The Postdigital as Theme in Narrative Fiction across Media by Alice Bell

“…This article argues that a sceptical attitude towards the role of digital technology in contemporary life is becoming increasingly prevalent in twenty-first-century fiction and offers a new way of theorising this thematic trend via refining the concept of the ‘postdigital’. …”
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Free Plan versus Free Rooms by Xavier Van Rooyen

“…This article examines how the different design processes used by Office KGDVS, MVRDV, Sanaa, and Sou Fujimoto, among others, go beyond the unitary and homogeneous models of open architecture proposed in the 1960s in order to respond to a crucial desire of contemporary society: the need for singularity. As we theorise it, the free plan wanted to be singular and specific instead of neutral, in order to absorb obsolete uses into broader programmes. …”
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On Some Aspects of the Poetic of ri in Dante’s Divine Comedy: Possibilities of Semantic Clustering by Ülar Ploom

“…First, a brief exploration of De vulgari eloquentia, Dante’s own treatise on language and poetry, will determine whether the poet theorises rhythm and sound semantics in this work, and whether he considers smaller textual units than the word. …”
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Strategies Used in Teaching Entrepreneurship Component of Economic and Management Sciences in uThukela Education District by Lungelo Sithuthuko Mbatha, Sithembele Goodman Ndovela

“…The study employed Shulman’s (1986) theory of teacher knowledge to think through and theorise teachers’ strategies for the teaching of the Entrepreneurship component of EMS. …”
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Institutional Complexities in Organisations: A Theoretical Integration of Multiple Logics and the Locus of Paradoxical Tension by Sujeewa Damayanthi, Tharusha Gooneratne

“…When such influences enter organisations and interface with organisational actors’ sense-making, they create paradoxical tensions with implications for decision-making. This paper theorises how in the organisational field, multiple logics develop complexities and get intertwined with organisational actors’ sense-making, resulting in paradoxical tensions. …”
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Souvenirs rétrospectifs de l’Anthropocène : la ville dans la cli‑fi italienne by Lucia Della Fontana

“…This is where cli‑fi, the new genre theorised by Daniel Bloom, comes into play. In order to represent climate change, cli‑fi reactivates dystopian and apocalyptic schemes and sets up a narrative twist that consists in presenting the coming catastrophe as if it had already happened. …”
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Paradigm shifters: tricksters and cultural science by Hartley John

“…The objective is to understand creative innovation as a general cultural attribute rather than one restricted only to accredited experts such as artists; thus to theorise creativity as a form of emergence for dynamic adaptive systems. …”
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Participatory communication in South African municipal government by Tshepang Bright Molale

“…They also suggest a need for further research on how “participation as an end” can be theorised in line with participatory communication in a complex municipal system that already requires “participation as a means” to achieve certain goals. …”
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Systemic Barriers and Unfairness: Access to Justice in Zimbabwe and Beyond by Wesley Maraire

“…Furthermore, case law examples are also utilised, but going beyond erroneous individual cases, and unpacking the under-theorised yet broader social consequences of the cases on citizens and the formal justice system.…”
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Policy Learning Through Transfer - Individuals, Organisations and Network in the Making of Ethiopia’s Industrial Park Programme by Jing Zhang

“…Much ink has been spent on theorising learning in an instrumental fashion, based on the ‘intentionality’ of agents and the updating of information. …”
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The “Daily Digital”: (Re)imagining Technology in Home-Based Women’s Gig Work in Egypt. by Laila Mourad

“…This research contributes to feminist and decolonial scholarship by centring the lived experiences of women in informal economies and providing a new lens to theorise the intersections of technology, gender and labour. …”
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Learning developers as third space academics: a personal view by Peter C Samuels

“…The concept of third space professionals may be seen as useful for theorising the practice of those who at least partly identify as learning developers. …”
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Non-take-up as a social experience. Towards a typology of not claiming social benefits by Barbara Lucas

“…This approach enables us to grasp how social inequalities, stigmatisation and discrimination – as structural explanations for non-take-up theorised separately in the literature – together help to shape different meanings of non-take-up. …”
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A review of theories, pedagogies and vocabulary learning tasks of English vocabulary learning apps for Chinese EFL learners by Li Congxin

“…This study aims to fill this gap by conceptualising and theorising the design of English vocabulary learning apps with a focused analysis of their task features with relation to vocabulary learning strategies (VLS), language learning theories and pedagogies. …”
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Education politics and contingency: Belief, status and trust behind the Finnish PISA miracle by Hannu Simola, Risto Rinne

“…Comparative education is still suffering from certain methodological deficits and serious under-theorisation. In this article we are trying to shed more light to the comparative resarch by presenting the promising concepts of continguency, coincidence and Spielraum to be taken seriously. …”
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Miss-represented by Pontsho Pilane, Mehita Iqani

“…The (albeit unsurprising) failure of Glamour magazine to adequately represent a diversity of black femininities is theorised as a result of pervasive neo-liberal, racist and patriarchal structures of power in post-apartheid South Africa. …”
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Conflictul generațiilor în România interbelică, Mircea Eliade și tatăl său by Liviu Bordaș

“…The father’s admiration for Ion Heliade Radulescu and Mircea Eliade’s theorising of the ”conflict of generations“ bring into discussion the earlier generations: the 1848 generation and the 1880 Junimea generation. …”
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Or else, or so or what? A few Examples of the Staging of the Implicit in English by Bertrand RICHET

“…Second their usage is considered in context, with a view to providing finally a unified theorisation of such constructions.…”
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Real Person Fanfiction and the Construction of the (Un)Ethical Fan by Lauren Balser

“…In investigating this fandom’s performance of what they call “ethical RPF”, this article seeks to theorise the construction of an (un)ethical fan persona as innately intertwined with RPF as a practice and fans’ treatment of it as moral performance. …”
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‘Why Don't We Get Counselling?’: Comparing NICE Guidelines for Morphological and Genetic Cancer Risk Diagnoses by Elspeth Davies

“…Objectives This study compares the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's guidelines for BRCA1/2, which are genetic risk conditions, and Barrett's oesophagus (BO), a morphological risk condition. It then theorises reasons for the similarities and differences made visible by this comparative work. …”
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