Ovid Among the Floating Garbage: Derek Mahon on Recycling and Exile by Peter Kelly

“…Here we might even conceive a form of poetry making that serves as a counterbalance to the waste resulting from environmental destruction and the detritus, which has come to characterize modernity.…”
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واقع استخدام شبکة التواصل الاجتماعى الفیسبوک فى الأرشیفات الوطنیة العربیة والأجنبیة : دراسة تحلیلیة مقارنة... by د. تفیدة سمیر محمود

“…This research deals with the reality of use of the social network (facebook) in the national archives of Arab and Foreign comparative analysis.With the beginning of the third millennium, national archives have movedtowards second generation web2 application to reach users and connect with thegrowing generation of web 2 users, increase free access to archives collectionThis study aims to limit the national Arab archives that have pages on thesocial networking site face book ,and the description and analysis of the pages ofthe Arab archives on the social networking site Facebook, and a comparativestudy between the pages of Arab and Foreign national archives on face book interms of the modernity of information provided to beneficiaries and the extent ofcomprehensiveness and adequacy. …”
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The Linguistic Landscape of Urban Vellore: A Comprehensive Analysis of Language Distribution, Choice, and Implications in the Commercial Space Through Shop Signs by Mishra Sneha

“…The shop owners’ language choices on shop names are driven by a desire to accommodate customers from different linguistic backgrounds, to project their cultural identity, and to align with the values of globalization and modernity. The study concludes that there is a dialectical relationship between the city and the inhabitants, as they develop and accommodate one another in response to the city along with its language policies, identity issues, and expectations. …”
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Conflits, féminité et identités diasporiques. Le pouvoir de la représentation chez Pratibha Parmar et Gurinder Chadha by Amandine Ducray

“…This shift in genre has further been accompanied by a shift in conflict: the dichotomy is no longer ethnic but generational, as the opposition between tradition and modernity unravels along the mother-to-daughter relationship.Following a diachronic approach, this article will study the power of representation in Pratibha Parmar’s and Gurinder Chadha’s films in order to explore how the passage from "minority" documentary to "mainstream" comedy has changed the message conveyed to the audience at large—majority and minorities, men and women—as regards both race relations and British identity.…”
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London’s Great Starfish: The Construction of Mid-Victorian Suburban Fiction by Tamara Silvia Wagner

“…In discussions of urban modernity, suburbs are marginalised; clichéd images of bourgeois self-confinement failing to raise more than a passing interest in these margins. …”
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The Ambivalent Identity of Eighteenth-Century London Clubs as a Prelude to Victorian Clublife by Valérie Capdeville

“…Furthermore, its persistent elitist and gender-exclusive tradition as well as its evolution in the Victorian period makes it a form of resistance to modernity.…”
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Russians among the Peoples of the Baltic States: the Origins of Mutual Perceptions and Relations by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…Feature stories is that it is inextricably linked with modernity. For public decision-making needs of reliable knowledge about the processes that led to the present, the historical conditions of social psychology folding neighboring nations, forms of expression of their national characteristics. …”
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INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION METHODS by С.Э. Асанова, Ф.С. Карагусов, А.А. Нукушева, А.К. Джангабулова, Т.Э. Воронова

“…From a scientific perspective, legal features of dispute resolution in the order of mediation are of particular interest in connection with the relatively new and unexamined phenomenon of modernity, arising from increasing processes of globalization and internationalization of legal systems as well as scientific and technical progress. …”
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From the Competence Model of a Specialist Engineer to STEAM Education, or … Going Ahead to the Past? by N. G. Bagdasaryan, R. M. Petruneva, V. D. Vasilyeva

“…Cognitive and value dissonances of the modern world, as well as the shifting balance in the “Technology-nature-society-man” system cause the need to rethink key development strategies, determine the guidelines that education should be guided by in order to be able to respond to the growing global challenges of modernity. …”
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Sacralization of Peace by the Choice of Dates for Conclusion of International Treaties within Westphalian System by L. I. Ivonina

“…The symbolic power of "special days" whether it is a Christian holiday or an event of exceptional significance allowed people of early Modernity to express their attitude to reality and power. …”
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Central Asia, Euro-centrism and Colonialism by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…In the process of such explication, the most important role is allocated to the modern culture, which encouraged the formation of the paradox, represented to us via the paraphrased Soviet aphorism: modernity and coloniality are twin brothers. …”
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Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición by María Cecilia Roa García, Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Nils Lagrève, Ana Manuela Amaya Morales

“…These connections, however, are steadily eroded by the encroachment of modernity. The disappearance of these traditional energy practices is a profound paradox: at a moment when the urgency to cease burning fossil fuels is clearer than ever, coal mining erases age-old energy practices that have thrived in simplicity, small scale, and ethical harmony with the land. …”
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Digital state in the context of legal reform in Ukraine: theoretical and legal aspect by E. Najafli

“…It is shown that the formation of a digital state is an integral element of digitalization of all spheres of social life and a requirement of modernity. Structural and procedural approaches to the study of legal reform in the field of digital state formation are analyzed. …”
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IDEALIZATION OF REALITY THROUGH PHOTOS IN SOCIAL NETWORKS by Svetlana M. Maltseva, Natalia A. Nikitina, Ekaterina S. Surovegina

“…The research is based on such methods as comparison, analysis, synthesis and interpretation of philosophical ideas of humanists, theorists of psychoanalysis and postmodernism based on the facts of modernity. The authors suggest that the illusion of an "ideal life" destroys the natural perception of modern society about the surrounding reality and beauty. …”
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TRANSFORMATION OF THE GENDER DICHOTOMY OF SPIRIT AND BODY IN POSTMODERN PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE by O. P. Vlasova, Y. V. Makieshyna

“…Feminist philosophers assert that the "spirit-body" opposition occupies the special place among classical dichotomies, as it acquires the key meaning in the patriarchal concepts of masculinity and femininity. In the post modernity, the body and corporality become dominant themes not only in the philosophy and "high" culture, but also in mass culture; at the same time, the emphasis on their common narratives and intertexts testifies to the fundamental transformations that reflect the "condition" of postmodernity. …”
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THE CHERNOBYL ACCIDENT AS A CULTURAL TRAUMA OF UKRAINE by Ya.O. Yakovlieva

“…The article analyzes theoretical approaches to the study of the consequences of the Chernobyl tragedy in the context of cultural searches of modernity in the prospect of "memorial paradigm." The aim is to bring the concept of perception of the Chernobyl accident and the "exclusion zone" as "cultural trauma" and "places of memory" in the background of Ukrainian national history. …”
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RECEPTION OF THE BIOGRAPHICAL METHOD IN HISTORICAL AND ANTHROPOGICAL STUDIES by T. I. Vlasova, G. G. Krivtchik

“…The research in the realm of humanities in general and in civil history in particular should take into account not only the changes in the sociocultural aspects of being, but also the corresponding transformation of methodological approaches to the analysis of the epiphenomena of "fluid modernity". This obvious fact led us to an understanding of the need for a historiosophical study of the problem of reception of a biographical method in historical and anthropological works with the subsequent historical, philosophical, cultural representation of the biographical method. …”
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Theologen van de twintigste eeuw en de christologie by A. van de Beek

“…But the confrontation with modern thought could not be avoided — and according to many theologians, should not be avoided. …”
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I. KANT, T. PARSONS AND POSTPOSITIVISM IN SOCIAL THEORY by Zenonas Norkus

“… Why does modern sociological theory designate itself with two names ("sociological theory" and "social theory")? …”
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Unveiling the Role of Hahani (Paternal Aunts) in the VaTsonga Culture of South Africa by Stewart Lee Kugara, Lucky Sethuthuthu Vuma, Tsetselelane Decide Mdhluli

“…Unlike other indigenous groups in Africa, the role of hahani is being downplayed and ignored because of modernity and the growth of families. This indigenous figure in the VaTsonga communities is however a rare gem and her role needs to be preserved before it is abrogated by disuse. …”
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