The role and competence of agricultural development officers as community developers: a scoping review by Syarifuddin, Noviatin, Abu Samah, Asnarulkhadi, Burhan, Nik Ahmad Sufian, Arif Shah, Jasmin

“…Discussions on agricultural development officers in the field of social science studies have long been discoursed by academics, community development practitioners and various formal and informal agencies since 1960. …”
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An examination of imagery used to represent fundamental British values and British identity on primary school display boards by Marlon Moncrieffe, Audrey Moncrieffe

“…The research presented by this article is based upon analysis of 27 display boards from primary schools across England, including findings from in-depth interviews with three primary school teachers. …”
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Grassroots Familialism?NGO Mobilization and Neoconservatism in Contemporary Turkey by Sevgi Adak

“…A network of family-oriented conservative NGOs has proliferated in the last decade, and this article looks at the campaigns they organize and the discourses they use to influence and foster familialism at the state level. …”
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Interesses e Conflitos em uma Experiência de Produção de Biodiesel no Sul de Minas Gerais by Flávia Luciana Naves Mafra, Maria Cristina Angelico Mendonça, Vanessa Aparecida Souza

“…The work was based on qualitative methodology, employing documentary analysis and interviews with key actors involved in the experiment. …”
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Assemblage Theory and Its Potentialities for Dis/ability Research in the Global South by Carlos Araneda-Urrutia, Marta Infante

“…With this theory, we map the production of dis/ability in neoliberal Chile, connecting the 2019 Chilean protests, the sex education policies for children and youth with disabilities, and the neocolonial intensities of neoliberal-ableism. Through this analysis, we show how discursive-material practices of ablement and disablement are legitimized as civilizing technologies by global discourses of inclusion and economic productivity. …”
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Towards a Historical Be(com)ing into Universal Benevolence: Anastasia and Geopolitical Reconfigurations in Late Modernity by Grajdian Maria

“…Drawing on extensive fieldwork and archive research, the current analysis attempts a realistic diagnosis of future international developments based on live theatrical representations as well as their crucial reformulations of reality resulted from the empathic exchange between performers and audiences. …”
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Gérer l’alternance, ordonner un monde en mouvement by Laura Merla, Bérengère Nobels

“…Through the analysis of the discourses of 21 Belgian adolescents aged 10 to 16 on their lived experiences of a multilocal lifestyle, this article sheds light on how the materiality that surrounds these young people allows them to order their world into a lived space and establish links and continuities in the experience of mobility. …”
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Territory and sustainability: graphic expressions against a dystopia by Luis Pérez Lores

“…We take great care in environmental words and discourses, we ignore the value of the image, that of "an image is worth a thousand words", which refers us to the value of graphic expression. …”
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En torno a los actores, la política y el orden social en la independencia hispanoamericana. by Sergio Serulnikov

“…On the one hand, a political history of the independence, in contrast to some of the most influential recent approaches to this issue, should take 1808-1810 as the ending rather than starting point of analysis. Secondly, it should not focus on a particular field of study (intellectual history, political discourses, forms of sociability, socioeconomic structures, the culture of honor or gender relations) but on the intersection of these social realms. …”
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The Georgian logistics revolution: questioning seamlessness across the New Silk Road by Evelina Gambino

“…This article aims at problematising this view by providing a grounded analysis of the workings of logistical spaces in Georgia, exploring the discourses, frictions and histories which engender capital accumulation within and beyond the Georgian space. …”
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(Re)constructing Balkan Identities through Popular Music by Marin Cvitanović

“…During the last two decades, over a hundred songs in the Serbian and Croatian languages have been released, specifically mentioning the term Balkan and using it as a metaphor – to evoke and explain the atmosphere of war, poverty, conflict and passion, beauty, love and pride. Based on the analysis of these texts and the frequency of appearance of the themes and motifs, four distinct discourses can be identified: 1. the Balkans as an area of wars and conflicts, 2. the Balkans as an area of joy, passion and fatalism, 3. the primitive and aggressive “male” Balkans vs. the beautiful, proud and resistant “female” Balkans, and 4. the Balkans as Europe’s “Other”. …”
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Migrações, culturas, (in)tolerância religiosa nas Amazônias by Geórgia Pereira Lima, Lucas Santos Nobre

“…Bibliographic analysis about the migratory flows to the Amazon region between the XVIII andXX centuries is the focus of this article. …”
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Child migrants’ right to education in a London academy: tensions between policy, language provision, and international standards by Vanessa Hughes

“…Analysing how national and international policy discourses play out in the classroom, I argue that there is a mismatch between different policy areas, and between policy expectations and everyday practice. …”
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Сны памяти в прозе Бориса Хазанова by Ludmiła Szewczenko

“…The picture of experiencing the past and the states related along with archetypic and fantastic images brought back to life, their introduction into the real life are accompanied by a steady analysis of a possibility to remember the “own” and “strange/acquired”; at the same time the concern for truth is realized in the discourses oriented at formation of senses.…”
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Where Are All the Welfare Queens? Negotiating the Conditions of Wageless Life in Contemporary American Film by Petra Požgaj

“…Looking at Beasts of the Southern Wild and The Florida Project as illustrative of a broader representational trend, this paper examines the role of popular culture in negotiating social changes by exploring the ways in which the two films negotiate dominant discourses of personal responsibility and work opportunity through the newly emergent figure of the “surplus population.”…”
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Mendiants, vagabonds et la contagion du crime en France : des représentations aux réalités sociales (1789-1914) by Antony Kitts

“…Thus, behind these discourses of exclusion and hatred, revealing a medicalization and a criminalization of wandering, the analysis of these impoverished and marginalized men and women reveals a more nuanced social reality that is linked to the working classes vulnerable to economic upheavals and the vagaries of life.…”
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Models of Humanism in Ancient China: An Explanation Centered on Early Confucian Ethics by Jana S. Rošker

“…In China, humanism, especially within the framework of Confucian ethics, developed quite differently from humanist discourses in Europe. Therefore, it is important to understand the origins and development of Confucian ideas that place human beings at the center of culture and the cosmos. …”
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La comunità debole: cohousing tra utopia sociale e mercato capitalistico by Dario Altobelli

“…Among these, the absence of a political vision wider and more general, an ambiguous relationship with the marketing and the logic of capitalist market and, finally, a reminder at times casual to cultural values, symbols and discourses which refer to a logic of "good time past" and a now-lost "community spirit". …”
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Energy, Aging, and Neurasthenia: A Historical Perspective by Michael Andersen

“…This article explores how the 19th century disease of neurasthenia became related to aging through contemporaneous ideas about productivity, energy surplus and energy dissipation based on an analysis of how a lack of energy was featured as a symptom of the disease. …”
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Internet memes by Paulo Boa Sorte

“…The teaching suggestions are based on categories of memes analysis; remixing existing memes in order to explore discourses of dominant ideologies, issues of race, age, gender and social class; and reading and writing political memes, that operate as instruments of persuasion. …”
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