Akira Kurosawa’s 1963 police procedural is, as its title suggests, intensely interested in the socioeconomic valences of spatial relationships, literalized in Yokohama’s affluent hills and its low-lying slums. The central conflict between inhabitants of these two spaces articulates this local topography into a global framework, in which con…[Read more]

Los profesionales de los medios de comunicación, en particular de la prensa plana homogenizan la pluralidad de las demandas públicas. Lo anterior incide en la construcción de la agenda del medio de comunicación e implica un sesgo en la selección, procesamiento y jerarquización de las informaciones a socializar. Se plantea como objetivo: anali…[Read more]

n la última década, el campo de la inteligencia artificial (IA) ha experimentado avances significativos. Uno de los desarrollos más notables es el modelo de lenguaje Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT), que ha revolucionado la forma en que las máquinas pueden interactuar con los humanos. Su capacidad para comprender, generar y responder tex…[Read more]

This article explores the consequences of the environmental transformations of the Laurentian Valley on the timber trade uniting the Province of Canada and the industrialization of Great Britain during the nineteenth century. The notion of ghost acres used to describe the ecological footprint of resource consumption from abroad is extended to…[Read more]

Desde que el hispanista francés Félix Lecoy llamase en 1938 la atención sobre las
peculiaridades de los papeles atribuidos a las mujeres en la obra de Juan Ruiz, numerosos
trabajos académicos se han dedicado a esclarecer en lo posible las coordenadas históricas
y literarias de esta presencia femenina en el Libro de buen amor, sobre todo en lo r…[Read more]

La comunicación científica ha experimentado cambios significativos con la introducción de los preprints. Estos constituyen versiones preliminares de artículos científicos que se comparten en línea antes de la revisión por pares y la publicación en revistas científicas que puede llevar meses. Mucho se ha escrito sobre este tema. Un ejemplo se ident…[Read more]

This essay shares the author’s ideas, alluding to depth psychology, philosophy, and comparative culture, particularly East-West differences in the basic worldviews people can have, such as I-Thou, Us vs. Them or We-They, I-Nature or I-Universe, with Asian people tending to live more collectively in a social reality. The essay includes Zen insights…[Read more]

Although a plethora of ancient South Asian sources refer to situations that would be considered crises by modern standards, the early Sanskrit vocabulary lacks a word that we could understand as a distinct equivalent of the term “crisis” and its Greek and Latin predecessors. Nevertheless, the descriptions and discussions of personal and col…[Read more]

This journalistic essay can give Western readers insight into non-Western logic that the author has found in a long career in Japan. It is also informed by research on intercultural communication, bilingualism and biculturalism. The author teaches those subjects and has a Japanese family. This 2023 update includes the author’s photo taken in Osaka…[Read more]

The incidence of diseases in the Gold Coast (now Ghana) shaped encounters between colonial officials and indigenous people, yet this subject has merited minimum attention in the Ghanaian historiography. This paper examines the colonial healthcare interventions to combat the outbreak of cerebrospinal meningitis (CSM) in Asante and
how the presence…[Read more]

Los autores del presente artículo presentan una síntesis analítica del tratamiento que en la Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe han recibido los campos científicos inclusión educativa y educación inclusiva, para lo que, se recurre al estudio bibliométrico como recurso metodológico, como parte del cual, se siguieron los siguientes pasos:…[Read more]

The role of Japanese manga as a site for intercultural understanding and engagement is worth further investigation, and research in this area is
still growing. This article explores intercultural dialogue through a case study of the Japanese manga Satoko and Nada Volume 1 by Yupechika, which narrates the friendship between Satoko, a young…[Read more]

Chapter: Reflections of a Non-Binary Asian American in LIS. Book description (Litwin Books & Library Juice Press): In the library profession, and in the world as a whole, the experiences of trans and gender diverse people often go unnoticed, hidden, and ignored. But we are here. Trans and Gender Diverse Voices in Libraries is entirely written and…[Read more]

This conversation revolves around Dora Apel’s work in the field of art and memory. Memory, in its mediating force, is critical for our understanding of the present and the construction of a future, or, rather, as Dora Apel posits it in her recent book Calling Memory Into Place: “Memory effects are not about the past. How do they shape the pre…[Read more]

Historical Synergy: Mannheim holds that historical and political thought is determined by the socio-historical location of the thinker and the political aspirations and material ambitions of the group or groups to which he belongs.
2. Prehistoric Artic Hunter-Gatherer Synergy of Beliefs in Animal Spirits w/ Economic-Political Realities Erica Hill…[Read more]

La educación superior como sistema académico de universidades interrelacionadas constituye la evolución de un concepto eurocentrista originado en el siglo XII, fundamentalmente en Italia y Francia. Actualmente, las universidades tienen la responsabilidad de la formación de profesionales con un alto índice de compromiso social, ético y profe…[Read more]

La publicación en revistas se ha constituido en una necesidad y una práctica legitimadora de investigadores, paradigmas y posiciones ideológicas. El desarrollo local y su producción científica cobran vital importancia dentro de los procesos de socialización, en los que el modelo a seguir son las revistas de corriente principal. Este aspecto pone…[Read more]

A Cultural History of the Sea in the Medieval Age, ed. by Elizabeth Lambourn.

The cultural history of the sea during the Middle Ages is a young and dynamic field. Born only recently in the literary criticism of European sources, this innovative volume pushes out beyond this European heartland to explore the shape and potential of a cultural…[Read more]