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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThis is Christian digital poem which is written in French and English to present Jesus Christ above Croesus and Zeus.
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Sara Zadrozny deposited Women’s Ageing as Disease in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoIn the medical humanities, there has been a growing interest in diagnosing disease in fictional characters, particularly with the idea that characters in Charles Dickens’s novels may be suffering from diseases recognised today. However, an area that deserves greater attention is the representation of women’s ageing as disease in Victorian lit…[Read more]
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David Backer deposited The Gold and the Dross: Althusser for Educators in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoIn the last decade, there has been an international resurgence of interest in the philosophy of Louis Althusser. New essays, journalism, collections, secondary literature, and even manuscripts by Althusser himself are emerging, speaking in fresh ways to audiences of theorists and activists. Althusser is especially important in educational thought,…[Read more]
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David Backer deposited Uses and Abuses of Class Separatism in the group
Frankfurt School Critical Theory on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThere are uses and abuses of class separatism. It draws clear lines of demarcation, helps sort the ideal from the material, and finds issues that cut across a lot of differences. But it gets abused, and the abuse is rooted in its mistake about relations of production. My contention, having done this assessment of class separatism, is that the…[Read more]
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Olalekan Adigun deposited A Critical Analysis of the Relationship Between Climate Change, Land Disputes, and the Patterns of Farmers/Herdsmen’s Conflicts in Nigeria in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoRelying on the Nigeria Watch database and newspaper reports from August 2014 to April 2018, this study analyses the root causes, patterns, and politicisation of the farmers/herdsmen conflicts in Nigeria. This study critically examines the relationship between climate change, land disputes, and the patterns of farmers/ herdsmen conflicts in…[Read more]
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Omer Aijazi deposited Religion in Spaces of Social Disruption: Re-Reading the Public Transcript of Disaster Relief in Pakistan in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis paper explores how everyday religious narratives in post-disaster contexts can be interpreted as key sites of agency articulated in resistance to dominant discourses of disaster relief. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork among affected communities after the 2010 floods in Pakistan, we argue that religious discourses code everyday actions with…[Read more]
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Javier Padilla deposited Yeats’s Meditative Spaces in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe twentieth-century debate between modernist and postcolonial scholars around the figure of W.B. Yeats should move beyond purely modern or postcolonial frameworks. Yeats’s poems can be read as meditations through which the Irish poet both anticipates the promise of a postcolonial, modern world, and yet remains attached to the lasting structures…[Read more]
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Sabine LAMOUR deposited Partir pour mieux s’enraciner ou retour sur la fabrique du poto-mitan en Haiti in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook chapter of: Dejouer le silence: contre discours sur les femmes haïtiennes
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Sabine LAMOUR deposited Partir pour mieux s’enraciner ou retour sur la fabrique du poto-mitan en Haiti in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook chapter of: Dejouer le silence: contre discours sur les femmes haïtiennes
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra Prabuddha Bharata February 2012 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review Swaraj: Thoughts of Gandhi, Tilak, Aurobindo, Raja Rammohun Roy, Tagore & Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra Prabuddha Bharata November 2010 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review Social Philosophy of Swami Vivekananda by Amulya Ranjan Mohapatra
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Book Review Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith Prabuddha Bharata March 2015 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoBook Review, Sites of Asian Interaction: Ideas, Networks and Mobility, eds. Tim Harper and Sunil Amrith, Prabuddha Bharata March 2015
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Unconditional Equality Ajay Skaria Reading Religion October 2018 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoMohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is credited with having rekindled the ancient Indian discourse of an interrelation between spirituality, religion, and politics. This has been mostly studied from the perspective of faith or spirituality. The last five decades or so have seen rising scholarship on the not-so-spiritual…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Philosophy and Non Philosophy by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoFrançois Laruelle’s non-standard philosophy is necessary for the survival or popularity of philosophy according to Laruelle: ‘Philosophy can only really become “for all” or “popular” by becoming non-philosophy’ (cover). Non-philosophy is not no philosophy but a different approach to philosophising where philosophy is not the main thing but the ‘real’ is.
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Tagore Geddes Correspondence by Bashabi Fraser PB September 2016 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis book is about the coming together of two great polyglot geniuses who were also autodidacts, who were concerned with the other’s nation, but though glorified in their own countries, remain relatively unknown in the nations of the other. Their friendship is, in many ways, a representation of the friendship of the East and the West, albeit m…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of The Enemies of Excellence by Greg Salciccioli Prabuddha Bharata October 2018 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExcelling is the goal of every endeavour. No one wants to be mediocre. Everyone wants to excel at what one does and reach the zenith of performance in that field. Very few can actually excel. Often the cause for not excelling is a general lack of discipline and a wrong understanding of the very parameters of excellence. Humility leads to…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Intellectuals and Power by Francois Laruelle published in Prabuddha Bharata in July 2016 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReview of the book ‘Intellectuals and Power’ by Francois Laruelle
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova July 2016 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReview of the book ‘Cut of the Real’ by Katerina Kolozova
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review of Cut of the Real by Katerina Kolozova July 2016 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Gender Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoReview of the book ‘Cut of the Real’ by Katerina Kolozova
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Review Introduction to Non-Marxism by Francois Laruelle Prabuddha Bharata August 2017 in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoExtending his non-philosophical thought to examining possibilities of a redfinition of Marxism, in this volume François Laruelle shows that in the light of the apparent failure of Marxism or communism, we need to explore the ‘single cause-of-the-last-instance for this failure’ (12). Another reason for this failure could be, according to Laru…[Read more]
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