This article examines the political role of illness in Émile Zola’s ‘La Faute de l’abbé Mouret’ (‘The Sin of Father Mouret’, 1875) in articulating the difference between a religious and a secular body. Published in the early French Third Republic (1870–1940), this novel shows the Zolian body as the nexus upon which religious and republi…[Read more]

In ‘Degeneration’ (1892), Max Nordau included Émile Zola in his theory that fin-de-siècle artists were a danger to society. According to Nordau, the ‘false science’ in Zola’s Naturalist novels would erode social progress in their alleged preoccupation with disease, sexual deviancy and amorality. This article proposes that degeneration is, how…[Read more]

Haussmann’s re-building of Paris in the 1850s and ’60s had created an ordered city. However, the bourgeoisie used the new urban configurations as a weapon against the lower classes. This article describes the spaces of the underground and the overground: the underground is the metaphorical and literal rubbish heap for those in the lower parts of…[Read more]

Im Ayurveda bedarf die Entstehung von Epidemien einer gesonderten Erklärung, da sie nicht mit dem dort gültigen allgemeinen Verständnis der Krankheitsentstehung in Einklang zu bringen ist. Das Grundkonzept sieht vor, dass Menschen je nach Konstitution, Ernährung, Körperkraft, Gewöhnung,
Charakter und Alter für bestimmte Krankheiten anfäll…[Read more]

Espigando el diverso y abigarrado contenido del primer artículo dedicado a la biografía de Mencía de Mendoza, es bastante curioso el hecho de que su humilde y opaco autor, que no se atrevió a firmar la pieza, otorgase veracidad a una supuesta conversación entre la dama y su marido. Según este relato, en una de las ocasiones en que el noble guerr…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]

This chapter discusses the aesthetic of refusal as it is articulated in contemporary performances in India and South Africa while debates around the #MeToo movement continue to agitate and exhaust womxn around the globe. In the aftermath of the Indian Supreme Court acquitting the Chief Justice of India of all sexual harassment charges in May 2019,…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: Comentario sobre algunas cuestiones éticas y metaficcionales en la película ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).

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English abstract: A comment on some ethical and metafictional issues in the science-fiction film ‘Eva’ (dir. Kike Maíllo, 2011).

Las dinámicas de concentración de la propiedad en los medios de comunicación constituyen una muestra de poder en las sociedades latinoamericanas y de apego a una concepción de desarrollo economicista. Por ello, las expresiones críticas de los grupos sociales que reclaman verse representados en el diseño de los mensajes son obviadas o minim…[Read more]

El constructivismo como perspectiva psicopedagógica constituye un marco referencial para llevar a cabo el proceso de enseñanza y aprendizaje. Ofrece las herramientas necesarias para que el estudiante se autogestione su conocimiento, siendo oportuno para la educación a distancia. El presente artículo tiene como propósito identificar las pote…[Read more]

This document is a basic guide for graduate students who need to work in archives or other special libraries. The guide includes items to bring or have on hand as well as steps for planning your visit and organizing your notes.

A series of sketches written in 1924 during an ocean crossing from New York to Tilbury, “Passage to England” was published only in 1998 by the Thomas Wolfe Society and is hardly Wolfe’s most popular or most accomplished work. Nonetheless I always felt that Passage to England had something unique and idiosyncratic and that despite a certain a…[Read more]

No creo que haya mejor ocasión que este homenaje alcalaíno al maestro Alberto Blecua para vencer las reticencias y dudas del neófito que, en palabras de Márquez Villanueva, ha de pisar por vez primera los “senderos de alto riesgo” por los que camina el Libro de buen amor. Por motivo de mi admiración y reconocimiento al homenajeado, voy a dejarme…[Read more]

On the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art.

On the art of refusing work and the labour of refusing art.

वर्ष 2007 में मधुर भंडारकर की फिल्म ‘ट्रैफिक सिग्नल’ आई थी। इस फिल्म में शहरों में हाशिए पर रहने वाली जिंदगियों का चित्रण था। फिल्म में छोटे-मोटे काम करने वाले, भीख मांग कर गुजारा करने वालों के साथ किन्नरों के त्रासद जीवन को भी दिखाया गया था। उस समय हिमाचल प्रदेश के कुछ लेखकों ने फिल्म में हिजड़ों को किन्नर कहने का का पुरजोर विरोध किया था। परिण…[Read more]

With US economic sanctions against Russia in recent years, the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline project in Europe that links Russia and Germany via the Baltic Sea came under considerable global attention. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine has only increased uncertainties around the Project, arguably one of the world’s most consequential submarine pip…[Read more]