La “familizzazione” dell’impresa: alcune riflessioni sul familismo imprenditoriale in Brianza nella crisi economica attuale by Simone Ghezzi

“…Drawing on a ethnographic research in an area characterized by a dense network of small family-run firms this article looks at the transformation of such enterprises and at their inner relations. …”
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Responsibility, refusal, and return: Thoughts on an ethics of inclination by K. van Marle

“… In this article written in honour of Desmond Tutu, I raise inclination as put forward by Cavarero, together with disorientation/reorientation, as per Ahmed and Honig, to think differently about law, rule of law, and legal culture. Drawing on Ndebele, Klare and Van der Walt, I consider inclination as being also about abandoning those vertical and upright certitudes acquired by habit and culture. …”
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Introduction: Enquiries into Contemporary Ritual Landscapes by Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen, Eleonora A. Lundell, Marja-Liisa Honkasalo

“…‘Landscape’ and ‘ritual’ have been largely discussed in the social and human sciences, although their inter-relatedness has gained li le scholarly a ention. Drawing on earlier studies of ritual and landscape, as well as the authors’ own ethnographic works, ‘ritual landscape’ is suggested here as a useful analytical tool with which to understand how landscapes are produced, and how they, in their turn, produce certain types of being. …”
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Exploring Development Challenges in Uganda Using Modernization Theory by Gloria Nambassa, Eko Priyo Purnomo

“…Modernization theories are typically categorized into 'critical variable' and 'dichotomous' approaches, each defining modernization through specific social changes or the acquisition of modern attributes by traditional societies. Drawing on works by theorists like Schwartz and Levy, the critique examines how these frameworks inadequately capture Uganda's complex modernization realities. …”
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From the Cytoplasm into the Nucleus—Hepatitis B Virus Travel and Genome Repair by Johan Ringlander, Gustaf E. Rydell, Michael Kann

“…This review will explore the current knowledge of HBV intracytoplasmic and nuclear transport, as well as genome repair processes, while drawing comparisons to other viruses with nuclear replication.…”
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Evaluation of the Development of Fintech-Served Real Economy Based on Fintech Improvement by Mingxiang Zhou, Xiaoyan Zheng

“…Then, fuzzy c-means (FCM) clustering was performed to discretize continuous indices. Drawing on matter-element theories, the authors created the classic domain and node domain of FtRE, as well as the evaluation objects of real economy, calculated the correlation between each factor affecting development level and evaluated development level, and computed the weight coefficient of each index. …”
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Revolutionary Climatology: Rings of Saturn, Ringed by Red Lightning by Sarah K. Stanley

“…The main case involving architectural theory considers how Benjamin redeployed Sigfried Giedion and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Building in France as a media environment, drawing upon its layout design, photo illustrations and textual systems. …”
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The Gig Economy and Its Impact on Women in Iraq by Hawra Milani, Zahra Shah, Rikke Bjerg Jensen

“…This paper traces the experiences of Iraqi women in the gig economy, drawing on both individual and collective insights grounded in the authors’ work in this context. …”
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The rise and demise of the New Public Management: Lessons and opportunities for South East Europe by Wolfgang Drechsler

“…The essay then focuses on the optimal public administration system for South East Europe, for which the experience of the new Member States of the European Union is used for lesson-drawing. Here, too, it is argued that NPM is definitely not suited for the region, especially in current conditions but also generally. …”
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Reasons for the migration of church members from one congregation to another by I. M. Bredenkamp, W. J. Schoeman

“…The answer is not simple in the sense that two tendencies can be identified: ‘push’ factors that activate the tendency to move out of the previous congregation, and a drawing or ‘pulling’ tendency, representing those factors that attract people. …”
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MAP-ping Queerness? Street Art in Philadelphia by Lara Cox

“…Firstly, I consider how street art represents queer communities, drawing on human geographer Felix Driver’s paradigm of image-centred or “imaginative geography.” …”
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Affective Evictions: by Anna Meera Gaonkar

“…The article argues that the statements also perform ‘affective evictions’ of racialised-migrantised members of society from the community of the imagined national home. Drawing on critical postmigration studies and a media-analytical approach to affect theory, two instrumentalised figures are accentuated as the haunting specters of this homesick politics: the fi gure of insecurity-creating immigrant boys and the figure of parallel societies inhabited by a ‘brown underclass.’ …”
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INTEGRATING SPIRITUALITY IN DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES: THE “KAIROS EXPERIENCES” IN THE “FAITH-BASED FACILITATION” PROCESS OF THE SALVATION ARMY by S. Knecht

“…This article examines the concept “Kairos”, by drawing on the philosophical and theological literature, with the aim of formulating a theological rationale for the FBF process and providing methodological aids in dealing with the “Kairos experiences”. …”
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The surplus approach to rent by Franklin Obeng-Odoom

“…Ely’s, highlighting its power and potential and stressing its critiques and contradictions. Drawing, among others, on the original writings of Ely, it is argued that, while the emphasis on property rights, land as a ‘bundle of sticks’, and rent as surplus rather than income help to advance heterodox approaches to rent, the surplus approach is severely limited in its analysis of inequalities and how they can be addressed, especially in extractivist and rentier societies. …”
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Communicative Functions of Code Glosses in Academic Discourse by Hüseyin Kafes

“…Also scarce are the studies on how academic writers address the needs of their readers and so, through elaboration, manage their interactions with them. Drawing on a corpus of 68 research articles (RAs) from the field of applied linguistics, this study explores how experienced writers (EWs) and novice writers (NWs) elaborate their ideas in their RAs to address their readers’ needs, and in so doing, manage their relations with them. …”
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Class conditioning and class positioning in young people's everyday life with digital media by Danielsson Martin

“…In this article, I explore how social class shapes the conditions and configurations of digital media practice in the everyday life of young people in Sweden. Drawing on Bourdieusian theory and qualitative interview data from two research projects, I complicate the notion of Sweden as a universally wired media welfare state by showing how economic and cultural forces are structuring Internet access and digital media practice along the lines of preexisting social divisions. …”
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Exploiting Body and Place in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Catherine Lanone

“…Drawing upon Annie Escuret’s epistemocritical method of reading, and on her vision of energy and entropy, this paper considers how, in Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles, agricultural steam machines begin to colonize the countryside and seem to violate and dislocate the female body. …”
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Computer 3D Scene Simulation of Ecological Landscape Layout Planning by Tong Ling, Yun Ma

“…The experimental result shows: through 3D scene view clipping hierarchical detail model and other techniques, the frame rate of 3D landscape vegetation scene drawing was improved. The interactive 3D scene browsing is realized, and the six-degree-of-freedom omni-directional display of the whole landscape is provided.…”
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Passages adolescents : leurs matérialisations dans les espaces et les temps informels des institutions éducatives by Aurélie Maurin

“…The two notions are indeed caught up in the inherent paradox of their constitution and their function: separating and binding, closing and opening in the same movement.My reflections are drawing on a clinical study in the realm of adolescence, a notion that is itself paradigmatic of the concept of threshold. …”
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Quand le jardin révèle un imaginaire du paysage méditerranéen : les Colombières de Ferdinand Bac by Agnès du Vachat

“…In his major work, the Colombières garden in Menton in 1925, Bac applied his principles for the renewal of a Mediterranean art, by breaking with the trend of the pastiche and of exoticism which was then in vogue on the Côte d’Azur. Drawing inspiration from art, literature, and his travel experiences, he recreated in his garden landscape scenes evoking Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, Spain under the Arabian and Catholic influences, and Renaissance Italy. …”
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