Theatrical Tectonics: The Mediating Agent for a Contesting Practice by Gevork Hartoonian

“…In an attempt to log the thematic of a contested practice, this essay will re-map the recent history of contemporary architecture. …”
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Lost to Presence: The Entanglements of Writing, Protestant Christianity, and Empire in the 19th-Century Southern Africa by Sepetla Molapo

“… This essay takes interest in a dialectical relationship between writing as affir-mation and writing as a system of codification. …”
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An ‘extraordinary change’ in the Climate: The Transformative Power of Impressionism in George Moore’s Art Criticism by Fabienne Gaspari

“…Oscar Wilde’s essay ‘The Decay of Lying’ introduces the idea of the transformative power of Impressionist painting, ‘this extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London’. …”
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La valeur des pauvres. Le pari sur l’argent comme médiateur du conflit social contemporain by Gabriel de Santis Feltran

“…In contemporary Brazil, the urban periphery have two recent and dichotomous figurations: the cause of 'urban violence' that calls for more repression and the core of the 'development' which can turn poor people into "middle class". This essay argues that the representation of "urban violence" displaced the center of contemporary "social question" from "the worker" to the "marginal people". …”
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Admirable Alterity on the Frontier: French Women’s Agency in the Hollywood Western (1931-1980) by Lara Cox

“…These broadly positive representations of the Frenchwoman as agent and potential ally to other women would last until 1980 and Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate. This essay suggests that the commercial failure of this film seems likely to have had a hand in ending the presence of Frenchwomen in the Hollywood Western—Frenchness becoming synonymous with the financially unviable.…”
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Regard noir sur la Cité des Anges : James Ellroy by Frédéric SOUNAC

“…The decadent city analyzed in a rather pessimistic way by Mike Davis in his essay Beyond Blade Runner finds in Michael Connelly’s and James Ellroy’s crime fiction a powerful representation. …”
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Desenvolvimento econômico em cidades da fronteira amazônica: ações, escalas e recursos para Oiapoque-AP by Gutemberg de Vilhena Silva

“…This essay has a twofold purpose: to characterize and simultaneously assess the potential for economic development in the municipality of Oiapoque (state of Amapá), located on the northern border of Brazil. …”
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Cinema as Testimony and Discourse for History: Film Cityscapes in Autobiographical Documentaries by Iván Villarmea Álvarez

“…These films share a similar subjective approach to portraying the decline of industrial towns through personal memories, despite their belonging to three different subgenres: the performative political documentary, the essay film and the self-fiction. The analysis of their formal devices can be very useful to reflect on our contemporary systems of historical representation.…”
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Ludic Populism and Its Unpopular Subversion by Sascha Pöhlmann

“…In this contested discourse, it is all the more important to be specific about what it actually means to claim that video games are political, and this essay offers one particular way in which to address this issue. …”
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Insolvent Local Government: German Approaches to Prevention by Thomas Duve, Wolfgang Drechsler

“…In order to do so, the current essay sets out to investigate, on an empirical basis, how Germany has so far (i.e., before the crash) dealt with the issue of municipal insolvency. …”
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Community Media 2.0: A Report from the ‘Co-Creative Communities’ Forum by Edmond Maura

“…Drawing on forum transcripts and follow-up research the essay describes some of the key trends shaping how community-interest media organisations and independent producers are working with participatory digital culture, and with what success.…”
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Ungdomskriminalitetsnævnet by Anne Julie Boesen-Pedersen, Maria Libak Pedersen

“…The Board consists of a judge, a police employee, and a municipal employee who have the authority to determine if a referred child/adolescent is to be enrolled in a prevention and rehabilitation programme (forbedringsforløb), to impose an immediate reaction (straksreaktion) on the child/adolescent, to decide on a combination of the two or to decide on no action. In this essay, we highlight some of the most important experiences from the first three years with the Youth Crime Board – what works, and what does not – based on the findings from five out of six partial evaluations of the Board conducted by the Ministry of Justice’s Research Division. …”
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Flann O’Brien’s Anti-Manifestos by Julian HANNA

“…Yet O’Brien’s work is rarely read as avant-garde per se. This essay attempts to gain a new understanding of his oeuvre by reading a particular sliver of it – his manifestos – in the context of the historical avant-garde in Europe. …”
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Defoe’s Mothers of Alterity : Moll Flanders and Roxana by Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou

“…Inspired by Bhabha and borrowing from modern feminist theory—in particular, Luce Irigaray’s statements on placental tolerance of the other within—this essay will investigate the womb as an alternative/third space where otherness originates and where the boundaries between self and Other become so blurred that the notions of subjectivity and alterity call for a redefinition.…”
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La collaborazione femminile al sacerdozio nelle istituzioni ecclesiali di primo Novecento: il caso delle Figlie del Cuore di Gesù davanti al Sant’Uffizio by Liviana Gazzetta

“…The resulting initiatives and theories found a deep correspondence in female aspirations and desires for a new role in the religious world. However this essay shows that these innovations faced a great opposition and an early concern for the female desire for priesthood within the Catholic institutions. …”
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Laying The Foundations: New Beacon Books, Bogle L’Ouverture Press and the Politics of Black British Publishing by Philippa IRELAND

“…It places their activities and the publication of specific texts within the context of shifting cultural and political agendas during a period of profound change within British publishing.Whilst providing examples of their joint involvement in cultural and political events, this essay also brings the differences between these two publishers to the fore. …”
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Accumulation solaire : la théorie des systèmes-mondes de The Expanse by Brent Ryan Bellamy, Sean O’Brien

“…The Expanse envisions a colonized solar system, replete with a United-Nations-controlled Terra and Luna, a military dictatorship on Mars, and a densely populated asteroid belt. This essay proposes that The Expanse offers an image of a worlds-system, by which we mean an interplanetary system of capital accumulation that reproduces the structure of twentieth-century geopolitical economy at the level of the solar system. …”
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Gendered Species of Yoruba Plants: An Ecofeminist Perspective by Adeola Adijat Faleye

“…In addition, evidence reveals that within the Yorùbá belief system, some cultural practices are evident in support of the ecofeminist thought spanning various contexts in politics, warfare, or conflict resolutions, as well as Yorùbá Òrìṣà cults. Therefore, this essay seeks to explore the feminine relevance and significance in some contexts of herb or plant growth and their nature. …”
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The Notions of Fūkei, Ba, and Fukkō in a Community Art Project by Catherine Grout

“…This essay shows how a specific understanding of landscape (fūkei) as an agricultural landscape associated with the collective imagination, memory, and the activities related to vegetable farming enabled artist Taho Ritsuko to engage survivors of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which struck Osaka-Kōbe in 1995, in a movement of reconstruction and renewal (fukkō). …”
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Practice to Theory: Making Connections Between Assessment and Evaluation Through a Reflective Practice Assignment in the Bachelor of Education Program by Terri Jackson

“…Through this reflective essay, I share my instructional decisions, how I enacted them, and reflect forward. …”
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