Réflexions sur la dichotomie entre néolocuteurs et locuteurs natifs/traditionnels dans le cadre de la revitalisation des langues minoritaires : vers un nouveau discours inclusif by Robert Neal Baxter

“…Tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the native speaker reveals how the divide is underpinned by an exclusivist narrative based on accident of birth, leading to a consensus within second language teaching for the need to overcome what is described as a racist ideology. …”
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African postfoundational practical theology by J. C. Müller

“… Practical Theology is located in a fragile, vulnerable space between various disciplines, where it is exposed to multiple different narratives. The author proposes a postfoundational, narrative approach to Practical Theology that favours the local over the global and the specific over generalisations. …”
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SEXY CHINKIES IN INDIAN CITIES: CAN WE EMBRACE A SLANT-EYED MARY? by I. Aye

“…It explores Mary Magdalene’s life and reflects on the public and cultural narrative, while simultaneously highlighting the lived experiences of north-eastern women in Indian cities. …”
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Traveling Islamophobia in the Global South: by Ashraf Kunnummal & Farid Esack

“…In the following days, the global media gave extensive coverage to the attack from multiple narrative positions. This article argues that the traveling of Yousafzai as an image of a Muslim girl’s right to education was instru-mentalized in the context of Kerala, South India, to deny Muslims the right to political agency. …”
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La bande dessinée contemporaine au rendez-vous de la mémoire violente de l’après-guerre civile espagnole et du premier franquisme by Viviane Alary

“…This article sheds light on the work of memory that Spanish comics have been undertaking since the 1970s through four graphic works placed in the context of their first publication (the Paracuellos series, 1977; El artefacto perverso, 1996; Cuerda de presas, 2005; Los surcos del azar, 2013). It analyzes the narrative and graphic choices as well as the formats and genres in which this memory of Franco's regime, based on testimony, investigation and consideration of historiographical advances, is embodied. …”
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Global hip-hop culture and the scopophilic spectacle of women in South African hip-hop music videos by Ntebaleng Mpetsi, Toks Oyedemi

“…Four critical elements are adopted from Laura Mulvey’s seminal theoretical discourse about the positioning of women in narrative cinema, to study the gender representation and sexual presentation of women in two popular South African hip-hop music videos. …”
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Monstruos, prodigios y maravillas en los viajes de Pero Tafur by Pablo Castro Hernández

“…The traveler preserves the use of mirabilia narrative tradition of medieval travelers. For the traveler, the monster is manifested through prodigious beings and wild beasts, having an extraordinary and supernatural character. …”
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Writing under the 'Auto/biographical Demand' in Deborah Feldman’s Unorthodox (2012) and Exodus (2015) by Szidonia Haragos

“…I employ Gilmore’s concept to reflect upon the writing of the self in Feldman’s memoir sequel in terms of narrative entanglement, postmemory, and third generation transmission of collective trauma. …”
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The School for Social Innovation at Huguenot College and congregational vitality through faithful innovation by C.J.P. Niemandt

“…The article also explores the interface and mutual insights between social innovation and faithful  innovation and proposes ways in which the narrative of the SSI might enrich discourses on congregational vitality. …”
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Vertiges et vestiges. Histoire, récit, mémoire dans L’Éducation sentimentale by Marie-Astrid Charlier

“…L’article se propose d’étudier les troubles de la mémoire – du personnage et/ou du récit – qui dérangent le fil de l’histoire et interrogent la composition narrative dans le roman flaubertien.…”
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Enkele treë tot 'n moontlike re-konfigurasie van pastorale terapie? Perspektiewe op ontwikkelende praktyke by J. A. van den Berg, A. de Beer, M. Fourie

“…A lecturer and two former students reflect on certain developments in the program using a model of narrative research and reflection. In this description developing and possible alternative perspectives are sketched for possible future developments in the teaching and providing of pastoral therapy. …”
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Réinvestir dans les réseaux ferrés d’Île-de-France pour surmonter leurs défaillances : de l’échec technique à l’impensé politique by Nacima Baron, Yassine Khelladi

“…This article takes a critical look at a failure narrative. It is based on twenty testimonies from professionals involved in the operation of one of the most dysfunctional railway lines in the Paris region. …”
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Postmodernism and the need for story and promise: how Robert Jenson's theology addresses some postmodern challenges to faith by A. H. Verhoef

“… Modernity’s belief that we live in a narratable world (a world with a story) and its confidence in progress (a world with a promise), are terminated by postmodernism’s insights. …”
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Youth and the politics of generational memories: The Soweto uprising in South Africa by Sandrine Gukelberger

“…Through their stories, it can be seen how the Soweto generation is commonly taken to symbolise the outbreak of the youth rebellion in 1976. Taking the narrative of the Soweto generation from apartheid to democracy as a point of departure, this article suggests that a historicising, gendered perspective is vital to understanding the continuities and discontinuities in the speeches, representations, and rationales for action in youth activism and local politics in contemporary South Africa. …”
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Columbia / New York: The Ruins of the Civil War by Thomas Constantinesco

“…While the ashes of Columbia became a climactic episode in the narrative of the Lost Cause, the burning of New York City indexed the problematic memorialization of antistate and anti-Black violence.…”
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The Sharing of Reference Strategies across Two Languages: The Production and Comprehension of Referring Expressions by Greek-Italian Bilingual Children by Maria Andreou, Jacopo Torregrossa, Christiane Maria Bongartz

“…We tested 31 Greek-Italian bilingual children by using a narrative task (assessing the use of referring expressions in discourse) and a timed judgement task (related to the interpretation of referring expressions). …”
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Climate change and its impact on infectious diseases in Asia by Amanda Zain, Sapna P Sadarangani, Lynette Pei-Chi Shek, Shawn Vasoo

“…Climate change intersects with population, sociodemographic and geographical factors, amplifying the public health impact of infectious diseases and potentially widening existing disparities. In this narrative review, we outline the evidence of the impact of climate change on infectious diseases of importance in Asia, including vector-borne diseases, food- and water-borne diseases, antimicrobial resistance and other infectious diseases. …”
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Astrotheology as a prophetic wormhole that relates spacetime to eschatological transformation by A.C. Pieterse

“…In this article, the author intends to investigate if this likeness could assist astrotheology in fulfilling its prophetical purpose, by clarifying the allencompassing cosmic agency of the triune God en route to the eschaton and steering clear of a pantheistic narrative. The author argues that astrotheology is well equipped to be a prophetic wormhole that relates space-time to eschatological transformation. …”
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Photobooks dedicated to Gunkanjima: Random Personal Memories or Strategical Publications? by Cecile Laly

“…It will then highlight how, in the context of dissonant heritage, the narrative of these photobooks built a positive image of the island in order for it to be considered a place worth inscribing as a World Heritage Site. …”
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ABC for Father and Mother and Me. Representations of children as consumers in the picturebook of the interwar period by Elina Druker

“…Although the Cooperation books were designed for children and used familiar narrative techniques and motifs within children’s literature, I will argue that the books had a twofold audience. …”
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