AS IF NOTHING HAD HAPPENED”? KARL BARTH AND THE STUDY OF PROPHETIC PREACHING IN SOUTH AFRICA TODAY by Martin Laubscher

“…Thereafter, I explore both these focuses in more detail in their own right – the state of discourse and scholarship in our study of prophetic preaching, and the significance of revisiting and exploring the meaning in Barth’s famous words to do (in the midst of crises) theology “as if nothing had happened”. …”
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Planetary pictures: historicizing environmental and climate sciences in the Anthropocene by Thomas Simpson, James Poskett

“…How should historians of environmental and climate sciences respond to the Earth's move from the blank canvas to a foreground feature of ‘big-picture’ scholarship? This article highlights three crucial themes for histories of science in the Anthropocene: categories of scale and methods of scaling, the relationship between history of science and the disciplines it historicizes, and the entanglement of environmental damage and environmental knowledge. …”
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Podcasting as an Innovative Pedagogical Tool in Social Work Education by Mim Fox, Jonathan B. Singer

“…In this article, the authors, both international podcasting social work academics, present an innovative framework for podcasting pedagogy and discuss co-production of podcasts as a form of teaching and learning co-design that is grounded in social work approaches to knowledge creation, dissemination, and scholarship.…”
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Ecopoetics in Yorùbá Riddles by Olumide Adegbodu

“… In contemporary literary scholarship, assumes that certain subject matters are bourgeoning in literary texts produced recently. …”
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The Value of Gambling and its Research by Pauliina Raento

“…The political, economic and cultural implications of this change have been notable. Gambling scholarship is on the rise and  its foci are broadening especially in the social sciences and cultural studies. …”
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[In] Searching Our Mothers’ Archives by Su'ad Abdul Khabeer

“… Black feminist scholarship provokes us to reimagine archives in creative and speculative ways and echoes everyday Black communities’ deep investment in memory that rejects the idea of African people as a people without history. …”
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L’éducation coloniale au prisme de l’intersectionnalité(Antilles françaises, 1795-1830) by Caroline Fayolle

“…Little historiographical scholarship has been devoted to the schools established in the French West Indian colonies during the revolutionary and post-revolutionary periods. …”
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Cannibalism and Other Transgressions of the Human in The Road by Andrew Estes

“…Finally, a focus on cannibalism allows reexamination of important issues for McCarthy scholarship such as the human/nature binary and consumer society.…”
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Fetishism and Form: Advertising and Ironic Distance in Don DeLillo’s White Noise by Adam Szetela

“…Given DeLillo’s prior career as a copywriter for Ogilvy & Mather, as well as a large body of scholarship that analyzes his novels in relationship to issues of political economy and American culture, this essay seeks to not only deepen an understanding of the historical issues that surround DeLillo’s work, but also the political implications of his writing. …”
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Dark Aesthete: Gothic Elements in the Fiction of Walter Pater by Geoffrey Johnston Sadock

“…It should now be acknowledged that he is also a master of the Gothic, whose synthesis of the beautiful and the horrific invests his fiction with a delayed but unforgettable urgency.After reviewing Pater's status in recent scholarship and defining ‘Gothic,’ ‘Dark Aesthete’ considers the kinds and instances of Gothic writing in his short stories, Marius the Epicurean, and unfinished novel Gaston de Latour (1889, revised text 1995). …”
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Coda: The “Queen Under the Hill,” or, Robert Duncan’s Lesson in Essential Autobiography by Rob Halpern

“…This is a hybrid work of creative scholarship: a lyrical essay that blends personal history with literary criticism. …”
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Preparation for Rural Practice with a Multimodal Rural Emergency Medicine Curriculum by Ashley K. Weisman, Skyler A. Lentz, Julie T. Vieth, Joseph M. Kennedy, Richard B. Bounds

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Tracing the Coloniality of Queer and Trans Migrations: Resituating Heterocisnormative Violence in the Global South and Encounters with Migrant Visa Ineligibility to Canada by Edward Ou Jin Lee

“… Most of the scholarship on queer and trans migrants focuses on the refugee experience post-migration to Canada. …”
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Amharic Folkloric Oral Traditions: Collections for Insiders and for Outsiders by Peter Unseth, Bitania

“…They all build on previous scholarship. In addition, each one adds new examples to what has been published before. …”
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Is All Discourse Official? On the Poetics of Gifting and Gossiping by Pierre-Héli Monot

“…This essay discusses gift-giving and gossiping in a canonical American novel (John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath, 1939) by way of the two texts which sealed the fate of dominant literary scholarship after WWII: Marcel Mauss’s essay The Gift and Claude Lévi-Strauss’s Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss. …”
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Review: Saskia Stucki, One Rights: Human and Animal Rights in the Anthropocene by Eva Bernet Kempers

“…With its sharp and in-depth engagement with animal law literature, as well as human rights law scholarship, it provides a much-needed and nuanced view of animal rights in the 21st century. …”
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Science du gouvernement et manière de punir dans l’espace germanique : la conception pénale de Joseph von Sonnenfels et son évolution (seconde moitié du XVIIIe siècle)  by Olivier Coelho

“…During the second half of the 18th century, the penal question is being debated throughout Europe, which resulted in several reforms. Previous scholarship has seen in Joseph von Sonnenfels one of the prominent figures of that movement in the German territories. …”
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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…Critics of adaptations of Dickens’s fiction have long discounted the possibility (or viability) of measuring their quality in terms of faithfulness to the original novels. Yet despite scholarship by the likes of Grahame Smith, Joss Marsh and Brian McFarlane in this ‘anti-fidelity’ vein, there has been relatively little sustained discussion of intertextual echoes between different adaptations of the same text. …”
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Space is the place: extraplanetary disorder in histories of science by Lisa Ruth Rand, James Poskett

“…Enrolling the methodologies of envirotech and discard studies scholarship invites a generatively messy, vertical and extra-planetary view of scientific practices and politics from the ground up and back again, and a glimpse at the historiographical possibilities that emerge from an embrace of systemic disorder.…”
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Transformations of Magistracy in Russia by E. A. Opfer

“…Besides, we used the results of all-Russian survey “Russian Master’s Early Growth” devoted to Russian magistracy, the winner of the program “Scholarship program by Vladimir Potanin”.The research gives the analyses of transformations of magistracy in Russia in three vectors: changes in educational paths, staffing and design of master programs. …”
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