The Cowpastures was a vague area south of the Nepean River floodplain on the southern edge of Sydney’s Cumberland Plain. The Dharawal Indigenous people who managed the area were sidelined in 1796 by Europeans when Governor Hunter named the ‘Cow Pasture Plains’ in his sketch map. He had visited the area the previous year to witness the escaped…[Read more]

Humanity’s age-old dilemmas are often set down to what we call human nature. Even the most philosophical shake their heads in despair at this, as an impassible boundary to progress. Though some have denied its existence, studies indicate that we do indeed have a nature, instincts, and patterns of behavior which are endemic to our species. Even…[Read more]

This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]

Los ámbitos comunitarios, familiares y de género, constituyen escenarios donde se producen y reproducen cotidianamente las desigualdades, por ello desde las universidades deben ser ámbitos privilegiados para la actuación profesional. Resultan necesarias acciones tendientes a lograr mayor equidad como vía para alcanzar la igualdad, tanto en los…[Read more]

Perfection And Good Taste: Redefining Feminine Identities in Interwar Bucharest Through Fashion and Beauty || This paper explores gender realities in interwar Bucharest through the lens of fashion and beauty. The aim is to evaluate the impact of advice literature on women in reinventing feminine identity and the general effect of these evolutions…[Read more]

The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]

The seminal 1989 study “Mantra in Ayurveda” by Kenneth G. Zysk1 describes four areas in which mantras were used in early Ayurveda: the treatment of wounds and swellings/tumours, of poisoning, of mental disorders, and the collection and preparation of certain medicines. Although this article is a highly important contribution to the study of the…[Read more]

Moroccan linguistic situation goes back to the ancient times of colonization. The country has suffered a lot during this era from political, economic, and even social influences. As a result, this made Morocco distinctive and diversified in its sociolinguistic phenomena. We can find Diglossia, code-switching, borrowing, bilingualism, Triglossia,…[Read more]

Spanish abstract: ´La piel que habito´, película de 2011 de Pedro Almodóvar, es una historia sugerente, llena de ecos de debates de actualidad, y que señala en muchas direcciones diferentes, todas interesantes, pero el núcleo donde se unen todas es un personaje tan patológico que es totalmente implausible, excepto como ficción cinemat…[Read more]

Constructivism as a psychopedagogical perspective does not in itself constitute a specific paradigm or theory. This is evident in the published scientific literature where there is no consensus regarding the conceptualization of the constructivist approach. It is based as a referential – explanatory framework in the field of education. It takes as…[Read more]

बहुजन साहित्य और संस्कृति की अवधारणा ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आकार लेना शुरू किया है। अभी हाल (2016) में आए प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित तीन संकलन- ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’, ‘हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’और ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’- बहुजन साहित्यिक-सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन की प्रस्तावना और अवधारणा को सामने रखते हैं और इसे पल्लवित-पुष्पित तथा विकसित क…[Read more]

Wissenschaftler und Denker haben sich widerstandslos für die Durchsetzung der herrschenden Corona-Agenda einspannen lassen.

Der durch das Coronavirus veranlasste Lockdown hat nicht nur unsere körperliche Freiheit ausgehöhlt, sondern auch unsere geistige Freiheit untergraben. In vielen Ländern wurde für das Denken Käfighaltung angeordnet. Offen…[Read more]

“Corona-Tote“ — man denkt dabei nur an Menschen, die in der Folge einer Virusinfektion verstorben sind. Dabei zeichnet sich schon jetzt ab, dass die Todeszahlen infolge der unter Verweis auf Corona ergriffenen „Maßnahmen“ weltweit um ein Vielfaches höher sein werden. Je mehr Zeit vergeht, umso größer dürfte diese Differenz ausfallen. Weil aber ni…[Read more]

Like in most parts of the world, life was on a stand-still in India for the past almost one year, courtesy of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now, the poor and the middle class are in a miserable state. Crores have lost their jobs and lakhs have faced savage reductions in their income. Amid this crisis, the Government of India presented its annual budget…[Read more]

फारवर्ड प्रेस काअंतिम प्रिट अंक अप्रैल, 2016 में प्रकाशित हुआ था। यह उस अंतिम अंक का प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा लिखा गया संपादकीय है। उसके बाद फारवर्ड प्रेस वेबसाइट के रूप में प्रकाशित होता रहा तथा किताबों के व्यवसाय में भी उतरा। फारवर्ड प्रेस के मालिकों द्वारा की जा रही वित्तीय अनियमितता के विरोध में प्रमोद रंजन ने अक्टूबर, 2019 में इस पत्रिका से अलग हो गए।

सामान्य 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]

Spanish 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]

Thomas Wolfe (1900-1938) nasce ad Asheville, North Carolina. Mentre studia drammaturgia ad Harvard scrive per il teatro, ma il successo arriva con il romanzo autobiografico ‘Look Homeward, Angel’ (1929), seguito da ‘Of Time and the River’ (1935) e dai postumi ‘The Web and the Rock’ (1939) e ‘You Can’t Go Home Again’ (1940). ‘Passage to England: A…[Read more]

Los medios de comunicación de la región latinoamericana evidencian políticas públicas tergiversadas por las prácticas institucionalizadas. La problemática de la participación comunitaria en la producción televisiva subyace en la triada políticas-programas-productos comunicativos. Se plantea como objetivo del estudio identificar los elemento…[Read more]

Se realizó un estudio observacional descriptivo, perteneciente a la metodología de investigación cuantitativa, con el objetivo de caracterizar las redes del apoyo social que tienen los adultos mayores ubicados en la Casa de Abuelos del municipio de Camajuaní, provincia de Villa Clara (Cuba) durante el 2016. Para la obtención de resultados se empl…[Read more]