Translating French Drama for English Audiences: Adolphe Belot’s L’Article 47 by Barbara T. Cooper

“…These are some of the questions this essay will seek to answer.…”
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Feasts of Indifference: Racialization, Affect, and Necropolitics in 1X War Games by Mahshid Mayar

“…In other words, instead of planning how to best train for, track down, encounter, and ultimately fight against this enemy, the choice that these controversial, post-9/11games offer is to simply eliminate the already out-at-large, under-armed, erratic Muslim enemy in a drone-like, distanced, and lackluster manner. As I suggest in this essay, 1X games promote unappealing and non-immersive, yet overtly political projects of death. …”
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The Ubiquity of Strange Frontiers: Minor Eschatology in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker by Zachary Tavlin

“…Frontiers are ubiquitous in Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker (2006). This essay first considers the recurring epistemological frontiers in American literature and culture, including within the scholarly American Studies tradition that located ever-present links between Puritan millennialism, American Romanticism, and the settlement of the American continent. …”
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TV is the Devil, the Devil is on TV:Wild Religion and Wild Media in South Africa by Lee-Shae S.Scharnick-Udemans

“…In light of its recent history of apartheid and transition into democracy in the middle1990s,when paradigmatic constitutional and political changes took place in which the relationship between religion and the media wasreconstituted, the South African context, in particular, is ripe for exploring media technology and practices in relation tothe political economy of the sacred. This essay pays tribute to David Chidester by testing the possibilities of his theory of ‘wild religion’against two vignettes of wild media in South Africa. …”
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Between Objective and Subjective Architectural Experiences: Conceptualizing Refractive Neuroarchitecture Phenomenology by Yongjun Shin

“… This analytical essay is aimed at developing a conceptual framework to assess how people experience the built environment both objectively and subjectively through a critical literature review of neuroarchitecture, architectural phenomenology, and neurophenomenology. …”
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Towards a cyber ecology by Carlo Ratti, Daniele Belleri

“…This essay traces how designers are facilitating an extraordinary, double convergence between the natural and artificial worlds. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF TRADITIONAL AFRICAN AND WESTERN PEACE BUILDING by TANKO SHAWULU PAUL PAUL, KINGSLEY PHILIPS NOYE, EMMANUEL ACHUS JAH

“…Hence both the traditional African method and the Western style method still live with us and peace is what everyone need. This essay is an attempt to harmonize the Africa traditional conflict resolution and western methods of peace building in conflict management in the African environment with specific touch on the IGBO of the South East Nigeria and the BUEM of Ghana . peace building theory was used. …”
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From Painting to Picturebook: Bhajju Shyam’s Insider Indigenous Art by Indraprastha University, India

“…My research uses literary and visual analysis of the picturebooks, as well ethnographic interviews with the Adivasi artists, to explore artistic agency exercised in the illustration of picturebooks. In this essay, I focus my analysis on the 2014 Creation, a collection of origin stories found in the Pardhan Gond repertoire. …”
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Le problème pédagogique comme expression et travail by Jean-François Goubet

“…Sans nier les aspects subjectifs de la découverte ou de la résolution de problème à l’école, nous comptons essayer en nous appuyant sur certains développements de la tradition philosophique et pédagogique allemande, de mettre en avant, sa participation à l’esprit objectif également. …”
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La Asociación Sud-Americana de Paz Universal y Ángela Oliveira Cézar: pacifismo, activismo trasnacional y «diplomacia femenina» by Paula Bruno

“…It also focuses on the actions promoted by the association in contexts of conflict and fraternity between countries of the American continent –such as the placement of the Christ of the Andes on the border between Chile and Argentina, symbolic corollary of the signing of the Pact of May 1902–. The essay is part of the «New Diplomatic History», a developing area that has given rise to the study of women in transnational scenes.…”
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Beyond nationalism? The inter-war period and some features of the complex transformation of southeastern Europe by Basciani Alberto

“…Agrarian reforms, changes in political structures, increasing urbanisation, population growth, and ad hoc legislation for minority rights protection were some of the most important issues addressed in those years. This essay aims to elucidate the main knots and contradictions in the internal and international life of the countries of Balkan Europe, showing how efforts to change political and social structures encountered enormous obstacles in the intrinsic weakness of those socio-economic structures, but also in the will of important segments of the Balkan ruling classes, especially those who had realised the nationalistic dreams of the decades before the Great War, to reassert the supremacy of their respective power and ethnic groups. …”
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Traditional Songs of Ìlọrin: Enacting Identities, History, and Cultural Memories by Hakeem Olawale

“…As a response to this concern, traditional songs of Ìlọrin like dàdàkúàdà, bàlúù, agbè, wákà, kèǹgbè, orin ọlọ́mọ-ọba Ìlọrin, among others sung in Yorùbá language become a site of contestation of ethnic and cultural identities. Te focus of this essay is to analyze Ìlọrin traditional songs as they portray and contest ethnic identities, reconstruct history, and revitalize cultural memories of indigenes. …”
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Ethnomethodology and the study of online communities

“…Drawing from the authors&#146; current research programs, this essay explores the basic dimensions of online communities and the concomitant need for scholars to rethink the assumptions that undergrid historic paradigms about the nature of social interaction, social bonding, and empirical experience (<a href="#cer">Cerulo, 1997</a>). …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. This essay examines the depiction of postcolonial disillusion and neo-colonial woes in Nigeria as represented in Akińwùmí Ìṣọ̀lá’s Saworoide translated, as The Brass-Bells Drum by Pamela Olubunmi J. …”
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Will decarbonising buildings be enough? Constrain and redistribute growth in floor area by David Ness

“…In reviewing growth projections, and employing creative systems thinking and ‘innovability’, the essay introduces the role of ‘sufficiency’ in avoiding, reducing and prioritising demand in the built environment, coupled with novel ways of meeting service needs enabled by digitalisation. …”
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Formfunktionen der Sonatenform. Ein Beitrag zur Sonatentheorie auf der Grundlage einer Kritik an William E. Caplins Verständnis von Formfunktionen by Ulrich Kaiser

“…Jahrhunderts veranschaulicht wird. // This essay offers a critical view of a frequently adopted understanding of the term ›formal function‹, which had been established in North America in response to the theories of Erwin Ratz. …”
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Social welfare in the Greco-Roman world as a background for early Christian practice by P. Lampe

“… The essay investigates if and how Greco-Roman theorists attempted to motivate altruistic behaviour and devise a social-welfare ethics. …”
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White Women in the 1960s Freedom Movement, From Memory to History: The writing of “Shiloh Witness,” a chapter in Deep in Our Hearts (2000) by Joan Browning

“…Focusing on the dialectical tension between memory and history, she discusses several questions ranging from the genesis of the book project to her regrets at censoring herself in anticipation of criticisms. The essay sheds new light on her personal experience of the Southern Civil Rights Movement—especially her participation in the Albany Freedom Ride in 1961, the role of religion in her commitment to the Movement, and her feelings about the movement’s evolution after 1964. …”
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“Back and Forth Between the Sea and the Mountain”: Negative Mobility and Transnationalism in Hualing Nieh’s Mulberry and Peach by Grazia Micheli

“…Through an analysis of Mulberry and Peach: Two Women of China (1976/1998) by the Asian American writer Hualing Nieh, this essay focuses on the negative outcomes of coerced mobility and transnationalism. …”
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North, Iran-Contra, and the Doomsday Project: The Original Congressional Cover Up of Continuity-of-Government Planning by Peter Dale Scott

“…(One of the two Committee Chairs was Lee Hamilton, later co-chair of the similarly evasive 9/11 Commission Report).Recently I have written about the extraordinary power of the COG network Doomsday planners, or what CNN in 1991 described as a "shadow government...about which you know nothing." Returning to my 1989 essay, I see the essential but complex overlap between this Doomsday Committee and the Iran-Contra secret "junta" or cabal described by Theodore Draper and Senator Paul Sarbanes within the Reagan-Bush administration. …”
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