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David Backer deposited Is Discussion an Exchange of Ideas? On Education, Money, and Speech in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoHow do we learn the link between speech and money? What is the process of formation that
legitimates the logic whereby speech is equivalent to money? What are the experiences, events, and subjectivities
that render the connection between currency and speaking/listening intuitive? As educators and researchers,
what do we do and say to shore up…[Read more] -
Kenneth Mayer started the topic Do student preferences and classroom dynamics shape scholarly disciplines? in the discussion
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoDoes anyone discuss how student interests or concerns can wind up shaping curricula or even the direction of a scholarly discipline?
I have combed the education literature and not seen a hint of anything that could give me a model or theoretical context for my claims about how classroom practice shaped scholarly discipline in Classics,…[Read more] -
Joshua Abah ABAH deposited Emphasizing Phenomenology as a Research Paradigm for Interpreting Growth and Development in Mathematics Education in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoEvidence from researches emanating from Nigeria in the field of mathematics education has revealed an over-reliance on broad methods of empirical inquiry. There seem to be a general stereotypical restriction on approaches to conducting investigation across the noble discipline, thereby stifling the spirit of innovation, open-mindedness and…[Read more]
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Caren Irr deposited Climate Fiction in English in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoAn introductory survey of climate fiction (a.k.a. “cli-fi”) in English. Written with an international readership in mind.
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Sian Sullivan deposited Making nature investable: from legibility to leverageability in fabricating ‘nature’ as ‘natural capital’ in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn response to perceived valuation problems giving rise to global environmental crisis, ‘nature’ is being qualified, quantified and materialised as the new external(ised) ‘Nature-whole’ of ‘natural capital’. This paper problematises the increasing legibility, through numbering and (ac)counting practices, of natural capital as an apparently…[Read more]
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Sian Sullivan deposited The disvalues of alienated capitalist natures in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis engagement highlights the antagonism between wealth and the commodity value form posed at the heart of Marx’s work. In doing so, it considers methodological possibilities for both understanding and intervening in the fabricating of new alienated capitalist values from beyond-human natures.
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Mariusz Kozak deposited Listeners’ Bodies in Music Analysis: Gestures, Motor Intentionality, and Models in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoIn this article I demonstrate how listeners understand musical processes with their bodies, and how their gestures can be used to build analytical models. Specifically, I draw on the phenomenology of Maurice Merleau-Ponty to argue that situated, active listeners project their motor intentional gestures inside music, where they reconstitute the…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance B in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoExcerpt: Concordance B from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).
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Laurie Ringer deposited Excerpt: Concordance A in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoExcerpt: Concordance A from L. Ringer, ‘A Select Concordance of Some 400 Middle English Texts: A Study of Wycliffite Discourse with Particular Discussion of the Issues of Contemporary Poverty, Pious Practice, Substantive Law, and Anticlerical Style’ (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of Hull, 2007, Supervisor: Veronica O’Mara).
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Eric Dunnum deposited Dauphine Was Right: Masques, the Authenticity of (Un)Performed Identity, and the Two Prologues of Epicene in the group
Performance Studies on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis paper argues that Epicene, Jonson’s first public play after being made official court masque writer, is unusually optimistic about the possibilities of drama. The play explores the possibility of creating an authentic personality through performance, an idea that Jonson is often hostile towards. However, Jonson’s flirtation with this…[Read more]
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Codex Lab deposited La Escuela de Pensamiento y Creatividad (EPC) como forma de descubrimiento y autoconocimiento en la infancia: el planteamiento de Alfonso López Quintás in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoPara un niño, la capacidad de relacionarse con el entorno resulta vital para un correcto autoconocimiento y desarrollo individual. Para ello debe recurrir a una realidad primordial, un modelo comunicativo que tenga carácter referencial en su vida como la figura de los padres. Es en ellos en los que podemos hallar un primer estadio prefilosófico –…[Read more]
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Laurie Ringer deposited Draft Handout on Critical Note Taking on Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit: Reading 1 in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoThis draft handout accompanied in-class discussion and instruction. There are two key objectives: 1) to model the practices of critical note taking, including close reading, connection making, and question asking; and 2) to document the first assigned reading from Becky Chambers’ A Closed and Common Orbit. This handout covers the first three c…[Read more]
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Nicky Agate posted an update in the group
Education and Pedagogy on Humanities Commons 8 years, 2 months agoCFP: Call for Papers: Teaching and Resistance in the Age of Trumpism
The 2016 election of Donald Trump has brought with it a wave of dangerous, reactionary developments, including an emboldened white supremacy; brazen sexism; a belligerent foreign policy posture; an ever-more punitive stance on “law and order”; racist, xenophobic immigration and…[Read more] -
Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Ferdinand Stenglein deposited Auf neuen Wegen des Aufstands? Zum Anarchismus in der zeitgenössischen Geographie – eine Sammelrezension in the group
Anarchism on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoEs wird hier die ‘Anarchism, Geography and The Spirit of Revolt’ Triologie besprochen und deren Beitrag zur Anarchistischen Geographie diskutiert. Dabei werden vor allem die Tendenzen kritisiert, die dazu beitragen anarchistische Ansätze in der Geographie als hegemoniales Projekt zu positionieren. Ist ein solches Unterfangen wirklich ein neuer…[Read more]
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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Jonathan Sterne deposited How Do We Intervene in the Stubborn Persistence of Patriachy in Communication Scholarship? in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper analyzes the continued propensity of men to cite other men, and more importantly, to NOT cite the work of women, in Communication Studies. After documenting the continued and troubling persistence of the erasure of women’s scholarship, the paper argues for intervening at the points at which the field reproduces itself.
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Melanie Le Forestier deposited Representation of Indian diasporic female subjectivities in women’s diasporic cinema in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoThis paper discusses the emergence of a women’s diasporic cinema that challenges the representation of Indian women as guardians of Indian values. Through the examination of three films directed by women filmmakers (Mira Nair, Deepa Mehta and Nisha Pahuja), this analysis proposes to delve into the reconfiguration of Indian identity in a context o…[Read more]
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Jean Marie Carey deposited Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 8 years, 3 months agoA review of “Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask,” catalogue for the eponymous 2017 exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
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