On the Frontier Between Medicine and State: Traumatic States of Embodiment and Temporality in Waad Al-Kateab’s For Sama and Wang Nanfu’s In the Same Breath by Aleksander Sedzielarz

“…This analysis draws on Ruth Leys’ ‘genealogy’ of trauma and Lisa Guenther’s notion of the ‘necrobiopolitical rituals’ of state bureaucracy to show that both documentaries illuminate a fundamental split between discourses of medical knowledge and state power within which cinema asserts fluid and shifting temporalities as a mode of engaging events of crisis as history. …”
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Using Institutional Ethnography to Explicate the Everyday Realities of Nurses’ Work in Labor and Delivery by Paula Kelly, Maggie Quance, Nicole Snow, Caroline Porr

“…Using Institutional Ethnography, we explored how nurses conduct this work and uncovered the ruling relations coordinating how nurses “do” fetal health surveillance. Analysis revealed how these powerful ruling relations associated with the biomedical and medical-legal discourses coordinated nurses’ fetal monitoring work. …”
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On the Frontier Between Medicine and State: Traumatic States of Embodiment and Temporality in Waad Al-Kateab’s For Sama and Wang Nanfu’s In the Same Breath by Aleksander Sedzielarz

“…This analysis draws on Ruth Leys’ ‘genealogy’ of trauma and Lisa Guenther’s notion of the ‘necrobiopolitical rituals’ of state bureaucracy to show that both documentaries illuminate a fundamental split between discourses of medical knowledge and state power within which cinema asserts fluid and shifting temporalities as a mode of engaging events of crisis as history. …”
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From Dualism of Structure-Action to the Theory of Social Domain by İbrahim Yücedağ

“…This study addressing the Derek Layer’s theory of social domains and the dualism between structure and action in social theory, aims to display the distinction between micro and macro analysis in sociology, emphasized frequently. Arguments on the crisis of sociology because of its problematic nature have brought the questions on how the social reality should be understood. …”
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Réforme du curriculum et approche par compétences au Cap Vert. Entre injonction internationale et projet national ? by Ana Cristina Pires-Ferreira

“…The approach is sociopolitical and the analysis is based on the political, institutional and technical discourses, as well as on the discourses of the various actors participating in the current curriculum reform which is implemented since 2006.…”
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Rethinking Euroscepticism in Turkey: Government, Opposition and Public Opinion by Seçkin Barış Gülmez

“…Building upon Yılmaz’s (2011) analysis, the article will try to make sense of the eurosceptic transformations in Turkish politics from 2008 onwards. …”
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International Terrorism and the American Dream: A Dialectical Fairytale by Carlton Dwayne FLOYD, Thomas Ehrlich REIFER

“…The work draws on both world-systems analysis, international relations scholars, and theorists of culture, media and communication to analyze the uses of terrorism today. …”
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Negotiation of Identity in Transnational Contexts. The Case of Romanian Temporary Workers in Italy by Mălina Ciocea

“…Our hypothesis is that in this transnational context the migrants do not employ attributes of essentialist identity in routine discourses about themselves, but rather strategically mobilize these attributes in order to justify the dynamics of belonging to home or host countries. …”
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Discorsi emergenti nelle politiche di Lifelong Learning per i giovani adulti: riflessioni su due casi studio in Italia by Sebastiano Benasso, Valeria Pandolfini

“…Drawing from the main results of the analysis of two Italian case studies by a Cultural Political Economy perspective (Sum, Jessop, 2013), the article explores the discourses underlying the processes of policy-making and implementation of the analyzed LLL measures, with particular regard to the discourses on activation, needs and vulnerability of the target groups.…”
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The ‘Church of the Poor and the Earth’ in Latin American Mining Conflicts by Karolien van Teijlingen

“…This research aims to fill this gap and examines the role of Catholic ideas and organizations in mining conflicts. Combining document analysis and ethnographic research on a mining project in Ecuador, the paper argues that Catholic ideas and actors play a significant role in discourses regarding nature and the subsoil, and in configuring the power relations part of conflicts. …”
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“INTO NJE – IT’S JUST A THING…”: BEING A LESBIAN IN A RURAL AREA by Shadile Ntuli, Nolwazi Ngcobo

“…The South African Constitution prohibits discrimination against individuals on the basis of their sexual orientation, yet the experiences of lesbians across various contexts is different. A thematic analysis of 10 in-depth qualitative interviews with lesbian students from rural areas expands the limited knowledge base on this issue. …”
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Taking historical embeddedness seriously: three historical approaches to advance strategy process and practice research by Vaara, E, Lamberg, J-A

“…Third, poststructuralist history can elucidate the historical embeddedness of strategic discourses, and genealogy in particular can increase our understanding of the evolution and transformation of strategic discourses and their power effects. …”

Isaac Rosa y los lectores: narrar y leer el pasado con responsabilidad by Mélanie Valle Detry

“…In these novels, Rosa is critical of dominant narratives and discourses about Spanish recent past. Rosa shows that many of them manipulate the past in order to build and secure a non-conflicting present or resort to sentimentalism or nostalgia and so falsify the readers' historical memory. …”
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Manipulative impact of implicit communication: by Federica Cominetti, Doriana Cimmino, Claudia Coppola, Giorgia Mannaioli, Viviana Masia

“… This paper presents the application of a quantitative model for measuring the impact of manipulative implicit linguistic strategies on a small comparable corpus of Italian, German and French political discourses. The aim is to show the cross-linguistic applicability of the model, originally developed and put to test on Italian. …”
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La pedagogie interculturelle: entre multiculturalisme et universalisme by Martine A. Pretceille

“…Indeed, the treatment of cultural heterogeneity implies lean analysis and action from a moral and pragmatic philosophical viewpoint, that understands the practices, discourses and behaviours as rooted not in culturally distinct, homogeneous and hermetic categories, but rather as part of a process of miscegenation and “creolization”. …”
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Corps malades et corps guéris by Tiphaine Godfroid

“…Based on analysis of the discourses and experiences of women affected by a cancer and of health professionals, the article focuses on how the medical techniques (diagnostic, curative, risk measurement) produce new institutional and biographical temporalities which, on the one hand, are matched by particular powers, but which, on the other hand, also encourage singular forms of subjectifications. …”
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Rural mobilites and urban norms by Elisabeth Wollin

“…It investigates the relationship between local practice and political discourses. The discussion is based on fieldwork carried out in two northern municipalities. …”
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La forge conceptuelle. Le “commun” comme réinterprétation de la propriété by Etienne Verhaegen

“…This article will attempt to show that given the multitude of significations and aims lent to the idea of “common” today, its reinsertion into the context of analysis of ownership as a central institution of social relationships contributes to clarifying the issues surrounding the movements laying claim to it. …”
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Social Media and Otherness: The Case of #Islamterrorism on TikTok by Sabina Civila, Mónica Bonilla-del-Rio, Ignacio Aguaded

“…The results reveal that discourses from Muslims that combat Islam = terrorism discourses are constructed within the spiral of the dominant narrative, thus visualizing the negative discourses about Islam.…”
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Design jako próba przywrócenia kanonu? Pojęcia, metody i dyskursy a niemieckie i śląskie wzornictwo pierwszej połowy XX wieku by Ksenia Stanicka-Brzezicka

“…Design as historically understood industrial design and design as a creative activity, as the energy needed to produce a canonical utilitarian object, i.e. one whose aesthetic or artistic value will go far beyond utilitarian, form the framework in the text for methodological discussion, reflections on defining concepts and critical analysis of scientific discourses and their possible junctures. …”
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