Populações tradicionais e inclusão social no Brasil:Um paralelo entre as políticas de acesso à terra e à educação superior por indígenas e quilombolas by Ana Lúcia Aguiar Melo, José Luiz de Moura Filho

“…In order to tackle the social inequalities that have deepened during decades of liberal governments, ethnic movements have been demanding the construction of public policies that, although they seek common objectives, deal with the segments according to their specificities. …”
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Characterization of Serum Phospholipase A2 Activity in Three Diverse Species of West African Crocodiles by Mark Merchant, Kate Juneau, Jared Gemillion, Rodolfo Falconi, Aaron Doucet, Matthew H. Shirley

“…Incubation of different volumes of crocodile serum with bacteria labeled with a fluorescent fatty acid in the sn-2 position of membrane lipids resulted in a volume-dependent liberation of fluorescent probe. Serum from the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus) exhibited slightly higher activity than that of the slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops cataphractus) and the African dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis). …”
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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

“…Despite the Elliot Convention signed in 1835, these violations of human rights where supported by the context of violence in popular circles, wether liberals or carlists. 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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Insurgency, Counterinsurgency and Human Security: A Case Study of Armed Violence in Papua during the COVID-19 Pandemic by Stefani Selina Prameswari, Nadia Amani Husna

“…This paper endeavors to discern the dynamics of insurgency and counterinsurgency during the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Papua, with situations of armed violence between TNI-Polri and West Papua National Liberation Army (TPNPB). The authors argue that the vulnerability of the Papuan people during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is spread across almost all sectors, the dynamics of insurgency and counterinsurgency endanger human security and increase the suffering of Papuan people, especially those who live in conflict areas such as Intan Jaya, Mimika, Puncak, and Nduga. …”
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Jonathan Gruber’s “Public Finance and Public Policy”: A Critical Analysis by Mohammad Javad Sharifzadeh

“…But, the book has some important shortcomings such as: its emphasis on the Pareto approach and neglecting alternative approaches such as the Rawlsian approach or the Amarya sen`s capability approach, lack of care to the historical approach and issues, neglecting non-liberal economists’ theories (e.g. socialist theories), neglecting the specific issues of the public finance in developing countries and ignoring new scientific instruments and issues such as game theory and behavioral public finance.…”
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Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya y Nancy Fraser, Feminism for the 99% A Manifesto. Editorial Verso, 85 Páginas, Londres - Nueva York, 2018. ISBN 978-1-78873-442-4 by Margarita Cabrera

“…Lo anterior busca distanciarse de posturas como el “feminismo liberal” cuya estrategia es la incorporación de la mitad de las mujeres de elite a altos cargos de las compañías, lo cual es criticado por las autoras, ya que no involucra un “feminismo de las masas” (de ahí el 99%), sino de una minoría de mujeres privilegiadas. …”
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Islam i polityka w Maroku na początku XX wieku. Naṣīḥat ahl al-islām Muḥammada Ibn Ǧaʿfara al-Kattānīego (1857–1927) by Marek M. Dziekan

“…So far, this work has not received much attention in Oriental studies, although it was a kind of guide for the Moroccan liberation movements that finally led to Morocco's independence in 1956.  …”
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Els Valors i principis fundacionals de la Unió Europea en temps d’incertesa i policrisi by Joan Lluís Pérez Francesch

“… Es reflexiona sobre la importància dels valors i principis constitutius de la Unió Europea en una època que es considera de crisi d’identitat del projecte europeu, que cal revitalitzar davant de greus amenaces com ara la polarització política, la hiperegulació burocràtica, la crisi de les estructures pròpies de l’Estat de dret en alguns Estats membres, les tendències autoritàries de la democràcia il·liberal, les reaccions euro escèptiques de grups polítics populistes, tot plegat en un escenari internacional incert i en un context de “policrisi” de gran complexitat. …”
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Innovative paradigms in New Japanese art: a case study of Yokoyama Taikan's selected artworks by Mao Xing, Sarena Abdullah

“…This paper argues that Taikan's reconstruction and breakthrough of the traditional framework of Japanese painting liberates and transcends the boundaries of traditional artistic concepts and promotes its transition from tradition to modernity.…”
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Prevalence and associated factors of self-reported oral health problems among adults in the Fanteakwa districts in Ghana by Joana Kwabena-Adade, Enoch Aninagyei, Joy Ato Nyarko

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The impact of the National Syphilis Prevention Program on the prevalence of syphilis among people living with HIV in China: a systematic review and meta‐analysis by Qingling Zeng, Yuhui Yang, Limin Zhang, Jiangyu Yan, Jian Wang, Jingmin Nie, Qingmei Wang, Yu Luo, Gaoming Li

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Radical orthodoxy and protestantism today: John Milbank in conversation by J. Milbank

“…If a great deal is mentioned about past thinkers and genealogies of the modern, it is not because RO thinkers suppose that this is at the heart of the modern, but rather because rival, liberal theological outlooks often, in part, depend, either openly or covertly, on stories about the past and the readings of some crucial thinkers. …”
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Archi-écritures de genre et politiques de différance : immondices verbales et littéracies d’intervention dans le quotidien des établissements scolaires by Rodrigo Borba, Adriana Carvalho Lopes

“…We conclude that these linguistic interventions may open up possibilities to “make a difference”, i.e. to repeat reality in different ways, to (re)imagine futures and to (re)design territories in ways that liberate them from fixed, purist and well-circumscribed concepts and practices.…”
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Les débuts d'une revue néo-salafiste : Muhibb al-Dîn al-Khatîb et Al-Fath de 1926 à 1928 by Catherine Mayeur-Jaouen

“…Al-Fath is above all a religious journal whose aim is to defend Islam on all fronts : it is presented as an Islamic, scientific and moral journal whose mission is to fill the gap in the Egyptian press, monopolised by the liberal press published by Syrians living in Cairo. …”
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La utopía identitaria en Argirópolis de Domingo F. Sarmiento by Eugênio Rezende de Carvalho

“…Más allá de lo que aparentemente pueda sugerir el texto, donde sobresale el panfleto político de cuño liberal, este estudio demostrará cómo la utopía de Argirópolis sintetizó y simbolizó el ideal y anhelo de una nueva nación para el «desierto» argentino, una nueva identidad para el contexto platense.…”
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Don Luigi Sturzo. A Man Through Many Seasons by Giovanna Farrell-Vinay

“…He returned home in 1946. Aided by British Liberal intellectuals, Labourists and progressive Catholics, he established himselfas a scholar, political moralist and leading anti-Fascist. …”
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From the Editors by Yang Kuang, Ying-Cheng Lai, Zhiming Zheng

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The Greek Vision of America during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1830) by Konstantinos Diogos

“…American democracy became a basic argument among those liberals who wanted to advocate in favor of an uncrowned republic, as the most suitable political system for Greece. …”
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As estatísticas localizadas no Brasil: um caleidoscópio das categorias territoriais by Cathy Chatel, Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

“…The large number of territorial categories of official statistics of present-day Brazil reveals a great wealth of data, provided they are not considered as a "turnkey" material for research.From a pre-statistical European model inherited from the colonial period to the rationality of the state, then to the liberal and post-modern context that spread in the globalized world, the IBGE categories reveal the paradoxes due to the superposition of different points of view on how to characterize the urban space. …”
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Another Genealogy: Art philosophy, politics and personalism. The case of Edgar De Bruyne by Rajesh Heynickx

“…In their eyes, interwar personalism incarnated a harsch criticism of the ‘liberal democracy’ and, at the same time, it formed the preperation of a political formula gaining currency after World war Two: modern Christian democracy. …”
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