Présence de Bouvard et Pécuchet chez Roland Barthes by Anne Herschberg Pierrot

“…It follows its development and pervasion in Barthes’ writing and lectures. The symbol of modernity in literature, Flaubert’s novel appears at once to be a critical encyclopedia of languages and an experimental model for writing, becoming for Barthes a major element in his thoughts about his own writing and about stupidity.…”
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A variação ontológica de raça na modernidade: Brasil e Cabo Verde by José Carlos dos Anjos

“…This article aims to launch some initial clues of comparative history of the race's ontological gradients in modernity. The empirical core of the analysis is double and both in the twentieth century: on the one hand, the dissolution of the category of race in the interior of Santiago Island, Cape Verde, despite the insistence of the most powerful landlords, and, on the other hand, the persistence of race in Brazil despite the insistence of the State to erase that category in the official discourses by authoritarian governments.…”
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Reflections on methodology and interdisciplinarity in the postmodern dialogue between theology and the natural sciences by M. C. de Lange

“… Postmodern interdisciplinarity provides a more flexible and productive methodological framework for the age-old dialogue between theology and the natural sciences than did the modern more rigid and oppositional disciplinary framework. …”
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A narrativa entre aspas de Bernardo Carvalho: legitimação e paratopia em um estudo de Onze: uma história by Paulo César Silva de Oliveira

“…The connections between local and global; author policies and text policies; as well as the place held by the Brazilian fiction in the contemporary scenario will be investigated inside Bernardo Carvalho’s textual machine, aiming at establishing limits and reaches of his writings regarding a modernity constituted by displacements, border crossings, and the dilution of political, geographical and fictional frontiers.…”
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Pós-desenvolvimento, indicadores e culturas de auditoria: reflexões críticas sobre governança e desenvolvimento by Guilherme Francisco Waterloo Radomsky

“…As a conclusion, the article rethinks contemporary social theory and related issues from development studies, as agency and auditing, peoples’ desire/ repulsion for development projects and the critique of modernity.…”
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Having faith in the university? Aspects of the relationship between religion and the university by Christo Lombaard

“…Then, the author argues against the a-religious impulses of modernity and discusses the place of the study of religion at the university from three perspectives: the paradigmatic philosophy of science, the sociological continuation of faith and the evolutionary importance of religion. …”
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Imagens e sons da Coreia do Sul em espaços transnacionais by Luã Ferreira Leal

“…The article focuses the relationship between state agencies, entertainment companies, and industrial conglomerates in promoting South Korea’s images as a country that combines modernity and tradition. Between the re-democratization in the late 1980s and the mandate of Park Geun-Hye, started in 2013 and finished in 2017, after the impeachment process, the country invested in positioning itself as adjusted to the conditions of globalization with projects that stimulated cultural production, tourism, and accomplishment of sports mega-events. …”
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Un fundamento filosófico para un modelo de sociedad culturalmente diversa by María del Carmen Gómez Martínez

“…The starting point is that cultural diversity is an obvious fact, but the models from the Modernity insisted on deleting an event such as cultural diversity for the sake of a single culture. …”
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 Le temps du travail by Luca Rimoldi

“…Thus, in this article I will try, through critical analysis, to show how stories of trade unionists in their work and their involvement in trade union education reveal a continuous exchange between the public and private sphere, individual and collective dimension moreover, I will try to demonstrate how the trade union memory could be used to trace the biography of a place transformed by modernity.…”
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Échangeur no 9 by Éric Chauvier

“…By making it possible to identify and typify certain peri-urban places which reveal the repressed historical and economic planning process in cities, the notion of "critical landscape" also reveals our uninhibited false relationship with modernity. I will use the observations made on a site located in the north-western periphery of Bordeaux in Saint-Médard-en-Jalles in Gironde. …”
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Cidades em ruínas: a história a contrapelo em Inferno Provisório, de Luiz Ruffato by Giovanna Dealtry

“…In an era dominated by terms such as "localism" and "globalization", which show the importance contemporaneity gives to space, would it still be worthy to dedicate on eself to a body of work that aims to pursue the last fifty years of Brazilian history from a perspective that, initially, seems to favor focusing one's gaze precisely on modernity's time paradigms? This is one of the questions that this article on the literary project Inferno provisório, by LuizRuffato, seeks to answer. …”
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Renaissance des potagers, naissance d’une profession by Anne Luxereau

“…They managed to mix an old know-how to a new one brought by modern agronomy. A new job was born and the producers turned to modernity. …”
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Symboliczne praktyki edukacji. Doświadczenie A.S. Makarenki w postsocjalistycznym dyskursie pedagogicznym by Aleksander Połonnikow

“…In this context the relation to tradition gains an intertextual character, constructed by it being referred to the context of modernity. The key function of such contextualisaion is the so-called re-symbolization. …”
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About some limitations in researching the human being. Theological perspective by Andrzej Jastrzębski

“…In the classical tradition, a person is considered to be a substance. In modernity, John Locke brought forward the notion that social existence and consciousness are the most salient properties of a person, which brought about a possibility of renouncing one’s personhood because of a lack of some perceivable and observable traits. …”
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La topographie légendaire des itinéraires de la navette by Xavière Lanéelle

“…The commuter, the train and the route have been the object of a myth to serve a commercial policy as well as a development of the served cities.But the legend settled down only because it is one of the anthropological foundations and because the myth allows to combine incompatible elements, here the combination of the requirements of contemporary modernity and a more traditional life of provincial rooting.One of the aspects of the myth is that the TGV is a sterile environment and the countryside it goes through, a "black hole". …”
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Religion and the Future of Nigeria: Lessons from the Yoruba Case by J.D.Y. Peel

“…He argues that the Yoruba are constantly pressed towards olaju (modernity/development/progress) which makes cross-cutting communal belonging more salient, thus ensuring that the Yoruba constantly mobilize both religious and secular insti­tutions and processes in the all-embracing project of olaju. …”
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Reflexões teóricas acerca da “crise ambiental”: possibilidades de novas orientações para as políticas públicas ambientais by José Irivaldo Alves Oliveira Silva

“…Then it examines environmental issues in a risk society as characterized by Beck, or in reflexive modernity as described by Giddens.…”
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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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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…Keywords: Turkey, Istanbul, authenticity, modernity, urbanity, belonging, community …”
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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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