New Area Studies as an Epistemological Framework: Some Reflections of Knowledge Production and Positionality by Marianela Barrios Aquino

“…This paper weaves together decolonial and feminist approaches to research, to argue for the relevance of New Area Studies scholarship.…”
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Reading scripture through a mystical lens by Celia Kourie

“…Contemporary scriptural studies, however, have witnessed a sea-change in interpretive methods of such magnitude, that it is difficult to keep up with current scholarship in this field. Within this paradigm shift, the importance of a spiritual reading of scripture has now come to the fore. …”
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Deconstructing esports by Tom Legierse, Maria Ruotsalainen

“…In this paper we argue that in order to understand the normative and formative social effects of sportification of competitive gaming, we need to forefront the bodies in esports. Building on scholarship that highlights inequities in (competitive) gaming and esports, we identify four ways in which bodies are made relevant in esports: 1) the obscuring of the playing body and establishment of an idealized and normative masculine athletic body; 2) the ‘visibility’ of women's bodies as deviant from the norm; 3) the invisibility (and impossibility) of disabled bodies through design (embodied nature of design of both games and gameplay); and 4) the embodied nature of infrastructural issues that cannot be reduced to materiality. …”
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Supraclavicular Brachial Plexus Block for Challenging Anterior Shoulder Dislocations: A Case Series by Michael Shalaby, Gregory Oliva, Christopher Raciti, Michael Rosselli, Oren Mechanic

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Alienation, Adoption or Adaptation? Aestheticist Paintings by Women by Pamela Gerrish Nunn

“…In scrutinising Aestheticism, feminist scholarship has found the usual characteristics: a band of male actors, achievers and heroes, an extensive use of female imagery, and an investment in the idea or fantasy of Woman in the absence (designed or accidental) of actual women. …”
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The Problem of Measurements: Fiscal Transparency and Diverging Outcomes by Roberto Cruz Romero

“…However, since fiscal transparency remains a deeply interdisciplinary field, emphasis on determinants and context-dependency occupy a secondary role in the scholarship. Transparency is seen as a pre-condition for other governance and development outcomes – most causal studies analyse this directionality, whilst few consider other factors that mediate transparency. …”
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Elphick, Richard, The Equality of Believers. Protestant Missionaries and the Racial Politics of South Africa by J. J. Kritzinger

“…It is the result of decades of intense, informed and fair scholarship (as its 30 pages Bibliography and 60 pages of Notes show). …”
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The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Articulating a more holistic model of a World Heritage Program, the author also presents future areas of research — including more scholarship on the interrelatedness of tourism and heritage, and better integration of sustainability and ethics. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“… This paper explores the poetry of Ọlánrewájú Ade ́ ṕ ọ̀jù, a major contemporary Yorùbá poet, based in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. Much of the scholarship on the poet focuses purely on his sociopolitical interest, but the development of his craft has been largely ignored. …”
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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…We discuss the implications for coimagining interactions with future VAs, offer design guidelines for the Japanese and English-speaking US contexts, and suggest opportunities for cultural plurality in VA design and scholarship.…”
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Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism by Dulmini Perera, Samuel Koh

“…While cosmotechnics has fomented new scholarship in philosophy, STS and cultural theory, its implications for architecture remain underexplored. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Towards a Re-appropriation of Critical Geography for Latin America by Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal, Melissa Moreano Venegas, Soledad Álvarez Velasco

“…We also consider why some approaches and topics have received greater or lesser attention in Latin American scholarship. Finally, we emphasize the importance of establishing a new transnational dialogue based on regionally situated critical research that questions and proposes new pathways in the production of knowledge from and about the region. …”
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No Better Than Soup? Comparing Null Experimental Effects of Political Facebook Ads Across Persuasive and Instrumental Measures of Effectiveness by Bridget Barrett, Shannon C. McGregor

“…Studies on digital advertising effects claim that the primary purposes of online ads are persuasive : They seek to change vote choice or voters’ attitudes toward candidates. But recent scholarship has noted that social media’s unique affordances encourage electoral campaigns to use them in specific ways, such as using Facebook’s ads for email list-building. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…In considering these questions, this essay engages with existing scholarship on the Collier’s serialization but also with issues raised in the wider field of study on James and periodicals and with broader controversies about The Turn of the Screw itself. …”
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Woman with a Painful Rash by Leyan Shalabi, Wesley Eilbert

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Political communication as television news: Party-produced news of the Sweden Democrats during the 2022 election campaign by Ekman Mattias, Widholm Andreas

“…Hence, the study contributes to political communication scholarship by emphasising how news has become an integral part of strategic party communication, challenging established scholarly conceptualisations of alternative media and hyperpartisan news.…”
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“To Preserve This Remnant:” William Apess, the Mashpee Indians, and the Politics of Nullification by Neil Meyer

“…These two national political battles inform the work Apess does with the Mashpee Indian community of Cape Cod, represented by their collected work The Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts, Relative to the Marshpee Tribe: or, The Pretended Riot Explained (1835). Building on the scholarship by Maureen Konkle, Andy Doolen, and others, this article argues that Apess frames the state-level political battle of the Mashpee in the larger national context of removal and southern secession as a means of disrupting the political logic of the state of Massachusetts. …”
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II. HADİS LİSANSÜSTÜ ÖĞRENCİ SEMPOZYUMU Covid-19 Sürecinde Çevrimiçi Bir Bilgi Şöleni by Musa Eşit

“…The papers presented at the symposium are respectively “The Value of Criticism among Peer Hadith Narrators (Ravi) within the Scholarship of Jarh and Ta’dil” by Eymen Kamer; “Relationship between Shaybani and Shafi in the Framework of the Works Titled ‘Al-Hujja Ala Ahlil-Madinah’ and ‘Ikhtilafu Malik And Shafı’i’” by Ramazan Doğanay; “Bey’u’l Garar in The Light Of Hadiths” by Ayşe Boztaş; “An Evaluation on the Women’s Ways of Prayer” by Zeynep Sena Yılmaz; “Infectiousness of The Disease in the Teaching of Prophet Mohamed (Phub)” by Musa Eşit; “A Comparison in the Context of Faith: Example of Bukhari’s Sahih and Tirmizi’s Cami’” by Zehra İleri; “Evaluation of the Hadith Buhârî’s Emigrate to Abyssinia” by Ayşenur Gürtürk; “Bâkillânî’s Hadith Interpretation” by Lokman Korkut; “Abu al-Fayd Ahmad al-Ghumari and His Hadithions” by Mehmet Şakar; “Criticisms That are Directed to Work Named “Muqaddimah Ibn Al-Ṣalāḥ” and Evaluation of These Criticisms” by Hüseyin Yürekli.…”
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Correctional officers and the ongoing health implications of prison work by William J. Schultz, Rosemary Ricciardeli

“…However, the portrait this scholarship draws is concerning. Research focusing on the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of prison staff consistently paints a picture of a deeply unhealthy group of people, with above-average levels of physical health concerns. …”
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The Trinity and an ecclesiology from below by R. Venter

“…The specific problem addressed focuses on the interaction between an ecclesiology from below and contemporary trinitarian scholarship, and the possible mutual enriching conversation. …”
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