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Contextualizing the Global Nursing Care Chain: International Migration and the Status of Nursing in Kerala, India [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
In this article I explore the issue of nursing status in Kerala, India and how over time a colonial discourse of caste‐based pollution has given way to a discourse of sexual pollution under expanding migratory opportunities.
Abraham   +59 more
core   +3 more sources

Mining an Anthropocene in Japan: On the making and work of geological imaginaries

open access: yesTransactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 50, Issue 3, September 2025.
Short Abstract This article addresses how the lithic and the drift might be reworked as an Anthropocene material outside of a chronostratigraphy. Revisiting the finding of a floating fern fossil at the Hashima mine, we delve into a complex array of Geological imaginaries, and undertake our own speculative work.
Deborah P. Dixon   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolution of Philosophical Strategies for Interacting with Chaos [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
After the discoveries of such scholars as J. H. Poincaré, E. N. Lorenz, I. Prigogine, etc. the term ‘chaos’ is used actively by representatives of various scientific fields; however, one important aspect remains uninvestigated: which attitude one should ...
Kulyk, Oleksandr
core  

Defining socioecological reciprocity: Intentionality, mutualism or collateral effect

open access: yesPeople and Nature, Volume 7, Issue 5, Page 1005-1010, May 2025.
Abstract This perspective piece discusses the history of the use of the term ‘reciprocity’ across environmental social sciences in the analysis of the interactions between the social and the natural systems. Reciprocity, as a concept, these days, seems to be used in a rather uncritical fashion.
Ismael Vaccaro
wiley   +1 more source

Reclaiming Heaven from History: A Theological Critique of Martin Hägglund's This Life

open access: yesInternational Journal of Systematic Theology, Volume 27, Issue 2, Page 248-269, April 2025.
Abstract Martin Hägglund's This Life offers an incisive critique of Christian visions of eternal life. Theological responses to Hägglund emphasize the ‘worldly’ nature of heaven over‐against overly Platonic, ‘otherworldly’ accounts of everlasting life.
Jared Michelson
wiley   +1 more source

Sobre o caráter ontológico da ciência: possíveis contribuições de Nicolai Hartmann para um problema do realismo especulativo

open access: yesCadernos de Filosofia Alemã, 2018
Quentin Meillassoux, um dos nomes mais promissores do realismo especulativo, tendência intelectual de nosso tempo que constitui opção ao legado da filosofia moderna, entende que o correlacionismo (Corrélationisme) só poderá ser desestimulado quando o ...
Eduardo Nasser
doaj   +1 more source

Firm profitability and forced wage labour in Portuguese Africa: Evidence from the Sena Sugar Estates, 1920–74

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 78, Issue 1, Page 30-61, February 2025.
Abstract Forced wage labour (FWL) in colonial‐era Portuguese Africa came to encompass a majority of working age men and persisted until the early 1960s. On the basis of reconstructed financial records from the Sena Sugar Estates in today's Mozambique, we estimate the long‐run profitability of the firm.
Sam Jones, Peter Gibbon
wiley   +1 more source

The Only Exit From Modern Philosophy

open access: yesOpen Philosophy, 2020
This article contends that the central principle of modern philosophy is obscured by a side-debate between two opposed camps that are united in accepting a deeper flawed premise.
Harman Graham
doaj   +1 more source

Fenomenología de la percepción y nuevo realismo. Merleau-Ponty, Meillassoux y Markus Gabriel

open access: yesRevista de filosofía DIÁNOIA, 2021
Este artículo plantea la tesis de que la filosofía fenomenológica de la percepción de Merleau-Ponty, en la medida en que es crítica tanto del empirismo como del idealismo, apunta hacia una forma de realismo (realismo perceptual). Para argumentar en favor
M. Rámirez
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Hungary's attacks on human dignity: Article 2 TEU and the foundations of democracy in the European Union

open access: yesEuropean Law Journal, Volume 30, Issue 3, Page 260-283, September 2024.
Abstract While in Poland the October 2023 elections led to a government halting the rule of law crisis, in Hungary the political situation continues to deteriorate. Focusing on European Parliament resolutions, this article analyses Hungarian developments from the prism of human dignity, the EU's first foundational value under Article 2 TEU.
Catherine Dupré
wiley   +1 more source

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