The main objective of this article is to examine the representation of ʻhomelandʼ in three short stories by Caribbean-American writer Edwidge Danticat: “The Book of the Dead,” “Night Talkers,” and “The Gift.” All three stories represent Haitian migrants in the multi-cultural setting of the United States. A central theme that connects these stories…[Read more]

Abstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran

Abstract of my book chapter, published in Memory, Voice, and Identity
Muslim Women’s Writing from across the Middle East
Edited By Feroza Jussawalla, Doaa Omran

Este mapa salió en la edición número 312 del suplemento de la Jornada, Ojarasca, en el artículo titulado: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial”
Para más información de las fuentes, véase el artículo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/04/07/ojarasca312.pdf

This map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca…[Read more]

Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.

Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]

Using a qualitative method of research, the study investigated the increasing use of traditional medicine in Ghana, focusing on Afigya Kwabre South District. Traditional medicine has gone through various stages since time immemorial, especially with regard to how its patronage has evolved over time. The period ranges from the pre-colonial era,…[Read more]

You read it everywhere. Everyone talks about it, always as a value in itself. We are all haunted by it, not least at universities, not least in the humanities, by the ubiquitous requirement to be innovative. Projects that do not require innovation would not receive the grace of funding in an academic system that is both bloated and thinned out at…[Read more]

Una breve presentación con resultados de la tesis “Análisis geoespacial e hidrográfico del deterioro ambiental y su impacto en las enfermedades crónico degenerativas en la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan”, utilizados para la edición 186 de la Jornada del Campo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/03/18/delcampo/index.html

This essay argues that an antiracist, anticolonialist Victorian studies must remain open to universalizing claims of the kind found in early works of queer theory, particularly Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the Closet (1990). Although recent work in queer studies (as well as literary studies generally) finds inspiration in Sedgwick’s…[Read more]

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]

Lu, Toh-Ming (2023). Me and the helpless universe, In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor) , Volume 2023, Number 3A, 2023(3A), March 2023; 40 pages, Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu. ……………ABSTRACT: This electronic book contains a collection of oil paintings tha…[Read more]

The climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]

The partition of British India into two sovereign independent nations of India and Pakistan in 1947 was one of the most defining moments of the socio-political course of the sub-continent. The fight for independence from colonial rule and the rise of nationalism rooted in the religious discourse of two prominent religious communities- Hindus and…[Read more]

Despite a lack of a traditional cinema culture, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), has recently witnessed an increase in film production. This rise can be attributed to a number of factors, not least of which, is the opening of movie theaters, the establishment of international film festivals and the arrival of film companies. These ventures have…[Read more]

Article about the Spanish composer, teacher and musicologist Felipe Pedrell, founder of the Modern Musicology in Spain

एक अखबार को दिए गए साक्षात्कार में साई बाबा ने बताया था कि हैदराबाद में “मेरा राजनीतिक जीवन मंडल आयोग और आरक्षण की लड़ाई से शुरू हुआ।” जिसमें वसंथा भी उनके साथ शामिल थीं। उसी दौरान मार्च, 1991 में उन्होंने विवाह भी किया। वह लड़ाई वे आजीवन लड़ते रहे।

इसी प्रकार हैनी बाबू ने भी अन्य पिछड़ा वर्ग के हितों की अनेक बड़ी लड़ाईयां, जिस…[Read more]