Investir sous les cocotiers. Entrepreneuralisme immobilier et production de l’espace, le cas des Français de Las Terrenas by Laurine Chapon

“…This French presence participates to a strong urbanisation dynamic and land and property speculation processes, in the context of a construction and real estate boom. We analyse the consequences of this French presence on the spatial structures of Las Terrenas and we also reflect on the discourses and representation used by these actors to legitimise their entrepreneurial journeys, by underlining the place of law in the naturalization of relations of domination.…”
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A Sociocultural Appraisal of Yorùbá Kegites’ Songs by George Olúsolá Ajíbádé

“…It shows the practice of engagement by the Kegites through which identity can be textually constructed in ways that politicize self-representation and challenge discourses grounded in the colonial and postcolonial histories of the Yorùbá people. …”
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Religion and politics of belonging in digital times: youth religiosity in focus by Astrid Mattes, Miriam Haselbacher, Katharina Limacher, Christoph Novak

“…Here, the discursive construction of belonging, as discussed in the concept “politics of belonging,” is useful to grasp the formations of in- and out-groups on religious grounds. …”
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Imagined Libya: geopolitics of the margins by Luca Raineri

“…Whether referring to the artificiality of its (post-)colonial construction or to the fragmentation of its sovereignty since 2011, the weakness of Libya’s statehood is a recurrent theme in policy and scholarly discourses. …”
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Raça, cultura e pertencimento: a emergência da noção de diáspora africana by Cauê Gomes Flor

“…In addition, the notion of the African diaspora was essential for the construction, institutionalization and postulation of theoretical-methodological paradigms for what is now (recently) termed African-American Studies. …”
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I santi degli altri. Devozione, mutamento e rituali tra i singalesi cattolici a Messina by Giovanni Cordova

“…For this reason, processes of construction of sainthood at the core of these ritual systems, very useful to reflect upon the vernacularization of religious discourses along the post-colonial trajectories of western “multicultural” Church, will be analyzed looking at the interactions connecting them to ecclesial powers, the daily experience of the sacred, and religious actors’ existential and biographical paths. …”
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Restoring Autonomy out of Context. Selective Heritagisation of the Drama Theatre in Veliky Novgorod by Ksenia Litvinenko

“…To contextualise these findings, the article contrasts the narratives promoted by the competition with the historical realities and discourses it obscured, including Soviet postmodern and institutional critiques, the constraints and opportunities embedded in the state construction and financing system, and the forms of creativity available to architects within it.…”
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Unveiling Islamophobia: navigating its presence in Sweden by Adrián Groglopo, Fereshteh Ahmadi, Jimmy Stephen Munobwa

“…Political and media narratives often manufacture immigration as a social problem, framing the construction of meaning through the discourses of cultural differences as social, political and security problems. …”
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Investigating AI systems: examining data and algorithmic bias through hermeneutic reverse engineering by Nishanshi Shukla

“…Considering Artificial Intelligence systems as boundary objects, which are interdisciplinary objects sustained differently by diverse fields while providing shared discourses between them, this essay summarizes the approaches of examining bias in AI systems. …”
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Rethinking Eurovision Song Contest as a Clash of Cultures by Zeynep Merve ŞIVGIN

“…Especially the privileged existence of popular culture; having an interdependence attachment to power relations in addition to an allowing structure for alternative discourses other than the official discourse is a cruicial asset. …”
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Governing bodies? by Kudzaiishe Peter Vanyoro, George Mavunga, Zvenyika Eckson Mugari

“… Using both intersectional and kyriarchy heuristics which acknowledge the interlocking gender, sexuality and class dynamics in the co-construction of power hierarchies, this paper examines how informal herbal healing flyers and posters in the Johannesburg CBD reinforce norms which govern and legitimate desirable male and female bodies and lives through written texts and images. …”
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La politique de l’Art au musée national de Katmandou (Népal) by Élise Fong-Sintès

“…Through this museum, structured as a conglomeration of different national discourses, the problematic history of defining a “Nepalese art” and constructing a museum representation of Nepal will be apprehended.…”
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Plaider la « bonne gouvernance sécuritaire » au Maroc : Domestiquer les savoirs de réforme en régime de contrainte consensuelle by Irene Lizzola

“…Although framed, this allows associative, transnational and institutional actors to legitimize each other as bearers of good reformist recipes.Firstly, we will question the construction of the reformist discourse relating to the management of security, by questioning the anchoring of the latter in the vocabulary of transitology. …”
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Framing discomfort on YouTube: Narratives of non-binary dysphoria by Letizia Paglialunga

“…This facet of gender discourse frequently leads to the omission of non-binary individuals from discourses not only of gender, but more broadly of societal concern. …”
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On writing about illness in Kuwait. A discussion with Shahd Al Shammari by Marion Breteau

“…The interview goes on to discuss the stages of the book’s narrative construction, and then its reception by the Kuwaiti public. …”
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Fluidités victoriennes by Béatrice Laurent

“…The earth/water polarity seems to be one of the most important in the Victorian imagination for it asserts a gendered duality of the two elements.In 19th century British art, the fluid element is predominantly associated with women as is attested by popular subjects such as bathers, mermaids, naiads and drowned ladies. The culturally-constructed concept of a « natural » femininity defined by its fluidity and absorbency makes women the source at the same time as the container of vital fluids and serves the dominant discourse on gender as it conversely establishes masculine substantiality and impermeableness.This paper aims at examining a corpus of paintings illustrating the feminisation of water, and at suggesting interpretations in the light of contemporary, and sometimes fluctuating, scientific, medical or political discourses.…”
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Przeoczony dyskurs, czyli rzecz o konstruktywizmie i (z)marnowanych szansach oceniania wczesnoszkolnego by Grażyna Szyling

“… The aim of the paper is to reconstruct the (un)used chances which are generated for early education assessment by the constructive paradigm. In my reflections I take into account two complex and interpermeating perspectives: the premises of educational theory and educational practice. …”
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Les réfections chirurgicales de l’hymen en Tunisie. Des techniques de purification et d’absolution ? by Ibtissem Ben Dridi

“…It also investigates how the various actors involved (young women, medical personnel, religious authorities) construct specific discourses entailing a moral logic that justifies the reconstruction of the hymen through the mobilization of the principles of repentance, protection and the common good, as well as the notion of physical and psychic purification. …”
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Can community media programmes serve as developmental approaches for at-risk youth? by Charles Rachel-Ann

“…Accordingly, theory and practice from these constructs can be used to develop ideas that emerge from the Shoot to Live programme. …”
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A populist turn? by Ekman Mattias, Krzyżanowski Michał

“…This article undertakes a critical discourse analysis of Swedish quality newspaper editorials and their evolving framing of immigration since the 2015 peak of the recent European “refugee crisis”. …”
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