Re-Constructing Femininities: Perverting Performance in Hannahlisa Kunyik´s Susanne fotografiert mich beim Bade (2011/2012/2018) by Annemarie Nowaczek

“…With the concept of perverting I revisit and reappropriate a term that has been used to produce Otherness and alterized sexuality.…”
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The Pioneers of Sámi Children’s Books by JoAnn Conrad

“…Since the 1970s, Sámi children’s book creators have been actively engaged in decolonizing children’s literature from this legacy of settler colonization and assimilationist policies by not only foregrounding language and Sámi traditions, but also reappropriating stereotypes and images in a decolonizing gesture in order to reclaim their past and their identities. …”
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Scientific Excellence in Participatory and Action Research: Part II. Rethinking Objectivity and Reliability by Erik Lindhult

“…The purpose of this article is to deal with the following question: Can the concepts of reliability and objectivity be reconceptualized and reappropriated to enable understanding of scientific excellence in participatory and action research? …”
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The Atelier Climat, a French citizen consultation process set up to promote sustainable development: a local democratic innovation? by Estelle-Fleur Galateau

“…It is a step-by-step innovation, conducive to the adoption of new practices—providing it is reappropriated, disseminated and imitated by everyone involved.…”
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Reclaiming Agency through the Politics of the In_Visible Body: Illegalized Migration and Self-Representation of Women Domestic Workers in Switzerland by Maevia Griffiths, Victor Santos Rodriguez

“…While these women mobilize strategies of invisibilization (camouflage, spatial practices of avoidance) to resist deportation, they simultaneously reappropriate self-representation by visibilizing their embodied presence within Switzerland’s visual field, creating a counter-gaze to their (in)securitization. …”
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L’urgence de réveil de l’héritage de Lumumba pour une gouvernance d’espérance en Afrique by Phidias A. SENGE MILEMBA

“…Motivant et inspirant, l’héritage de Lumumba mérite d’être réapproprié et renouvelé comme un levier de « souverainisation » et de libération du Congo et de l’Afrique. …”
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Stylistic hybridity in palatial architecture during the reign of King Rama V: a postcolonial reinterpretation on modern Siam by Koompong Noobanjong

“…Aside from examining the three hybrid Siamese-European buildings beyond stylistic analyses and antiquarian mode of historiography, the upcoming discussions unveiled that the case studies – which were commissioned at the height of Western colonial expansions in Southeast Asia – testified for the Siamese’s: (1) reinterpretations, reappropriations, and recreations of European cultural artifacts; (2) active and authoritative roles in generating, combining, and projecting their versions of contested meanings upon the immediate world and beyond; (3) assertions of a newly acquired self-image by conspicuous consumptions of Western material culture; and (4) long established tradition of mediating power through built forms. …”
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Le jeu de la crosse : des pratiques amérindiennes aux sports codifiés by Jean-Pierre AUGUSTIN

“…Le jeu de la crosse est exemplaire de ces rites et savoirs amérindiens qui sont observés, récupérés, réappropriés, codifiés en sport normalisés. Sa transformation peut être présentée comme un exemple de résistance au processus global d’acculturation qui impose une conception mono-culturelle du sport fondée sur la professionnalisation et la médiatisation des sports dominants, et pour le Canada, du hockey sur glace.…”
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A Redneck Head on a Nazi Body. Subversive Ludo-Narrative Strategies in <i>Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus</i> by Hans-Joachim Backe

“…Analyzing the game in the light of Bakhtinian theory shows how <i>The New Colossus</i> reappropriates genre conventions pertaining to able-bodiedness and masculinity and how it &#8220;resolves&#8222; these issue by grafting the player character&#8217;s head on a vat-grown Nazi supersoldier-body. …”
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Back on the Barricades: New Feminisms and Market Innovation in the Consultancy Field by Magdalena Petersson McIntyre

“…Thus, the commodification of gender equality simultaneously opens up possibilities to re-code and reappropriate the concept of ‘innovation’.…”
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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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Par delà les clichés. Des représentations de la femme dans le roman sentimental d'Afrique francophone by Dahiée Marcelle Gnepoa

“…D’autre part, l’article présente les différentes réappropriations du roman sentimental. Ainsi, ces représentations de la femme permettent de fidéliser un lectorat féminin qui, par sa pratique de lecture et d’écriture, donne une certaine légitimité à des textes qui sont souvent rangés dans la marge de la littérature canonique. …”
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‘Holiness’ and faith practice today: A contribution towards interreligious dialogue by John-Charles Stay, Tanya van Wyk, Yolanda Dreyer

“…This article aims to reappropriate ‘holiness’ for ordinary human beings in their everyday lives and to transcend the exclusivist connotations attached to the concept by broadening the idea and application of ‘holiness’ as it is found in the Christian faith tradition. …”
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Adaptive Ephemeral Interiority: Upcycling Site Specific Interiors by Marco Sosa, Lina Ahmad, Karim Musfy

“…Adaptive reuse in architecture refers to the process of redesigning, converting, and reappropriating existing spaces for functions different from the ones they were originally designed for. …”
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Le silence de la femme insulaire dans L’arbre fouet d’Ananda Devi et dans Celles qui attendent de Fatou Diome by Thila Sunassee-Thapermall

“…Cet article étudie les lieux du silence où la femme se réapproprie son pouvoir face aux entraves de la société et de l’espace géographique. …”
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L’adaptation du Rapport de Brodeck : une figuration fidèle à l’original by Julie Corsin

“…Pour réaliser cette étude, il est nécessaire d’avoir recours à la théorie de Benoît Berthou sur la figuration : il s’agit d’une forme d’adaptation où l’auteur tire parti des dimensions visuelles d’une œuvre afin d’en exprimer une nouvelle vision et ainsi de se la réapproprier. L’ouvrage adapté acquiert alors un nouveau statut de création autonome et originale. …”
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Dystopia, surveillance and the spaces of social control in Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon (2012) by Claire Wrobel

“…Although the text explicitly reappropriates the Panopticon designed by Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), an invention itself riven by the tension between utopia and dystopia, and echoes Michel Foucault’s strategic reading in Discipline and Punish (1975), the virulent critique it levels at the welfare state echoes some of the central issues to be found in George Orwell's attack on totalitarian states, particularly those related to memory and language. …”
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Ruins of Empire: Decolonial Queer Ecologies in Cliff’s No Telephone to Heaven by Gregory Luke Chwala

“…From this framework, I show how both raced and classed queer and trans characters transgress colonial boundaries through the ways that they reappropriate spaces and bodies in Jamaica’s ruinate. …”
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The Normative World of Memes: Political Communication Strategies in the United States and Ecuador by Marco López-Paredes, Andrea Carrillo-Andrade

“…In this context, this paper <i>examines</i><i>how citizens from Ecuador and the United States reappropriate memes during a public discussion?</i> The investigation is based on multimodal analysis and compares the most popular memes among the United States and Ecuador produced during the candidate debate (Trump vs. …”
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Intertwined Languages and Broken Flows: Reading Ontological Polyphonies in Lower Murray Country (South Australia) by Camille Roulière

“…This article argues that this reappropriated and re-rooted concept of Cultural Flows is merely the tip of a larger poetic shift in language, and can serve as a pivot around which to understand the mechanisms through which Aboriginal Nations, and in particular the Ngarrindjeri, weave their cultural practices, both figuratively and literally, within mainstream artistic and ecological discourses. …”
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