The Heritage-scape: Origins, Theoretical Interventions, and Critical Reception of a Model for Understanding UNESCO’s World Heritage Program by Michael A. Di Giovine

“…Articulating a more holistic model of a World Heritage Program, the author also presents future areas of research — including more scholarship on the interrelatedness of tourism and heritage, and better integration of sustainability and ethics. …”
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The Transition from Yorùbá Metaphysics to Islamic Aesthetics in Ọláńrewájú Adépọ̀jù’s Poetry by Stephen Toyin Ogundipe

“… This paper explores the poetry of Ọlánrewájú Ade ́ ṕ ọ̀jù, a major contemporary Yorùbá poet, based in Ibadan, southwestern Nigeria. Much of the scholarship on the poet focuses purely on his sociopolitical interest, but the development of his craft has been largely ignored. …”
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Coimagining the Future of Voice Assistants with Cultural Sensitivity by Katie Seaborn, Yuto Sawa, Mizuki Watanabe

“…We discuss the implications for coimagining interactions with future VAs, offer design guidelines for the Japanese and English-speaking US contexts, and suggest opportunities for cultural plurality in VA design and scholarship.…”
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Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism by Dulmini Perera, Samuel Koh

“…While cosmotechnics has fomented new scholarship in philosophy, STS and cultural theory, its implications for architecture remain underexplored. …”
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Introduction to Dossier. Towards a Re-appropriation of Critical Geography for Latin America by Sofia Zaragocin Carvajal, Melissa Moreano Venegas, Soledad Álvarez Velasco

“…We also consider why some approaches and topics have received greater or lesser attention in Latin American scholarship. Finally, we emphasize the importance of establishing a new transnational dialogue based on regionally situated critical research that questions and proposes new pathways in the production of knowledge from and about the region. …”
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No Better Than Soup? Comparing Null Experimental Effects of Political Facebook Ads Across Persuasive and Instrumental Measures of Effectiveness by Bridget Barrett, Shannon C. McGregor

“…Studies on digital advertising effects claim that the primary purposes of online ads are persuasive : They seek to change vote choice or voters’ attitudes toward candidates. But recent scholarship has noted that social media’s unique affordances encourage electoral campaigns to use them in specific ways, such as using Facebook’s ads for email list-building. …”
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Material Turns of the Screw: The Collier’s Weekly Serialization of The Turn of the Screw (1898) by Kirsten MacLeod

“…In considering these questions, this essay engages with existing scholarship on the Collier’s serialization but also with issues raised in the wider field of study on James and periodicals and with broader controversies about The Turn of the Screw itself. …”
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Woman with a Painful Rash by Leyan Shalabi, Wesley Eilbert

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Political communication as television news: Party-produced news of the Sweden Democrats during the 2022 election campaign by Ekman Mattias, Widholm Andreas

“…Hence, the study contributes to political communication scholarship by emphasising how news has become an integral part of strategic party communication, challenging established scholarly conceptualisations of alternative media and hyperpartisan news.…”
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Correctional officers and the ongoing health implications of prison work by William J. Schultz, Rosemary Ricciardeli

“…However, the portrait this scholarship draws is concerning. Research focusing on the physical, mental, and social wellbeing of prison staff consistently paints a picture of a deeply unhealthy group of people, with above-average levels of physical health concerns. …”
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The Trinity and an ecclesiology from below by R. Venter

“…The specific problem addressed focuses on the interaction between an ecclesiology from below and contemporary trinitarian scholarship, and the possible mutual enriching conversation. …”
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Understanding game data work by Heikki Tyni, Olli Sotamaa, Taina Myöhänen

“…Through in-depth interviews with 20 Finnish game industry professionals and an analysis of game industry job advertisements, this paper examines the work and identity of game industry data workers. Drawing from scholarship focused on game production, game work, and data labour, this article argues that organisational practices surrounding data professionals reveal the centrality of high-level data work in game studios focused on live service games and that data work is now performed not just by data analysts, but by the entire staff and management. …”
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Anarchy Is What Explains the History of International Relations by William C. Wohlforth

“…History from the late 19th century constitutes the empirical foundation of much theoretical scholarship on international politics. The breakdown of the Concert of Europe and the outbreak of the devastating global conflagration of World War I are the events that sparked the modern study of international relations. …”
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What Happens After the Court of Justice Has Given its Ruling? Promises and Pitfalls of Strategic Litigation Against Internal Border Controls in EU Law by Stefan Salomon

“…As the principal objective of strategic litigants is to effectively achieve broader societal, political, economic, or legal change, the afterlife of a judgment is crucial for them. While excellent scholarship exists on strategic litigation in EU law, much remains unclear on what happens to a case after the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) has given its judgment. …”
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Power, tourism, and ecology: a critical inquiry into aconcagua’s power structures and conceptions of nature by Henry Mooney

“…This research contributes to political ecology scholarship by illuminating co-constructed narratives on nature, politics, and societal structures in high mountain areas which can overlook the profound effects of power dynamics and economic interests on local ecology in managed park systems in periphery states.…”
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The dearth of feminist empirical research on women’s active participation in the ICT sector by Naledi Sekeleni, Carol Lesame

“…This paper advances the view that initiating a trend within the researcher community, where follow-up studies are conducted from research recommendations, will stimulate reflection and debate around empirically grounded feminist scholarship in an emerging and unexplored field of research, namely women’s entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship, in both urban and rural settings of the ICT sector. …”
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Pericapsular Nerve Group Block for Prosthetic Hip Reduction in the Emergency Department: Case Report by Rebecca Thomas, Matthew Carr, Janae Fry, Taryn Hoffman

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Feminist Pandemic Pedagogies: Podcasting and the Study of Religion by Lee-Shae S. Scharnick-Udemans

“…While the orientation of this article is tentative and reflexive, it advances the argument that because of the commitment to social justice that is inherent to feminist approaches to scholarship and pedagogy, feminist scholars are generally poised to work within the contexts of crisis. …”
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Indigenous cultures in the era of globalisation by Nnamdi Tobechukwu Ekeanyanwu

“…Second, the theory - as suggested - builds on masssociety and magic-bullet perspectives that have long been discredited both in media practice and in scholarship because they do not acknowledge audiences’ ability to process information and interpret cultural messages differently based on their cultural environment. …”
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Sentencing equilibrium in rape cases: a legal and political explanation of jurisdictional uniformity in China by Moulin Xiong, Yiwei Xia, Xiaohong Yu

“…Abstract Sentencing disparity dominates in American scholarship and has been leading global research in past decades, however, few studies have addressed sentencing equilibrium across countries. …”
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