The Contestation of Contemporary Islam: Conservative Islam versus Progressive Islam by Zuly Qodir, Bilveer Sight

“…The analysis questions the continuity-discontinuity, motives, and actors of progressive and conservative Muslim movements and investigates the challenges for progressive Muslims in disseminating their narratives in Indonesia. …”
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Online teachers and working hours flexibility by Felipe Teófilo Ponte, Cassio Adriano Braz de Aquino

“…The process of flexibility, revealed how the discourses of such professionals, is highlighted in this study. …”
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For a Different Kind of Wildlife Management: Actions in Favour of the Wilderness as a Space for Experience and a Means of Diffusing Practices in Europe by Alexandra Locquet, Laurent Simon

“…The objective here, through the analysis of the discourses of stakeholders—from semi-directive interviews—and the initiatives developed in Western Europe, is to understand how the multitude of projects carried out throughout Europe constitutes a proposal for new environmental management practices. …”
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Angels of Allegory and Experience: Laura Restrepo's "Dulce compañía" and Gabriel García Márquez's "Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes" by Erin Skye Mackie

“…Focusing on narrative and figurative, especially allegorical, discourses, I consider that while the angel allegory in “Un señor muy viejo” is used to excavate literary-rhetorical issues of representation (as argued by Carlos Rincón), in Dulce compañía it is oriented towards the preservative revelation of popular forms of belief that emerge from the lived experience of violence and abandonment. …”
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Monólogos y Polifonía en Tiempo de silencio de Luis Martin Santos by Khalida TOUIL

“…Thanks to these inner discourses, we learn what are the problems, the contradictions, the frustrations, the moral turpitude of these characters …”
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Religious tolerance within captivity: exploring Leo Africanus and Panglima Awang as heteroglot travel novels by Firuz-Akhtar Lubis

“…The analysis reveals how "Leo Africanus” and “Panglima Awang" promote religious tolerance through religious diversity and religious concealment, thus challenging rigid beliefs. …”
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Rhetoric of persuasion in religious talk by Abdul Malik, Badrol Hisham, Abdullah, Muhd Alif Redzuan, Wan Ahmad, Wan Noor Aini

“…This study is a descriptive study that uses Modern Rhetoric Theory by Enos and Brown (1993) as the basis of the study. Content analysis methods are used to examine texts textually and contextually. …”

An Overview of Translation Practice in Odisha: From Transcreation to Translation by Sonali Ganguly, Lipika Das, Tanutrushna Panigrahi

“…We argue that the study remains incomplete without a critical analysis of the trends, methods, strategies, and evolving discourses on translation that are not mutually exclusive. …”
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Memory and Identity Politics in the European Union: Related Concepts, Disparate Practices by L. A. Fadeeva

“…Semenenko to the definition and analysis of identity politics, the author applies it to the object of her research. …”
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Not all men: the debates in social networks on masculinities and consent by Oriol Rios-Gonzalez, Analia Torres, Emilia Aiello, Bernardo Coelho, Guillermo Legorburo-Torres, Ariadna Munte-Pascual

“…In this regard, social networks show the existence of discourses that reinforce these male models. However, there is a gap in the analysis of how the previously mentioned discourses on consent are linked to men’s sexual satisfaction. …”
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“The journalistic licence of it all”: Crime, Fiction, and Journalism in David Peace’s Nineteen Seventy Four by Maximiliano Jiménez

“…Then, it turns to the importance of the journalistic style of the narrator and protagonist, since the narrative characteristics of the text outline very peculiar ways of reading that lead to questioning hegemonic discourses. …”
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“Girls are addicted to likes so they post semi-naked selfies”: Peer mediation, normativity and the construction of identity online by Giovanna Mascheroni, Jane Vincent, Estefanía Jimenez

“…It focuses on young people’s engagement with the construction of an online identity on social media through pictures, and explores how peer-mediated conventions of self-presentation are appropriated, legitimated, or resisted in pre-teens’ and teenagers’ discourses. In doing so, we draw on Goffman’s (1959) work on the presentation of self and “impression management” to frame our analysis. …”
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Slavery's Afterlives: Humanitarian Imperialism and Free Contract by Vasuki Nesiah

“…In 1833, slavery was abolished across the British Empire, but its specter continued to haunt the new labor regimes inaugurated in slavery's wake. While much of the analysis of these dynamics focuses on the triangular trade in the Atlantic, this essay focuses on the Indian Ocean. …”
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Par-delà le changement climatique, les représentations du changement environnemental : le poids de la tension entre filière et territoire dans les secteurs pastoral et viticole en... by Marion Charbonneau, Gaëlle Deletraz, Julien Rebotier 

“…It builds on both computer-assisted and manual analysis of discourses collected during focus-groups. …”
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PREDICTIVE ALGORITHMS, SOCIAL BUBBLES AND VIRTUAL ECO CAMERAS IN THE CULTURE OF CANCELLATION AND THE RISKS TO PERSONALITY RIGHTS AND HUMAN FREEDOM by Dirceu Pereira Siqueira, Ana Elisa Silva Fernandes Vieira

“…Methodology: It uses the hypothetical-deductive method, and starts from the hypothesis that virtual bubbles and echo chambers strengthen and expand cancellation discourses and that these discourses violate personality rights and human dignity, therefore, they cannot be considered as manifestations of citizenship and freedom of expression. …”
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The socialities of everyday urban walking and the "right to the city' by Middleton, J

“…This analytic move foregrounds a counterposition to dominant discourses surrounding everyday walking practices that is situated in the context of broader concerns with everyday urban politics and the ‘right to the city’. …”

Leadership styles and the legitimacy of Kosovo’s leaders by Burim Mexhuani, Fitim Mexhuani

“…Drawing on existing literature and a qualitative approach that includes analysis of publicly available data from interviews, political decisions, and political discourses, we find that transformational leadership is the most effective style for promoting legitimacy in Kosovo. …”
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Notes for a Feathered Dawn: Eyes, Balaclavas and Hearts in Lemebel's “Deleuzian” Readings by María del Pilar Jarpa Manzur

“…From a critical gender perspective, this article offers an analysis of the chronicle that Pedro Lemebel dedicates to Subcomandante Marcos, paying special attention to the Deleuzian dimensions that it incorporates. …”
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Migration and adult education: social movement learning and resistance in the UK by John Grayson

“…The current research in migrants and asylum rights movements reported in the article suggests that migrants social movements are active and proficient in developing popular adult education initiatives including critical analysis of racist political and power discourses. …”
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Aguu: From Acholi Post War Street Youth and Children to ‘Criminal Gangs’ in Modern Day Gulu City, Uganda by Shai André Divon, Arthur Owor

“…Based on a series of interviews, focus group discussions, participant observations, archival work and literature review, the paper traces the origin of the <em>Aguu</em> to the conflict in Northern Uganda, and describes the transformation of the <em>Aguu </em>from street youth/children linked to war and displacement to their present day labelling as ‘criminal gang’. Anchored in an analysis based on Assemblage Theory, this paper demonstrates the complexity, multiplicity and fluidity of the <em>Aguu </em>identity as a group whose inception and evolution, both internal and external, occurs through a process of relationship between social, political, economic and infrastructural changes linked to war, culture, aid and politics, affecting present day security discourses in Gulu, Uganda.…”
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