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Pramod Ranjan deposited A chat with Gail Omvedt in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThese are excerpts from the Forward Press team’s India tour travelogue. Forward Press Consulting Editor Pramod Ranjan, sociologist Anil Kumar and Forward Press Editor (English) Anil Varghese were part of the team that went on the tour from Delhi to Kanyakumari between 5 January and 15 February 2017. The team covered nine states and one union t…[Read more]
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Sonia D. Andras deposited Fashion, Dress, Costume: a Proposed Terminological Clarification in the Historical Research of Women’s Clothing in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis paper delineates the conceptual variations between the notions ‘fashion’, ‘dress’ and ‘costume’ in English-language texts on women’s garment histories using relevant examples from interwar Romanian periodicals. The aim is to offer a more precise formulation, as these three terms have largely been used interchangeably. This paper is built on a…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited मौत, अकाल की आहट और आर्थिक असमानता पर चुप्पी क्यों? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoभारत में क्या हालत हो चुकी है, इसका अनुमान दिसंबर, 2020 में हुए एक सर्वेक्षण से लगता है। इस सर्वेक्षण के अनुसार भारत की आधी से अधिक आबादी को कोरोना-काल में पहले की तुलना में कम भोजन मिल रहा है। इनमें ज़्यादातर दलित और आदिवासी हैं। लेकिन इन सूचनाओं से भी अधिक भयावह यह है कि भारत का बौद्धिक वर्ग, ग़रीबों के सर पर मँडराते मौत के इस साये से प्राय:…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Making Camden History: local history and untold stories in a small community in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe Camden township is located 65 kilometres southwest of the Sydney CBD and, in recent years, has been absorbed by Sydney’s urban growth. The main streets are a mix of Victorian, Edwardian and interwar architecture comprising commercial, government and domestic buildings. The town site was originally the entry point into what became Governor…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited Camden War Cemetery in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoCamden War Cemetery is located on the corner of Burragorang and Cawdor Roads, three kilometres south of the Camden Post Office. The cemetery is on a slight rise above the Nepean River floodplain, with a northerly aspect at an elevation of 75 metres. The cemetery contains the graves of 17 Royal Australian Air Force servicemen, four army personnel…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited परिवर्तन के चार साल in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoफरवरी, 2010 में प्रकाशित इस लेख में बिहार की तत्कालीन राजनीतिक परिस्थितियों को रेखांकित किया गया है, जिसके कारण वंचित तबकों से आने लोगों का उत्पीड़न हो रहा था। लेख में इसके लिए तत्कालीन नीतीश कुमार की सरकार को दोषी बाताया गया है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किन्नौर में बहु-पति प्रथा : ‘मैं अपने दोनों बेटों को कहता हूं कि वे एक ही लड़की से विवाह करें’ in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoखूबसूरत प्राकृतिक दृश्यों से परिपूर्ण किन्नौर का समाज व संस्कृति शेष भारत से अलग है। यह बौद्ध धर्म का इलाका है, जिसे हिंदूवादी संस्कृति लीलती जा रही है। आर्थिक संपन्नता के आगमन से जाति-आधारित उत्पीड़न और भेदभाव कम हो रहा है। प्रमोद रंजन ने इस यात्रा संस्मरण में किन्नौर की विशिष्ट संस्कृति, बहु पत्नी प्रथा, वहां के समाज और राजनीति…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited पार्टनर, तुम्हारी पॉलिटिक्स क्या है? in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoयह आलेख आम आदमी पार्टी की दिल्ली में पहली बार सरकार बनने के बाद लिखा गया था। आलेख में आम आदमी पार्टी की सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर विचार किया गया है। यह लेख बताता है कि पार्टी दलित, पिछड़ों के हितों की परवाह नहीं करती।
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Harald Pittel deposited No More Playing in the Dark: Assembly by Natasha Brown in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe pre-publication praise Natasha Brown received for her debut novel Assembly (2021) from renowned writers like Bernardine Evaristo or Ali Smith is quite remarkable. The author had been virtually unknown to the larger public before winning one of the London Writers Awards in the literary fiction category in 2019. As a young Black British woman of…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited परिवारवाद की राजनीतिक माया in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoवर्ष 2009 में प्रकाशित यह लेख बिहार के मुख्यमंत्री रहे नीतीश कुमार के कुनबावाद की पड़ताल करता है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Professor, do you know why Nalanda continued to smoulder? in the group
Academic Politics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoIn August 2019, Prof Avijit Pathak and Prof Apoorvanand have written two poignant pieces on the government-sponsored maligning of JNU and the fall of the university, published in The Wire and the Indian Express, respectively. Taking the discourse forward, Forward Press managing editor Pramod Ranjan emphasizes the need for those fighting to save…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited ज्ञान निर्माण की प्रक्रिया: विश्वविद्यालय बनाम पिछड़े क्षेत्र और समुदाय in the group
Academic Politics on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoइस लेख में यूनिवर्सिटियों में सामाजिक न्याय की अवहेलना के कारण होने वाले नुकासान की चर्चा की गई है। लेख में कहा गया है कि प्राध्यापकों का मुख्य काम शिक्षण, यानी ज्ञान की व्याख्या करना है। ज्ञान का निर्माण एक सतत प्रक्रिया है, जो समाज में घटित होती है, यूनिवर्सिटियां भी इस प्रकिया का उतना ही अंग हैं, जितना किसी किस…[Read more]
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Massih Zekavat deposited Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoSatire, 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]
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Gabriela Méndez Cota deposited Género y Gordofobia in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoEn 1978, Monique Wittig afirmó que las lesbianas no son mujeres y, en este ensayo, las autoras plantean que las gordas tampoco lo son. El activismo gordo se apartó de ciertos movimientos del feminismo de la segunda ola al proponer la emancipación de «la gordura» —en general concebida como transtorno— de significados cómplices del orden social. L…[Read more]
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D. Gregory MacIsaac deposited Plato’s Account of Eleaticism: A New Interpretation of Parmenides in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoI propose a new interpretation of Plato’s Parmenides. I avoid the assumption of Developmentalism, that Plato is criticising his own ‘middle’ theory of forms. Instead, I read the dialogue as Plato’s serious presentation of the Eleatic position. He shows that Eleatics’s counterintuitive thesis follows from the fundamental assumption of qualitati…[Read more]
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Ian Willis deposited The Enduring Face of the Camden Showgirl in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThe Camden Miss Showgirl competition is, in many ways, an anachronism from the past. It has survived for 49 years under the onslaught of feminism, post-modernism, globalization and urbanisation. A worthy feat indeed.
The competition is still popular, and the local press is always a strong supporter. The 2010 Camden Showgirl competition attracted…[Read more] -
Seo-Young Chu deposited I, Discomfort Woman: A Fugue in F Minor in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis is a poem about fire.
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Carlos A. Pittella deposited Tradições, Transcrições, Traduções: Por um Entendimento Rizomático do Fausto Pessoano in the group
Poetics and Poetry on Humanities Commons 2 years, 10 months agoThis article invites the reading of Fernando Pessoa’s Fausto as a rhizomatic work, via three different critical lenses that lead to plurality: Traditions, Transcriptions, and Translations. Regarding different Faustian traditions, instead of seeing Pessoa’s Fausto merely as a competition with Goethe (as proposed by Eduardo Lourenço in his pref…[Read more]
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Elizabeth B. Davis deposited “Woman, Why Weepest Thou?” Re-Visioning the Golden Age Magdalen in the group
Feminist Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThis article examines Mary Magdalene’s biblical identity and poetic representation in selected sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spanish texts. An alternative reading or “re-visioning” (Adrienne Rich’s term) of the narratives that tell her story reclaims her figure from masculinist characterizations of Mary Magdalene that have made an enduring…[Read more]
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Sana Asif deposited Tangible Heritage and Intangible Memory: (Coping) Precarity in the Select Partition Writings by Muslim Women in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 11 months agoThe 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]
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