From Nostalgia to locus amoenus: Polish Migrants’ Memoirs in Canada and the Idea of Home, Identity, and Belonging by Dagmara Drewniak

“…All in all, the memoirs show not only the constant need to write one’s experience of migration and narrate the immigrants’ attitude to their Polish identity but also testify to the possibility of migrants’ “transnational status” (Kozaczka 152).…”
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Fantasised and fantastical Nordic imaginaries: Contextualising Nordic life vlogs by East Asian YouTube vloggers by Lee Jin, Abidin Crystal

“…By attending to the genre, content, and interactions between vloggers and viewers, we explore how female East Asian YouTube vloggers who have immigrated to Nordic countries construct fantasised and fantastical narratives around Nordic imaginaries. The discussion of multifaceted layers of Nordic imaginaries explains how Nordic life vlogs serve as a platform for young East Asian women to project their desire for a better life and cultivate subtle resilience at the juncture of postfeminism and postcolonialism.…”
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Somatic Montage for Immersive Cinema by Chamier-Waite Clea von

“…Somatic montage is presented here as an extended, supra-dimensional notion of what Sergei Eisenstein called the ‘disjunctive method of narration’.…”
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El ave como cielo: la presencia del ave chan en las bandas celestes mayas by Rogelio Valencia Rivera, Daniel Salazar Lama

“…In Mayan pictorial tradition, the use of certain iconographic elements serves to transmit messages with a high symbolic content, whether these messages refer to mythological narratives, or illustrate historical events that approximate mythical ones. …”
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Reception Centres Above.The Mountain, Emblem of the Paradox of the Integration of Asylum Seekers in Switzerland by Viviane Cretton

“…Far from the tourist and romantic representations of the mountains, the oppositions between the top and the bottom (the valley and the plain), between the periphery and the centre (the mountain and the town) run repeatedly through the collected narratives. They maintain a representation of the mountain as a non-place of social life, an isolated place, as opposed to cities on the plain. …”
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La science‑fiction institutionnelle chez Julian Bleecker et Brian David Johnson by Thomas Michaud

“…Therefore, this approach, which could well constitute a new trend, partly distorts this imaginary of its traditional characteristics, and in particular of its critical negativity, theorized by Fredric Jameson.Two main possibilities are considered regarding the narratives produced by institutions. Firstly, this science fiction retains its critical negativity and directs it towards actors hostile to the interests of the institution. …”
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“All Creatures Yum!!”: Cicada Mania in Southern Indiana by Julianne Graper

“…The violence of consumption, contrasted with narratives of benevolent bio-musical harmony, brings to light questions of “what particular forms of life and death mean and why they matter” (Van Dooren 7).…”
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The Impact of Cultural Heritage on Coexistence Relations in a Local Community by Henriett Szabó

“…The basic motivation for the research presented in this paper was that, in my experience, the integration processes of the largest ethnic minority in Hungary can only be fully comprehended if the autonomous narratives of local communities concerning their own life situations are acknowledged as interpretations that underpin our conclusions. …”
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The Role of Information War in the Strengthening of Stereotypes about Russia in the Western Political Space by Irina Milutinović, Aleksandar Gajić

“…In the introductory part of the Paper, the problem of stereotyping the notions of Russia and the Russians in the Western political space is contextualized, and then the case study on the empirical basis describes the role of the so-called Western media in supporting the established stereotypes in modern times. The main narratives of the information war between the European Union and the Russian Federation were used for media mediation and interpretation of events on the international scene in which the Russian Federation was the main actor during the year of sanctions (2014) and immediately afterwards (2015). …”
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The Mustachioed Woman, or The Problem of Androgyny in Victoria Cross’ Six Chapters of a Man’s Life by Ana Raquel Rojas

“…Both the story and the novel focus on the problems of desiring the androgyne. The male narrator, Cecil, finds himself first attracted to and then frustrated by the ever-shifting gender identity of his female lover, Theodora, who secretly cross-dresses as a man, Theodore, so that they may travel together unmarried. …”
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The new frontier of age limits, or youthoods among the Meru (Kenya) by Anne-Marie Peatrik

“…Contrary to common perceptions, the transition to the next grade was neither automatic nor devoid of strong tensions, and youth was something other than that intermediate phase between childhood and adulthood, as the society and culture under consideration testifies to, through narratives, rules and a special vocabulary for the purpose. …”
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Autonomia delle persone in movimento e antropologia compromessa: riflessioni sulle reciproche influenze nella gestione dell’immigrazione in Perù by Irene Palla

“…Its management is a privileged observation field for the analysis of the interactions between new and old local and international actors on narratives, practices, and hierarchies of power. The anthropologist recognizes herself as part of this process. …”
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Design and innovation for the Cultural Heritage. Phygital connections for a Heritage of proximity by Eleonora Lupo

“…Defined as ‘culture-driven innovation’, it aims to innovate the user experience and hence the experience of designing with the Heritage, through the co-creation of augmented and amplified narratives, participatory and contributory co-curatorial practices, as well as performance practices and the creative re-use of the cultural Heritage.…”
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Realigning with the slave-like Jesus of Mark: The shorter ending of Mark 16:1-8 as a relecture by S. Joubert

“…It compels the intended readers to realign themselves with the provocative narration of Jesus as the atypical Messiah who challenges the physiognomic stereotypes of an honour-shame-based context. …”
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Ироническое начало в фельетоне Киев-город Михаила Булгакова by Antoni Bortnowski

“…The analysis of the techniques used by the writer in the text of Kiev, the City (e.g. the naive narrator’s mask, a combination of pompous style and colloquial speech) is carried out in order to prove that the feuilleton, in its style and ideas expressed, also shows the author’s rejection of post-revolutionary reality and his attempt to overcome the trauma of the past through laughter. …”
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Fatigue, Indolence And The There Is, Or, The Temporal Logic Of Collage In Donald Barthelme’s Snow White by Zuzanna Ładyga

“…Accordingly, Bill’s constant weariness is interpreted as a trope of referentiality, and Paul’s inertia as narrating the mechanism of language performatives. …”
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From tradition to progressiveness: Analyzing Thailand's image on youtube amid post-cannabis legalization. by Ibtesam Mazahir, Smith Boonchutima, Safeena Yaseen

“…The prevailing media narratives, which included tourism, celebration, and policy, further emphasized the positive perspective on the advantages of legalizing marijuana. …”
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Mobiliser la langue pour faire entendre la périphérie : étude comparée des mouvements nationalitaires bretons et sorabes au prisme de leurs revendications linguistiques by Jeanne Toutous

“…While activists of the Breton language (in Brittany) and the Upper Sorbian language (in Lusatia) tend to invest the regional territory and community institutions in the name of regional society as a whole, activists of the Breton (Brittany) and Lower Sorbian languages try to distance themselves from the instituting nationalist narratives by relying on diffuse and unstable repertoires of action, bearing witness to a process of double minoritarisation.…”
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FRAGMENTS OF THE SACRED: SACRAMENTALLY SUSTAINED IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY by E. Kloppers

“…The reception history of the hymn is also given to show how it functioned in diverse contexts. Narratives from the public sphere in various countries are then analysed to determine how unobtrusive and seemingly insignificant fragments of the sacred such as bells that ring, carillons that are played, and sacred songs that are sung can communally function in the public sphere and could sustain people sacramentally in times of fear, uncertainty, and loss. …”
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The Concept of Fragmentation in Poststructuralism by Justina Šumilova

“…The article reveals that Lyotard relates fragmentation with knowledge and performativity because knowledge and performativity become fractured and do not produce grand narratives which leads to fragmentation of the society. …”
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