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Jonathan Basile deposited The Epic of Genesis: Catherine Malabou and the gêne of Epigenetics in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis article examines the conflicting representations of plasticity and epigenetics in the work of philosopher Catherine Malabou and evolutionary theorists Mary Jane West-Eberhard and Eva Jablonka. Malabou effaces the unsettled debates within the life sciences in order to speak of a new biological ‘paradigm’ and to attribute values of novelty or…[Read more]
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Gregory F. Tague posted an update in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoNick Zangwill and Peter Godfrey-Smith recently (past year or so) have openly lobbied on behalf of animal agriculture. Here’s an open letter/short article that seems to get to the heart of the matter defending animals and the environment, if anyone is interested. https://www.asebl.net/2023/07/an-open-letter-to-peter-godfrey-smith.html
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Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis 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]
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Jim Clifford deposited British ghost acres and environmental changes in the Laurentian forest during the nineteenth century in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoThis 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]
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Oscar Perea-Rodriguez deposited La panadera del “Libro de buen amor” y las otras panaderas de la poesía medieval castellana in the group
Medieval Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 2 months agoDesde 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] -
Steve McCarty deposited East-West Cultural Differences in Basic Life Stance in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis 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]
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Steve McCarty deposited Dual Nationality in Japan: Learning to Love Ambiguity in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 2 years, 3 months agoThis 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]
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