Urban rivers in Belgrade, Serbia. Radical transformations and illegal urban practices in a post-socialist capital by Sanja Iguman

“…This is a perfect example of landscape intended as a multi-layered concept that connects natural resources, human-made elements and most important – the people and their movements, actions, narration, emotions and relations. The paper describes how this place has been transformed through time, in cultural, ecological and physical sense, and it will mostly analyse the social consequences that the mentioned transformations have left on local citizens and on the way they are reacting to that, gathered in the neighbourly, activist groups.…”
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Captation spéculaire et mise en abyme dans le film Jane Eyre de Franco Zeffirelli by Isabelle Van Peteghem-Tréard

“…Drawing can be regarded as the cinematic equivalent of narration in Charlotte Brontë’s work and also as empowerment for the female subject who ultimately becomes a creator.…”
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Roaming the Mountain Forests: Wandering to Perfect the Capacitive Body by Frédérick Guyon

“…By structuring space and time in an orderly universe, mythical narratives give meaning to this roaming practice.These social experiments are analysed from a roaming anthropology standpoint, an approach which combines spatial, cultural, body, emotional and spiritual dimensions. …”
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La nécessité du pays by Damien Sans

“…When we free the landscape from the aesthetic straightjacket in which it has been imprisoned (at least in France) by the great narratives of its origins (Briffaud, 2014), it becomes possible to embrace the diversity of perceptions and relationships formed between people and their environments. …”
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The Love Trap. Romanticization practices of the Italian generations of the 90s by Fulvio Cozza

“…Utilizing Ernesto De Martino’s conceptual framework, I describe that for the transitional generation born around 1990, caught between precariousness and the triumphant narratives of their predecessors, romantic discourse serves as a shield against existential annihilation by the uncontrollable forces of the universe. …”
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Fragments of Lost Origins by Pekka Tuominen

“…This research report explores how various historical narratives of Turkishness are related to spatial divisions of the city and different frameworks of belonging and argues that a notion of an authentic self has become crucial in defining urbanity in Istanbul. …”
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Spectres photographiques : quand la photographie hante la littérature by Marie-Jeanne Zenetti

“…Writers who draw their inspiration from photography (either by trying to define it or by inserting photographs into narratives) often relate it to what disappears and comes back again, to loss and haunting memories. …”
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Eyes of identification: challenges and opportunities in leveraging highly visible, multiple-level histories by Debra Rosser, Shurlee Swain

“…Histories of out of home 'care' have traditionally fallen into four categories: in-house productions, commissioned histories; academic studies and survivor narratives. Each of these is problematic. A more inclusive approach, which encourages a close relationship between historian and those who lived the experience, is offered through projects arising from Australian government enquiries into indigenous, migrant and Australian-born children in care. …”

Carolingian Traditions and New Beginnings : The Coronation of Rudolph I of Upper Burgundy by Andrea Hauff

“…L’attention se focalise d’abord sur les origines de Rodolphe Ier et de sa famille, avant de porter un regard sur les sources narratives témoignant du couronnement de Rodolphe Ier en 888, en particulier, la chronique de Réginon de Prüm et les Annales Vedastini. …”
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D’Emma Bovary à Gemma Bovery : une approche traductologique by Ilaria Vitali

“…Within this field, the interpretive paradigm will be the one proposed by Lance Hewson, based on two levels: the “voice effects” (translational choices that modify the voice of the narrator or characters), and the “interpretational effects” (translational choices that favour different interpretive paths). …”
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"Seeing the voices": Egyptian Jews from one shore to another by Michèle Baussant

“…Based on a "retroactive ethnography," it relies on work with memory and the memory of the Jews of Egypt encountered both as actors and narrators and is interested in the crossed constructions of the presence and absence of Jews and Egyptians. …”
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The Local Impact of Migratory Legends: The Process and Function of Localisation by Ambrož Kvartič

“…Folk narratives are one of the mechanisms by which humans form their cultural reality; and space is an important part of this reality. …”
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Finding a rhythm within by Jan-Albert van den Berg

“…Four idiomatic soundtracks, namely tonedeaf, rhythm, polyphonic narratives, and dance determine the structure of the article. …”
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Biography as ‘‘fictions we live in”: Live from Death Row by Claude Guillaumaud-Pujol

“…La voix de ceux qui sont privés de voix émerge alors dans cette narration enchâssée dans l’histoire des Afro-Américains et offrant une véritable réflexion sur la dimension fictionnelle qui peut exister dans des genres aussi factuels que historiographie et la biographie historique.…”
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Récits écoféministes de voyages interstellaires : observer et créer de nouveaux mondes. by Clémence Mathieu

“…Thus, the Ekumen eco-feminist fictions are regarded as generating new narratives offering the power to create the future or the present of the possible end of a certain world.…”
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Living out nonconformity: Restoration ministers and their diaries by Colin HARRIS

“…Through their autobiographies and their diaries, this article analyses the personal narratives of Ralph Josselin of Earls Colne (Essex), Edmund Trench (Kent), and Oliver Heywood (Yorkshire).…”
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Cartographie du vide : les "non-lieux" de l’espace américain dans The Informers de Bret Easton Ellis by Nathalie Vincent-Arnaud

“…Published in 1994, The Informers is a collection of thirteen short stories which aim to explore the various facets of a certain Los Angeles social microcosm in the nineteen-eighties.The first-person narration, based on a deliberately minimalist paratactic structure which involves recurrent snatches of dialogue, moves through an endless succession of toponyms (Palm Springs, Melrose etc.) and cultural clichés (trendy places, music or clothing) which all seem to trap people and places within an imprisoning landscape—most aptly metaphorized by the Sunset Boulevard.Both huge and confined to the specific landmarks or "non-places" of an interlope society, this landscape provides an ambivalent area in which people are cast adrift, wandering like ghosts in some kind of existential nowhere described by Michel de Certeau as "un théâtre de passants".…”
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Collective Identity and Care Ethics: Insights From Chilean Migrant Solidarity Initiatives by Tamara Hernández Araya

“…These organizations develop sophisticated citizenship narratives while emphasizing the importance of nurturing both their collective ethos and solidarity initiatives. …”
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Mémoire, récits et héritage de la Révolution de 1848 à Venise by Eva Cecchinato

“…However, in the following decades, the narration of the events didn’t valorize its revolutionary character and its democratic heritage. …”
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Engaged Scholarship and Its Discontents by Tebeje Molla

“…Engaged scholarship plays a crucial role in shaping collective narratives and fostering inclusive societies. This article explores the concept of engaged scholarship, highlighting both its transformative potential and the discontents that accompany it. …”
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