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Disintegration highway: Towards a psychogeography of planetary urban breakdown
Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Volume 46, Issue 1, Page 138-156, January 2025.This paper develops a psychogeographical approach to our apocalyptic urban present, based on a journey down a highway on the outskirts of the city of Iquitos in the Peruvian Amazon. The intensity of psychogeographical method brings out elements of the senselessness and violence of planetary urbanization imperceptible at more abstract levels of analysis,
Japhy Wilson
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Boundary disputes - a clash of wills or a Shakespearean tragedy? [PDF]
, 2011 Boundary disputes between adjoining owners and the issue of boundary repair and resolution have been the subject of dissertations for doctorates’ in philosophy to social commentary by Shakespeare.
Simmons, Shane
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Noûs, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 1050-1072, December 2024.Abstract According to orthodoxy, the most fundamental kind of causation involves one event causing another event. I argue against this event‐causal view. Instead, the most fundamental kind of causation is thing causation, which involves a thing causing a thing to do something.
Nathaniel Baron‐Schmitt
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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 6, Issue 6, Page 1552-1571, November 2024.Conserving frankincense trees (Boswellia) is crucial for both ecological and socio‐economic reasons. Surveying these trees in the field and using remote sensing unmanned aerial vehicles in the Socotra Archipelago, we found that Socotran frankincense trees are threatened by forest fragmentation, overgrazing, and increasingly frequent extreme climate ...
Petr Maděra +15 more
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The Contribution of Domestic and International Conflict In Renaissance Italy to the Sport of Fencing [PDF]
, 2023 Fencing, the art or practice of attack and defense with the foil, épée, or saber, has progressed over hundreds of years from the warfare of Germanic tribes to a regulated Olympic sport.
Nason, Amelia E
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The Contrasting Footprint of Labour and Capital in Post‐colonial India
Development and Change, Volume 55, Issue 4, Page 533-559, July 2024.ABSTRACT India's struggle for independence held the promise of an end to poverty and redemption from the communal‐cum‐class‐based inequality which had kept the peasant economy backward. But the planned substitution of the agrarian‐rural fabric for an industrial‐urban way of life failed to materialize.
Jan Breman
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This tickles beyond all measure
Acta Periodica Duellatorum, 2019 Erhardus Henning’s work on Hieb-Fechten is one of only a few 17th century German fencing treatises describing cut-based fencing. An expanded version of this text, containing a larger collection of lessons, can be found in British Library Add MS 17533 fol.
Reinier van Noort
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Modern Theology, Volume 40, Issue 2, Page 404-426, April 2024.Abstract In his recent work Hors phénomène, Emmanuel Falque identifies the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard as both a progenitor and exemplifier of his account of the way philosophy becomes more rigorously itself through an encounter with theology. However, this article challenges the affinity Falque claims to share with Kierkegaard.
Nikolaas Cassidy‐Deketelaere +1 more
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Oceania, Volume 94, Issue 1, Page 18-38, March 2024.ABSTRACT In this article, we explore the notion of legacy through the ways graziers in Outback Queensland, Australia, draw on material, narrative, and embodied traces of past ‘events’ to emplot their lives during times of uncertainty. Through an ethnography of pastoral work and storytelling on stations, or ranches, we show how settler‐colonial ...
Alana Brekelmans, Richard J. Martin
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The Cowl - v.7 - n.4 - Oct 24, 1941 [PDF]
, 1941 The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 7, Number 4 - Oct 24, 1941.
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