Démocratie criminelle : les périodiques de true crime américains, de la National Police Gazette à True Detective by Benoît Tadié

“…Underlining the epistemological ambiguity of these periodicals, which were caught in a complex negociation between truth and fiction, it looks at their narrative guidelines, their dialogism which blended the voices of the authors and of the police, and the strategies they deployed in order to transform their readership into an « imagined community » of crime-fighting citizens. …”
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A censura ao direito de sonhar em Quarto de despejo, de Carolina Maria de Jesus by Luciana Paiva Coronel

“…Therefore, we understand that Carolina‟s work found echo of many authorized voices and thus enriches Brazilian contemporary li terary scene with greater representativeness.…”
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Militanza e creatività nella pluralità dei borderscapes. Produzione estetica di frontiera tra il Mediterraneo e il nord del Messico by Andrea Buchetti

“…Can we adopt the concept of borderscape to approach the plurality of imaginaries that borders stimulate between militant voices and autochthonous self-representations? Is it possible to identify third spaces of creativity that share symbols and identity repertoires between the local and the global? …”
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Immigrant Memoirs in the Service of Americanization: Between “the Melting Pot” and Cultural Pluralism by Anita Jarczok

“…It argues that these life narratives represent diverse perspectives on the Americanization process: two of them – Cash's and Antin's – seem to endorse the assimilationist point of view, while the other two – Panunzio's and Ravage's – lean more towards arguments voiced by cultural pluralists. All four texts try to refute restrictionists' claims based on pseudo-scientific racial theories. …”
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Des archives pour l’anthropologie : futurs possibles et passés contingents by David Zeitlyn

“…With patience, counter-readings allow the excavation of the voices (sometimes names) of subaltern and otherwise suppressed others from the archive. …”
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Township Politics by Mpho Moalamedi

“…By humanizing the historical narrative through the voices of ordinary citizens and community leaders, the book succeeds in providing a nuanced understanding of the challenges and triumphs inherent in civic engagement within South African townships. …”
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Eyes of identification: challenges and opportunities in leveraging highly visible, multiple-level histories by Debra Rosser, Shurlee Swain

“…These projects challenge historians on two main fronts: They defy historians' 'scholarly distance' and require them to embrace alternative, often competing and personally confronting, histories as they seek to incorporate care leavers' voices in published history. A greater challenge, though, is for historians to find effective ways to intersect public history with public policy so that the undesirable legacies of the past do not recur in the futures of the children who are in out of home care today.…”

Donner la parole : à quel prix ? by Mathilde Zbaeren

“…Based on the idea that non-fictional literature forms are linked to deontological and political demands for the restoration of debt, this article argues that collections of voices require the overcoming of the assimilation of literature to the universal, in order to emphasize its commitments and effects within the chain of exchange that constitutes the social bond. …”
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Rougissement littéraire by Ina Schenker

“…It points out that in neighbouring France in particular, there has been an intensive discussion of social origins for some time now, partly on the basis of literary and essayistic voices that deal with people’s origins and those of their parents’ generation in an autobiographical manner. …”
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Les images d’enfermement dans John Marchmont’s Legacy de Mary Elizabeth Braddon by Marion Charret-Del Bove

“…Intertextuality is also a powerful way of opening the text on others such as Tennyson’s ‘Mariana’ or Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre and voicing a growing feeling of dissatisfaction against an imposed and inappropriate role for women.…”
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Dialogues d’époux sur les stèles funéraires attiques by Élise Pampanay

“…The passer-by is invited, by the image or the text, to observe these forever still faces and to read aloud what the epigram has to say in order to give a new breath to the missing voices. There are several types of dialogue, first between visual elements of the stela, then between the iconography and the inscription. …”
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Angel Makers (Faiseuses d’Anges) of the Quartier Notre-Dame des Champs: Community and Personal Networks in 1870s Paris by Rachel G. Fuchs

“…It focuses on one court case of abortion that involves ordinary people who experience difficult lives, and offers insights into an aspect of women’s private lives within the liminal terrain of the neighborhood, while also demonstrating relationships of power in the daily lives of men and women, even if their stories are almost always mediated by male members of the magistrate. Women’s voices were critical as they exercised some limited power when they took matters into their own hands, used their neighborhood networks, and acted on their own behalf in order to try to have some control over their intimate lives. …”
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Ethics and Institutions of Scientific Policy Advice by Überblick

“…The practical question arises as to how policy advice in Germany can be changed in order to enable the various voices from the scientific community as a whole to be heard more and to promote an open dialogue between researchers and policy-makers. …”
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O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional by Pedro Dolabela Chagas, Dárley Suany Leite dos Santos

“…In contrast, in Hatoum’s and Carvalho’s works, the multiplication of voices, the fragmentation of truths and the self - observation of the narrator block the mobilization of the landscape for an identity - function, in a deviation o f the founding assumptions of a national literature which indicates its demise as a common project – an important historical transition for the Brazilian novel.…”
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People, Place and Politics: D’Arcy McNickle’s (Re)Valuing of Native American Principles by John L. Purdy

“…By turning to literature, it asks us to listen to the voices of those who may offer alternative ways of understanding what has happened to our world and where we must go to promote its survival.…”
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Evanghelia apocrifă a Martei Petreu: identităţi elective – corporalitate afectivă by Daniela Moldoveanu

“…The concept is Marta Petreu’s ontological space where she isolates herself looking for semantic and linguistic uniqueness among other feminine Romanian voices of her generation. For her, even the ever searched for, analyzed, classified love remains deeply conflicting and generates several interrogations that raise the appetite for selfdevouring.…”
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A Drinking Problem: French Psychiatric Fears about the Increase in Muslim Alcoholics in Colonial Algeria by Nina Salouâ Studer

“…Until the establishment of psychiatric institutions in the colonial Maghreb in the 1930s, the consensus of most colonial French psychiatrists was that alcoholism had previously been unknown amongst Muslim North Africans, but that it was quickly becoming a medical, social and economic problem. They voiced fears of an explosion in numbers of psychiatric patients due to this increase in alcoholism and a corresponding increase in crimes committed by intoxicated Muslim men. …”
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Examining the Coping Response to Peer Relational Aggression Victimization by Melissa M. Gomes

“…A theory of coping after experiencing peer relational aggression victimization was generated. Girls voiced feelings of hurt and anger after the experience and expressed the following ways of coping as a result: distancing from others, retaliation against the aggressor, discussing their feelings with friends and family, writing their feelings down, and/or confronting the aggressor. …”
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Expanding the scope of Technology Assessment (TA): a critical narration from the Iranian digital technologies case by Narges Naraghi, Soroush Ghazinoori

“…Against this backdrop, elaborating on the theoretical potential of TA, this research tries to critically reflect on the shortcomings of Southern voices in the mainstream TA literature. Gathered through extensive expert interviews and mapped into the novel ontological matrix of TA, our data is interpreted to answer the research question: why and how is TA perceived differently in the Iranian context than in the mainstream TA literature? …”
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Utilizing AI Chatbots in Higher Education Teaching and Learning by Laurie O. Campbell, Thomas D Cox

“… With the rapid societal emergence of generative artificial intelligence chatbots, calls for responsible use of AI permeate public voices. Higher education is no exception. The Diffusion of Innovation Theory seeks to explain how technologies like generative AI large language models are being adopted. …”
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