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José Angel GARCÍA LANDA started the topic Evolutionary thought in the discussion
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 6 months agoAddison on Aliens: On the origins of the evolutionary epic https://personal.unizar.es/garciala/publicaciones/AddisonAliens.pdf
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Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Latent Cosmologies, Latent Media: The Material Temporality of Twelver Shi’i Media Practices in Mumbai in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoIn this essay, I argue that the temporal figure of latency is central for an understanding of the material temporalities of media. Latency as a tempo- ral figure is built into the material functioning of sound reproduction and audiovisual media. The discussion shows how latency underpins techni- cal processes of storing and reproducing sounds and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited All Aboard for Ararat: Islands in Contemporary Flood Fiction in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoIn lieu of an abstract, here is the beginning of the article… One of the most striking things about speculative literature of the twenty-first century has been its increasingly focussed interest in imagining impending disaster: from the escalating likelihood of biblical deluge on a planetary scale to looming ecocatastrophes of drought and…[Read more]
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Caroline Edwards deposited Becoming-lithic: elemental utopian possibility in the contemporary ecocatastrophe in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis article explores an emerging cluster of ecocatastrophe narratives that locate utopian possibility within the Earth’s sub-crustal lithosphere. Texts such as N. K. Jemisin’s “Broken Earth” trilogy (2015–2017), J. G. Ballard’s The Crystal World (1966), Lars von Trier’s film Melancholia (2011), Irene Solà’s Catalan novel When I Sing, Mountains…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Indigenous systems of forest conservation: a tool for traditional medical practices in Akyem Abuakwa traditional area of Ghana in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoForest conservation is a very important concept across the world. It is not only crucial for climate change but also very critical for the survival of humanity. In Africa, forests have always been an important aspect of nature that is regarded with uttermost reverence and
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Ted Underwood deposited Culture, Theory, Data: An Introduction in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThe introduction to a special issue of New Literary History titled “Culture, Theory, Data,” which explores the consequences of computation for cultural theory—and vice-versa.
The introduction begins by explaining how we came to a historical juncture where “culture” and “data” seem to be opposed terms. Then it offers some reasons for believing t…[Read more]
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James Louis Smith deposited The nonhuman condition: Radical democracy through new materialist lenses in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoThis Critical Exchange explores the nonhuman condition. It asks: What are the implications of decentering the human subject via a new materialist reading of radical democracy? Does this reading dilute political agency? Or should this be seen, on the contrary, as an invitation for new voices and demands to enter into democratic assemblages? How…[Read more]
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André Francisco Pilon deposited Societal Transformations, Politics, Economics, Education, Development, Environment and the State of the World in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 7 months agoAn ecosystem theoretical and practical framework is posited for the evaluation and planning of advocacy, communication, public policies, research and teaching programmers, intertwining four dimensions of being-in-the-world (intimate, interactive, social and biophysical), as they combine, as donors and recipients, to induce the events…[Read more]
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Ilana Gershon deposited Living With Monsters in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoFor every generic type of monster—ghost, demon, vampire, dragon—there are countless locally specific manifestations, with their own names, traits, and appearances. Such monsters populate all corners of the globe haunting their humans wherever they live. Living with Monsters is a collection of fourteen short pieces of ethnographic fiction (and a m…[Read more]
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Pork production in Yucatan, Mexico, and Merida’s export driven pork region: pigs and the global market in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition. See article: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial” For information regarding sources, please refer to the aforementioned article. You may also consult the article’s English version here: https://doi.org/10.17613/8c2v-j144
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Samuel Rosado-Zaidi deposited Capital Farm: Pigs and the global economy. Repression in the Yucatan Peninsula in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThis article is a translation of “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial,” published in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca, in its 312th edition.
The impacts of pork production in the Yucatan Peninsula and its relationship to the “Mayan” Train, export driven economies, and Mayan communities protecting water and land. -
Pramod Ranjan deposited A chat with Gail Omvedt in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoThese are excerpts from the Forward Press team’s India tour travelogue. Forward Press Consulting Editor Pramod Ranjan, sociologist Anil Kumar and Forward Press Editor (English) Anil Varghese were part of the team that went on the tour from Delhi to Kanyakumari between 5 January and 15 February 2017. The team covered nine states and one union t…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited मौत, अकाल की आहट और आर्थिक असमानता पर चुप्पी क्यों? in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoभारत में क्या हालत हो चुकी है, इसका अनुमान दिसंबर, 2020 में हुए एक सर्वेक्षण से लगता है। इस सर्वेक्षण के अनुसार भारत की आधी से अधिक आबादी को कोरोना-काल में पहले की तुलना में कम भोजन मिल रहा है। इनमें ज़्यादातर दलित और आदिवासी हैं। लेकिन इन सूचनाओं से भी अधिक भयावह यह है कि भारत का बौद्धिक वर्ग, ग़रीबों के सर पर मँडराते मौत के इस साये से प्राय:…[Read more]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited कोविड पश्चात दुनिया और बहुजन कार्यकर्ताओं की ज़िम्मेदारी in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 8 months agoइस आलेख में मैंने देखने की कोशिश कि कोविड की रोकथाम के लिए उठाए गए अतिरेकपूर्ण कदमों के कारण दुनिया में क्या स्थितियाँ उत्पन्न होने वाली हैं। विशेष तौर पर सामाजिक वंचना झेल रहे मानव-समुदायों पर इसका क्या प्रभाव पड़ने वाला है। आलेख में भारत के उन शोषित समुदायों को केंद्र में रखा गया है, जो भारतीय आबादी का बहुसंख्यक हिस्सा हैं। इस बहुसंख्या में…[Read more]
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Samuel Adu-Gyamfi deposited Unrestricted Analysis of the COVID Narrative in Africa: Emphasis on the Ghanaian Medical Context in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoThe COVID-19 pandemic with its concomitant lockdown policies exacerbated the worst living conditions in different regions of the world, Africa and Ghana in particular. The major discursive issues concerning the pandemic has glaringly or cunningly ignored the lack of emphasis on local dynamics concerning what ought to be or could have been done…[Read more]
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Eliseo Ferrer deposited Eliseo Ferrer / Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto». La revelación mística de un cristianismo alejandrino desnudo de fabulaciones y leyendas. in the group
Anthropology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months ago(Sobre el «Discurso a Diogneto» y la literatura cristiana primitiva).
En este trabajo, se lleva a cabo un concienzudo estudio del «Discurso a Diogneto» o «Epistola a Diogneto» (como queramos llamar a este texto). Y en él, su autor destaca como rasgos fundamentales:
—El carácter muy temprano de este texto, que intentó armonizar la Iglesia co…[Read more] -
Pramod Ranjan deposited परिवर्तन के चार साल in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoफरवरी, 2010 में प्रकाशित इस लेख में बिहार की तत्कालीन राजनीतिक परिस्थितियों को रेखांकित किया गया है, जिसके कारण वंचित तबकों से आने लोगों का उत्पीड़न हो रहा था। लेख में इसके लिए तत्कालीन नीतीश कुमार की सरकार को दोषी बाताया गया है।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited पार्टनर, तुम्हारी पॉलिटिक्स क्या है? in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoयह आलेख आम आदमी पार्टी की दिल्ली में पहली बार सरकार बनने के बाद लिखा गया था। आलेख में आम आदमी पार्टी की सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर विचार किया गया है। यह लेख बताता है कि पार्टी दलित, पिछड़ों के हितों की परवाह नहीं करती।
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Pramod Ranjan deposited सामाजिक न्याय की अवधारणा पर खतरे in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 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]
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Pramod Ranjan deposited Silence after thunderbolt on Bihar’s Backward Muslims in the group
Sociology on Humanities Commons 2 years, 9 months agoOn June 3, 2011, four people were brutally killed by the police in Bhajanpur village of Farbisganj, Bihar. Those killed were Pasmanda Muslims. In this article, the political and social implications of that incident have been analyzed.
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