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Pramod Ranjan deposited बहुजन विमर्श के कारण निशाने पर जेएनयू in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoसामान्य तौर पर यह समझा है कि चूंकि दिल्ली स्थित जेएनयू के वामपंथ का गढ़ था, इसलिए दक्षिणपंथी ताकतें उससे नाराज थीं। अतएव, सत्ता में आने के बाद उन्होंने इस गढ़ को नष्ट कर देना चाहा। सन् 2016 में इस विश्वविद्यालय में घटी घटनाओं को इसी संदर्भ में देखा-समझा जाता रहा है।
लेकिन प्रमोद रंजन का यह बहुचर्चित लेख बताता है कि जेएनयू पर दक्षिणपंथ क…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Lenguaje sin evolución in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoSpanish abstract: El lenguaje no puede entenderse al margen de la evolución. No basta sólo con explicar el surgimiento evolutivo de una “capacidad de lenguaje”, sino que también hay que explicar la evolución del lenguaje en sí, el lenguaje en acto y no en potencia. En suma, no sólo se trata de averiguar si nuestros ancestros hablaban, pues hoy c…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited विज्ञान और तकनीक की ओर था पेरियार का झुकाव in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoपेरियार के बारे यह तो सभी जानते हैं कि वे जातिवाद के मुखर विरोधी थे और उन्होंने दक्षिण भारत में ब्राह्मणवाद विरोधी आंदोलन चलाया। लेकिन उनके लेखन में गहराई से रेखांकित करने लायक बात विज्ञान और तकनीक के प्रति उनका आकर्षण है। वे विज्ञान और तकनीक के बूते भविष्य को देखते हैं और उसके अनुरूप समाज को तैयार रहने का आह्वान करते हैं। इसी तरह, स्त्…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited विज्ञान और तकनीक की ओर था पेरियार का झुकाव in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoपेरियार के बारे यह तो सभी जानते हैं कि वे जातिवाद के मुखर विरोधी थे और उन्होंने दक्षिण भारत में ब्राह्मणवाद विरोधी आंदोलन चलाया। लेकिन उनके लेखन में गहराई से रेखांकित करने लायक बात विज्ञान और तकनीक के प्रति उनका आकर्षण है। वे विज्ञान और तकनीक के बूते भविष्य को देखते हैं और उसके अनुरूप समाज को तैयार रहने का आह्वान करते हैं। इसी तरह, स्त्…[Read more]
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Egas Moniz Bandeira deposited Creating a Constitutional Absolute Monarchy: Li Jiaju, Dashou, and Late Qing Interpretations of the Japanese Parliament in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoThis paper explores interpretations of the Japanese parliament by governmental actors in the Qing empire, most importantly the commissioners for constitutional research Li Jiaju 李家駒 (1871–1938) and Dashou 達壽 (1870–1939). It shows that, within a theoretical framework formed in dialogue with their Japanese constitutionalist colleagues, these actors…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited The sp tp.y (First Occasion) and the Dreamtime: Egyptian D.t as a parallel to Aboriginal tjukurrpa? in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoEgyptologists have long struggled to translate D.t nHH, with expressions ranging from ‘linear and circular eternity’ to ‘everlasting completedness and ongoingness’. Similarly, ethnologists have found it impossible to translate the pan-Australian Aboriginal concept of tjukurrpa, resorting to neologisms such as ‘the Dreamtime’ or ‘the Dreaming’.…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Threats to the concept of social justice in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIn this paper, I have tried to define social justice in the Indian context and about the dangers shadowing its basic concept.
Social justice means providing justice to all those people who have had to face injustice having been subject to some form of dominance. They may have had to face injustice due to their varna, ethnicity, profession,…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर खतरे in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoसमाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा क्या है?
भारत में सामाजिक न्याय का संघर्ष मुख्य रूप से द्विजों और शूद्रों-अतिशूद्रों-आदिवासियों के बीच है। द्विज अल्पसंख्यक हैं जबकि शुद्र-अतिशूद्र-आदिवासी बहुसंख्यक। देश के लोकतंत्र पर राज करने वाली दोनों प्रमुख पार्टियां – कांग्रेस और भारतीय जनता पार्टी – अपने संगठन में ओबीसी प्रकोष्ठ, दलित प्रकोष्ठ, आदिवासी प्रकोष्ठ…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited The Battle for Cultural Space in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 2 months agoIt is essential to find out how Jawaharlal Nehru University created in 1966 by a special Act of Parliament, became a leftist bastion. The answer lies in its unique reservation system. In this university, from the very outset, aspirants from backward districts, women and other weaker sections were given preference in enrolment. Kashmiri migrants…[Read more]
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Dana Williams deposited Anarchy & Society: Reflections on Anarchist Sociology in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoAnarchy and Society explores the many ways in which the discipline of Sociology and the philosophy of anarchism are compatible. The book constructs possible parameters for a future ‘anarchist sociology’, by a sociological exposition of major anarchist thinkers (including Kropotkin, Proudhon, Landauer, Goldman, and Ward), as well as an ana…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Facing Demons: The reclamation of Mahishasur as a heroic figure in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis is an article focused on the Mahishasur movement. The article also discusses the ideological bases of this movement.
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Is Mahishasur a myth (Book Review by Kanwal Bharti) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoRecently, an important book, Mahishasur: Mithak va Paramparayen (Mahishasur: Myth and Traditions), edited by Pramod Ranjan, was published by Forward Press in collaboration with Marginalised Publication. The book lets the reader travel through the living history of the myths of Durga and Mahishasur. The book is divided into five parts – ‘Yatra Vri…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited किसकी पूजा कर रहे हैं बहुजन (महिषासुर: एक पुर्नपाठ) in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoमहिषासुर आंदोलन से संबंधित यह पहली पुस्तिका है, जिसमें महिषासुर से संबंधित विभिन्न परंपराओं की जानकारी है। इस पुस्तिका के बाद 2014 में एक और पुस्तिका “महिषासुर” शीर्षक से प्रकाशित हुई। 2016 में इन दोनों पुस्तिकाओं के लेखों को कुछ अन्य लेखाें के साथ मिलाकर एक पुस्तक “महिषासुर: एक जननायक” प्रकाशित की गई। उसके बाद एक अन्य स्वतंत्र संपादित पुस्तक “मह…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Medical Tourism in Ghana: A History in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoMedical tourism can be defined as the process of travelling outside of an individual’s country to another to seek medical care. The current research studies medical tourism in Ghana historically, focusing on Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra and Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumase. Using a qualitative research approach, the study p…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is…[Read more]
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Luis Gregorio Abad Espinoza deposited The Ethnographic Quest in the Midst of COVID-19 in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThe outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 has threatened ethnographic inquiry, undermining its quintessential characteristic. Participant observation, then, has been thoroughly dismembered by the radical measures implemented to prevent the spread of the virus. This phenomenon, in short, has dragged anthropologists to a liminal state within which ethnography is…[Read more]
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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA deposited Globalización y sostenibilidad in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoSpanish abstract: Unas notas sobre el final del libro ‘El lugar del hombre en el cosmos’ de Fred Spier, sobre la sostenibilidad de la actual comunicación globalizada. La Gran Historia sitúa al ser humano en el contexto de la evolución cósmica y de la ecología de los recursos. Vivimos hoy en la Era de los Combustibles Fósiles. Con esta energ…[Read more]
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Dora Apel deposited Podcast interview on my book Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, with Thomas Hill for The Library Cafe at Vasser College in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months ago“In Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline, Dora Apel goes on the offensive against the myriad myths and delusions peddled about the Motor City; not only that, she rebuffs the blame and shame that have traditionally been directed at the Detroit citizenry, and redirects our attention to the corporations and bureaucrats who…[Read more]
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Lloyd Graham deposited Pre-Christian Ruins as Reservoirs of Supernatural Agency in Egypt, Ireland and Peru in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoThis note outlines several features common to the reception of ancient ruins by the Christian populations of three countries, each located on a different continent. Most of the sites were and are strongly associated with the realm of the dead. Fear of misadventure or calamity typically inspired a respectful avoidance of such pre-Christian sites…[Read more]
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Chris A. Kramer deposited Is Laughing at Morally Oppressive Jokes Like Being Disgusted by Phony Dog Feces? An Analysis of Belief and Alief in the Context of Questionable Humor in the group
Political Philosophy & Theory on Humanities Commons 3 years, 3 months agoIn two very influential papers from 2008, Tamar Gendler introduced the concept of “alief” to describe the mental state one is in when acting in ways contrary to their consciously professed beliefs. For example, if asked to eat what they know is fudge, but shaped into the form of dog feces, they will hesitate, and behave in a manner that would be…[Read more]
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