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Eileen Joy deposited You Are Here: A Manifesto in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis essay ruminates the ethics of a co-implicated, bounded dependence between objects (human and otherwise) that are always in some sense withdrawing from each other but also always together in a some-place labeled “here”: the world (where no Absolute or Outside vantage point is possible or habitable). This essay also considers the possibility,…[Read more]
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Jennifer Mae Hamilton deposited Composting Feminisms and Environmental Humanities in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoComposting is a material labor whereby old scraps are transformed—through practices of care and attention—into nutrient-rich new soil. In this provocation, we develop “composting” as a material metaphor to tell a particular story about the environmental humanities. Building on Donna Haraway’s work, we insist “it matters what compostable…[Read more]
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Stacy Fahrenthold deposited Arab Labor Migration in the Americas, 1880–1930 in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoBetween 1880 and 1924, an estimated half million Arab migrants left the Ottoman Empire to live and work in the Americas. Responding to new economic forces linking the Mediterranean and Atlantic capitalist economies to one another, Arab migrants entered the manufacturing industries of the settler societies they inhabited, including industrial…[Read more]
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Behnam M. Fomeshi deposited The Persian Whitman: Beyond a Literary Reception in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoWalt Whitman, a world poet and the father of American free verse, has been received by diverse audiences from around the world. Literary and cultural scholars have studied Whitman’s interaction with social, political and literary movements of different countries. Despite his continuing presence in Iran, Whitman’s reception in this country has rem…[Read more]
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Juliane Braun deposited Introduction to America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoIntroduction to America After Nature: Democracy, Culture, Environment
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Juliane Braun deposited “Strange beasts of the sea”: Captain Cook, the sea otter and the creation of a transoceanic American empire in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoOn 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed
Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to
find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven
months…[Read more] -
Juliane Braun deposited “Strange beasts of the sea”: Captain Cook, the sea otter and the creation of a transoceanic American empire in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoOn 12 July 1776, Captain James Cook and his crew left England in search of the famed
Northwest Passage. Spanish, French, and Russian explorers before him had set out to
find this Arctic waterway, which was thought to link the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans
and promised to open up a new, more direct trading route with Asia. After seven
months…[Read more] -
Juliane Braun deposited Introduction to Creole Drama: Theatre and Society in Antebellum New Orleans in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoMoving from France to the Caribbean to the American continent, Creole Drama follows the people that created, shaped, and sustained French theatre culture in New Orleans from its inception in 1792 until the beginning of the Civil War. In doing so, it draws upon the neglected archive of francophone drama native to Louisiana, as well as a range of…[Read more]
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Paul STOCK deposited Factors that Influence a College Student’s Choice of an Academic Major and Minor in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 6 years, 8 months agoThis study examines factors influencing the decision of an academic major and/or minor by undergraduate students at a private university location in Central Texas. A total of 386 students taking courses in the university’s College of Business were surveyed. Participants were asked to provide the top five factors influencing their choice in an a…[Read more]
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Tina Catania deposited Bodyminds Like Ours: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Graduate School, Disability, and the Politics of Disclosure in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoAn autoethnographic account of negotiating disability and disclosure intersectionally in graduate school by four disabled graduate students.
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Anthony Cerulli deposited “Politicking Ayurvedic Education” in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoAs the Indian population’s interest in biomedicine increased at the end of the nineteenth century, public confidence in India’s indigenous medicines flagged. Physicians of Ayurveda and officials of Indian medical organizations responded with discussions about and plans for reconfiguring the āyurveda (“life science”) of the Sanskrit medical…[Read more]
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited ZeroDeath in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoZeroDeath is a digital poem that is conceived from the transhumanism philosophy of defeating death by technology. Though, digital revolution makes everything possible but the poet remains attached to Yahweh
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Véritologie in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoVéritologie est un poème numérique qui explique la vraie origine de la vérité.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Truthology in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoTruthology is a digital poem that explains the genuine origin of the truth.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoésies d’engagement in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCyberpoésies d’engagement est une collection de deux poèmes numériques: Ifrikiya lève-toi! et Lettre aux Nations Unies. Bien que le dernier poème ait été publié sur Core, celui-ci reste la version définitive.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Lettre A Union Africaine in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLettre à Union Africaine est un poème numérique qui exprime la philosophie de la supranégritude. Il dénonce le joue de blâmer les Colons au lieu de diriger bien les citoyens.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Letter to the African Union in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoLetter to the African Union is a digital poem which expresses supranegritude philosophy that denounces the game of pushing blame on colonial masters instead of working for the compatriots.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Jesus is above Croesus and Zeus in the group
Environmental Humanities 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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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Cyberpoetry for activism in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoCyberpoetry for activism is a collection of two digital poems: Arise Africa! and Letter to the United Nations. The later was published in this Core repository before the official publication date . The poems communicate justice and encouragement.
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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Homosalus in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoHomosalus is a digital poem that suscitate the culture of saving humanity. It is written in French and English to foster a philosophy of people first before me.
Homosalus est un poème numérique qui suscite la culture de sauver notre humanité. Il est écrit en anglais et français afin de projecter une philosophie de considérer d’autrui d’abord.
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