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The psychiatric fix

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract This article draws on four years of ethnographic fieldwork in Los Angeles’ (LA) jail mental health facility to describe the interrelated crises of rising numbers of people declared incompetent to stand trial and the recurrent failure of managing madness in jail.
Jeremy Levenson
wiley   +1 more source

The Land Question in Amazonia: Cadastral Knowledge and Ignorance in Brazil’s Tenure Regularization Program [PDF]

, 2015
In the Brazilian Amazon, a quest˜ao fundi´aria (the land question) has been asked and answered in a variety of ways since the region was opened up tolarge-scale migration and development projects in the 1960s.
Agrawal, Alston, Baletti, Berry, Brazil Ministry of Agrarian Development, Brito, Bunker, Burnett, Campbell, Campbell, Campbell, Craib, Doolittle, Edelman, Fearnside, Fearnside, Foucault, Foweraker, Grandia, Hetherington, Hochstetler, Holston, Hughes, Iterpa, Kain, Li, Little, Mathews, Mitchell, Oliveira, Sant’Anna, Schmink, Scott, Soares-Filho, Tsing, Tsing, Velho, Weaver, Winichakul, Wolford, Zimerman   +40 more
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Plastics and labor: The case of disposable medical plastics

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, EarlyView.
Abstract Plastics are ubiquitous in the contemporary practice of medicine, where they are tied to notions of hygiene and quality of care. However, when plastics first infiltrated global medical practice, they did so because of considerations related to patient comfort and durability.
Gauri Pathak
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a synthesized critique of neoliberal biodiversity conservation [PDF]

, 2012
During the last three decades, the arena of biodiversity conservation has largely aligned itself with the globally dominant political ideology of neoliberalism and associated governmentalities.
Adams B., Adams W., Angelis M., Baudrillard J., Berkes F., Bram Büscher, Brockington D., Brockington D., Brockington D., Brockington D., Burkett P., Caldecott B., Castree N., Child M., Curry P., Dan Brockington, De Landa M., Debord G., Deleuze G., Dowie M., Dowie M., Dowie M., Duffy R., Fairhead J., Ferguson J., Foster J.B., Foster J.B., Foucault M., Geertz C., Graeber D., Gramsci A., Gudeman, Hajer M., Harper J., Harvey D., Harvey D., Heynen N., Heynen N., Igoe J., Igoe J., Jim Igoe, Katja Neves, Kovel J., Larner W., Latour B., Latour B., Latour B., Laughling T.J., Leach M., MacDonald C., Marx K., McAfee K., McQueen H., Mosse D., Neves K., O'Connor J., O'Connor M., Paudel N., Posey D., Saad-Filho A., Sian Sullivan, Simon H., Sklair L., Smith N., Stott P., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Sullivan S., Thrift N.   +69 more
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Artificial Creativity and Human Fragility

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article critiques the widespread assumption that generative AI systems exhibit genuine artistic creativity. While such systems can produce novel and aesthetically appealing outputs, assessments based solely on results obscure fundamental differences between human and artificial agents.
Johanna Merz
wiley   +1 more source

Automation and Augmentation in Theological Perspective

Modern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract AI enables forms of automation that threaten unemployment and deskilling, eliminating important opportunities for the development of virtue. The concomitant loss of virtue and meaningful employment makes it a theological problem from the perspective of Catholic social teaching and theological anthropology.
Paul Scherz
wiley   +1 more source

Reviews [PDF]

, 2001
Danny Saunders and Nina Smalley (eds.), The International Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook — Volume 8: Simulations and Games for Transition and Change, London: Kogan Page, 2000. ISBN: 0–7494–3397–3.
Barker, Philip, Clark, Linda, Frank, Andrea, Jones, Chris, Jordan, Gillian, Pearson, Elaine, Traxler, John   +6 more
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The ‘State Patriotic Turn’: State Ideology and History According to the Russian Military Historical Society, 2022–2024

Nations and Nationalism, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The Russian Military Historical Society (RMHS) was founded in 2012 on President Vladimir Putin's orders. Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the society's members have not only published propaganda to support the ‘special military operation’ but have discussed the need for a proper ‘state ideology’.
Kati Parppei
wiley   +1 more source

Green Refrontierisation: Critical Cartographies of the Hydrogen Rush in Africa

Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, EarlyView.
Short Abstract This article provides a critical cartographic analysis of the green hydrogen (GH2) maps present within the reports of European states, lobby groups and investment bodies to examine the role of geographical knowledge in the production of low‐carbon energy frontiers. It identifies three spatio‐political strategies present within these maps
William Monteith
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Prejudice and Pride: The Human Sciences in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Latin America [PDF]

, 2013
Grappling with problematics of status and hierarchy, recent literature on the history of the human sciences in Latin America has gone through three overlapping phases.
Rodriguez, Julia E.
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