Five Points Towards an Architecture In-Formation by Stavros Kousoulas, Dulmini Perera

“…Since its emergence in the post-war period, cybernetics – in both its first and second-order versions – has introduced to architectural discourse systematic design methods and practices, while also tackling issues of reflexivity and complex problems. …”
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President Trump and the Virtue of Power by Jérôme Viala-Gaudefroy

“…Last, the president’s discourse articulates the myth of violent power through the use of war and game metaphors. Donald Trump’s populist expression of this virtue of power can be traced back to his own personal background as well as political strands of populism that have regularly surged in American history.…”
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Crony Capitalism and Corruption in the Middle East and North Africa by Fatih Kırşanlı

“…After the Arab protests, all of these countries changed their regimes except Syria, where the demonstrations ignited a civil war. However, the pre-existing powers continued their dominance, heavily in Egypt and partially in Libya and Yemen. …”
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Distance without Remoteness: The Objectivist Poetics of Nonmimetic Pain by Xavier Kalck

“…This article then proposes to compare three excerpts––all written after 1945––from the work of three US poets (George Oppen, Charles Reznikoff and Louis Zukofsky) which all deal with the experience and trauma of World War II. In doing so, this article will show how all three attempted to produce accounts of, or to reflect upon, what had taken place in a way that would not allow for any forms of aestheticization and that would show extreme caution when engaging with readers’ sensitivities. …”
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A Critique on “Economic Threats and Resistance Economy” by Seyyed Shamseddin Hosseini

“…The authors believe that economic war (sanctions) is the main threat to Iran’s economy that is an instrument of exercising power. …”
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The concept of most responsible in international criminal law and its problematic reception in the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia by José Manuel Díaz-Soto, Diego Borbón

“…In the context of Colombia's transitional justice process, the definitions of “most responsible” and “determining participants” play a pivotal role in deciding who should face prosecution and sanctions of effective restriction of liberty for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The article argues that the current conceptual ambiguity within the JEP's legal framework risks conflating accomplices with principal offenders, which could undermine the selective justice model designed to focus on high-level perpetrators. …”
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Representing Environmental Emergency as Social Emergency: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 in Blues Songs from Louisiana and Mississippi by Stéphanie DENÈVE

“…While local elites and federal authorities declared war on the Mississippi River and on their black workforce, how did this region’s inhabitants process, interpret, and represent the 1927 flood? …”
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16 Jahre PHAIDRA an der Universität Wien – oder: Wie das Forschungsdatenmanagement in die Bibliothek kam by Susanne Blumesberger, Sonja Edler, Martin Gasteiner, Victoria Eisenheld, Herbert Van Uffelen

“…Was als einzelnes Repositorium mit Langzeitarchivierungsfunktion konzipiert war, hat sich nach vielen Jahren im Zusammenspiel von Universitätsbibliothek und Zentralem Informatikdienst zu einer Repositorienlandschaft entwickelt, die als solche eine umfassende Infrastruktur für das Forschungsdatenmanagement der gesamten Universität mit allen ihren unterschiedlichen Disziplinen anbietet. …”
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Perempuan dan Ketahanan Pangan (Rumah Tangga) pada Masa Revolusi by Widya Fitria Ningsih

“…Women were primarily responsible for food security and nutrition within their households when their husbands, fathers, and sons went off to war. However, the narratives on women and their complex relationship with food problems during the Indonesian Revolution have, for long, merely been focused on their involvement in the communal kitchen. …”
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Écrire sur la Shoah avant la Shoah : notes sur Kafka et Levi by Luca De Angelis

“…The number of Jewish writers, especially during the twenty years between the two wars, was not insignificant. It was they who heeded the warnings of their instincts and scrutinised the underground and telluric movements of history; as these looming sensations of danger increased, these feelings were then poured into the literary space. …”
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The Nexus among Good E-Governance Practice, Decentralization, and Public Administration for Sustainable Local Development by Worya Balisany, Hale Özgit, Husam Rjoub

“…The sample of 409 employees of the Erbil municipality who participated in the survey was analyzed using Partial Least Square Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) with the assistance of WarPLS 7.0. The results of the study revealed a significant correlation between e-governance practices and decentralization and public administration. …”
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Gazetecilik Yıllarında Bülent Ecevit ve Anti-Komünizm (1950-1961) by Ferit Salim SANLI

“…In this period, when the Cold War dominated and Turkey showed its side by being included in NATO, Ecevit also spent a lot of time on the issue of communism and gave ample coverage to this issue in his writings. …”
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The battle of the Zé Gotinhas: The schismogenesis of images and political audiences on Brazilian social media by Kelly Cristiane da Silva, Fábio de Oliveira Martins

“…The conflict over different versions of Zé Gotinha published at the beginning of Covid-19 vaccination - one produced by the illustrator and designer-activist Cristiano Siqueira, another commissioned by Eduardo Bolsonaro, a federal deputy and a son of the former president-inserted in the context of a semiological guerrilla war, allows us to examine the different images as, simultaneously, part of a confrontation that begins with the images and ends in the structural forces perpetuating the schismogenesis between allies of the former president and his adversaries. …”
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State of Siege in South Dobrogea. Action plan and instructions against attacks by Bulgarian komitadjis developed by the 9th Romanian Division command by Daniel Silviu NICULAE

“…Like an arch in time, in 1926, in peacetime, after 62 years since the vote on the Siege Law of 1864, the attacks of the Bulgarian comitages threatening the population, territory, and the exercise of state authority at the southern border imposed the extension of the provisions on the state of siege and their application by the War Council of the 9th Division. …”
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An Investigation on the Link between International Labor Migration and Undocumented Employment: Evidence from Turkish Cinema by Hasan Yüksel

“…The reason is that Germany desired to meet its employment needs so as to develop in an industrial way following World War II, which was a real catastrophe for Germans. …”
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Akty prawne w zakresie cła granicznego i ich rola w ochronie bezpieczeństwa ekonomicznego Rzeczypospolitej Polski w latach 1919-1924 (próba analizy problemu)/ Legal Acts in the F... by Andrzej Wawryniuk

“…Tariffs have multiple functions to perform, the most important of which is undoubtedly the economic function. After World War I, i.e. in the initial period of the existence of the Republic of Poland, various customs offices were established, which, in addition to the imposed and collected duties, were also to protect the Country’s borders against the penetration of hostile elements, including armed diversionary groups, arms transfers, thus defending the safety of citizens and at the same time provide the state budget with a significant inflow of means of payment. …”
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Ksiądz Hitlera. Myślenie religijne na usługach nazizmu by Józef Majewski, Dariusz K. Sikorski

“…After the Second World War, Adam never admitted his Nazi theological and pastoral activity and never apologised for it. …”
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Gréckokatolícki mučeníci z obdobia neslobody 1939–1989 by Peter Borza

“…Among the presented figures are the bearers of the title Righteous Among the Nations, award-winning in Israel for unconditional aid to Jews during World War II, as they were risking the loss of his life and lives of family members for saving the racially and religiously persecuted. …”
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Das valas comuns aos direitos humanos: a descoberta dos desaparecimentos forçados na Espanha contemporânea by Francisco Ferrándiz

“…This text is based on a multisite ethnography of seven years on the impact of exhumations of mass graves from the Civil War in contemporary Spain. The ethnography has been carried out in different research scenarios: exhumations, commemorative rituals, academic conferences on memory, teach-ins, demonstrations, book presentations, music concerts, NGOs for the 'recovery of historical memory', different working teams with institutional support, forensic laboratories, art exhibits and so forth. …”
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The Challenges of Afghan Migrants in Türkiye by Jafar Pouya

“…Migration isn’t simply a pickup-and-go process, but it comes with some challenges and opportunities for both migrants and relevant countries. Ongoing war and conflicts for five decades in Afghanistan have forced Afghans to emigrate at various times. …”
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