This 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]

1. Gergen argues that situations which human beings didn’t understand or deal with appropriately would inflict painful lessons – providing a conditioning or predisposition for learning. “In the Darwinian sense, the ability to conceptualize has survival value. To be more specific, concepts are valuable tools in problem solving.” (p.23) “In ess…[Read more]

An 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]

There is no doubt whatsoever that emotions are very important and highly significant in the processing of data and information, as well as in the day-to day functioning of the human being. Eric Klinger, whose expertise is in personality psychology and motivation theory, focuses on the influences of motivation and emotion on cognition. Klinger…[Read more]

Writing Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]

Word acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]

This 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
English version

This 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.

(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]

Este libro, ”Me encanta ser blanco…”, y sus 3 capitulos: 1) Joven, 2) Populista y 3) Racista, es una invitación a la reflexión y al debate acerca de por qué algunos jóvenes latinoamericanos se sienten atraídos por discursos populistas y racistas. Además, a través de un análisis ameno del denominado DOOMVERSE y su personaje principal Doomentio, el…[Read more]

Este mapa salió en la edición número 312 del suplemento de la Jornada, Ojarasca, en el artículo titulado: “Represión en la granja: los cerdos y el mercado mundial”
Para más información de las fuentes, véase el artículo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/04/07/ojarasca312.pdf

This map was featured in Mexico’s La Jornada supplement, Ojarasca…[Read more]

Satire, Humor, and Environmental Crises explores how satire and humor can be employed to address and mitigate ecological crises at individual and collective levels.

Besides scientific and technological endeavors, solutions to ecological crises must entail social and communicative reform to persuade citizens, corporations, organizations, and…[Read more]

Una breve presentación con resultados de la tesis “Análisis geoespacial e hidrográfico del deterioro ambiental y su impacto en las enfermedades crónico degenerativas en la cuenca Atoyac-Zahuapan”, utilizados para la edición 186 de la Jornada del Campo: https://www.jornada.com.mx/2023/03/18/delcampo/index.html

The drawing ‘Autonomous Terrace’ by anarchist artist Clifford Harper was published first in the book ‘Radical Technology’ in 1974 as part of a series of illustrations “that although they are utopian images they depict an existence that is immediately approachable” (Harper 1984, p. 99). In Harper’s (ibid.) words, “all it would take is the seizing…[Read more]

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between posthumanism and sustainability and contribute to the interdisciplinary concept of posthuman sustainability. We conducted a scoping review of 45 peer-reviewed journal articles that met our inclusion criteria and employed co-occurrence analysis based on the clustering techniques of…[Read more]

Lu, Toh-Ming (2023). Me and the helpless universe, In: “Global Humanities and Liberal Arts”, Wang, Lawrence K. (Editor) , Volume 2023, Number 3A, 2023(3A), March 2023; 40 pages, Lenox Institute Press, MA, USA. Lenox.Institute@gmail.com; lut@rpi.edu. ……………ABSTRACT: This electronic book contains a collection of oil paintings tha…[Read more]

The climate impacts of the information and communications technology sector—and Big Data especially—is a topic of growing public and industry concern, though attempts to quantify its carbon footprint have produced contradictory results. Some studies argue that information and communications technology’s global carbon footprint is set to rise dra…[Read more]

Como ya saben muchos de mis amigos y seguidores de Internet, suelo organizar casi todos los meses un foro-debate en Academia.edu sobre asuntos que normalmente giran en torno a la antropología social y cultural, pero también relativos a asuntos destacados de la historia antigua y de la crítica textual, campos en los que normalmente se de…[Read more]

How do we know if animals can think? In extension of the previous debate on human-animal relations, this book analyzes the conditions and contexts of the scientific acquisition of our knowledge of animals. The current discussions within animal philosophy revolve around the three central questions of whether we can attribute a mind to animals, what…[Read more]