‘Woman Suffrage Precipice’: The Gender Politics of Laughter in Elizabeth Robins’s The Convert (1907) by Nathalie Saudo-Welby

“…An actress turned playwright and political militant, Elizabeth Robins was aware of the political uses of laughter. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…For instance, in black nationalist discourse of the 1960s and ’70s (whether in the Black Power movement in the United States or the post-colonial movements in the West Indies and Africa), there is a tendency to emblematize the rising black nation as a fecund black mother, frequently figured more transcendently as “Mother Africa” herself, even as the battle for and leadership of these emerging nations is assumed to be the purview of militant big men. …”
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Shifting from Religious Populism to Authoritarian Populism: Two Decades of Identity Politics Dynamics in Indonesia by Arina Rohmatul Hidayah, Atwar Bajari, Dadang Rahmat Hidayat, Eni Maryani

“…This article aims to answer the question of whether identity-based movements are free from tendencies in political economy. By analyzing the actions and orientations of the militant Islamic group from the New Order to the Reform era, we show that social movements based on cultural identities are far from representing the demands of groups of recognition. …”
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De fureur et de sang by Léa Jaurégui, Jeanne Mathas

“…Focusing on a number of emblematic works by female artists, the analysis endeavours to elucidate the entanglement of feminist struggles in and on the margins of aesthetic tendencies formed – through shared militant commitment – of common values but above all their intractable plastic variety.…”
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Parler de son vécu à travers la création vidéoludique : une étude du jeu Dys4ia by Rémy Sohier

“…The subject treated, as well as the approach of the writing of the lived experience in video game, make this creation an atypical case at the crossroads of several subversive tendencies regard to the media. A technical and aesthetic analysis makes it possible to identify forms of criticism and militant activity against certain standards of industrial creation. …”
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Avoiding stress on non-lexical material in nouns and verbs: predictable verb prosody in Serbo-Croatian stress standard varieties by Simonović Marko, Kager René

“…We consider two asymmetries reported in the literature on word prosodic systems: the tendency to allow more prosodic contrast in nouns than in verbs and the tendency to avoid stress on functional material. …”
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Tolérance et transgressivité : le jeu à somme nulle des gauchistes et des islamistes tunisiens by Michaël Béchir Ayari

“…This article analyzes leftist tendencies and Tunisian Islamism especially in terms of the modalities of activist political socialization. …”
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POVERTY AND NATIONAL SECURITY: AN OVERVIEW OF NIGERIA’S FOURTH REPUBLIC by ADAMU MOHAMMED

“… Nigeria is now facing significant internal security difficulties, such as the Niger Delta militancy in the South-South geopolitical zone that includes Bayelsa and Rivers, and the Boko Haram insurgency in the northeastern regions of Borno, Yobe, and Adamawa. …”
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