Lost in the EMI Trend: Language-Related Issues Emerging From EMI Practice by Si Jinghui

“…Data are drawn from document analysis, classroom observations and semi-structured interviews. …”
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Vivir las injusticias globales como personales: los jóvenes alteractivistas by Geoffrey Pleyers

“…Two sources are used for its elaboration: case studies in Belgium, France, and Chile; and the analysis of discourses by a young woman from Texas and of Tunisian students mobilized for different causes (ecology, abortion rights, democracy, and social justice). …”
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African Woman and Ecology: Unpacking the Complexities of Eurocentrism and Othering in Le Clezio’s Onitsha by Olubunmi O. ASHAOLU

“…This article subjects Le Clezio’s Onitsha (1991) to a critical analysis that lays bare the uncommon traits of French representations of Africa. …”

Překračování hranic ve filmové trilogii Deepy Mehty by Blanka Knotková-Čapková

“…The paper presents an analysis of Deepa Mehta’s film trilogy (Water, Fire, Earth) through the concept of a border identity. …”
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Media and the Economic Crisis of the EU: The ‘Culturalization’ of a Systemic Crisis and Bild-Zeitung’s Framing of Greece by Yiannis Mylonas

“…The article problematizes the positioning of Greece as the “crisis epicentre” in Europe, understanding Greece as a scapegoat and as a laboratory where political strategies of capitalist restructuring of the EU are performed. Through the frame analysis of Bild-zeitung’s headlines on the coverage of crisis-struck Greece, the article discusses a) the “culturalization” of the crisis and the diversion from a structural public debate on the global economic crisis b) the disciplinary function of crisis’ publicity, related to social control and the production of new, neoliberal social subjectivities c) the alienating effect of the culturalist crisis discourses to transnational publics, resulting to the misrecognition of the ideological and structural reasons of the given crisis, the misrecognition of the effects of the crisis and crisis-politics in people’s lives, the misrecognition of popular socio-political struggles in countries worse struck by crisis politics, and the eclipse of transnational solidarity and identification to the common issues that European people in particular are facing.…”
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Saúde e desastres no Brasil: uma reflexão sobre os aspectos envolvidos em eventos hidrológicos e rompimento de barragens by Eliane Lima e Silva, Helen Gurgel, Carlos Machado de Freitas

“…For this, a bibliographical and documentary survey was carried out in addition to the analysis of data on the occurrence of floods and the registration of dams in Brazil. …”
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Educating in platform societies: from Digital Citizenship to public values in a connected world by Mario Pireddu

“…Ultimately, what emerges as prevalent from the analysis of the main discourses on “digital” societies and the need for “digital” citizenship education is that the overuse of the term “digital” leads to various misunderstandings and holds back the development of more adequate and epistemologically founded conceptual frameworks. …”
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Discontinuity and Continuity in Representations of 20th Century Estonian History by Tiiu Jaago

“…Recollections are characterised by variability, however this may not become evident as studies focus on certain aspects of the narrative or interrelations of the topic and public discourses. The polysemic and ambivalent nature of the 'border' unfolds through the entangled interplay of territorial, political and cultural borders, their narrative articulation in life story telling as well as researchers' choices.…”
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Why Don’t Heterosexual New Alternative Masculinities Choose Enchained Women for Either Sporadic or Long-Term Relationships? by Josep Maria Canal-Barbany, Paula Cañaveras, Harkaitz Zubiri-Esnaola, Aitor Gómez

“…Secondly, a content analysis has been conducted focused on discourses and messages shaped on internet forums and songs about how men explain their choices and interests in their relationships. …”
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Murder at Kafaba by Saibu Mutaru, Naa Adjeley Suta Alakija Sekyi

“… In Ghana, the collision between the local reality of witchcraft and human rights sensibilities is manifested in local discourses and debates concerning the so-called “witch camps”. …”
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Developing motivated adolescent readers and enhancing student voice, using action research in disadvantaged contexts by Tara McMullan, Julia Sutherland

“…Using the ‘constant comparative’ data-analysis method, the study found that students enhanced their reading self-concept, and developed their ‘voice’. …”
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The danger of a single story about Fulani pastoralists by Mark Moritz, Mamediarra Mbacke

“…In this article, we critically analyse one of these documents: a legislation factsheet from the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) titled Factsheet: Fulani Communities that was published in September 2020. We focus our analysis on this factsheet because it is an official document from a US government entity that aims to inform policy-makers, it contains problematic narratives that are emblematic of larger discourses about Fulani pastoralists, and it links to a number of questionable sources. …”
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Russisk surrogati og den moralske panikken rundt «enslige menn» by Maria Kirpichenko

“…Despite this state-sanctioned intolerance, analysis reveals, that the webpages of many Russian surrogacy providers employ marketing strategies prominently featuring ‘single men’ – often used as a euphemism for gay men within the context of surrogacy. …”
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Desalination and Water Security: The Promise and Perils of a Technological Fix to the Water Crisis in Baja California Sur, Mexico by Jamie McEvoy

“…It also analyses the competing discourses surrounding desalination in the region and discusses alternative water management options for achieving water security. …”
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Challenges of Multimethod and Mixed Methods Designs in Museum Research by Jennifer Eickelmann, Nicole Burzan

“…Secondly, we ask to what extent findings from different approaches and museums can be compared with each other during the analysis—broadly or deeply, with regard to the number of museums or dimensions.…”
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SOCIAL MORALITY EDUCATION IN THE REJANG’S CULTURE OF "SERAMBEAK" by Fakhruddin Fakhruddin

“…Thus, this qualitative research was conducted by means of the descriptive-analytic method in a way that the words, sentences, and discourses in the literary work of Serambeak were described, and were, then, analyzed by providing understanding and explanations of texts. …”
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Tourism Imaginary and Landscape at Heritage Site: A Case in Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China by Zhe Wang, Lawal Marafa

“…On the basis of the theory of social imaginary, this article takes China’s Honghe Hani Terraces as an example to study how the landscape is imagined in tourism and the potential cultural conflicts. Content analysis on tourist discourses and images in social media was conducted in order to identify tourist imaginaries about the landscape. …”
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Confucian Humanism and the Importance of Female Education by Jana S. Rošker

“…In this way, the paper aims to promote a more culturally sensitive approach to the historical and conceptual study of gender discourses in China by connecting textual analyses with actual and comprehensive knowledge of the historical and social contexts in which they were placed. …”
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Penser la gouvernance de la biodiversité à travers l’analyse des dynamiques socio-écologiques by Zina Skandrani, Anne-Caroline Prévot

“…Similarly, in the context of environmental conservation there can be fierce local resistance to the implementation of environmental policies as coexisting discourses about nature may give conflicting protection prescriptions for different kinds of biodiversity. …”
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Teacherly aesthetics: Literature and literacy in Binyavanga Wainaina’s works by Ruth S. Wenske

“…I read Wainaina’s texts against the way the literature/literacy duality has been envisioned in historical discourses, arguing that deeper pedagogical questions were largely overlooked in the intersections between the two theoretical fields. …”
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