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Trần Đức Thảo. A Marxist Theory of the Origins of Human Language [PDF]

, 2016
This paper will explore Trần Đức Thảo’s (Từ Sơn, Bắc Ninh, September 26th, 1917 – Paris, April 24th, 1993) work from historical, philosophical, and linguistic points of view.
D'Alonzo, Jacopo
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Recycling of Tropical Natural Fibers in Building Materials

, 2022
This chapter deals with the reuse and recycling of tropical natural fibers and their potential valorization in construction materials in a context of circular economy and sustainable development. These fibers constitute large volumes of fibrous waste resulting from various agro-food industries worldwide.
Huyen, Bui,, Mazhar, Hussain,, Daniel, Levacher,   +2 more
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Investigation of recycled materials for radiative cooling under tropical climate

Nanophotonics, 2023
Abstract As a sustainable alternative to using virgin polymer, we propose the use of recycled polymer for the fabrication of passive radiative cooling materials to tackle both the increasing demand for cooling systems and to upcycle plastic waste.
Di Han, Jipeng Fei, Man Pun Wan, Hong Li, Bing Feng Ng   +4 more
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Scientific, institutional and personal rivalries among Soviet geographers in the late Stalin era [PDF]

, 2008
Scientific, institutional and personal rivalries between three key centres of geographical research and scholarship (the Academy of Sciences Institute of Geography and the Faculties of Geography at Moscow and Leningrad State Universities) are surveyed ...
Abramov L. S., Adams M. B., Anuchin D. N., Anuchin V. A., Armand D. L., Baranskii N. N., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg L. S., Berg R. L., Bowler P. J., Brotskii Yu., Denis J. B. Shaw, Doklad akad A. A., Doskach D. G., Dronin N. M., Fuller S., Golinski J., Grigor'ev A. A., Grigor'ev A. A., Grigor'ev A. A., Grigor'ev A. A., Grigor'ev A. A., Grigor'ev A. A., Hettner A., Jonathan D. Oldfield, Joravsky D., Kalesnik S. V., Kojevnikov A., Konstantinov O. A., Krementsov N., Kuhn T., Livingstone D. N., Markov K., Markov K. K., Muraveiskii S., O nauchnoi deyatel'nosti, O postanovke, Ot redaktsii, Pollock E., Postanovlenie, Ritter K., Ruse M., Saushkin Yu. G., Saushkin Yu. G., Sdasyuk G. V., Sukhova N. G., V otryve V, Varenius B., von Humboldt A., Vucinich A., Zabelin I. M., Zabelin I. M.   +57 more
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Spiritual Materialism/ Material Spiritualism: Shakta Tantric Approaches to Matter

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
In opposition to ontological discourses that denigrate matter and uphold the superiority of the spirit, one can foreground the Shakta Tantric conceptualization of matter and spirit as interchangeable forces that inform the dynamics of the universe ...
Sudipta Chakraborty, Anway Mukhopadhyay
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Bagay: Articulating a New Materialism from the Philippine Tropics [PDF]

Rupkatha Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities, 2022
Keeping in time with the new materialist turn that aspires to respond to the common disregard to matter in Euro-Western tradition of thought while at the same time insisting the imperative to decolonize such turn, this essay attempts to articulate a Philippine rendition of new materialism, through the notion of bagay, nominated here as a thing whose ...
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Mangrovian Encounters between Epistemologies of the South and New (Feminist) Materialism

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics, 2022
With the increased interest sparked across academia in both new materialism and epistemologies of the South, old colonial and patriarchal habits rear their vicious heads.
Aleida Luján Pinelo
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The International Political Ecology of Industrial Shrimp Aquaculture and Industrial Plantation Forestry in Southeast Asia [PDF]

, 2003
This paper compares the trajectories over the last two decades of two export-oriented ‘boom crops’ in Southeast Asia: indsturial shrimp aquaculture and industrial plantation forestry. It focuses on differences in the establishment, operation and politics
Hall, Derek
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How Philosophy of Mind Needs Philosophy of Chemistry [PDF]

, 2008
By the 1960s many (perhaps most) philosophers had adopted ‘physicalism’ ─ the view that physical causes fully account for mental activities. However, controversy persists about what count as ‘physical causes’.
Earley, Joseph
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Queering the Tropics: A Cartography of Tropical Materialisms, Queer Ecology, and Spectral Tropicality

eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the Tropics
This special issue entitled “Queering the Tropics” explores how queering as a methodology and gender and sexuality as a critical rubric complicate the study of the tropics and conceptions of tropicality. It also engages with how the tropics as a worldly zone, and the notion of tropicality as simultaneously material and imaginary, reconfigure notions of
Christian Jil R. Benitez, Gregory Luke Chwala, Anita Lundberg, S.N. Nyeck   +3 more
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