Perras que ladran sí muerden: Genealogía de un reclamo, ejemplos sicarios de “Perra brava” (2010) de Orfa Alarcón y “Perras de reserva” (2022) de Dahlia de la Cerda

El artículo examina la complejidad del llamado empoderamiento femenino focalizándose en la reapropiación del término “perra/bitch” en “Perra brava” de Orfa Alarcón y tres cuentos de “Perras de reserva” de Dahlia de la Cerda. El análisis destaca como es…

Escape Capital

This article provides a novel perspective on the phenomenon of youths running away from Norwegian residential childcare institutions, challenging conventional views that attribute such actions to delinquency or pathology. By adopting an expe…

About the Authors

Oral Tradition, 37 (2025):221-22 Monire Akbarpouran is a PhD candidate in the sociology of culture at INRS (Montréal). She earned a doctorate in French literature at Shahid Beheshti University (Tehran, 2017), where her dissertation examined comparative approaches to epic, with particular attention to French and Turkic traditions. In this context, she developed a specific interest […]

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Framing Dropout

This article examines dropout from therapeutic communities for addiction treatment through the lens of institutional escape. In conventional treatment research, dropout is framed as evidence of patients’ non-compliance, lack of motivation, o…

Overcoming ‘Distinctive Backwardness’

From 1920 through 1932, Soviet biomedical propaganda disseminated via Udmurt literature including through periodicals, novels, plays, and poetry aimed to instil sanitation values and advance modernisation. This propaganda targeted the Indig…

The Climate of Comparison

This essay is based on the 2025 Westermarck Lecture, delivered at the 50th anniversary meetings of the Finnish Anthropological Society. My deepest thanks to the organisers, staff, and participants of that conference, including Sarah Green, …