Narrativas ao Sul: viagem e música em quatro romances de Assis Brasil by André Tessaro Pelinser, Maria Zilda Ferreira Cury

“…This paper aims at analysing not only the transit experienced by the four protagonists o f the novels, taking into account their contacts with diverse cultural spaces, but also intends to reflect upon their insertion in the specific temporality of modernity and in the so - called fin de siècle . This paper also discusses one feature that characte rises that set of novels: music, which frequently provides the characters’ mobility with a rhythm, implying the development of a comprehensive metaphor and suggesting new meanings to those narratives.…”
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War, Trade and Desire: Urban Design and the Counter Public Spheres of Bangkok by Brian McGrath

“…This paper analyses an emergent public sphere in Bangkok in order to reveal the gap between ideals of public space as representation of power, nationhood, and modernity, versus its social production in everyday political struggles. …”
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La grande enfance by Jean-François Dupeyron

“…Thus, this representation provides today a real ‘scholarly rumour’ about the discovery of the childhood during the occidental modernity and constitutes the hard core of a paradigm. …”
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Bestiaire en marge by Cristina Álvares

“…In short, the paper aims at shedding light on the modernity of Chrétien’s humanism.…”
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The Island in R. L. Stevenson’s The Beach of Falesá: Confluence(s) as Subversion by Julie Gay

“…Finally, it studies how this diversity affects the narrative itself, which is indeed highly polyphonic, underlining the extreme formal modernity of a text that stands at the crossroads of voices, languages and points of view.…”
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Didactics of history and historical consciousness: the problem of interrelation by Arūnas Poviliūnas

“… The paper discusses the general principles of compatibility between history and social science studies. Modernity has transformed the ancient belief that historia est magistra vitae (Cicero) and one common discourse of history has split into two different parts: academic history and didactics of history. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…Keywords: Turkey, Istanbul, authenticity, modernity, urbanity, belonging, community …”
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CONSUMER BEHAVIOR MANAGEMENT IN A METAMODERN ORGANIZATION by G. N. Ryazanova

“…The metamodern period presents new challenges to modern organizations. The philosophical concepts of  modernity and postmodernity, which have a kaleidoscopic effect on the mentality, values and behavior of economic  agents, transform the economic eco-system. …”
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La « jeunesse » comme répertoire critique by Jeanne Lamaison-Boltanski

“…This category, associated with modernity in Africa, was mobilised by groups as proof of their belonging to a “global” identity, and also as a reminder of the political heritage of Thomas Sankara and his revolutionary youth. …”
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Rôle joué par l’économie informelle dans l’appropriation des TIC en milieu urbain en Afrique de l’Ouest by Annie Cheneau-Loquay

“…Those related with the insertion of the ICTs in territories are demonstrations of a “paradoxical invention of the modernity” [JF Bayart 1994] with regard to the universalist classic model of the modernization spread by the West. …”
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Le développement de la finance islamique en Malaisie : l’histoire d’un volontarisme d’État by David Delfolie

“…This article of sociology of development, including a perspective echoing Max Weber inspirations, discusses the political institutionalization of Malaysian Islam to highlight its articulation, in a conservative scheme, with the expansion of capitalistic modernity.…”
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Torre David au Venezuela : récits sur fond de politiques publiques menées par le gouvernement d’un « État magique » by Yaneira Wilson

“…Boneless, abandoned, still protruding, the Torre David has gone from an icon of modernity to the writing of an “uncertain” future in which Venezuelan society is immersed. …”
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L’essor de la résilience ou la promotion de nouvelles cultures du risque autour de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques ? by Florence Rudolf

“…Following these authors, risk issues are the consequences of the control obsession of the Moderns. Therefore, the emancipation of this imaginary, through the increasing of reflexivity, appeared as the first step for a risk policy. …”
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« Faire clair et vif avec des éléments complexes » by Cordula Reichart

“…In the novel Salammbô and the short story Hérodias, Flaubert turns to pre-Christian antiquity in order to present modernity its complexity, its entwinement in religious and historiographical discourses of power, in a « clair et vif » manner. …”
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Flaubert lecteur de l’« Apologie de Raimond Sebond » by Timothy Chesters

“…This article argues that the reading notes certainly reveal admiration for the ‘Apologie’: for its anti-rationalism, its denunciation of ‘bestise’, and what we might call its anti-modernity avant la lettre. But they also register a desire, widespread since the Enlightenment, to set a kind of limit on the essayist’s ‘que sçay-je?’. …”
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Alix de Vergy et l’architecture religieuse en Bourgogne dans la première moitié du xiiie siècle by Sylvain Demarthe

“…Yet Alix of Vergy’s generous gifts favour the development of a transitional Burgundian architecture that is still attached to Romanesque traditions while opening to Gothic modernity. At the same time, those buildings also reflect the economic and demographic dynamism in progress since the 12th century, as well as some « flexibilities » of the authorities, in particular towards the inhabitants.…”
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Così lontane, così vicine. Famiglie migranti, ruoli familiari e nuove configurazioni di genitorialità by Francesca Crivellaro

“…Migrant families’ practices are often constructed in public discourse as a threat to the social cohesion of the receiving countries, as they are deemed incompatible with “Western modernity”. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out in Ravenna (Italy), the paper addresses the issue of evolving gender and care roles in migrant families. …”
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Medicalisation of Birth in Transylvania in the Second Half of the 19th Century. A Subject to be Investigated by Luminiţa Dumănescu, Ioan Bolovan

“…The role played by midwives during modernity deserves increased attention. Ethnic and confessional minorities often displayed starkly different patterns in the selection of these instrumental figures. …”
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Performing Paint, Claiming Space: The Santa Fe Indian School Posters on Paul Coze’s Stage in Paris, 1935 by Jessica L. Horton

“…I show that although the students could not travel in the flesh, they claimed a space for Indigenous cultural values and experiences of modernity in the French capital.…”
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Simulacre et modernité : l’illusion d’optique dans On the Western Circuit de Thomas Hardy by Catherine Lanone

“…Although Hardy was forced to bowdlerize his text, removing allusions to sexual intercourse and subsequent pregnancy, the real shock lies less in the hackneyed sentimentality of the illegitimate baby theme than in the depiction of modernity and modern exchanges — or systems of communication through trains, letters, or judicial rounds — as vicious circles breeding spurious desires and fantasies. …”
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