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Epistemic Justice as a “New Normal?” Interrogating the Contributions of Communities of Practice to Decolonization of Knowledge

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 3228-3245, June 2025.
ABSTRACT Recently, scholarly communities of practice have emerged with the objective of decolonizing knowledge practices within sustainable development. Their contributions to sustainability and systems change remain underexplored, possibly due to the absence of appropriate conceptual tools to analyze them. This study applies a new conceptual framework
Sarah Cummings   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

La costumbre en el derecho y el derecho en la costumbre

open access: yesNuevo Derecho, 2008
El Articulo 17 del Código Civil Argentino establece: "Los usos y costumbres no pueden  crear derechos sino cuando las leyes se refieran a ellos o en siatuaciones no regladas legalmente".
Paula Winkler
doaj   +1 more source

Semio-poiesis: on the birth of the semiosphere from the biosphere

open access: yesСлово.ру: балтийский акцент, 2022
The article discusses a possible development of Yuri Lotman’s concept of semiosphere by supplementing it with the idea of semio-poiesis. Analysis of the processes of origination, evo­lution and functioning of the genetic code makes it possible to ...
Suren T. Zolyan
doaj   +1 more source

Semiosis as an Emergent Process [PDF]

open access: yesTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy, 2006
In this paper, we intend to discuss if and in what sense semiosis (meaning process, cf. C. S. Peirce) can be regarded as an "emergent" process in semiotic systems. It is not our problem here to answer when or how semiosis emerged in nature. As a prerequisite for the very formulation of these problems, we are rather interested in discussing the ...
Charbel Niño El-Hani, João Queiroz
openaire   +3 more sources

Tools for relatedness: “Fetishes” in Burkina Faso and the work of enacted metaphors

open access: yesAmerican Anthropologist, Volume 127, Issue 2, Page 233-243, June 2025.
Abstract In West Africa, certain objects can act in the world and interact with people as subjects. Labeled “fetishes” by Europeans, these material things have generated centuries of debates on the nature of their agency. In this article, I rely on participant fieldwork as a student in a group of initiated donso hunters in Burkina Faso, which involved ...
Lorenzo Ferrarini
wiley   +1 more source

Cognitive and linguistic underpinnings of deixis am phantasma: Bühler's and Peirce's semiotic

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2013
Th is inquiry outlines Karl Bühle's three kinds of deixis, focusing particularly on his most advanced use – deixis am phantasma (deictics to refer to absent referents).
Donna E. West
doaj   +1 more source

Music as a non-arbitrary avenue for exploration of the social

open access: yesSign Systems Studies, 2021
The article examines how music affords exploration of social aspects of semiosis: how music signifies the social, beyond the fact that music is an inherently participatory social process.
Juha Ojala
doaj   +1 more source

Composing senselessness: Autoethnography after homicide

open access: yesAnthropology and Humanism, Volume 50, Issue 1, June 2025.
Abstract Not all narratives create meaning, or create the same kinds of meaning; instead, some stories amplify meaninglessness, which—it is argued—is its own form of sense‐making. This article examines how meaning is formulated through narrative in the absence of a meaningful death, specifically in the context of a motiveless murder.
Jerome Arrow
wiley   +1 more source

Publicidad "sub specie semiosis" [PDF]

open access: yesCommunication & Society, 1970
El propósito de este trabajo es tratar el fenómeno publicitario desde el punto de vista semiótico, sin negar ni reducir a ésta las otras dimensiones del hecho publicitario. Desde el punto de vista semiótico, la publicidad se presenta como un sistema modelizante secundario que proyecta los valores de la cultura según el modelo que ella tiene de sí misma:
Vilarnovo, A. (Antonio)   +1 more
openaire   +3 more sources

How fences communicate interspecies codes of conduct in the landscape: toward bidirectional communication?

open access: yesWildlife Biology, Volume 2025, Issue 3, May 2025.
The fence provides two functions in wildlife management. First, it physically blocks, deters or impedes wild animals from access to protected areas or resources. Second, the fence signals impassability, danger, pain or irritation to animals through both of these pathways: the actual blockade and the signal of no access both communicates to wild animals
Erica von Essen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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