MIGRANTS, MUSLIMS AND REFUGEES IN THE SECULAR AND MULTICULTURAL EUROPE: A PROJECTION TO THE AXIS OF RESPONSIBILITY-INDISPENSABILITY by Hasan Hüseyin Aygül

“…Especially,as the existence of Islam, which has been coded as the “other” for hundreds ofyears, is established and as the encounters with the Muslim “subject” in thesecular public space increase, there occur some conflicts, ruptures andtransformations.In European public opinion Islam is seen as afundamentalist religion, so is claimed that it does not fit to secularism,modernity or democracy. There are various discussions on the possibility ofarticulating Islam within a secularism that already regards Christianity, aswell as of multiculturalism or living together. …”
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Thomas Hardy : une écriture paradoxale entre génération et dégradation entropique by Annie Escuret

“…The term « modernism » surfaced in Tess of the D’Urbervilles (1891) when the narrator complains about the creeping industrial « ache of modernism ». …”
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Celestial Resistance by Maryia Rusak

“…Not surprisingly, expectations of a new computerised modernity did not materialise, and the project was plagued by endless problems that seemed to be divine acts of resistance to which only celestial bodies could provide a solution. …”
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Local Ecological Knowledge and Biological Conservation: Post-normal Science as an Intercultural Field by Jorje Ignacio Zalles

“…Post-normal science has emerged in recent decades as an alternative for public management that aims to complement the search for knowledge by means of empirical approaches through the inclusion of understandings based on the everyday experiences and the subjective interpretation of natural phenomena, transcending the compartmentalization associated with scientific traditions born out of modernity. This article discusses the integration of local ecological knowledge and conservation biology from the perspective of post normal science, illustrating different forms of intercultural communication that would make the requisite dialogue of knowledges possible.…”
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Negotiating a place in town. Street vending in Thika (Kenya) by Nathan Mwangi Kariuki, Sylvain Racaud

“…These « informal” trading streets showcase the confrontation between two legitimacies: that of people with low incomes rooted in the local context and that of project promoters of a globalized urban modernity. Street vending, a vulnerable activity, is a means of building identities, a social life, and a sense of belonging in the precarious environment of African cities.…”
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La mobilisation de l’agriculture dans l’action paysagère de la région métropolitaine Cologne-Bonn by Louise Leconte

“…The development redefines the relationship between town and country in respect to several dimensions, and more specifically the promotion of the structural features of a landscape a cross between tradition and modernity and the concrete form given to the limits between built-up and open environments. …”
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As Ordens Militares em combate nos finais da Idade Média: o caso da Guerra da Sucessão de Castela (1475-1479) by António Carlos Martins Costa

“…Within the peninsular area, where these militias were established since the twelfth century to fight the Muslims in the Reconquista, we can look at the hinge to modernity his martial aspect, not always considered by historiography for this time of transitions at war. …”
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Étudiants, sitters, nouchi et bakoroman by Muriel Champy

“…Firstly, this contribution offers successive accounts of three ethnographies concerning “young people”, in Burkina Faso (Jacinthe Mozzocchetti, 2008, Être étudiant à Ouagadougou : itinérances, imaginaire et précarité), in Gambia (Paolo Gaibazzi, 2015, Bush Bound: Young Men and Rural Permanence in Migrant West Africa) and in the Ivory Coast (Sasha Newell, 2012, The Modernity Bluff: Crime, Consumption and Citizenship in Côte d’Ivoire). …”
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Reflexivity, description and the analysis of social settings by Rodney Watson

“…One (among many other) crucial distinctions is that between 'stipulative' and 'essential' reflexivity - the former originating in part in G.H.Mead's notions of the 'I' and the 'Me', and extended within current theories of reflexive modernity. This concept has been wrenched by professional social scientist from its mundane moorings and has been 'elevated' into an analytic technique of self interrogation. …”
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Artists’ books et nursery porn : Ré-illustrer les Victoriens by Laurent Bury

“…However, none of those practices is characteristic of (post-)modernity, since they already existed in the Victorian age, under quite similar forms.…”
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‘Tactile qualities’ by Andrew Eastman

“…In attempting to define what constitutes, for him, the modernity of the poem, William Carlos Williams wrote, in a well-known passage of his Autobiography (1951), “It is the making of that step, to come over into the tactile qualities, the words themselves beyond the mere thought expressed, that distinguishes the modern”. …”
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Formation of new narratives in the field of regional economic research by V. V. Stroev

“…The original objectives of regional economic research have changed, responding to modern challenges of the world community development and global crisis phenomena. …”
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Les espaces chinois de Kolkata : simples marges convoitées dans une grande ville indienne ou support des influences singapouriennes et chinoises ? by Catherine Guéguen

“…The spaces occupied by the Kolkata Chinese community may look abandoned to the average visitor, but they bring out new challenges that go beyond the local scale: the stake of a possible presence in India for Mainland China, the diffusion of a development model associated to Singapore’s modernity for the Kolkata municipal authorities.…”
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Flourishing of Occidentalism in Iran After Cultural Revolution by Shalaleh ZABARDAST

“…Modernity changed the community interests; it idealized individuality and liberal democracy, and based its main aim on pushing religion to the outskirts of human life. …”
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En chair et en os ? Sens, sensations et sensationnalisme dans Desperate Remedies (1871) de Thomas Hardy by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas

“…Moreover, the genre’s constant play upon bodies—whether the bodies of the characters or those of its readers—typified its close relationship with modernity. Sensation fiction was more often than not haunted by anxious, neurasthenic or even insane characters, as though they were nervously exhausted by their stimulating and stressful modern society. …”
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Le tiret de fin de phrase dans Un cœur simple — un stylème flaubertien ? by Sabine Pétillon, André Petitjean

“…Here, the presence of the dash between the noun and its relative NP-modifier is the hallmark of Flaubert’s modernity. It should be seen as a syntactic hapax.…”
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WORLD ECONOMY FROM GEOGRAPHIC, ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL POINT OF VIEW by V. A. Gorbanyov

“…Book Review: Geography of world economy: traditions, modernity, prospects (in Russian) / Ed. By V.A.Kolosov & N.A.Sluka. …”
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The person in contemporary contexts of right-wing populism: an uncomfortable study by Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte, Marco Julián Martínez-Moreno

“…To achieve this, the historical antecedents of the phenomenon are revisited, and an overview of classical and contemporary theories and hypotheses are discussed-which enables us to recognise a structured pattern of affects, values, representations and practices that are reactive to enlightened Western modernity. As part of the epistemological and ethical responsibility of anthropological research, this framework offers elements of understanding of the processes through which people are constructed with worldviews that differ from the ideal-typical modern model, centred on the notion of the individual and the universal values involved in the recognition and promotion of human rights.…”
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Mitificación del desarrollo y mistificación de la cultura: el etnodesarrollo como alternativa by Pablo Palenzuela Chamorro

“…Whether it originates from academia or from the “developmentalistcomplex”, this ideology has led to the essentialist mystification of the notion of development,to the point of becoming a dogma in the narrative of modernity. The second challengeis to critically examine the ethnocentric relationship between development and culture in thehegemonic model of development. …”
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