricultural production systems within above-ground architectures, designed to meet the demand for new living spaces in future ultra-populated cities, as a possible response to the soil impoverishment that made it difficult to implement traditional farming systems in and around urban areas.…”
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Évaluer une pratique innovante : essai réflexif autour de l’expression théâtrale by Marie-Noëlle Cocton

“…enThis article presents itself as a reflective essay on the evaluation of an innovative activity in French as a Foreign Language (FFL) class: the theatrical expression. …”
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Photography and Archive Fever in Richard Kalinoski’s Beast on the Moon (1995) by Laurence Petit

“…Drawing from critics such as Jacques Derrida, Janine Altounian, and Melanie Klein, this essay examines the close links between photography, family, and traumatic suffering in their relation with the notions of “archive”, “survivance” (as opposed to “survival”), “reparation”, and “re-membrance”. …”
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„Ma santé commence à être un peu meilleure...“ Osvícenec a jeho zdraví. by Lenka Švandová Maršálková

“…Last but not least, the essay will try to find out Kaunitz’s sources of medical information, whether and how he reflected contemporary medical discourse, and if new findings and methods were somehow reflected in his approach to the illnesses and treatment that he and his relatives and friends underwent. …”
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Comenius : l’université, un atelier de l’humanité ? by Martin Strouhal, Magdalena Kohout-Diaz

“…This essay is a critical reflection on the paradoxes of contemporary university education. …”
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Le post-humanisme chinois et la science-fiction politique de Chen Qiufan by Ron S. Judy

“…One of the youngest of the major sf authors active in China today, Chen Qiufan is most often associated with cyberpunk, mainly because he is grounded in a critique of the near future and concerned with the ways in which biotechnology affects and alters our perception of the human body. This essay examines the “posthumanist” dimensions of three sf stories by Chen Qiufan (a.k.a. …”
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Big pictures after Dawn: ‘ontology’ for historians and utopians by John Tresch, James Poskett

“…This essay approaches the history of science's ‘big pictures’ through the study of cosmograms, or concrete representations of the universe as a whole. …”
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Oor die inhoud en boodskap van die Heidelbergse Kategismus by D. Smit

“… The essay argues that it is meaningful to speak about the theme, content and message of the Heidelberg Catechism, although these three should be distinguished. …”
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Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama by Mehdi Ghasemi

“…Inspired both by the Black Arts Movement and the postmodern revolt against it, Parks has concentrated on crafting provocative plays that represent and emphasize the concerns and quest/ion of identities for African Americans. In the present essay, I argue that Parks is interested in questioning the former constructed racial boundaries of blackness and revolutionary ideologies of the Black Arts Movement without turning a blind eye to the concerns of African American community. …”
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TWO SIDES OF THE COIN: A PERSON- AND PROCESS-CENTERED ANALYTICAL APPROACH TO SCHOOL BULLYING PHENOMENON by Aleksandra Tłuściak-Deliowska

“…In this article, which should be treated as review-style essay, I will present two complementary approaches to analyzing school bullying, namely (1) person-oriented analytical approach which focuses on analyzing of individual traits and characteristics of children involved in school bullying, and (2) processual analytical approach that emphasizes the processes involved. …”
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Narratives of Judgement: Representations of “Privileged” Jews in Holocaust Documentaries by Adam Brown

“…Auschwitz survivor Primo Levi’s highly influential essay, “The Grey Zone”, explores the taboo issue of “privileged” Jews, those prisoners who were forced to cooperate with their Nazi captors in order to prolong their lives or the lives of their families. …”
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Performing Paint, Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on Paul Coze’s Stage in Paris, 1935 by Jessica L. Horton

“…This essay examines sixty-one extant posters that were hand-painted by students at the Studio School of the Santa Fe Indian School and sent to Paris to advertise an exhibition of their artwork, Art peau-rouge d’aujourd’hui (Redskin Art Today), at the Musée d’Ethnographie du Trocadéro in 1935. …”
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Le Tigre, le Louvre et l’échange de connaissances archéologiques visuelles entre la France et la Grande-Bretagne aux alentours de 1850 by Mirjam Brusius

“…In return, the French were in the possession of photographs of fragments from Nineveh that were lost by the British. This essay will re-examine British-Franco relations in the history of archaeology in Mesopotamia against the backdrop of the use and exchange of images, which became the only and major records in a story of rivalry, dependence, loss of objects and control. …”
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Reminiscence Tours and Pilgrimage Sites by Katja Uusihakala

“…The notion of pilgrimage seems to capture both the physical as well as the emotional aspects that such movements contain. This essay examines how members of the ex-Rhodesian diaspora community in South Africa ‘travel back’ to the past in the present in two ways: firstly by concrete heritage journeys to Zimbabwe on reminiscence tours and secondly by constructing memory sites and commemorative venues, where the journeys back to the ‘homeland’ take the form of imaginative travel. …”
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Social Cohesion in Ola Rotimi’s Kurunmi: A Resonance of History, Culture and Law by Yemi Atanda

“…This is the kernel of historical narrative used by Ola Rotimi, in constructing his play, Kurunmi, to refect rivalry between the Ibadan warriors and those of Ijaye. Tis essay examines the confict to refect and suggest the need for just, peace, and unity for social cohesion among Yoruba people, and by and large, Nigerians. …”
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