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2026 EN
Cortés Saavedra Andrea
Drawing on qualitative data from an ethnographic study conducted in Iquique, Chile, in 2019, this article explores the discourses of Chilean teachers from a diverse school in northern Chile about the parenting cultures of migrant families. This paper specifically focuses on teachers’ narratives about parenting and migrant families within an educational and territorial context where various forms of national and local identification intersect. These overlapping identities are closely tied to Iquique, as a territory located in a Chilean region bordering Bolivia and formerly part of Peru prior to the War of the Pacific (1879–1883). The objective of this paper is twofold. First, I analyse how the teachers’ local identity shapes the ways in which they receive and understand Latin American and Caribbean families arriving in Iquique. Second, I describe how teachers build normative ideals about parenting cultures. The teachers participating in my study value migrants and their families in a hierarchical way and by producing distinctions. On one hand, some teachers invoke a local identity of Iquique to highlight similarities with migrant families from neighbouring countries. On the other hand, some teachers raise a normative family ideal to which migrant families are excluded due to their parenting cultures and caring practices, in which children can have an active role as caregivers.
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2026 EN
Piredda Patrizia
In my paper, I analyse Wittgenstein's Private Notebooks 1914–1916, which he wrote during the war, to investigate his struggle to become and remain a decent, ethical person despite the moral corruption he observed while serving in the army. The Notebooks are not merely devoted to noting down facts and thoughts. The Notebooks can be divided into two parts: on the right-hand, Wittgenstein wrote his philosophical reflections about logic, which were the basis of the Tractatus (these notes were published in 1961 with a new edition of the Tractatus); on the left-hand, he wrote encrypted entries about his war experiences. In my paper, I will interpret the relation between these two forms of writing from the perspective of Wittgenstein's conception of language. I will also investigate how Tolstoy's Gospel, Nietzsche's Antichrist and the conception of eroticism as described in Plato's Symposium rest at the root both of his personal conception of religion and ethics in order to be a decent person, and the distinction he makes between the ‘speakable’ and the ‘unspeakable’, which constitutes the bedrock of the logic of the Tractatus.
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2026 EN
Cinelli Gianluca
Ernst Jünger's renown owes much to his first book, The Storm of Steel (In Stahlgewittern, 1920), a personal narrative based on fifteen notebooks in which the author recorded his war experiences between December 1914 and September 1918, while fighting on the Western Front. In his war diaries (Kriegstagebücher), Jünger records his experiences by focusing on how the technological and mass-scale war impacts the landscape, the human body and the mind. As scholars have claimed, Jünger contributed to shaping a novel notion of heroism in which the classical values of bravery, strength, endurance, and chivalry adapt to the mass dimension of mechanical warfare: insofar as the understanding of the unprecedented destructive power of technology required a novel approach, Jünger's ability to account for the war by blending personal impressions and emotions with the description of naked facts characterises his journal prose in terms of “factualness” (Sachlichkeit). His diaries testify to the birth of a new aesthetic approach to representing war in the early twentieth century as an experience that must be observed from the perspective of the cultural transformation the warrior undertook between 1914 and 1918, trying to remain a free agent while acting as a cog in a machine.
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2026 EN
López Macarena Tejada
This article examines two key diaries and memoirs of the Blue Division—the corps of 47,000 Spanish volunteers sent by Franco’s fascist government to fight alongside Hitler’s Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front (Novgorod–Leningrad sector) between October 1941 and October 1943. It focuses on the war diaries of Colonel José Martínez Esparza and the memoirs of Falange militant and journalist José Luis Gómez Tello, analysing how their racial and ideological positions shaped their observations of the confrontation between ‘the Other’ (Russians, the East) and ‘the Self’ (Spaniards, the West). Both authors later held high-ranking posts in the Army and Falange Española, and each came from strongly Catholic, affluent, and educated families aligned with conservative politics. Their social and political backgrounds played a decisive role in how they interpreted Spain’s participation in the war and defined its enemies: Soviet Russia and the Jewish people.
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2026 EN
de Pasquale Emma
The article examines Alba de Céspedes’ Quaderno proibito as a diaristic novel in which autobiographical writing and female identity in post-war Italy are explored through the experience of the protagonist Valeria Pisani. The study highlights the novel’s serial nature and its adaptability to other media, including theatre, radio, and television, where the diary’s role shifts to fit different narrative and audience demands. These adaptations create an intermedial network that reinterprets the Valeria’s voice, reflecting broader sociocultural changes.
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2026 EN
Korostelina Karina V. · Zakharchenko A. · Rohalov O.
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This study examines the evolution of Ukrainian national identity following the occupation of Eastern Ukraine in 2014 and Russia's ongoing invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Drawing on thematic and discourse analysis of interviews and media content, the study provides insights into how the ongoing conflict has accelerated a process of national homogenization and Ukrainianization. It identifies three dominant narratives – compared to five competing narratives in 2012 – and explores their contradictions and implications for national unity. The study reveals that while the ‘Fight for Ukrainian Culture’ and ‘Multicultural’ narratives stand in opposition to each other, the ‘Civic Unity’ narrative presents a potential bridge for reconciling these differing perspectives. A key finding is the marked growth in Ukrainian patriotism and the shift toward a civic national identity, characterized by proactivity, freedom, and a deepened commitment to defending the nation. Finally, the study reveals a growing European identity among Ukrainians, with all three narratives aligning Ukraine with Western civilization. This research provides critical insights into the ongoing transformation of national identity in Ukraine amidst the backdrop of war and geopolitical struggle.
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2026 EN
Bouchard Michel · Antsybor Daria
Much like wars waged in real life on battlefronts, memes battle online for discursive supremacy. Memes were shaping online narratives in the early months of the massive, renewed Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. These memes provide hope, develop solidarity, and reinforce a Ukrainian national identity in a context where citizens fight for their very survival. Memes, we argue, enable assailed citizens to call upon a reinvigorated nationalism to resist invading forces. The memes ridicule the enemy, allay fear of the invading foe and affirm that Ukrainians are not Russian. The disparagement of Russians thus encourages the people of Ukraine to hold steadfastly against the invaders as they refuse to be incorporated into a ‘Russian land’ against their will. Memes are central to the nation and nationalism, seeking to shape the outcome of the war to ensure the continued existence of the Ukrainian state and a Ukrainian nation through the mobilization of nationalism using pictures and words shared online.
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2026 EN
Barreto Amílcar Antonio
The struggle for equal citizenship in the US is facing new challenges. Whereas yesterday’s hard right was blatantly bigoted today's prefers to snidely downgrade the other. This discourse does not directly challenge the civic creed as would its Jim Crow era counterpart. Instead, it implicitly corrals it by juxtaposing herrenvolk virtue with the other’s iniquity. This paper will examine depictions of Puerto Ricans in the post-Cold War era as expendable, disloyal, irresponsible and unworthy. This new rhetorical style lays the groundwork for belittling Puerto Ricans and other people of color all the while feigning to uphold equality of citizenship.
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2026 EN
Hrybenko Oleksandra
Women journalists reporting on wars have been both admired and despised for undertaking a traditionally male-dominated occupation and challenging gender stereotypes. This article presents the results of an exploratory qualitative study about the restrictions that Ukrainian women journalists encounter while reporting on the Russo-Ukrainian war, including gendered and political threats. Respondents reported facing a wide range of threats, such as imprisonment, interrogation, and legal persecution when reporting in the Russian-occupied territories of Ukraine, as well as military censorship introduced by Ukrainian authorities including restricting their access to news sites and sources. Research participants reported experiencing sexism from their colleagues and sources that manifested in condescending attitudes, pseudo-protectionism and hostile sexism hindering women journalists’ ability to participate in the public debate and perform professional practices. Contributing to the literature on journalism, safety, gendered threats and self-censorship, this research utilizes the model of occupational safety and self-censorship concept to identify threats women journalists face reporting on the war and how they affect their personal safety and professional practice.
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2026 EN
Molek-Kozakowska Katarzyna
The article explores editorial practices regarding the formulation of headlines in the tabloid coverage of the Russian-Ukrainian war. On the basis of a purposive matching dataset of 568 headlines harvested between 2022 and 2024 from the online versions of two popular English-language tabloids, The Mirror (UK) and The New York Post (US), and two top Polish-language outlets, SuperExpress and Fakt , the study focuses on the representations of social actors and the schematic narratives they are involved in. Both social actor analysis and transitivity analysis performed for each outlet/language map how tabloids simplify and polarize war-related reporting to engage audiences. The findings include a spectrum of identified discursive strategies of polarization, personalization of conflict, and of moral evaluation. These patterns underlie the tabloid format’s reproduction of binary oppositions and stereotyping, as well as prominence of human-centered narratives anchored in clear moral distinctions. The study helps raise linguistic awareness of how tabloids, with their editorial practices and audience-oriented design, entrench polarized representations that aggravate conflict and impede a nuanced understanding of political relations needed for reconciliation.