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Duncan Money deposited “A Fundamental Human Right”? Mixed-Race Marriage and the Meaning of Rights in the Postwar British Commonwealth in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article explores the removal or exclusion in the late 1940s of people in interracial marriages from two corners of the newly formed Commonwealth of Nations, Australia and Britain’s southern African colonies. The stories of Ruth and Sereste Khama, exiled from colonial Botswana, and those of Chinese refugees threatened with deportation and…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoTomorrow at 3pm BST/4pm CEST/10am EDT is our last Open Cafe before we take a couple of months off to plan the next year of events and activities at the OABN. Do please join us with your beverage of choice to let us know your thoughts — are there particular topics you want us to cover, different formats we should try, something we did well,…[Read more]
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Eric Hellman replied to the topic Announcements in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’ve opened the Free Ebook Foundation Open Access Monographs Fund! https://blog.unglue.it/2021/07/02/the-ebook-turns-50-fef-monographs-fund/
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Anne Pasek deposited Carbon Vitalism: Life and the Body in Climate Denial in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoThis article names and examines carbon vitalism, a strain of climate denial centered on the moral recuperation of carbon dioxide—and thus fossil fuels. Drawing on interconnections between CO2, plant life, and human breath, carbon vitalists argue that carbon dioxide is not pollution but the stuff of life itself and thus possesses ethical and e…[Read more]
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Christina Drummond replied to the topic Book usage and book usage data in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoGreetings Everyone. Over the past year, the OA eBook Usage (OAeBU) Data Trust effort hosted human centered design inspired workshops and activities to surface how scholars, publishers, libraries, platforms and services want to use OA ebook usage data. The resulting report captures both specific reporting query interests as well as aspirations for…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoHi all, the experimental OA books event with COPIM is today at 3pm BST — hope to see you there! Find the link here: https://openaccessbooksnetwork.hcommons-staging.org/2021/06/22/lets-experiment-join-us-for-a-boookmarks-event-next-tuesday/
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited GIS-Assisted Identification Of Historic Districts: A Conceptual Model Case Study In Planaltina, Brazil in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoGeoreferencing and digital databases are being used increasingly as tools for the identification, visualization, and management of cultural heritage sites. Likewise, typological models are useful for classifying buildings and structuring knowledge about historic urban districts. The merging of these two approaches provides increased spatial…[Read more]
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Bruno Antonio Buike deposited Music – Military – Moksha in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoNeuss: Bruno Buike 2019 – 58 p. – E23 doublenumber – (dedication-essay for BBWV 137 and 139 – settings for Gipsy violin on “Come Zigany”, Countess Maritza, 1 st movm., by Imre Kalman) -x-contributing to revisiting history of 20th century according to suggestions coming from Joseph P. Farrell, Guido Preparata, Anthony Sutton – b ) introducing into…[Read more]
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Pablo Markin started the topic The Replication Crisis in the discussion
Open Access Books Network via email on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDear All,
The evidence-based science discussion highlights factors likely leading to the emergence of Open Access, as ongoing crises across scientific discourses have possibly powered a demand for a revision of the basic assumptions subtending publishing practices:…[Read more]
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Lucy Barnes replied to the topic bOokmArks events – Open Conversations about Open Access Books in the discussion
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoWe’re delighted to announce our final two events before the summer!
After completing our series on OA books policy, ‘Voices from the OA Books Community’ (details and recordings here) we are holding two more events before taking July and August off to plan the next 12 months of activities (and maybe have a holiday!) We’re rounding our first year…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Полибий о Понте Эвксинком: история геологического времени in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoRussian Abstract: В статье рассматриваются авторские отступления на тему гидрографии Черного моря (Понт Эвксинский) в четвертой книге Всеобщей истории Полибия. Наблюдения греческого историка за влиянием длительного воздействия рек и морских течений на геологические трансформации рельефа сделали его предвестником геологической теории униформиз…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Awareness and Level of Compliance to Disaster Programs in a Highly Urbanized City in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDisaster is an event that shapes our future. During a disaster, it affects lives, infrastructures, livestock and produce, and we can only adapt to it. The aim of this study is to analyze disaster awareness and level of compliance to disaster programs of selected individuals in a highly urbanized city in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study made…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited Disaster Awareness and Level of Compliance to Disaster Programs in a Highly Urbanized City in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoDisaster is an event that shapes our future. During a disaster, it affects lives, infrastructures, livestock and produce, and we can only adapt to it. The aim of this study is to analyze disaster awareness and level of compliance to disaster programs of selected individuals in a highly urbanized city in Central Luzon, Philippines. The study made…[Read more]
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John Mark R. Asio deposited The Relationship between Multiple Intelligences and Participation Rate in Extracurricular Activities of Students from a Catholic Education Institution in the group
Public Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 7 months agoMultiple intelligences and extracurricular activities are two variables that may affect a student’s academic and non-academic performance in school. This study aimed at describing and finding the relationship between multiple intelligences and participation rates in extracurricular activities of students from a Catholic educational institution. T…[Read more]
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Duncan Money deposited ‘Not Wholly Justified’: The Deferred Pay Interest Fund and Migrant Labour in South Africa’s Gold Mining Industry, c.1970–1990 in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoA little-known feature of the vast migrant labour system that supplied South Africa’s gold-mining industry was the Deferred Pay Interest Fund. For much of the 20th century, a portion of the wages owed to African mine workers was deferred and remitted to them only at the end of their contracts. This is well-known, but what happened to the i…[Read more]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited Censura y autocensura en la temprana imprenta hispánica: el linaje Villandrando, condes de Ribadeo, y los «Claros varones de Castilla», de Fernando de Pulgar in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoEl lugar de importancia en la historia de la cultura hispánica medieval que ocupan los Claros varones de Castilla (BETA texid 1714) es absolutamente indiscutible. Su autor, Fernando de Pulgar, desde su evidente y marcado “pensamiento literario forjado en el tránsito de la Castilla enriqueña a la isabelina”, es considerado por muchos como el más…[Read more]
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Pedro P. Palazzo deposited Building typology in the vernacular architecture of Beirã in the group
Urban Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThe morphology of the traditional Portuguese town arises in the Middle Ages and is similar, in its formation, to most Western European town-making processes spurred by defensive and commercial needs. The traditional Portuguese town supports a single base building typology for private use, which remained relatively stable from the sixteenth to the…[Read more]
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Victor Nnadozie deposited Alternative pathways to universal basic education : through the lens of Almajiri nomadic schooling in northern Nigeria in the group
Open Access Books Network on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSedentary pathways to organise teaching and learning in fixed-abode classrooms remain a dominant formal schooling practice. This is in contrast to nomadic pathways, which see teachers and/or learners engaged in a form of mobility whilst teaching/learning outside permanent sedentary settings. In northern Nigeria, not all children participating in…[Read more]
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Paul Michael Kurtz deposited The Philological Apparatus: Science, Text, and Nation in the Nineteenth Century in the group
History on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoPhilology haunts the humanities, through both its defendants and its detractors. This article examines the construction of philology as the premier science of the long nineteenth century in Europe. It aims to bring the history of philology up to date by taking it seriously as a science and giving it the kind of treatment that has dominated the…[Read more]
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