BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND RECREATING HUMANITY IN SOUTH AFRICA by G.J. Van Wyngaard

“… The article investigates the connection between beauty and justice, by exploring everyday aesthetics through ordinary life, specifically the very concrete reality of contemporary urban South Africa. On the one hand, it delves beneath the statement that apartheid is ugly, by exploring the ugly spaces apartheid created, the devastation of an aesthetic built on segregation, and the distortions of whiteness. …”
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Agência humana e estrutura a partir da Teoria da Estruturação by Flavia Galindo

“…Permanent changes of social life require reflections that address the contextualized individual actions and collective transformative reality. The theory of structuring ponders individual action and the course of collective action, trying to break the socialized sub and hyper prospects of the man. …”
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Existential vulnerability and transition: Struggling with involuntary childlessness on Instagram by Stenström Kristina, Pargman Teresa Cerratto

“…In their efforts to find others who share their experiential reality and existential struggle, many involuntarily childless women turn to Instagram to engage and participate in the practice of trying-to-conceive (TTC) communication. …”
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Région et génération : le Sud algérien et les enjeux de la visibilisation du politique by Ratiba Hadj-Moussa

“…Although the South is only one example of this profound and slow political transformation, it illustrates the emergence of the idea of “region” not so much as an identity than as a political reality.…”
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Transformations des représentations corporelles durant l’Épiclassique mésoaméricain (600 à 900 apr. j.‑c.) by Juliette Testard

“…Whereas the body is a container or medium in Teotihuacan, in Cacaxtla-Xochitecatl and Xochicalco it seems to simultaneously turn into a material that is at once living and sacrificed, connected with a tangible and pragmatic reality. It is in contact with Mayan and Gulf societies that the elites from the two sites in question renew the representation of the human figure, in search of another performative strategy that will guarantee their political legitimization in a context of competition between regional centres.…”
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Eco-Innovation in Global Hotel Chains: Designs, Barriers, Incentives and Motivations by Vanessa de Oliveira Menezes, Sieglinde Kindl da Cunha

“…ABSTRACT This article aims to verify the reality of eco-innovations developed by global hotel chains, highlighting the innovative designs employed by these organizations, the barriers and incentives faced by these companies and motivations to invest in innovations for this purpose. …”
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ANÁLISIS CRÍTICO DE LA CARTOGRAFÍA HISTÓRICA DEL VALLE DEL RÍO NEGRO by Anahí Membribe

“…Thus, maps are never neutral, on the contrary, are a constructed reality, therefore confirmthat cartography represents the space, and also produces it.…”
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Doctor’s Conscience Clause and Pregnancy Termination. The Case of Poland by Michalczuk-Wlizło Marta

“…The obligation to make women’s rights to health services a reality rests with the state authorities. However, in Poland, women wishing to carry out a legal termination of pregnancy are often confronted with institutional abuse on the part of health care providers who deny women the possibility of carrying out the procedure because gynaecologists invoke the institution of the conscience clause. …”
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Tautologies toponymiques : comment apprivoiser l’espace entre continuités et fractures by Fabio Armand, Jean-Pierre Gerfaud

“…From a shared geomorphological reality, i.e. the combination of geophysical and anthropized spaces, different languages and cultures can produce semantic partitions that aim to tame extra-linguistic space. …”
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The Picture of Dorian Gray : la passion du réel/la passion du semblant by Annie Ramel

“…Slavoj Zizek has recently argued that the 20th century is characterized by the « passion for the real, » which is an exact inversion of the passion for semblances : beneath our modern passion for virtual reality there lurks a longing for « the experience of the real world of material decay ». …”
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Political Organising and Mobilising in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Reflection on the Gauteng Young Communist League of South Africa by Kgabo Morifi

“…Definitions such as these cement the narrow idea that the 4IR is principally about industry, when in reality it is a revolution that goes beyond economic activity concerned with the manufacturing of goods and services. …”
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L’animal-machine. Élevage industriel et biotechnologies by Catherine Larrère

“…This type of treatment of animals, which is a way of denying them their reality as living, sentient beings, has continually provoked an ethical criticism that aims at other relationships between humans and animals.…”
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Ozone as Janus: this controversial gas can be either toxic or medically useful by Velio Bocci

“…The aim of this review is to indicate that a wrong dogma and several misconceptions thwart progress: in reality, properly performed ozone therapy, carried out by expert physicians, can be very useful when orthodox medicine appears inadequate. …”
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The Clash of Narratives: Armenian and Turkish Narratives on the Events of 1915 by Mustafa Tayfun ÜSTÜN

“…It seeks to understand how a variety of Armenian and Turkish political actors shape international politics by re-narrating the events and pursue to reconstruct the reality in a way that favours their interests. In contrast to previous works highlighting historical and legal perspectives, this paper does not aim to prove or disprove their allegations if the resettlement of Armenians was genocide or not. …”
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Jeremiah 31:31-34: A prospect of true transformation by M.D. Terblanche

“… The theme of the transformation of reality is one of the unifying themes in Jeremiah 30-31. …”
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A Constituição Imperial de 1824: Uma breve análise dos aspectos sociais, políticos, econômicos jurídicos by Rossana Teresa Curioni Mergulhão, Bazilio de Alvarenga Coutinho Junior, Elton Fernando Rossini Machado

“…Inevitable say that the Brazilian Constitution of 1988 refl ects an existing reality in our nation. Also notorious that its origin brought a not too distantpast, inserted into your body experiences that have brought benefi ts to society are still there. …”
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Economia criativa e a nova agenda econômica: o sentido da abordagem classificatória para um fenômeno contemporâneo by Rodrigo Campos Dilelio

“…The economic sociology related to the multidimensional approach to social reality has allowed Brazilian researchers to have a better understanding of the establishment of new markets for the circulation of cultural goods and services. …”
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Developing inclusive education policy and practice for looked after children by Joe Francis

“…Inclusive education is not a reality for all and it is vital that those charged with providing a quality education to children who have different abilities or face a range of challenges know what is likely to prove effective in helping all pupils within the education system to succeed to the best of their ability (Sebba and Sachdev, 1997). …”

Cooked Air by Elizabeth Galvez

“…Through an examination of ASHRAE Standard 62.2, this essay asks why is it that, as ventilation processes become increasingly measurable, there is an equal tendency to reverse awareness in relation to the human sensation, when the standard itself underlines the reality of both phenomenal and intellectual knowledge towards air quality assessment. …”
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A educação no contexto da globalização: migrações e direitos humanos by José Marín, Pierre R. Dasen

“…The good intentions expressed in the rhetoric of international organisations do not materialise in reality. The significant difference which exists in the quality of education between rich and poor nations is one of the main reasons provoking migration. …”
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