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On the Prospects for African Philosophy in Australia

open access: yesAustralian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper grapples with the situation of people of African descent in Australia by working through the constitution of the body of academic philosophy in the country. It contends with the parochialism of the Australian philosophical community and the prospects for the cultivation of greater pluralism. Taking African philosophy as one possible
Bryan Mukandi
wiley   +1 more source

Emotional Geographies of the Uncanny: Reinterpreting Italian Transnational Spaces [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The 'Emotional Geographies of the Uncanny' section of Cultural Studies Review aims to read transnational spaces constructed and inhabited by Italian migrants and settlers to Australasia as emotional spaces of uncanny perceptions, memories, narratives and
Marinelli, Maurizio, Ricatti, Francesco
core   +3 more sources

Long‐term results of the Musset surgical technique in the treatment of recto‐vaginal fistulas

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Objective Recto‐vaginal fistulas (RVF) are a rare pathology, mostly affecting developing countries. They are mainly obstetrical (88% of cases) and have an incidence of 0.5%. Musset's surgical technique in the management of RVF has been the subject of few studies and there is little data in the literature concerning the evaluation of its long ...
Joy Bloomfield   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Resistance Narratives: A study of H. M. Naqvi’s Home Boy

open access: yesSelçuk Üniversitesi Edebiyat Fakültesi Dergisi, 2019
The present paper analyzes H. M. Naqvi’s Home Boy as counter-narrative to Orientalism in Western discourse that writes back to the American Empire apropos September 11 and terrorism.
Fikret Güven
doaj   +1 more source

Politics of Nature: East and West Perspectives [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
On the one hand, ‘nature’ in relation to ecological issues has become increasingly present in the political agendas of rich and poor nations is obvious to anyone who cares to read the newspapers. But nature has also entered the political realm in another
Latour, Bruno
core   +3 more sources

Digitisation of herbarium specimens to the benefit of research: An African perspective focusing on South Africa and Western Indian Ocean Island states

open access: yesPLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
Botanical exploration, discovery and conservation rely heavily on access to herbarium collections. Recently, digital access to label information, including georeferenced locality data, and images of herbarium specimens available online have greatly increased usage of herbarium specimen data.
Ronell R. Klopper   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pitardia resurrected: A new member of subtribe Menthinae (Lamiaceae)

open access: yesTAXON, EarlyView.
Abstract Despite tremendous progress towards clarifying phylogenetic relationships within the mint family (Lamiaceae), uncertainty remains regarding relationships among some major clades as well as the proper placement of some genera. While researching the genus Nepeta, a species from northeastern Morocco, N.
Abdelmonaim Homrani Bakali   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘Orientalism is a partisan book’: applying Edward Said's insights to early modern travel writing [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Since its publication in 1978, Edward Said's Orientalism has had a significant impact on postcolonial studies in a range of fields. This paper assesses his impact on the historiography of Anglophone travel writing concerning Ottoman Empire during the ...
Abu-Lughod   +245 more
core   +2 more sources

Hunting and fishing harvest data collection: a horizon scanning exercise from the French context

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Legal and societal moves increasingly lead leisure hunting and fishing practitioners to record their harvest. The total number of individuals harvested per population per year is the minimum required information to feed into demographic models and allow science‐based management. Some few schemes record more detailed data, hence allowing better‐informed
Matthieu Guillemain   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flourishing of Occidentalism in Iran After Cultural Revolution

open access: yesGazi Akademik Bakış, 2015
Modernity changed the community interests; it idealized individuality and liberal democracy, and based its main aim on pushing religion to the outskirts of human life.
Shalaleh ZABARDAST
doaj  

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