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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
Global & Transnational Studies 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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Michelle Bastian deposited Whale Falls, Suspended Ground, and Extinctions Never Known in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article contributes to work within extinction studies by asking how one might “story” extinctions of creatures that have been, and will remain, unknown. It grapples with losses that have been unrecorded, unmissed, and unrecognizable via the “lively ethography” approach to storying extinction. This approach, developed by Deborah Bird Rose an…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited La Cuenca Atoyac Zahuapan: cartografía para la escuela popular de la región in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoUna serie de mapas para explicar el contexto de la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan. Este es el primero de varios materiales que se producirán para difusión y formación popular. Este material preliminar carece todavía de un mayor detalle y explicación y será añadido posteriormente.
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Rita Singer deposited Project report: Teithwyr Ewropeaidd i Gymru, 1750–2010/European Travellers to Wales, 1750–2010 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoFor centuries, continental Europeans have come to Wales for numerous reasons. During the Romantic period some came seeking a rural idyll, whilst others in the Victorian era travelled as industrial spies, and during times of war many refugees escaped to Wales to find shelter from persecution. Not only have continental Europeans left their traces…[Read more]
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James L. Smith deposited Anxieties of Access: Remembering as a Lake in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article explores the nature of remembering as a lake, with a lake, or through a lake; the differential relationships, knowledge, and perspectives contained within; and the potentially troubling implications found at the intersection of scientific and humanistic perspectives on lake being. It also reflects on the totalizing nature of assuming…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Poetics of Nahḍah Multilingualism: Recovering the Lost Russian Poetry of Mikhail Naimy (2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoDrawing on archival research, this article introduces several Russian poems by the Arabic mahjar poet and writer Mikhail Naimy (Mīkhāʿīl Nu’aymah) (1889-1988) for the first time to scholarship. By examining the influence of Russian literature on Naimy’s literary output, we shed light on the role of multilingualism in generating literary identit…[Read more]
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited The Antiquarian Imagination in Multilingual Daghestan (2021) in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoThis article compares three key texts in Daghestani Islamicate literature by Persian Azeri writer Bākīkhānūf (d. 1847), Lezgi polymath al-Alqadārī (d. 1910), and Qumyq (Turkic) biographer al-Durgilī (d. 1935), with a view to understanding how their authors conceptualized their role as chroniclers of times past. I draw in particular on Italia…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited ‘El mapa y el territorio’: Espectáculo de autor in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoSpanish Abstract: En una cultura mediática en la que la literatura es espectáculo, los best-sellers son espectáculo de primera, y sus autores se vuelven parte del espectáculo. En este contexto era de esperar que surjan usos experimentales de la figura del autor, o curiosidades si se quiere, como el caso de Houellebecq, que, ficcionalizado en par…[Read more]
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Alexios Brailas deposited Digital storytelling and the narrative turn in psychology: Creating spaces for collective empowerment in the group
Narrative theory and Narratology on Humanities Commons 4 years, 8 months agoIn this article, we propose a model that combines digital storytelling with narrative practice to create a facilitated peer-to-peer experiential learning space for collective empowerment. This model was inspired by an educational intervention that utilized participatory digital comic strip making to raise students’ awareness of bullying and its c…[Read more]
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Rosanna Cantavella deposited Aproximació als pronoms adverbials i personals febles de l’Espill in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAn overall view of the use of personal and adverbial pronouns in a 15-c. long text in verse witten in Catalan, “Espill” by Jaume Roig. Personal and adverbial pronouns are studied by themselves as well as in combination.
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Karsten Schubert deposited Defending Plurality. Four Reasons Why We Need to Rethink Academic Freedom in Europe in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoAcademic freedom is under attack, both in authoritarian democracies, such as Hungary and Turkey, and in liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, the UK, France and Germany. For example, Gender Studies are being targeted by right-wing governments in Eastern Europe, and in France President Emmanuel Macron has attacked post-colonial…[Read more]
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Lawrence K Wang deposited EVOLUTIONARY ARTS AND LITERATURE FOR BILINGUAL POEMS: 中英名詩對譯 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoTsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (2021). Evolutionary Mathematics and Art for Bilingual Poems. In: “Evolutionary Progress in Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)”, Wang, Lawrence K. 王 抗 曝 and Tsao, Hung-ping 曹 恆 平 (editors). Volume 3, Number 3, March 2021; 43 pages. Lenox Institute Press, Newtonville, NY, 12128-0405, USA.…[Read more]
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Karsten Schubert deposited The Challenge of Migration. Is Liberalism the Problem? in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThe challenge of developing humane migration and refugee politics in Western states is far from resolved. This ongoing failure is typically attributed to the increased influence of right-wing populism and neo-fascism in Western migration politics. In this article I discuss a more radical explanation: Christoph Menke argues that political…[Read more]
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Kiril Dimitrov deposited Important shades in the meaning of military culture – an etymological study in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 4 years, 9 months agoThis study aims to outline and critically analyze key shades in the contemporary meaning of the military culture. An etymological study is conducted, based on a literature review of academic publications in the sphere of military culture. Furthermore, text mining was performed in the bodies of deliberately selected publications in order to explore…[Read more]
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