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Tropical Materialisms: Toward Decolonial Poetics, Practices and Possibilities

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
Tropical Materialisms concur on at least three things: humans are always entangled with non-human/material agents; such entanglement is necessary for any creative act to take place; and these same entanglements allow us to interrogate and re-evaluate ...
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Anita Lundberg
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Black Seed Dreaming: A Material Analysis of Bruce Pascoe’s “Dark Emu”

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
Indigenous Australians are outstanding for the way their ontologies and practices do not rely on a Western dichotomy that opposes material and spiritual realms.
Barbara Glowczewski, Anita Lundberg (Trans.)   +1 more
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Thinking with trees: Responding to sympoietic plant relations through visual art

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Amid escalating climate crises, this paper explores how we might rethink our relationship with the natural world, particularly with plants and trees, through the perspectives of visual art. This paper reveals how art invites us to see trees and other plant life not as passive background scenery, but as living beings with their own forms of experience ...
Xiaoyu Yang
wiley   +1 more source

System as a Unifying Process: An Onto‐Epistemic Notion of System

Systems Research and Behavioral Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article proposes an onto‐epistemic notion of system as a relational process of unifying a multiplicity of actuals and abstractions into an actual unity, thereby encompassing concreteness and abstraction onto the same plane. This notion rejects the opposition between constructivism and realism within systems studies, the excessive focus on
Felipe Rodrigues Oliveira e Silva, Sandro Luis Schlindwein   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Persistent Alarms Confronting New Priorities: Protestants in Africa in Italian and French Catholic Magazines (1945–1962)

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
wiley   +1 more source

Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley   +1 more source

Reimagining Rural Spaces: Cultural Practices and Aesthetic Design for Active Ageing in Northern Thai Community

Asia Pacific Viewpoint, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the role of rural aesthetics and cultural practises in promoting active ageing amongst older adults in Baan Pong Nuea Village, Northern Thailand. Addressing a critical gap in the literature, it examines how the residential environment influences elderly well‐being in a rural context.
Alisa Nutley
wiley   +1 more source

Un/Learning Adult Frames of Reference in Death Enquiries: Thinking~With a Picturebook, Philosophical Animism and Ontological Tact

Children &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Developmental psychology continues to shape how adults engage with children about death and dying. This influences whether children are included in rituals surrounding human and other‐than‐human bodies. Figurations of the innocent, immature and vulnerable child still dominate adult imaginaries of young children's understandings of mortality ...
Karin Murris, Joanna Haynes, Joanne Peers   +2 more
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Interpreting Barth's Eschatology: An Eco‐Theological Reappraisal

International Journal of Systematic Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract Critical eco‐theologians do not consider Karl Barth's theology of creation helpful in addressing the contemporary ecological crisis. In this article, I explore a way to interpret Barth's theology that could lead to a fruitful eco‐theological perspective.
Othniël de Jong
wiley   +1 more source

A new Anthropocene aesthetics: Mediating Harman, Morton, and Boysen

Orbis Litterarum, EarlyView.
Abstract Practitioners of Object‐Oriented Ontology (OOO) have critiqued the metaphysical assumptions of contemporary poetry, and particularly the position of the lyric speaker. Scholars such as Graham Harman and Timothy Morton have positioned themselves as critics of these lyric sensibilities. In recent years, concerns have risen around their critiques
Chase Cate
wiley   +1 more source