Accepted or not: homosexuality, media, and the culture of silence in the Philippine society by De Leon, John Angelo, Jintalan, Joseph

“…Through qualitative audience analysis, audience reactions were observed while watching segments of the noontime shows which depict homosexual roles. …”
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Political violence and necropolitics in Omar Shahid Hamid’s The Prisoner by Ahmed, Toqeer

“…The relationship of governing authorities with violence and necropolitics is analysed in the light of critical approaches from the works of Michael Foucault (2008), Achille Mbembe (2001 & 2003), Giorgio Agamben (1998 & 2005), and Judith Butler (2004). Through the analysis of the fictional narrative, this paper examines local and global deployment of various strategies of occupation, domination and subjugation that aims to manage human bodies through social, economic, political and religious discourses. …”
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Managing harvesting for forest sustainability in Malaysia : an SFL perspective by Wan Farah Wani Wan Fakhruddin, Zuraidah Mohd Don, Hanita Hassan

“…Linguistic exploration of the construction of meaning in forest discourses helps provide greater detail on how forest resources are governed through the forest management practices carried out by forestry professionals. …”
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Investigating the undergraduate experience of assessment in higher education by Lee, King Siong, Hazita Azman, Koo, Yew Lie

“…Using a qualitative case study approach, the study aims to reveal the values inherent in assessment, to show how these are conveyed through institutional discourses and through practices of lecturers, and how students’ learning behaviour may be affected by their perspectives of assessment. …”
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Dwelling or duelling in possibilities: how (Ir)relevant are African feminisms? by Muhammad Alkali, Rosli Talif, Wan Roselezam Wan Yahya, Jariah Mohd Jan

“…The paper concludes with the author‘s analysis of the model that holds the best promise or possibilities for African feminism to achieve its seemingly elusive goal of gender equality.…”
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The Study Of Men And Their Understanding About Domestic Violence In Rural Sindh, Pakistan by Buriro, Ameer Ali

“…An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) method was employed to gather in-depth data that form the meaning-making and experience-sharing by the male respondents. …”
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Analyzing the experiential meanings of survivors’ expressions of natural disasters in Indonesia by Zulprianto, Yusda Maharaniguna, Sari Kamelia, Najma Eva, Lindawati, Rambe Sojuangan

“…This study contributes to the public narrative and collective memory in discourses related to natural disasters.…”
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Discursos y prácticas en torno a la construcción de una “escuela cubana de composición”: José Ardévol, el Grupo de Renovación Musical y la Orquesta de Cámara de La Habana (1934-194... by Belén Vega Pichaco

“…The aim of this paper is to study the process of construction and dissemination of the category “Cuban Composition School” through the analysis of the discourses and the practices carried out by José Ardévol and the Grupo de Renovación Musical. …”
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“Não podem ser negras e gordas”: analisando a violência verbal em reações sociodiscursivas produzidas por leitores/as em contextos jornalísticos digitais brasileiros / “They cannot... by Maria Carmen Aires Gomes, Alexandra Bitencourt Carvalho

“…Anonymity and the lack of regulation of face-to-face interaction cause social agents to mobilize lexicogramatical resources, producing violent discourses. This choice can generate offenses and insults, in order to promote and perpetuate unequal power relations. …”
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Mulheres, homens e matemática: uma leitura a partir dos dados do Indicador Nacional de Alfabetismo Funcional Women, men, and mathematics: a reading of data from the National Index... by Maria Celeste Reis Fernandes de Souza, Maria da Conceição Ferreira Reis Fonseca

“…As educators we are interested in unveiling the production of inequalities, so as to deconstruct certain discourses that favor them, and in bringing about other perspectives of analysis and pedagogical action.…”
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A Comparative Reading of Selected Cinematic Adaptations of Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman by Pouyan Rezapour, Alireza Anushiravani

“…The analysis of each adaptation encompasses the ideologies and the mindset of each director and adapter. …”
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Decolonising inclusive education in lower income, Southern African educational contexts by Nithi Muthukrishna, Petra Engelbrecht

“…The article interrogates inclusive education policy enactment in the four country contexts through the lens of the theory of practice architectures, focusing mainly on the ‘sayings’ and ‘performings.’ The analysis highlights that discourses of inclusive education, which continue to be influenced by traditional special education ideologies from the global North and appropriated by the South have the power to undermine or subvert the inclusive education agenda in contexts shaped by neo-colonialism. …”
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The Vulnerability of Young Refugees Living in Reception Centres in Luxembourg: An Overview of Conditions and Experiences across Subjective Temporal Imaginaries by Amalia Gilodi, Catherine Richard, Isabelle Albert, Birte Nienaber

“…Vulnerability has become a key concept in discourses and policies on international protection and reception of refugees. …”
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Education for collaboration: the influence of the third space on professional boundaries by Laura Knight, Paul Crampton, Alex McKeown, Arun Arora, Charlotte Cliffe, Catherine O’Keeffe, Ann Griffin

“…Our analysis identified three themes that enabled collaboration: effective communication, boundary work and educational spaces; and four themes that were barriers: traditional hierarchical professional identities, curriculum design, financial systems and workplace spaces. …”
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“You Could Hear a Hair Pin Drop”: Queer Utopianism and Informal Knowledge Production in the Closeting Conspiracy Theory by Yvonne M. Eadon

“…Through a qualitative content analysis of 200 TikTok videos, this article situates Gaylor as a CCT that has developed into a kind of knowledge culture. …”
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How humour travels in the new and dynamic mediascape: a case study of a short video platform, Little Red Book, and an online teaching platform, Rain Classroom by Lisi Liang

“…Driven by the niche of an interdisciplinary study concerning humour and creative subtitles, the present research conducts a linguistic and semiotic analysis of humorous discourses and emojis in the Chinese contexts of the short video platform Little Red Book and the online teaching platform Rain Classroom. …”
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Language, Class, and Education: Deconstructing the Centre to Rethink Inclusivity in Education in Pakistan by Tayyaba Tamim

“…The instruments were: a) in-depth ethnographic interviews; b) participant observation and c) documentary analysis. Use of Amartya Sen’s capability approach revealed that: a) class-based spatial exclusion persisted not only across but also at times within schools, always intersecting with differential access to dominant languages, nullifying the benefit of instruction in mother tongue. …”
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Multiple and Sustained Climaxes in Icelandic Post-Rock: For an Expansion of the Notion of Musical Climax by Marion Brachet

“…Effects produced by music and sex are similar insofar as they make us feel the present moment intensely (Frith 1996): this is probably the reason why our discourses frequently borrow vocabulary from the sexual lexical field when we want to name instants where our musical perception is most stimulated. …”
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Religion in the public sphere and the well-being of the poor: A practical theological perspective by Hennie J.C. Pieterse

“…Therefore the basic question in this project pertains to where and how religion, in this case Christian religion, is involved in public discourses and actions regarding problems in public life in South Africa. …”
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Local Migration Regimes in Rural Areas: The Example of Refugee Reception in Saxony, Germany by Hanne Schneider

“…Housing practices and strategies for refugees reflect local discourses and contribute to the social and spatial production of migration. …”
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