The West and the Rest of Us? by Masilo Lepuru

“…It was in this sense that as Marxist in ideological outlook and socialist in political praxis, they were anti-capitalist in orientation. …”
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God’s Forgotten Garden: The Role of Missionary Botany in Sino-European Exchanges by Jooyoung Hong

“…Findings show that missionaries’ botanical studies, driven by both religious and scientific interests, contributed to cross-cultural intellectual collaboration, leading to ideological–environmental changes. The research reveals that botanical exchange was not limited to science but also intertwined with political, economic, and religious interests. …”
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Can Democracy Survive AI? by Gina Neff

“…Drawing on science and technology studies and critical analyses of technological politics, I argue that current AI implementations embody four key anti-democratic characteristics: they represent powerful technologies of centralization and control; they fuel ideologies of unchecked economic growth; they prioritize efficiency over accountability; and they enable absolute control coupled with unaccountable power. …”
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Le Phare de Bayonne et La Sentinelle des Pyrénées : regards croisés de deux journaux français sur l’actualité espagnole de 1838 by Alain Pauquet

“…The author emphasizes the role of press editors and he shows how the ideological opposition between the two newspapers leads them to privilege different news and practice two distinct kinds of journalism.…”
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Placing Indian Village System in the Centre of Development-Induced Displacement Discourse by Anand Prasad Mishra, Soumyabrata Mondal, Prakash Chandra Jha

“…As a result, the geographical space has been altered in terms of the representation of maps, information, and ideological interests. These spatial patterns have added to the complexities of space that have attracted scholars who relate it to new theories in developmental economics. …”
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AN INQUIRY INTO CHINA’S ALIGNMENT WITH RUSSIA by W. Li

“…Historically, China and the former Soviet Union had forged the formal alliance throughout the 1950s due to the common security concerns, the shared ideologies and the strategic interests of the day. Yet, they also split into the arch rivals for nearly two decades until the early 1980s. …”
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An action research about the effects of social-emotional learning in a second language acquisition teacher preparation course by Herrera Luis Javier Pentón

“…Finally, SEL prompted participants to reflect on their identities, ideologies, and privileges as language teachers, learners, and speakers, which resulted in making caring and constructive choices (i.e., responsible decision-making).…”
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Islamophobia without Islamophobes: New Strategies of Representing Imperialist versus Suicide Terrorist Necropolitics in Homeland and Syriana by Mahmoud Arghavan

“…This paper investigates the geopolitical context of the emergence of “suicide terrorism” to propose that terrorism in its various forms has less to do with religious ideologies in general and with Islamic faith in particular, and more to do with the colonial and neocolonial politics of Empire in the colonies, postcolonies and occupied territories by the U.S. army and its allies in the Middle East in the post-9/11 era. …”
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The World's Evangelical Alliance and the Spanish Civil War by F Hale

“…This was by no means a matter of ideological sympathy for the socialism of the Madrid regime, but reflected the Evangelical Alliance's traditional support of the Protestant churches in Spain, whose hard-won freedom, it was believed, would be threatened by a Nationalist victory and the restoration of Roman Catholicism as the official religion of the realm. …”
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Aryanization Bureaucrats in Post-Holocaust Romania by Stefan Cristian Ionescu

“…Especially during the first post-war transitional years, the connections between the two ideologically different authoritarian regimes – fascist and communist – continued on various levels, including the bureaucratic one. …”
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Méthodes et contenus des premières réunions du groupe FUORI ! de Milan : une histoire palpitante et violente by Corrado Levi

“…The "politics of experience" are thus to be understood as a day-to-day effort of consciousness-raising and of one's self-construction based on one's encounter with the collective and, above all, stemming from the experience that one's body makes of the ideological and economical domination. The discovery of the regions of one's body inhibited as of yet and the possible boundaries that libertarian practices permit to transcend and to broaden compose the object itself of this research that, in the same way the laboratories of political experimentation did, the groups of revolutionary homosexuals devoted themselves to explore.…”
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« Che l’uomo ritorni all’uomo » : la revue Latitudine et l’engagement des intellectuels napolitains d’après-guerre by Virginie Vallet

“…The civil commitment of ragazzi di Monte Di Dio, young intellectuals who wanted to take concrete action on the history of Naples, a real political and cultural laboratory, is however difficult to dissociate from their complex cultural and ideological background. To what extent can the politicization of cultural life allow the words of the committed intellectual to be interpreted as an objective testimony of a historical period and its zeitgeist ? …”
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Un/Detectability in Times of “Equality”: HIV, Queer Health, and Homonormativity by Jan Huebenthal

“…Drawing on dis/ability and queer theory, this article critiques the ways in which “undetectability” discourses proffer AIDS erasure, whiteness, and ideologies of able-bodiedness as central to homonormative LGBT identity politics. …”
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« L’Indépendance, c’est maintenant ! » Réflexion sur le soulèvement populaire en Algérie by Naoual Belakhdar

“…Millions of Algerian citizens, from all genders, classes, ages and ideologies took to the streets across the whole national territory in order to oppose a 5th mandate of Abdelaziz Bouteflika and to ask for the departure of the entire system. …”
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People against the challenges of the era: The English Department at the Jagiellonian University (1945–1952) – an outline of the problem by Tomasz Pudłocki

“…Przemysław Mroczkowski and Alfred Reszkiewicz) obtained funding support to study or conduct research abroad. For ideological reasons, however, Poland’s authorities closed the programme, which ultimately led to the closure of the Department in 1952. …”
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Theoretical and legal characteristics of the civil law principles by О. О. Kolobylina

“…They create and provide the ideological basis for the development and proper regulation of social relations which are the subject matter of the civil branch of law. …”
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Finding polarized communities and tracking information diffusion on Twitter: a network approach on the Irish Abortion Referendum by Caroline B. Pena, Pádraig MacCarron, David J. P. O’Sullivan

“…This provides a valuable methodology for extracting and studying information diffusion on large networks by isolating ideologically polarized groups and exploring the propagation of information within and between these groups.…”
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Study on the Influencing Factors of Green Agricultural Subsidies on Straw Resource Utilization Technology Adopted by Farmers in Heilongjiang Province, China by Cheng Guo, Meng Li, Hong Chen

“…Therefore, improving the intensity and precision of subsidies, strengthening the intensity of punishment, improving the popularization of technology, strengthening the ideological education of farmers to clarify the ecological value of straw resource utilization, and strengthening the construction of infrastructure to improve the convenience of transportation are effective means to promote straw resource utilization technology and promote the green transformation of agriculture.…”
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Ulama in Indonesia's Political Contestation: The Indonesian Ulama Council's Election Posts on Instagram by Nur Najmi Anggraeni, Ahmet Selman Baktı, Siti Zulfa Palem Binti Zainol, Syahmirwan Syahmirwan, Fathiyakan Fathiyakan

“…Based on these findings, election-related posts by the Indonesian Ulama Council on Instagram represent the involvement of religious institutions in political contestation and the embodiment of ideological roles as a driving force for the successful implementation of elections in Indonesia. …”
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A Critique on the Book The Idea of Literature. From ‘Art for Art’s Sake’ to Writings That Intervene by Hassan Zokhtareh

“…This essay is first trying to explore the Gefen's functionalist conception of contemporary literature which is very American and then compare it with the ideas of other scholars to find out the implications of Gefen's approach to literature, including the emergence of forms of moral criticism and ideological censorship.…”
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