Participatory communication in South African municipal government by Tshepang Bright Molale

“…They also suggest a need for further research on how “participation as an end” can be theorised in line with participatory communication in a complex municipal system that already requires “participation as a means” to achieve certain goals. …”
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Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond by Wesley Maraire

“…Furthermore, case law examples are also utilised, but going beyond erroneous individual cases, and unpacking the under-theorised yet broader social consequences of the cases on citizens and the formal justice system.…”
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The “Daily Digital”: (Re)imagining Technology in Home-Based Women’s Gig Work in Egypt. by Laila Mourad

“…This research contributes to feminist and decolonial scholarship by centring the lived experiences of women in informal economies and providing a new lens to theorise the intersections of technology, gender and labour. …”
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Learning developers as third space academics: a personal view by Peter C Samuels

“…The concept of third space professionals may be seen as useful for theorising the practice of those who at least partly identify as learning developers. …”
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A review of theories, pedagogies and vocabulary learning tasks of English vocabulary learning apps for Chinese EFL learners by Li Congxin

“…This study aims to fill this gap by conceptualising and theorising the design of English vocabulary learning apps with a focused analysis of their task features with relation to vocabulary learning strategies (VLS), language learning theories and pedagogies. …”
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Miss-represented by Pontsho Pilane, Mehita Iqani

“…The (albeit unsurprising) failure of Glamour magazine to adequately represent a diversity of black femininities is theorised as a result of pervasive neo-liberal, racist and patriarchal structures of power in post-apartheid South Africa. …”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…In investigating this fandom’s performance of what they call “ethical RPF”, this article seeks to theorise the construction of an (un)ethical fan persona as innately intertwined with RPF as a practice and fans’ treatment of it as moral performance. …”
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‘Why Don't We Get Counselling?’: Comparing NICE Guidelines for Morphological and Genetic Cancer Risk Diagnoses by Elspeth Davies

“…Objectives This study compares the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's guidelines for BRCA1/2, which are genetic risk conditions, and Barrett's oesophagus (BO), a morphological risk condition. It then theorises reasons for the similarities and differences made visible by this comparative work. …”
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What is Legal Theory? by Marietta Auer

“…It argues that legal theory can best fulfil its goal if it provides tools for multidisciplinary theorising as well as categories for critical reflection on the preconditions of legal epistemology. …”
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Madame Bovary and Catastrophism: Revolving narratives by Ruth Morris

“…This has implications for the concept of ‘time’. Cuvier theorises the earth as being relatively recent in origin, with the present epoch being only five thousand years old. …”
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« Histoires perturbées, passés retrouvés », une introduction by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our case research is complemented in the concluding paper of this Special Issue by systematic cross-case engagement, synthesis and theorisation of our case-study research.…”
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Neoliberal Timescapes of Infrastructuring an Environmental Footprint: Configuring Carbon Emissions as Flexibly Substitutable Placeholders by Ingmar Lippert

“…Annelise Riles’ notion of the placeholder supports theorising the specific political quality of the infrastructural relations. …”
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Suicide capability within the ideation-to-action framework: A systematic scoping review. by Luke T Bayliss, Steven Christensen, Andrea Lamont-Mills, Carol du Plessis

“…Suicide capability is theorised to facilitate the movement from suicidal ideation to suicide attempt. …”
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Truly emergent? A critique of ‘third space’ in cross-cultural context by Michael Begun

“…Whitchurch first describes third space in a 2008 paper as an ‘emerging landscape of activity’ (p. 378) correlative with an ‘emergence of Third Space professionals’ (p. 377) in first world anglophone higher education institutions. By theorising the emergence of third space from the activity of these so-called ‘third space professionals’, Whitchurch implicitly relies upon a concept first developed several decades earlier in cultural theory. …”
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Evaluation et approfondissement du concept de gentrification touristique by Kevin Fox Gotham

“…J’y décris les raisons qui m’ont amené à développer ce concept et je détaille les sources qui m’ont inspiré cette théorisation du tourisme en tant que moteur et produit essentiels des phénomènes touristiques. …”
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Modeling the impact of twitter on influenza epidemics by Kasia A. Pawelek, Anne Oeldorf-Hirsch, Libin Rong

“…Influenza remains a serious public-health problem worldwide. Therising popularity and scale of social networking sites such asTwitter may play an important role in detecting, affecting, andpredicting influenza epidemics. …”
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Acoustic lattice resonances and generalised Rayleigh–Bloch waves by G. J. Chaplain, S. C. Hawkins, M. A. Peter, L. G. Bennetts, T. A. Starkey

“…We investigate such a system and experimentally confirm the existence of a new class of generalised Rayleigh–Bloch waves that have been recently theorised to exist in classical wave regimes, without the need for resonant scatterers. …”
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Benefits of realist evaluation for rapidly changing health service delivery by Paula Kersten, Margaret Cupples, Rachel Thomas, Fiona Cramp, Nicola E Walsh, Justin Jagosh, Hannah Stott, Serena Halls, Cathy Liddiard, Dave Foster

“…These forces can be theorised, in real time, and included in realist evaluation outputs for current and future optimisation of programmes. …”
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Introducing “Disrupted Histories, Recovered Pasts” by Sian Sullivan, Michèle Baussant, Lindsey Dodd, Olivette Otele, Irène Dos Santos

“…Our case research is complemented in the concluding paper of this Special Issue by systematic cross-case engagement, synthesis and theorisation of our case-study research.…”
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Face morphing attacks and face image quality: The effect of morphing and the unsupervised attack detection by quality by Biying Fu, Naser Damer

“…Previous studies touched on the issue of the quality of morphing attack images, however, with the main goal of quantitatively proofing the realistic appearance of the produced morphing attacks. The authors theorise that the morphing processes might have an effect on both, the perceptual image quality and the image utility in face recognition (FR) when compared to bona fide samples. …”
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