Temporary autonomous zones, control and security simulations: With regard to the Aguas Blancas (Argentina) – Bermejo (Bolivia) border by Brígida Renoldi

“…The putative causal relationship between migration and crime cyclically sustains the discourses that require more safety and police force intervention, police autonomy to suppress, and reduction of the age of criminal responsibility. …”
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Prison Literature in the Andes: Indigeneity and Nationalisms in Peru and Bolivia by Marcus Vinicius Salinas

“…This essay develops a comparative analysis between two prison texts produced in Peru and Bolivia. …”
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On the Professional Development of English Teachers in Colombia and the Historical Interplay with Language Education Policies by Adriana González-Moncada

“…This self-study addresses some of the concepts that illuminate the discourses that have shaped English teachers’ professional development. …”
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In Becoming. Instability of Psychedelic Substances by Zuzanna Sadowska

“…I pose the question of how the border between what is an “illicit drug” and what is a “medicine” is stabilized and destabilized through the embodied users’ practices and scientific discourses. …”
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Lexical Interference in Oral Speech of Shor-Russian Bilinguals by Z. I. Rezanova, O. V. Ryzhova

“…It is determined by the peculiarities of the linguistic situation in the region and the nature of discourses where borrowings are recorded. Borrowings are opposed by the presence / absence of a Russian equivalent, the degree of development, etc. …”
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La fabrique dialectique du Songe de Versailles dans la littérature de voyage européenne du xviie siècle by Sylvie Requemora

“…The fabrication of the Versailles mythography interweaves points of view and discourses that are at once exotic, laudatory and satirical endotic, but also vice versa exotically satirical and filled with endotic wonder, as well as encomiastical, anti-encomiastical and pseudo-encomiastical ironic discourses. …”
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Gothic Fairy-Tale Feminism: The Rise of Eyre/‘Error’ by Aileen Miyuki Farrar

“…This paper argues that “Rapunzel” (1812) is key for understanding the Gothic and feminist discourses of Charlotte Brontë’s <i>Jane</i> Eyre (1847). …”
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Living together in multi-ethnic cities: people of migrant background, their interethnic friendships and the neighbourhood by Pratsinakis, M, Hatziprokopiou, P, Labrianidis, L, Vogiatzis, N

“…Instead of looking at overall ‘perceptions’ and ‘stances’, which are context-dependent and mediated through political-ideological currents and discourses as well as broader patterns of prejudice, we focus on sustained close contacts that suggest meaningful and organic relationships. …”

Abortamento induzido: vivência de mulheres baianas Induced abortion: the experience of women from the Brazilian state of Bahia by Vanessa do Nascimento Pereira, Flávia Aelo de Oliveira, Nadirlene Pereira Gomes, Telmara Menezes Couto, Gilvânia Patrícia do Nascimento Paixão

“…Ethical aspects were considered based on Resolution 196/96 of the National Health Council. For the analysis of the discourses, we used Bardin's content analysis technique. …”
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Expert and Diffuse Design of a Sustainable Circular Economy in Two German Circular Roadmap Projects by Gavin Melles, Christian Wölfel, Jens Krzywinski, Lenard Opeskin

“…We find that there are narrow and broad interpretations of design inherent in these circular policies as well as the exemplification of the difference between a technical circular economy and reformist circular society discourses. The practical applied value of this analysis is that the framework can be employed to analyze other policies.…”
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Att se med egna ögon – kritisk litteracitet på svenska för invandrare, sfi by Tímea Bergsten Provaznik, Åsa Wedin

“…At the same time a tension appeared between the school’s democracy mission and the teachers’ readiness to give students direct influence on for example which questions that were chosen for critical analysis. From a power perspective, the students in study path 1 are in a position of subordination, both regarding their possibilities to exercise their civil rights and to have influence on prevailing discourses. …”
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DECOLONIAL MEDIA LITERACY TO FORM ANTI-RACIST GAZES AT UNIVERSITIES by Rodrigo Zárate-Moedano

“…Based on the analysis results, it also offers clues about how to deconstruct and transform a racist imaginary of nation in university classrooms.…”
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The Gender of Retirement in a Double-Ageing Country: Perspectives and Experiences of Retired Women and Men in Portugal by Maria Carolina Pereira, Miriam Rosa, Maria Helena Santos

“…Semi-structured individual interviews were carried out with sixteen retired people, eight women and eight men, aged between 59 and 88 years old. A thematic analysis allowed us to identify five themes in the interviewees’ discourses. …”
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Analyser la réception sociale du recul stratégique face au risque de submersion marine en Camargue et en Normandie à travers une expérience simulée by Amélie Monfort, Marion Amalric, Nicolas Becu, Brice Anselme, Elise Beck, Xavier Bertin, Stéphane Costa, Ahmed Laatabi, Olivier Maquaire, Nicolas Marilleau, Cécilia Pignon-Mussau, Frédéric Rousseaux

“…Other factors of reception are then revealed (political context, social representations, perception of management scales) based on the analysis of the territorial discourses of the participants during the workshops. …”
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Three Different Approaches (Hostile, Mythical, and Admiring) to Nasir Khusraw in the History of Persian Literature by Hassan Heidarzadeh Sardrud

“…After the 11th century, Nasir Khusraw's name appears in so many sources that an analysis of all of them is beyond the scope of one article. …”
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Competence or Experience by Jonathan Tenenbaum

“…The doctrine allows a minor “to refuse or consent to medical treatment if [they possess] sufficient maturity to understand and appreciate the benefits and risks of the proposed medical treatment.”[5] The doctrine has spurred extensive and impassioned bioethical discourse, especially in relation to the refusal of life-saving therapies. …”
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Are Social Representations of Positive Ageing Really Effective? The ageing process through the eyes of elderly by Célia Soares, António Manuel Marques, Madalena Gomes da Silva, Andreia Cerqueira, Íris Bonança, Patrícia Argüello

“…Data collection was conducted with structured interviews and the obtained transcriptions were submitted to qualitative thematic analysis. With this analytic approach it was possible to identify dominant themes in participants’ discourses. …”
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Depictions of the Priest, the Liberal Guerrilla and the Police in Lo que el cielo no perdona by Rosa Carolina Gil Jaramillo

“…This article reconstructs aspects of the priest’s life and of his depiction in the novel, as well as those of the liberal guerrilla and the police, in order to rescue a character that has been understudied in the historiography of la Violencia and who sought peace in a highly polarized and belligerent context. The analysis concludes by showing that Blandón Berrío opposed the incendiary anti-liberal discourses of other priests and the arguments of those who upheld belonging to the Catholic religion as sufficient evidence for the exoneration from crimes committed during la Violencia period.…”
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Interpretación musical como investigación: una perspectiva desde la práctica interpretativa de música reciente para guitarra by Diego Castro Magas

“…The role of music analysis is particularly considered, as well as the importance of embodied knowledge (also known as tacit knowledge) on these interpretive processes. …”
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Why Privilege a Single Form of Communication if there are Many? by Nora Gomez-Victoria, Nora Pava-Ripoll

“…In a time full of discourses of diversity and inclusion, our daily lives are shaped by social demands linked to standards of bodily integrity, competence, and independence. …”
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