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Abstract This article analyses some examples of historical narratives that, long before the emergence of so‐called postmodern history, had a specific narrative character: the reconstructions of ‘missed revolutions’ taking into account a possible alternative history and tracing back the reasons for a social, political, and economic crisis to an ...
PATRICIA CHIANTERA‐STUTTE
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Revisiting two dogmas of conservation science
Abstract Conservation science is a morally motivated field, with implicit and explicit values built into its practice. As such, conservationists must engage with conservation ethics to interrogate underlying values. We examine cutting‐edge ecological science and contemporary ethics to revisit two conservation norms that have become dogmatic in the ...
Kristy M. Ferraro +3 more
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Khalifa versus Prometheus: Green ethics and the struggle for contemporary sustainable urbanism
Abstract In the last decades, contemporary urbanism in the global South has meant large urban transformations, tall architecture landmarks, and fierce city competition. However, cities and their planners are now confronting an ethical dilemma: how to grow and compete while caring for the disastrous impacts on Earth and human health caused by the mass ...
Agatino Rizzo, Attilio Petruccioli
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Abstract Rich in raw materials, the state of Guerrero, Mexico, is one of the main enclaves of opium production, mineral extraction, and a focus for the multiplication of armed actors in Latin America, which, together with the overlapping of counterinsurgent violence in the past, post‐colonial violence and the militarization of the policies of the so ...
Inés Giménez Delgado
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Abstract This article surveys the charitable and humanitarian activities of the Quaker philanthropist William Allen (1770–843), who was at the forefront of several campaigns for the relief and schooling of the poor and labouring classes in Britain and the emancipation and ‘civilisation’ of the enslaved and colonised peoples in the broader empire ...
Matilde Cazzola
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How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity
Abstract Protecting nature has become a global concern. However, the very idea of nature is problematic. We examined the etymological and semantic diversity of the word used to translate nature in a conservation context in 76 of the primary languages of the world to identify the different relationships between humankind and nature.
Frédéric Ducarme +2 more
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Entre Historia y Literatura: las visiones cinematográficas galdosianas
En este artículo se analizará la obra de Benito Pérez Galdós adaptada al cine nacional y extranjero hasta nuestros días. Así mismo, también se reflexiona sobre la influencia del literato en la personal obra de Luis Buñuel, especialmente en aquellas ...
Ricardo Colmenero-Martínez
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El presente estudio tiene como propósito abordar la política externa de Somalia bajo el régimen socialista de Mohamed Siad Barre. Específicamente, se centra en abordar cuáles fueron las políticas hacia el océano Índico, un espacio que, tradicionalmente ...
Pablo Arconada-Ledesma
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The metaphor: transformation and change of scenery from its re-descriptive process (I). Resumen Este artículo sigue la noción de ubicuidad del lenguaje para proponer la metáfora como su mecanismo de renovación redescriptiva, comenzando con una ...
Juan Edilberto Rendón Ángel
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The metaphor: transformation and change of scenery from its re-descriptive process (II). Resumen Este artículo sigue la noción de ubicuidad del lenguaje para proponer la metáfora como su mecanismo de renovación redescriptiva, comenzando con una ...
Juan Edilberto Rendón Ángel
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