Robert Adams in Transatlantic Review: Archiving the Barbary Captive and Traveller by Stephen F. Wolfe

“…Each set of textual “editors” and reviewers attempt to use the text to intervene in a debate about Timbuctoo, the future of African exploration, and the ways a literary “curiosity” is placed within the aesthetic and ideological needs of emerging discourses of African exploration and racial representation in the first decades of the 19th century on both sides of the Atlantic.…”
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Categories of return among Spanish refugees and other migrants 1950s-1990s: Hypotheses and early observations by Alicia Pozo-Gutierrez, Scott Soo

“…Whether for ideological or material circumstances, migration was a defining experience for twentieth-century Spain. …”
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Tunde Kelani: The Man Exceeds the Frame by Toyin Falola

“…Kelani has spent his career putting things—people, ideas, cultures, traditions, and ideologies—inside the cinematographic frame. It is a most exciting thing to see him too bursting out of every frame with all these multiple achievements that celebrate him Ìrókò! …”
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Une guerre sans fin ? L’utopie, la famille, et le monde post 11-Septembre dans Doctor Who de Russel T. Davies by Alec Charles

“…This essay explores the ideological positioning of Russell T. Davies’s reinvention of the classic British TV series Doctor Who. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…If, in this story, the reader can see an attempt at refusing or revolting against a paradoxical ideological discourse, Miss Braddon eventually aimed at opening women’s world by subverting traditional roles and making male protagonists experience female suffering and boredom. …”
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Las memorias de Mario Onaindia: geminación e iluminaciones by Miguel Olmos

“…Finally, they provide samples of his knowledge of contemporary political language​, and the essential keys of his ideological evolution.…”
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Изменение лингвистического ландщафта городов России: ономастическая категоризацуия by Антонина Щербак

“…The language of the modern Russian town shows that onomastic terminology is of foreign origin, which is testimony to the fact that the sphere of object naming in post-Soviet times is free from ideological control. The ontological essence of the Russian language’s onomastic system is reflected in people’s consciousness. …”
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Folk Religion in Discourse and Practice by James Alexander Kapaló

“…I argue for a renewed attentiveness to the ideological dimensions of categories deployed by scholars and to the relationship they bear to the field of practice they seek to signify. …”
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Two birds, one stone: can Nigeria have the best of both worlds internationally while chasing regional leadership? by Radu Magdin

“…In this context, the main question that arises is if Nigeria is on the path to choose one of the two ideological-economic blocks already mentioned or if is it able to elegantly balance between them to pursue its national and regional interests while getting the best of both worlds.…”
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Interkulturele probleme in beeldkommunikasie by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“…Before these three aspects are discussed, a synopsis is given of the status of entertainment in the mass media and the model function of film through which it becomes a socialising and ideologizing instrument. …”
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Révolution et politique de la culture à Sharjah, 1979-2009 by Alexandre Kazerouni

“…This article studies this cultural policy between 1979 and 2009 with a focus on its ideological orientation, which is unusual for that period of time : Nasserist panarabism, then on its decline in the rest of the Arab world. …”
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Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociaux by Fabien Eloire, Thomas Dallery

“…The turn to austerity appears neither as just the product of economic circumstances (external constraint) imposing this choice, nor as just the fruit of an (neo-liberal) ideological conversion of the government, nor as just the consequence of the relational work of a front of advisors, but as the joint product of these different causes.…”
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« We need to […] out-innovate the world » : les tribulations de la politique de compétitivité américaine by Jean-Baptiste Velut

“…The objective is first to analyze the conflicts of interests, the institutional dynamics and the ideological forces that have shaped America’s ability to defend its national economic interests in the face of globalization – from renewed debates on industrial policy in the 1980s to Barack Obama’s promise to “out-educate, out-innovate and out-build the rest of the world”. …”
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South Africa: the arduous task of facing our religious past by E. Oliver

“… The term ‘rainbow nation’ tends to soften both the intensity and divergence of the complex mixture of origins, languages, ideologies, cultures, lifestyles and skills of the South African society. …”
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Ecosse, littérature et nationalisme culturel : le phantasme d’une nation ? by Camille Manfredi

“…This article offers to deal with nationalism in terms of discursive strategies designed to forge the community’s self-identity and of an ideological and mainly literary quest for self-definition. …”
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Quest/ion of Identities in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Post-revolutionary Drama by Mehdi Ghasemi

“…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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Le lobby anti-avortement : pouvoirs et limites d’une stratégie d’action collective by Salah Oueslati

“…However, if political institutions and institutional opportunities on the one hand, and ideological and discursive strategies on the other have played a critical role in the successes of the anti-abortion movement and contributed to its achievements, they have also determined its limits.…”
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Changing Faces of Change: Metanarratives in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election by Albion M. Butters

“…One can locate voters’ desire for change in many existing conditions leading up to the race, but also ideologically and as a force in its own right. Framing of the election as a story reveals that the various actors were increasingly aware of their shifting identities, representations, and agency; thus, change was not just a plot of the story, frequently expressed in terms of populism and popular culture, but a fundamental dynamic behind competing metanarratives and contestations of how the story should be told.…”
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A universidade necessária em Darcy Ribeiro: notas sobre um pensamento utópico by Adelia Miglievich Ribeiro, Glauber Rabelo Matias

“…Being aware of the fact that the reception of Mannheim in our intellectual circles in the decade of 1950 legitimized the formation of a new intelligentsia that intervened in the course of political events, the article situates Darcy Ribeiro in this scenario, as well as his bet on the role of the public intellectual and the ideological commitment of science to the formation of a national conscience in tune with the construction of a democratic society.…”
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Le film de tournage shakespearien : fiction documentarisée ou documentaire fictionnalisé ? by Sarah Hatchuel

“…This essay aims to reveal the aesthetic and ideological stakes of the documentaries on the shooting of Shakespearean adaptations, in relation to the dialectics governing fiction and nonfiction, disclosure of enunciation or submersion into fiction. …”
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