"Our Blood Is Not Cheap": A Photovoice Project on Being Arab in a Racialized United States by Leticia Villarreal Sosa, Suhad Tabahi, Itedal Shalabi

“…This community-based participatory research (CBPR) project uses Photovoice as a methodology to better understand the lived experiences and narratives of Arab Americans in the post-Trump1 era and as a tool for advocacy. …”
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From Chance to Serendipity: Knowledge Workers’ Experiences of Serendipitous Social Encounters by Ekaterina Olshannikova, Thomas Olsson, Jukka Huhtamäki, Susanna Paasovaara, Hannu Kärkkäinen

“…This qualitative study investigates knowledge workers’ detailed narratives of serendipitous social encounters and the related factors through an analysis of 37 responses to an international online survey. …”
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History and National Integration: A Study of Collective Memory of Tamiang Monuments in Medan 1894 by Aulia Rahman, Husaini Ibrahim, Okhaifi Prasetyo, Usman Usman, Mufti Riyani

“…However, after the Tamiang Monument was destroyed, all narratives and reminders of the Tamiang War were lost. …”
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Invisible lives: Occupied cities as a blind spot in geopolitical research by Yana Suchikova

“…Combining analytical rigor with reflective narratives, this study advocates for interdisciplinary approaches and strategic collaborations that transcend academic boundaries. …”
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The Lutheran “convivial economy” as a Christian economic heterodoxy: significance, components, and proposals to the current socio-economic order by P. Kopiec

“…The article outlines the meaning and dimensions of the convivial economy, including the topic of migration. It employs the narration of economic heterodoxy/orthodoxy to highlight a dominant Christian position towards the prevailing economic order. …”
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A Review on the Book "Ministry System in the Abbasid Government (Al-Buyeh and Seljuk Era) by Seyyed Mohammad Rahim Rabbanizadeh

“…The present study attempts to critically review the above book with an interpretative and problem-centered approach and the findings suggest that although Zahrani addresses the importance of the ministry system, he also narrates the same information in the style of the earlier ones and that he raises a general model for the research organization based on which he analyzes the whole book, leading to limitations in providing a better analysis, and ultimately he deals with the role of the minister himself as an individual than investigating him in the form of a system.…”
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A Review of the Book Nashat al-Masrah in the East (The Emergence of Theater in the East) by Farhad Rajabi

“…In the new era, the play is one of the most important topics for critical discussions, whether as a text or as a collection of narratives performed by actors on stage to the extent that the critical and historical books of this type of art have a wide range of the oldest types of art. …”
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Naming Diseases in Children by the Sidrap Bugis Ethnic by Fatmawaty, Muhammad Arsyad Rahman

“…Data is analyzed using content analysis, then interpreted and presented as narratives, matrices, and schemes. Test the validity of the data using triangulation of sources and methods. …”
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Keeping the memory of Napoleonic wars: forms of international cooperation between Russia and the German Empire at the beginning of the twentieth century by A. S. Lizogub

“…The focus is on considering the features and problems of building narratives about the joint military past of the two empires within the framework of the international exhibition in Breslau and the opening of monuments in Leipzig. …”
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Expressions of a backlash: Challenging the story of success in Norwegian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s by Fosheim Lund Maria, Kielland Servoll Johanne, Holtar Ingrid Synneva

“…This has usually been narrated as a success story for Norwegian cinema. It is, however, also a decade connected to a loss of position for the women directors who had gained a footing in Norwegian cinema in the 1970s. …”
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Vernacular language in Firouz Shahnameh by Mohammad Bighami by زهرا سیدیزدی, فرزانه حکیمی پور

“…Because of the prominent example of Persian simple proses that narrated and renarrated for people in this book, there are many vernaculars and colloquial expressions in this work. …”
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Martialling Peace: How the Peacekeeping Myth Legitimises Warfare by Nicole Wegner by Abdul Wasay Khan Mandokhail

“…The case of Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan and its treatment of Indigenous populations highlights the racial and colonial dimensions of peacekeeping narratives. The book challenges traditional perceptions of peace, arguing that peacekeeping often perpetuates violence under the guise of stability. …”
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Cinema and Identity: Criss-Cross Reflections by Irina S. Semenenko, Vladimir I. Pantin, Elena V. Morozova

“…Cinema is regarded as an effective tool for creating and revising historical narratives, for promoting new images and meanings and for exposing prospects for future social development. …”
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A Functional Analysis of Superstructure and Deep Structure Mechanisms in Common Persian Proverbs by Mohammad Khosravi Shakib

“…The story in the deep structure of proverbs can influence the listener like a pressure device by shaping the mental schema and help in cognitive development, recalling and quick understanding of the message. Narratives and cultural stories in the deep structure of proverbs act in the direction of persuasion. …”
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Politik Representasi Identitas Perempuan dalam Media: Wacana Kritis Pemberitaan KDRT di suara.com by 'Ulya Nurul Makiyah, Luma’ul ‘Adilah Hayya, Dwi Sufa Nada Qisthina

“…The politics of representation in this context refers to the way the media presents and constructs narratives about violence against women. The focus of this study is to understand how the media depicts cases of domestic violence, especially in the context of women's representation. …”
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Utilisation of Acoli Folktales for Mindset Modification in Post-LRA Incursions: A Sociological Perspective by Ocan, Johnson, Okumu, Charles

“…Like any other traditional edification, the traditional Acoli community has pre-served group cohesiveness and unconscious acceptance of customary codes articulated, and en-coded in 13 their oral narratives (myths, legends, and folktales) to ensure a peaceful life in the ge-nealogy and community. …”
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Experiencing caste in higher education: Everyday pedagogic contexts and silenced conflicts by Karan, Gunjan Sharma

“…Drawing from interview-based data, it explores the students’ narratives to map their educational experiences, taking the medium of instruction as a case in point. …”
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The Victorian Thumb Bible as Material Object: Charles Tilt’s The Little Picture Testament (1839) by Alyssa J. Currie

“…Intended to provide children with a simplified introduction to Biblical narratives and religious instruction, thumb Bibles illustrate the mediation of religious instruction through material culture. …”
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Language and Sustainability, Linguistic Sustainability: Between Economization and Simulative Democracy? by Goranka Rocco

“…The considerations lead to a reflection on the possibilities and limits of linguistic sustainability with regard to the progressive economization of knowledge and science, which influence language use, and on the other hand with regard to the gap between real developments, which seem to privilege one or at best a few languages, and the official narratives on the promotion of multilingualism. This gap is interpreted in the context of the hypothesis of structural or systemic social unsustainability (Blühdorn 2020) and particularly in line with Blühdorn’s concept of ‘Simulative Democracy’ (2013). …”
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Referential Choices and Specific Language Impairment: Sensitivity to Contrast Levels and Grammatical Role by Maja Stegenwallner-Schütz, Flavia Adani

“…Existing findings on referential choices by children with SLI are currently inconsistent and have mainly been reported based on narratives. We used an elicited production task to manipulate the referent’s accessibility by means of two factors: (a) contexts that instantiate different levels of contrast (one vs. two contrasts) and (b) the grammatical role of the expression (subject vs. object). …”
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