The State Symbols of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the Twentieth Century by Emir Filipovic

“…Seeing as each regime change also required an adjustment of symbols which would have reflected the newly established political realities in Bosnia and Herzegovina, this case study can serve as an appropriate illustration of the significant role symbols can play in modern state-building processes and construction of collective identities. …”
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La notion de société civile dans les politiques et pratiques du développement by Gautier Pirotte

“…As an empty envelop filling with particular senses according to the actors and specific social and cultural contexts, the new “non western civil society” must be above all studied as “projects”, realities in gestation, in the junction of dynamics appropriate for the local societies where they appear and of dynamics outside societies which privilege certain actors (in particular non-governmental organizations), a particular meaning of the concept (in a perspective close to a third sector) and also supply a consequent part of the resources necessary for the vitality of these projects. …”
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Statistical Comparison of piracy and armed robbery with emphasis on the South China Sea - Malacca Strait and the Persian Gulf - Strait of Hormuz by Mohammad Ali Zohourian

“…Different stages of the supply chain, trade always face inherent challenges caused by geopolitical realities along given routes. In this study, the data concerning piracy and armed robberies of ships reported to the Global Integrated Shipping Information System were considered. …”
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Understanding Open Knowledge in China: A Chinese Approach to Openness? by Montgomery Lucy, Ren Xiang

“…Although the language, vision and strategies of the global open knowledge movement are undoubtedly present, so too are the messy realities of open access and open knowledge innovation in a local context. …”
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The Brass-Bells Drum: An African Literary Writer’s imaging of Neo-colonial woes in Nigeria by Arinpe G. Adejumo, Emmanuel Akinyinka Ilori

“…Novels, a genre of literature, images of socio-political realities with a view to proffering solutions to some of the threats to human and social development. …”
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Meek or oppressed? Reading Matthew 5:5 in context by W. Domeris

“…In this article, I consider the implications of Jesus addressing a peasant audience in a conversation about taking possession of farming land and then extend this discussion into the emerging peasant realities of the post-revolutionary context in Galilee and Judaea. …”
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Wayang civilizes religion: From spectacle to guidance by C.A. Rumbay, J. Siahaya, S. Hutagalung

“… Indonesia’s cultural acculturation and Christianity left behind by Islam are undeniable social realities that could be harmonised through puppetry. …”
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Smart Geopolitics, Dangerous Ideas: Energy security, Ideology, and the Challenges of American Policy in the Persian Gulf by Diego Pagliarulo

“…Confronted with the contradictions and dilemmas of promoting ideals and protecting the national interest, US policy-makers demonstrated a remarkable penchant for instituting policies that overestimated the potential of America's military power as a tool for creating new political realities and favorable outcomes in the region. Such an approach has proved to be extremely costly and frustrating, while the time seems ripe to explore new strategies. …”
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Russian neocorporatism as antineocorporate: urgent management problems by V. V. Tyan

“…In the context of the information revolution and technological revolution, traditionalist and neotraditionalist methods of management lose their effectiveness. In the new realities, many of the principles of neo-corporatism are interpreted in the modern context and in their modality in political practice. …”
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Violência de gênero em áreas rurais: o caso de Santana do Livramento (RS) by Cassiane da Costa, Martha Giudice Narvaz, Kelly Camargo

“…Gender violence shows itself intensely in different realities. In rural areas, it presents particular characteristics, which need to be studied more deeply as there are still very few studies on this context in Brazil. …”
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Cinematic Orientalism: East-West Perception in Netflix's 'Swimmers' by Kemal Çelik

“…The Muslim screenwriter's distortion of Eastern historical realities under Western producers' influence represents self-orientalism. …”
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Entre histoire sociale des conflits et histoire des concepts : protestation et ordre public en Espagne dans le dernier tiers du xixe siècle by François Godicheau

“…Nevertheless, the overview we propose reveals a scattering trend in the investigations, certainly because of a tendency to naturalise the categories of the «social» and the «political»; as well because of the recurrent presence in nineteenth century political discourse of concepts referring to some realities: important political phrases like «public order» or popular disorder figures like «bandits» or «anarchists». …”
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Proserpine upon the Coin: Melville’s Quest for Greek Beauty in “Syra” by Bruno Monfort

“…Confronted to the mercantile realities of modern Syra, the poet acknowledges that the people there spontaneously lived primitive, innocent lives with little concern for the clichés and prejudices of Orientalism. …”
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Gender and Domestic Space in Ahmed Ali's and Krishna Sobti's Novels on Old Delhi by Pallavi Narayan

“…While published in markedly different times, the everyday lived realities of the time as explored in Delhi’s literary landscape by Ali and Sobti exhibit great similarities in the gendered ramifications of female dispossession as per policy, and the economic implications of women’s property being in the hands of “their” men. …”
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Intersubject integration of humanities and management cycle disciplines by A. P. Avdeeva, Yu. A. Safonova

“…The problem of interdisciplinary educational integration reflects the realities of the modern world. Rapidly changing technologies set new requirements for the training of specialists capable of innovation. …”
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Parallel Universes? Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For (1983-2008) and Diane DiMassa’s Hothead Paisan: Homicidal Lesbian Terrorist (1991-1996) by Hélène Tison

“…They create utopian (Bechdel) and dystopian (DiMassa) universes that parallel and question contemporary US realities. DiMassa presents a caricatured, degraded version of US society, focusing on its relation to minorities, as seen through the eyes of a “homicidal lesbian terrorist” intent on reclaiming their right to exist in the world. …”
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The Crisis of English Local Governance During the Covid-19 Pandemic: The Breakdown of Central Control by Patrick Diamond, Martin Laffin

“…Intergovernmental relations (IGR) mechanisms of coordination and conflict resolution have struggled to cope with the realities of a severely asymmetric devolution settlement, as was glaringly apparent during the Covid crisis. …”
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Лексические инновации в мемосфере: названия мемных жанров by Olga Makarowska

“…Changes in the semantics of word loaning are very dynamic as English loanwords enable the swift naming of new realities. This tendency towards the internationalization of vocabulary is related to the Internet and the memosphere. …”
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OS IMPACTOS SOCIOCULTURAIS E SOCIOAMBIENTAIS DO TURISMO NO AMBIENTE COSTEIRO: UM OLHAR PARA O LITORAL SUL SERGIPANO. by Lillian Maria de Mesquita Alexandre, Heleno dos Santos Macedo, Hélio Mario de Araújo

“…To present some impacting realities and to bring some proposals of interventions that are possible to be applied to the search for a sustainable promotion of the activity, is what we propose in this. …”
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The “Irresponsibility of the Outsider”? American Expatriates and Italian Fascism by Isabelle Richet

“…The article looks at expatriation as one of the many borderlands where Americans have been brought into contact with other cultures and social realities. In trying to make sense of the relationship expatriates have established with their chosen country, it questions the notion of an “outsider status” often claimed by the self-exiled writers of the 1920s. …”
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