“What’s in a Name?”: H.D.’s Re-Vision of Shakespeare by Claire Conilleau

“…It explores the creative diversions and reappropriations of Shakespeare’s plays that H.D. resorts to, especially her play with onomastics, the evocations and inscriptions of the Bard and his plays in the body of her works as well as a lesser known text, By Avon River, whose theme is Shakespeare himself.…”
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Living the territoriality: Mapuche tourism and development by Dorian Rommens

“…Next, dealing with notions as territoriality and collectivism, we argue that Mapuche entrepreneurs are reappropriating Mapuche culture for development. Mapuche tourism is mobilising alternative ways for development, being and relating to the profound relationship they have with their territory and environment in accordance to their worldview. …”
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Reception through Polemics: The Internalization of Theological Otherness in Jerome’s Heresiology by Pålsson Katarina

“…Building on the understanding of dialogue expressed by Mikhail Bakhtin, as well as his concept of hybridity, the article analyses how Jerome, instead of simply rejecting core elements of Jovinian’s ideas, such as the goodness of marriage and the natural condition of human beings, rather reappropriates them and integrates them into his making of orthodoxy. …”
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Building From Our Demonic Nature. For A Para-Biological Definition of Fantasy by Rômulo Moraes

“…The main objectives, in reappropriating these and other philosophies of nature as if they were theories of fantasy, are, first, to show how, through simple thought-experiments, the ensemble of phenomena usually associated with nature could be understood ethically as evil and aesthetically as weird (instead of as good and pure, as some Romantics believed, or as completely neutral, as the hard sciences imply). …”
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Morocco's Hirak al-Rif Movement: "Youths of the Neighbourhood" as Innovative Protesters? by Ahmed Chapi

“…Tactical innovations can thus be fostered through pressures and reappropriations enacted "from below", which bind core activists to the wider base of the movement through moral obligations. …”
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Les représentations des tuteurs en FAD à l’égard de leurs pratiques et de leurs fonctions tutorales by Said Berrouk, Alain Jaillet

“…The aim is not only to verify the validity of the models evoked by the research and the case studies, but also to understand how the tutors reappropriate them and put them into practice. In other words, it is a question of detecting in a first phase how the tutors act and fulfill their roles and their functions. …”
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‘I’ve left enough data’: Relations between people and data and the production of surveillance by Hwankyung Janet Lee

“…Highlighting how the tracing system positioned surveillance ‘in the hands of citizens’, the study exposes the complexities of the relations that the participants formed with the data they produced, and how they reflexively reappropriated their practices through alterations and deflections on the basis of their tacit knowledge and imaginaries concerning digital data and their constituent positions in the knowledge production system. …”
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The Uncanniness of the Ordinary: Aesthetic Implications of Stanley Cavell’s Rethinking of Das Unheimliche by Gineprini Lorenzo

“…At the same time, they also propose a novelty by interpreting the uncanny not as inherently frightening and disturbing but as a compelling affective state that encourages a willingness to reappropriate and rediscover the ordinary.…”
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Une lecture de Eine Übertragung de Wolfgang Hilbig à la lumière de Paul Ricœur. by Bénédicte Terrisse

“…Par la métaphore, Hilbig se réapproprie une réalité définie jusqu’alors par un pouvoir discrétionnaire.…”
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De la migration au dévoilement du multiple : une poétique de l’altérité et d’universalité dans L’Enfant Multiple d’André Chédid by Daouda SYLLA

“…Ainsi, en postulant que L’Enfant Multiple est une immersion dans la question migratoire, la contribution voudrait montrer que l’écrivaine se réapproprie cette esthétique novatrice pour s’interroger sur la condition humaine, tout en prônant le vivre-ensemble, la diversité, l’ouverture vers l’Autre et l’altérité. …”
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Carla Lonzi’s Wardrobe by Leonardo Campagna

“…However, on many occasions, feminists have reappropriated and resemantized the domestic practices of knitting, sewing and embroidery, conceptualizing them as different ways to think about politics, community, the self, and relationality. …”
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Introduction : la valeur du commun by Annick Ettlin

“…Pourtant, comme le savent déjà les écrivains des xixe et xxe siècles – Baudelaire et Flaubert en tête –, le lieu commun permet de diff user des idées, de communiquer des contenus, de se réapproprier un rapport au langage qui n’est pas sans valeur esthétique. …”
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Time and memory in Carthage by Das, N

“…Using a range of material from Virgil's Aeneid to medieval and Renaissance visual depictions of Carthage, this essay attends to the strange tricks that the city of Carthage plays with both time and space, both in the Roman imagination, and in the early modern world – opening up spaces of conversation and alterity that survived even as the city's architectural space was destroyed, reappropriated, rebuilt, and reimagined.…”

Nationhood and the (De)Construction of Mythical England in Ben Wheatley’s Kill List by Diana Ortega Martin

“…This article analyses how Wheatley’s 2011 Kill List reappropriates Arthurian mythology by subverting its usual purpose of reaffirming a hegemonic sense of nationhood. …”
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Evoluzione e persistenza dell’iconografia di Primo Carnera nella cultura popolare italiana: mitopoiesi plebea e propaganda fascista by Roberto Mottadelli

“…In the end, the essay shows how the figure of Carnera regained favour after the fall of the fascist regime reappropriating (or, more rarely, being distorted of) its original traits. …”
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Washington Irving, The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. : le Moyen Âge aux origines by Delphine Louis-Dimitrov

“…In a nation in quest for roots, ancestors and legacy, the memory of the Middle Ages is a major issue; it is a founding period which the United States strives to reappropriate. Indeed the narrator’s pseudonym, Geoffrey Crayon, hints at an implicit claim of lineage with Geoffrey Chaucer, whose presence frames The Sketch Book. …”
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Enoch Powell’s Contribution Within the One Nation Group (1950-1955): Towards a Proto-Thatcherite Appropriation of One Nation Conservatism? by Stéphane Porion

“…Their strategy was to produce a number of pamphlets while reappropriating the rhetoric, myth and legacy of Disraeli to promote One Nation Conservatism. …”
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When Music Invades the Urban Spaces: the Piano City Festival in Milan, a New Paradigm of Sociability? by Marcello Tanca

“…Milan has interpreted at its best the philosophy of this event: the promotion of typical places, the use of the web and of social media, the urban hospitality and the free exhibitions, the inhabitants’ involvement, the incentive to explore the city in order to rediscover and reappropriate the public spaces; these are just some of the strengths of Piano City Milan: these elements make this piano festival an opportunity for the construction of a collective sense of place and a new paradigm of urban sociability that offers the city the chance to redeem itself, its own identity and to activate new forms of self-narrative.…”
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Neither here nor there: exploring the transnational identity of West African migrants living in South Africa by Ijeoma Opara

“…The concept explored in this article is ‘West-a-phobia’, coined by Petkou (2005) when conducting his PhD research on West African migrants living in Johannesburg, South Africa. By reappropriating Petkou’s concept through a transnational theoretical framework, this article delves into the experience of six West African migrants living in South Africa over a long period to analyse how systemic and covert forms of othering manifest within the post-apartheid context. …”
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Contested Authenticity Anthropological Perspectives of Pilgrimage Tourism on Mount Athos by Michelangelo Paganopoulos

“…The paper shows how the traditional value of hospitality is being reinvented and reappropriated according to the personalized needs of the market of faith. …”
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