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Journal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Gender and race have received significant philosophical attention recently; they are the paradigm cases of social kinds in most philosophical accounts. I argue for the inclusion of caste as a social kind because it affects the lives of many people, and because it presents itself as an important test case for philosophers of social kinds.
Ajinkya Deshmukh
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An Eighteenth-Century Ecology of Knowledge: Patronage and Natural History
Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research, 2014 This article analyses the construction and dissemination of natural-history knowledge in the eighteenth century. It takes the mapping and narration of Orkney as a case study, focusing on the local minister and amateur natural-historian George Low and his
Linda Andersson Burnett
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[Review of] E. San Juan, Jr., Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference [PDF]
, 2002 Have academically fashionable cultural studies methodologies replaced mass social movements as political activity? This question is raised in E. San Juan, Jr.\u27s most recent study, Racism and Cultural Studies.
Wendland, Joel
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Capacity building needed to reap the benefits of access to biodiversity collections
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global conservation efforts increasingly depend on digitised natural history collections, yet the benefits of this digital data are not equally shared. We analysed biodiversity specimens and citation data from Montserrat and the Cayman Islands to assess who collected these specimens, how they are used, and by whom.
Quentin Groom +16 more
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Depicting the Landscape: Andrej Belyj’s A Wind from the Caucasus and Armenia
Studi Slavistici, 2020 Andrej Belyj (1880-1934) went to the Caucasus three times, in 1927, 1928 and 1929. He recollected these experiences in two travelogues, A Wind from the Caucasus and Armenia.
Anita Frison
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Rethinking technologies of remembering for a postcolonial world
Memory, Mind & Media, 2022 This article sets out some of the analytical moves that are necessary to developing a distinctive area of research called postcolonial memory studies.
Emily Keightley
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Postcolonial Studies in Spain [PDF]
, 2001 This article provides a general overview of the state of Postcolonial Studies in Spain at the present moment. After attempting a definition of the discipline, which is a minefield of ambiguities and contradictions, a brief outline of the history of this ...
Hand, Felicity
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Tracing holotype trajectories: Mapping the movement of the most valuable herbarium specimens
PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Global efforts to protect biodiversity depend on fair access to key plant specimens. This study examines the distribution of 119,361 holotypes—unique herbarium specimens used to formally describe new plant species. By linking collection and storage data, we found that holotypes are increasingly held closer to their places of origin, particularly in ...
Dominik Tomaszewski +2 more
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Postmoderne epistemologie en postkoloniale hermeneutiek
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2004 Postmodern epistemology and postcolonial hermeneutics Postcolonial hermeneutics is concerned with linguistic, cultural and geographical transfer. Within the framework of biblical studies it explores strategies of interpreting texts from the situation of ...
Andries G. van Aarde
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Sociology and postcolonialism: another 'missing' revolution? [PDF]
, 2007 Sociology is usually represented as having emerged alongside European modernity. The latter is frequently understood as sociology's special object with sociology itself a distinctively modern form of explanation.
Badham, R. +22 more
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