Education for Sustainable Development in Primary School: Improvement of Students’ Ecocriticism Skills by Ahmet Tekbiyik, Mustafa Celik

“…Ecocriticism analyzes the symbolic meanings attributed to nature and the mindsets created by these meanings through interpreting literature and cultural texts from an environmental perspective. …”
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Country of origin effect: a study with Brazilian consumers in the luxury market by Maria Gabriela Montanari, Jonny Mateus Rodrigues, Janaina de Moura Engracia Giraldi, Marcos Fava Neves

“…The study provides indications that corroborate the hypothesis that marketing managers should direct their marketing efforts mainly to premium price and symbolism, history and strength of the brand, leaving aside some strategies that emphasize the country of origin of the brand.…”
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La fortune critique d’une monnaie d’or : le coq gaulois de Jules-Clément Chaplain à l’épreuve de la presse (1895-1914) by Katia Schaal

“…The journalist, whether a simple chronicler or an ardent polemicist, appears successively to be an unwavering supporter of monetary reform, a witness to the long elaboration of symbols and then of the tools, and finally a judge and critic of the artistic and technical qualities of the object. …”
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Money Cares. Institutional Entrepreneurship in the Finnish Social Services Sector by Petra Merenheimo

“…Drawing from Bourdieu’s concepts of cultural, symbolic, social and economic capital, the article highlights the relevance of capital conversions for understanding institutional entrepreneurship. …”
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Geographical Ideologies and Nature: The Re-Making of Forests and the Crisis of Capital by Luis Fernando De Matheus, Andrei Cornetta

“…Drawing on a critical approach to analyze the data from the respective cases, we analyze the ways in which conservation efforts have been territorialized and loaded with symbolism and diversity, which express different ideological geographies. …”
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Economia criativa e resistência: o artesanato indígena no Estado do Rio de Janeiro by Diego Santos Vieira de Jesus

“…Craft can lead to greater autonomy and development of indigenous communities by linking aesthetic, symbolic and social elements of local crafts to the improvement of the political and socioeconomic living conditions of communities in the context of the stimulus to creative sectors in areas of the state of Rio de Janeiro. …”
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Are Pitch-Class Profiles Really “Key for Key”? by Ian Quinn

“…Most current approaches to key-finding, either from symbolic data such as MIDI or from digital audio data, rely on pitch-class profiles. …”
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Démolition controversée, entre revendication et droit d’auteur. L’histoire d’un ensemble de logements sociaux à Bollate (Milan) by Chiara Merlini

“…A debate that is particularly influenced by stigmatizing images and on which symbolic investments are particularly high, both for residents and for public institutions. …”
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Tecnica e libertà fra Praga e Santiago by Andrea Cerroni

“…(2) Can one, moreover, delineate a kind of symbolic universe that would extend from the (then prospective) artificial intelligence to the paradigms later established in many disciplines?…”
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La cuestión religiosa como factor de conflictividad política durante la Segunda República by Miguel Ángel Giménez Martínez

“…In this way, the religious problem served as a symbolic agent of affirmation and consolidation of the different political organizations. …”
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Sol LeWitt. The Conceptuality of Drawing by Paolo Belardi

“…In the first fax, dated March 22, 1995, LeWitt (at the time residing for long periods in Spoleto) tells his friend Bruno Corà (then professor of Art History in the Academy) about the delivery of the maquette of a work created specifically for Perugia [1]: an ‘open cube’ (the solid form most loved by LeWitt [2]) which, as an element of the exhibition project City and Art, aimed at injecting viral works into extra moenia urban areas of symbolic interest, was to be exhibited in the portico of the large public building built in those same years by Aldo Rossi and located on the western side of the Piazza Nuova in Fontivegge [3]. …”
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Les protestations populaires à l’assaut des régimes autoritaires : une « révolution » pour les sciences sociales ? by Vincent Geisser

“…Beyond the actual visible weakening of the men in power, the central issue in revolutionary processes remains the legitimacy and symbolic effectiveness of systems: why don’t identical circumstances lead to changes in regimes everywhere?…”
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Vertical farm. New architectures and cities from the forms of agriculture by Sara Basso, Adriano Venudo, Thomas Bisiani, Pierluigi Martorana

“…The issue is articulated through four areas: the origin of the tall building as a symbolic expression and its contemporary evolution; above-ground agriculture in relation to classical macroeconomic categories since the 1700s; and three case studies of experimental vertical farms (Skyfarm, Farmscraper and Farmhouse), interpreted as possible origins of new architectural types. …”
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L’humain et l’écran, à l’écran : The Cat, the Reverend and the Slave d’Alain Della Negra et Kaori Kinoshita (2010) by Anaïs Guilet

“…In the film, the cinema screen opens on the connected screen in a staging symbolizing this interface. The screen is the place where users of Second Life and spectators alike can observe how interactions with the technical device (the avatar) but also with others, materialize. …”
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Jules Lavirotte (1864-1929) ou l’Art nouveau symboliste by Bruno Montamat

“…Its inscription in a late-century symbolism opens up promising new fields of research by taking into account the sacred in private architecture and by the emancipatory role played by female artist. …”
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Medieval Naturalia by Chantal Stein

“…It additionally considers symbolic connotations and occult properties deriving from allegorization of matter to study the role played by the ornamentation of naturalia. …”
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Les calebasses nka’a kügha : du contexte d’origine à la mise en exposition en Europe by Ninon Arbez-Gindre

“…The jawbones of enemies killed by the Bamum were hung from these calabashes. These symbols of victory were the used for rituals and considered the dynasty’s regalia. …”
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Valorisation touristique de l’olivier à Saint-Rémy de Provence : entre requalification symbolique et détournement de valeurs patrimoniales by Julie Deramond, Pauline Grison, Eric Triquet

“…En étudiant l’ensemble du discours iconique fondé sur l’utilisation d’images liées au patrimoine oléicole, il vise à examiner l’hypothèse selon laquelle l’olive, l’huile d’olive et l’olivier, ont avant tout une valeur emblématique en tant que symboles de la Provence. Notre propos est de montrer qu’ils sont utilisés principalement à des fins commerciales et touristiques, ainsi que comme témoins d’une identité culturelle revendiquée.…”
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Trinitariese verbeelding en post-apartheid Suider-Afrika: fragmente oor dogmatisering en dosering by R. Venter

“…The dogmatician linguistically constructs a symbolic universe that exerts an ethical impact. The notion of a “trinitarian imagination” is espoused to articulate the entire Christian vision from the reality of God’s trinitarian identity. …”
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En attendant Bouteflika. Le président et la crise de sens en Algérie by Thomas Serres

“…A review of the political temporalities that surround the figure of the Algerian president allows us a better apprehension of the scope and limits of symbolic state power. The article begins with a review of the origins of the epistemological crisis, from the war of independence to the civil war. …”
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