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Waliya Yohanna Joseph deposited Momenta in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoMomenta is a digital poem for Africans. It is written in two languages-French and English. The poem aims at bringing hope in the continent.
Momenta est un poème numérique pour les Africains. Il est rédigé en deux langues-anglais et français. Le poème excite l’esproir.
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James L. Smith deposited Medieval Water Studies: Past, Present and Promise in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 9 months agoThe articles in this Special Collection engage directly with the realities of water as they simultaneously explore its intellectual potential in various genres of medieval writing, from crusade chronicles to medieval romance. In this way they shed new light not only on the literature and history they explore but also on medieval conceptions of…[Read more]
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Valeria Graziano deposited Handling Replacement: Tending to a Local Library and Repair Centre in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThis short article offers a perspective on the social organization of repair and re-use of public infrastructures in the UK today by focusing on an former public library now transferred to a social enterprise which also hosts a repair centre for the processing of used household goods.
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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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John Welsh deposited The Political Aesthetic of the British City‐State: Class Formation through the Global City in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoThe British State has been terraformed over recent decades through the changing spatio-temporal dynamics of capital accumulation in the world-system entailed in financialisation, neoliberalsiation, and the emergence of global cities. A new post-industrial constellation of political domination has thus emerged in that state that requires urgent…[Read more]
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Key MacFarlane deposited Crime and the Global City: Migration, Borders, and the Pre-Criminal in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn recent years social scientists have been interested in the growth and transformation of global cities. These metropolises, which function as key command centers in global production networks, manifest many of the social, economic, and political tensions and inequities of neoliberal globalization. Their international appeal as sites of financial…[Read more]
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Helen Kopnina deposited Wild Animals and Justice: The Case of the Dead Elephant in the Room in the group
Sustainability on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoDiscussing ecological justice in conservation and environmental ethics.
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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
Environmental Humanities 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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Javier Padilla deposited Yeats’s Meditative Spaces in the group
Global & Transnational 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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Key MacFarlane deposited Time, Waste, and the City: The Rise of the Environmental Industry in the group
Environmental Humanities on Humanities Commons 6 years, 10 months agoIn many US cities, especially those in the Rust Belt, the environmental goods and services (EGS) industry has played a significant role in restructuring local economies to promote new, flexible, and “creative” forms of service-based labour. And yet much of the environmental work conducted in these cities has been directed at an industrial pas…[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
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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Roger Gillis deposited INFO 6840: Content Management Systems/Digital Collections in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoCourse Description:
In a rapidly changing digital era, the need for information professionals to keep up-to-date
with the requirements and expectations around the development of digital
collections is imperative. The course serves as an introduction and overview to the
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Roger Gillis deposited Getting Found, Staying Found, Increasing Impact: Enhancing Readership and Preserving Content for OJS Journals, Second Edition. in the group
Open Educational Resources on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoPublishing a journal is about more than simply putting ink to paper (or pixels to screen). It is a collaboration between you and your readers. Two critical aspects of this relationship are, first, making your journal visible to your prospective audience. By putting your content online and making it freely available through open access, you can be…[Read more]
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Felipe Furtado Guimaraes deposited Interculturality, Internationalization and Intercomprehension: what is the relation? in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThis paper paper reviews the concepts of interculturality and internationalization of higher education, discussing the relationship between them and additional languages, drawing on some considerations on the use of an approach for the teaching-learning-use of additional languages, known as the intercomprehension approach. The review offered here…[Read more]
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Adel Shannaq deposited Participation of Arab developing countries in the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation: limitations and underutilisation in the group
Global & Transnational Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe purpose of this study is to explore in depth the concerns that limit the participation of developing countries in the WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings. To this end, it investigates the current practice of WTO members. By interviewing Arab specialists, it seeks to understand why Arab developing members are reluctant to use the Dispute…[Read more]
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Nick Di Taranto started the topic Apply to participate in a NEH Summer Program – Deadline 3/1/19 in the discussion
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoThe National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Seminars and Institutes offer tuition-free opportunities for higher education faculty to study a variety of humanities topics. Stipends of $1,200-$3,300 help cover expenses for these one- to four-week programs. This summer NEH is supporting two programs that may be of particular interest to…[Read more]
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Encyclopedia of Kashmiri Pandit Culture and Heritage by C L Kaul Book Review February 2011 Prabuddha Bharata in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 11 months agoEncyclopedia of Kashmiri Pandit Culture and Heritage by C L Kaul Book Review February 2011 Prabuddha Bharata
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Narasimhananda Swami deposited Vedanta Brain and Islam Body Dr A P J Abdul Kalam Prabuddha Bharata October 2015 in the group
Postcolonial Studies on Humanities Commons 6 years, 12 months agoLife of former President of India Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, who was also the author of the Indian missile program.
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