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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and Feminism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis chapter examines anarchist feminism as a politics that has emerged through critical engagements with both anarchism and non-anarchist feminisms. As a current within anarchism, anarchist feminism is rightly linked to the writing of leading anarchist women, typically neglected in anarchist canons. Yet in different historical moments anarchist…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Occupy and the constitution of anarchy in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis article provides the first comparative reading of the minutes of the General Assemblies of three iconic Occupy camps: Wall Street, Oakland and London. It challenges detractors who have labelled the Occupy Wall Street movement a flash-in-the-pan protest, and participant-advocates who characterised the movement anti-constitutional. Developing…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Anarchism and non-domination in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 5 years agoIn this article we recover the classical anarchist deployment of republican tropes of non-domination, tyranny and slavery, to expose the conservative limits of the contemporary neo-Roman republican revival. For the anarchists, the modern nation state and the institution of private property are antithetical to freedom as non-domination, acting as…[Read more]
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Ruth Kinna deposited Heretical constructions of anarchist utopianism in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 5 years agoThis paper examines a relationship between heresy and utopianism forged in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century socialist histories to reveal a significant and pervasive fault-line in the ideological construction of anarchism. I look at Marxist narratives which trace the lineages of socialism to medieval religious dissent and show how the…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited The “Mayan” Train: Mexico’s latest industrial expansion renewed / El Tren Maya: la renovación de la última forntera industrial de México in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoMexico’s president Lopez Obrador launched four major industrial projects as a part of his so-called fourth transformation, promoted as a turning point after decades of structural reforms and an export based economy. A new oil refinery and metropolitan airport and two trains that connect southeastern Mexico with the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans a…[Read more]
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Stephanie Leite deposited Earth Focus no. 17 in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years agoEarth Focus is a forum for discussion and a catalyst for action for young people of all ages. We deal with issues concerning our environment, community and culture at all levels. Issue 17 includes the sections: Your Future Starts Here, Decent and Dignified Jobs, Voices of Child Labor, Prepare for a Career, Become a Volunteer, Youth Employment in…[Read more]
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited “Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month ago“Foreword.” YILLIK: Annual of Istanbul Studies 2 (2020): 3
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Knowledge and Household Preparations of Selected Communities in Central Luzon, Philippines: Basis for Enhanced Community Disaster Education Program in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoDisaster is nature’s worst event that can happen anytime and anywhere. It creates unfathomable destruction to everything. This study aimed to analyse and explore the disaster knowledge and household preparations of individuals in selected communities located in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study used a descriptive r…[Read more]
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Steven Swarbrick deposited Renaissance Posthumanism and Its Afterlives in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 1 month agoIntroduction to a special issue on Renaissance post-humanism and its afterlives.
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Priscila Carvalho deposited FAIR climate change: emergent data framework in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe proposal is to discuss the design of a framework based on FAIR principles focused on the climate change concept on two approaches: metadata to improve data recovery efficiency, and use of FAIR parameters to problem solutions, decision making, public policies, and process reproduction. In addition, this project can contribute to mitigating…[Read more]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Pirate Traces. An Existential Response to Gary Hall’s ‘Anti-Bourgeois Theory’ in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoLate in the summer of 2019, Gary Hall gave a series of talks hosted by the Philosophy Department at Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City. One of them was titled ‘Liberalism Must be Defeated. On the Obsolescence of Bourgeois Theory in the Anthropocene’. As the organizer of this event, I was curious about the reception of this argument in a con…[Read more]
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Francesco Luzzini deposited Sounding the depths of providence: Mineral (re)generation and human-environment interaction in the early modern period in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe genesis and growth of minerals, as well as the existence in ore veins of such organic features as ‘seeds’, ‘matrices’, and ‘nourishment’, remained central and recurrent issues for natural philosophers, technicians, alchemists and practitioners throughout early modern Europe. By providing an overview of the main themes, voices, and concurrent…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Management Program Compliance and Problems Encountered in Two Provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoDisaster management is one area in the field that comes with a heavy burden of administrative functions and compliances. Thus, it is vital to consider among managers to put the best man in the field. The purpose of this study is to find out the disaster management program compliance of participants in two provinces in Central Luzon, Philippines.…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Natural Calamity, Its Impact and Level of Preparations: Significance and Implications to the Community in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 2 months agoThe purpose of the study is to analyze the knowledge of natural calamity, its impact and level of preparations of respondents in Central Luzon, Philippines. This study employed a descriptive-correlation design. 125 respondents participated in the survey with the use of convenience sampling technique. We drafted a questionnaire and subjected it to…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Radical Lumpers (Sobre las diferencias raciales) in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoEnglish abstract: A paper arguing the relevance of a cognitive narratological perspective and a retrospective stance attentive to hindsight bias in order to clarify the debate on racial differences and population diversity in biology. The issue is discussed with reference to the dichotomy between ‘lumpers’ and ‘splitters’ in paleoanthropology as…[Read more]
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Oscar Martinez-Peñate deposited La Pandemia, Retos y Desafios en la Sociedad in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 5 years, 3 months agoLa pandemia ha dejado al descubierto, necesidades y problemas sociales, asimismo, obligó a los gobiernos dar respuestas inmediatas de corto y mediano plazo para evitar el caos o la anomia social. El Covid-19, generó las condiciones hacia la realización de cambios y transformaciones sociales, para que, de esta incertidumbre y recesión, en lug…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Effect of Performance Review and Faculty Development to Organizational Climate in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoFaculty performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate are an essential element of the educational institution. More importantly, the mentioned variables have certain connections and interplay with each other. This study describes the performance review, faculty development, and organizational climate of a tertiary education…[Read more]
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Koca Mehmet Kentel deposited CfP: Cities on Fire: Environmental History of Urban Conflagrations in Early Modern and Modern Periods in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoPapers focusing on the urban environmental history of fires are invited for a panel to be submitted to
the European Society for Environmental History conference, which will be held at the
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Jonathan Basile deposited Other Matters: Karen Barad’s Two Materialisms and the Science of Undecidability in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoKaren Barad’s Meeting the Universe Halfway relies on mutually incompatible grounding gestures, one of which describes the relationality of an always already material-discursive reality, while the other seeks to ground this relation one-sidedly in matter. These two materialisms derive from the gesture she borrows from the New Materialist (and o…[Read more]
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Samuel Johnson started the topic MLA 2021 Sessions in the discussion
World-Ecology Research Network on Humanities Commons 5 years, 4 months agoHi all,
I am interested in proposing a just-in-time session for MLA 2021 concerning forest fires and ecological crisis. I think a round-table format on media, teaching, and the role of the humanities in teaching/researching ecological crisis would be timely and work well for these new sessions. My research is centered in South America and…[Read more]
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