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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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El Barroco y lo barroco en la filosofía contemporánea: problemas y pers-pectivas
El Barroco y lo barroco en la filosofía contemporánea: problemas y ...
Paloma Martínez Matías
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Panorama de la filosofía francesa contemporánea
Como primer paso para hablar de filosofía francesa comienzo por una paradoja: eso que es lo más universal ¾la filosofía¾ es también, al mismo tiempo, lo más particular.
A. Badiou
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El texto articula los campos de la danza contemporánea, la filosofía de Baruch Spinoza y la clínica. En él formulo una lectura spinozista de una expresión muy utilizada en la danza contemporánea: la de cuerpo sensible.
Alejandra Padilla-Gómez
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Resumo O artigo focaliza a filosofia brasileira contemporânea, à luz dos legados dos séculos passados e das perspectivas futuras que se abrem no presente histórico, e se divide em duas partes.
Ivan Domingues
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