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For a cosmopolitan cinema: Editorial

open access: yesAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 2018
The recent cosmopolitan turn in film studies has coincided with the emergence of a new set of valuable theoretical perspectives. Compared to other disciplines across the humanities and social sciences, cinema has been relatively slow to adopt ...
James Mulvey   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Caste as a Social Kind

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
wiley   +1 more source

Investigations of Kantian Cosmopolitanism: Evolution of the Species, Sovereignty and Hospitality

open access: yesDados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
The article investigates Kantian cosmopolitanism, based on the philosopher’s works and his main commentators. The study chooses and highlights three central and specific themes: the evolution of the human species, the dilemma between sovereignty and ...
Carlos Enrique Ruiz Ferreira
doaj   +1 more source

“Speaking German Like Nobody’s Business”: Anna May Wong, Walter Benjamin, and the Possibilities of Asian American Cosmopolitanism

open access: yesJournal of Transnational American Studies, 2012
In the summer of 1928 in Berlin, the noted German Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892–1940) and Chinese American actress Anna May Wong (1905–1961) shared an unlikely encounter that set in relief European and American conceptions of modernity as well
Shirley Jennifer Lim
doaj   +1 more source

Healthcare Professional Perspectives on Digital Health‐Related Quality‐of‐Life Assessment in Paediatric Radiation Therapy: A Qualitative Study

open access: yesJournal of Medical Radiation Sciences, EarlyView.
This study examined the barriers and facilitators to incorporating health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment into routine paediatric radiation therapy practice from the perspectives of healthcare professionals. Key requirements for a digital patient‐reported outcome measure platform and recommendations for clinical implementation were ...
Mikaela Doig   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cynic cosmopolitanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Recently, British Prime Minister Theresa May made a bold anti-cosmopolitan claim: 'If you believe you are a citizen of the world, you are a citizen of nowhere. You don't understand what citizenship means'.
Dockstader, Jason
core   +2 more sources

An ultraviolet–visible spectroscopy system for studying real‐time pressure effects on enzyme activity

open access: yesLimnology and Oceanography: Methods, EarlyView.
Abstract Investigations of hydrostatic pressure effects on microbial enzymatic processing are challenging but critical for understanding element cycling in the world's oceans. In this study, we developed and tested a stainless‐steel pressure cell capable of withstanding up to 110 MPa of hydrostatic pressure (equivalent to ~ 11,000 m depth), featuring ...
Maria Papadimitraki   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Asphalted parking lots are environmental filters for multiple propagule dispersal and pollination strategies

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
Understanding community assembly for wild species in anthropogenic settings has become increasingly important as biodiversity and ecosystem services are threatened by development pressures. Urban hardscape habitats such as parking lots are widespread, extreme, terrestrial anthropogenic environments that influence plant community assembly by way of ...
Lauren J. Frazee   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Citizenship, democracy and social justice: A conversation with Maria Olson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Maria Olson is a researcher and lecturer in Education at Stockholm University and the University of Skövde, Sweden. Her areas of interest include democracy and citizenship in relation to education.
Peters, Michael A.
core   +2 more sources

The native flora of the Redberry Lake Biosphere Region (Saskatchewan, Canada): taxonomy, biogeography, habitats and conservation

open access: yesNordic Journal of Botany, EarlyView.
This study reports for the first time a checklist of native vascular plants and provides a comprehensive analysis of the flora of the Redberry Lake Biosphere Region (RLBR) in the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. To complete an inventory of the regional flora, I conducted intensive field investigations during 2010–2025 and employed detailed examination
Vladimir Kricsfalusy
wiley   +1 more source

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