A Critical Review on the Book Dissection of ISIL: Essence, Organizational Structure, Inductions and Results by S. Motahareh Hosseyni, Razieh Mousavyfar, Fatemeh Eidi

“…This book discusses the intellectual and ideological essence of ISIL, its history and formation, its organizational structure, its inducts and tactics, its media inducts, its army and militia, its economy and finance, why this group arose and collapsed, and the chances and threats of ISIL for Iranian foreign policy and proposes for countering with this group. …”
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TEXT CENTERED EDUCATIONAL DISCOURSE IN THE MIRROR OF CONTEMPORARY VISUAL CULTURE by Alexander A. Polonnikov, Olga N. Kalachikova, Dmitry Yu. Korol, Natalia D. Korchalova

“…The ideological base of the presented research in favor of the provisions of semiotic mediation of human relations with the world and the key role of education as a breeding institution and transmission of semiotic mediators. …”
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Rouhani’s and Obama’s Persian New Year messages: A systemic functional grammar perspective by Karimnia Amin, Rahbarian Shidak

“…The study critically analyzed the discourse of these two presidential messages and uncovered the hidden aspects of their ideologies, policies, and background worldviews. In doing so, an integrated version of Halliday’s systemic functional grammar (SFG) and critical discourse analysis (CDA) was used. …”
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Kosta Nikolić’s Book Krajina (1991–1995). An Extended Review by Savković Mirko

“…Nikolić delves into the ideologically charged story of the failed separatist proto-state of the Republic of Serbian Krajina which existed on the territory of Croatia in the first half of the 1990s. …”
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Enseignement de la littérature en République du Congo : quel sujet didactique forme-t-on à travers les prescriptions officielles ? by Samarange Romel Nzikou Mouelet, Ana Dias-Chiaruttini

“…Researchers in the educational sciences, and in particular in didactics, analyse them as a discourse that enables us to understand implicit, ideological and political issues, issues that reveal how disciplines function. …”
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Understanding the Reality or Applying the Theory? A Critical Book Review of "Social Backgrounds of the Iran’s Revolution" by Mohammad Ali Hosseini Zadeh

“…The reduction of political struggle to class struggle and linking ideologies to classes and objective interests is the interesting but controversial feature of this book. …”
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Accelerated expansion of NATO into the Balkans as a consequence of Euro-Atlantic Discord by S. Gajić, E. G. Ponomareva

“…Based on the analysis of a large body of narrative sources and recent literature, the article presents the main trends and possible prospects for developments in the Balkans, depending on the outcome of the ongoing ideological and political struggle within the West.…”
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FEAR OF SOCIAL ALIENATION OF LOVE AS GENDER CHARACTERISTICS by V. V. Melnyk, L. І. Моzhovyi, I. A. Reshetova

“…It is now hindered by the burdens of life, and ideological settings, which go only from the "I", and not from the common "I and You", contributing to frustration and alienation. …”
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Les salafistes marocains et la reconfiguration politico-religieuse post-2011 : fluctuation entre (dé)politisation, radicalisation et intégration by Salim Hmimnat

“…Yet, this reconciliation, which aims to defuse the socio-political tensions and uncertainty the country has experienced in the aftermath of 2011 in addition to counterbalance the Islamists rising to power, is likely to challenge or even contradict certain ideological and doctrinal choices that have hitherto framed the religious policy since 2003.…”
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‘Grim Realities’ or ‘Light of Fancy’? Charles Dickens in the Bulgarian Classroom by Zelma Catalan

“…During and after the transition period his value has been questioned by educational ideologies that privilege language proficiency over literary competence, as well as by the efforts to redress the gender balance in the canon of British literature. …”
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La maison hantée ou le miroir du territoire à conquérir dans « Dolph Heyliger » de Washington Irving by Françoise Buisson

“…Dolph, indeed, symbolically finds the treasure hidden in the depths of its well; he pieces together his family’s genealogy and reconstructs himself both personally and ideologically: the rebel becomes a capitalist. Thus, the haunted house, where the living and the dead usually meet, is also a place of rebirth.…”
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Covid-19, racism and the ‘state of exception’? A theological ethical engagement with identity and human rights in an age of ‘Corona’ and beyond by D. Forster

“…Religiously informed political actors capitalised on fears and prejudices to further science denialism, normalise nationalist ideologies, and curtail human rights. In the United States of America, Brazil, and South Africa, it took the form of problematic political theologies. …”
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A decolonial reading of the Third Chapter of the Gospel of John in Moffat’s Translation of the Catechism into Setswana (1826) by I.D. Mothoagae

“…It is argued that translation does not happen in a vacuum; rather, it also has the ideological intentions of the translator. Through the translated texts, Moffat performs a technology of power by eroding, dislocating, and disassociating the Batswana from their epistemic and spiritual heritage. …”
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«Pasa la vida»: Cartografías Urbanas de Madrid en la Post-Transición (1982-1994) by Vicente Rodríguez Ortega

“…During the Transition, Spanish cinema started to explore forms of interaction that negotiated recently born stimuli and social, economic and ideological formations, displaying as strong commitment to the representation of social reality and, more specifically, the marginalized. …”
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Miria Contreras Bell (La Payita): Desafíos epistemológicos para una biografía by Élodie Lebeau

“…The temporal limits of this work do not cover the entire existence of Miria Contreras, stretching from the 1960s to her death in 2002, but are rather inscribed in the chronologies of the Cold War (1947-1991), while at the same time exceeding them, in order to understand the ideological and memorial conflicts existing around our biographed figure.…”
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Comment le concept d’homophobie permet-il d’analyser les discours contre la « PMA pour toutes » ? by Claire Hugonnier

“…If the concept of homophobia is by definition intended to point to, among other things, linguistic forms of rejection, to what extent is it possible to use it as a conceptual tool to analyse the linguistic and ideological construction of discourses in circulation? …”
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Critical race theory and the question of safety in dialogues on race by M. S. Conradie

“…It looks into points of agreement between these perspectives, especially the call to critically appraise ideologies that deny or obscure the present-day consequences of racism. …”
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Palmyre-Tadmor : une histoire politique et sociale des ruines by Laurence Gillot

“…Palmyra is also an object of desire and a place of conflict where the recent destruction by Daesh and the subsequent debates on its reconstruction have also reminded us of the importance of the ideological and economic issues associated with this site. …”
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De l’usage de la « crise » dans les essais de vulgarisation d’histoire économique au Chili (1860-1960) by Stéphane Boisard

“…Nevertheless, in between these two essays, most of the intellectuals who worked on the chilean economic history criticized this theory. Whatever their ideological families, they all offered a negative interpretation of the developpement of the nation, going from « inferiority » (F. …”
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Pour une étude interdisciplinaire et sémio-linguistique de la viralité dans les médias by Alain Rabatel

“…They favour sharing, provoke the over-significance and emotional saturation of viral messages, in connection with ideological and ethical, aesthetic and playful over-investments. …”
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