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ABSTRACT This essay examines the controversy surrounding the Bhoot Vidya certificate program proposed by the Faculty of Ayurveda at Banaras Hindu University in 2019. Drawing on media coverage, curricular materials, and government policy, I analyze how the debate reveals broader tensions in the politics of contemporary Ayurveda, nationalism, and ...
Thomas Seibel
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Macau as Method: Recombinant Urbanism in Post‐Socialist China
ABSTRACT In ‘Asia as Method’, Chen Kuan‐Hsing argues for the value of an indigenous inter‐Asian approach to analysing the effects of European imperialism on the countries and citizens of Asia. This article mobilises both Chen's inter‐Asian referencing strategy and the city‐state of Macau to explore Macau's role in China's engagements with global ...
Tim Simpson
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Mapping Disjuncture: Internationalism and Palestine
Short Abstract This paper reflects on a ‘Map Conversation’ session at the 2024 RGS‐IBG Annual Conference, that explored maps of the League of Nations and Palestine. The authors contrast maps promoting global consciousness in the 1920s with those charting colonial encroachment in Palestine.
Zena Agha, Jake Hodder
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Non-home: A Theoretical Approach to Migrants' Dwellings [PDF]
In this article we introduce the notion of non-home as an attempt of meaningful insight into the migrants' dwelling constructed from elements of different provenance, depending on tenants housing experiences, definitions and the very materiality of a ...
Jewdokimow, Marcin, Łukasiuk, Magdalena
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ABSTRACT Despite research on sustainable labels, little is known about combining eco‐ and social labels and the effects on consumers. Although consumers are increasingly confronted with both socially oriented, e.g., fair trade, as well as environmentally oriented eco‐labels such as certified organic cotton, the effect on consumer value has not been ...
Lamia Arslan, Samanthi Dijkstra‐Silva
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Envisioning the Future of Work: From Ideas to Reforms
ABSTRACT Two different theoretical perspectives concerning technology and the future of work are examined. One is linked to mainstream economics, whereas the other is associated with critical (‘post‐work’) discourse. Ideas about work—its nature and impacts on well‐being—matter in both perspectives.
David A. Spencer
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First Looks: CATaC '98\ud [PDF]
The First International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication (CATaC’98), and its affiliated publications, seek to bring together current insights from philosophy, communication theory, and cultural sciences in an ...
Ess, Charles
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Utopia and Intellectual Humility: More, Bacon and Swift Appraising Law and Technology
Law and frontier technologies have been variously perceived in Western literature’s early classic utopias. Utopias’ diverse narratives and commentaries have applauded law’s interplay with technology or admonished it – utopias have variously imagined ...
Karen Schultz
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Reimagining Freire: beyond human relations. [PDF]
Jones N.
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The government–robber comparison: A long‐standing tradition beyond avowed libertarianism
Abstract A government differs from a robber, but they share the common feature of initiating coercion. This similarity has been noticed by libertarians as well as within a distinct scholarly tradition and as a recurring theme throughout Western philosophy.
Brian Mandeville
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