Thomas Nail, The Philosophy of Movement. An Introduction, University of Minnesota Press, 2024 Foreword by Daniel W. Smith Why are city dwellers worldwide walking on average ten percent faster than they were a decade ago? Why are newcomer immigrant groups so often maligned when migration has always constituted civilization? To analyze and understand the depth …
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Echoes of Foucault, forty years after The Foucault Circle NL/BE is organizing a conference about interdisciplinary uses of Foucault’s work, with a focus on themes which Foucault did not think much about himself, but we do: decolonization, gender, climate change, etc. University of Amsterdam: Amsterdam Roeterseilandcampus 25-06-2024 Few philosophers have been such …
Baxter, K.I. Cecily Shoots a Rhinoceros: Big Game Hunting in British Somaliland and the 1900 Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish in Africa (2023) Law and Literature DOI: 10.1080/1535685X.2023.2289771 Abstract In 1900, seven European nations gathered in London to agree the Convention for the Preservation of Wild Animals, Birds and Fish …
Call for Papers for Special Issue “Colors in Econarratives about the Human and More-than-Human World“, Storyworlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies Guest Editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou and Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki Colors are not only visual stimuli, but also social constructs that play a pivotal role in our perception, psychology, behavior and communication. Colors also evoke …
CFP: Special Issue: Ecologies of Life and Death in the Anthropocene, Lagoonscapes The Venice Journal of Environmental Humanities Guest editors: Professor Peggy Karpouzou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece & Dr. Nikoleta Zampaki, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Both life and death are natural states of humans and non-humans, coexisting and at …
Eva Joyce, Rewilding tourism in the news: Power/knowledge and the Irish and UK news media discourses, Annals of Tourism Research, Volume 104, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2023.103718. Abstract: This study investigates how complex power relations shape the knowledge about rewilding tourism produced by the news media in the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom. A multi-level Foucauldian …
Jordi Collet-Sabé & Stephen J. Ball (04 Jan 2024): Without School: Education as Common(ing) Activities in Local Social Infrastructures – An Escape from Extinction Ethics, British Journal of Educational Studies DOI: 10.1080/00071005.2023.2298776 ABSTRACT In this third paper in a series of four, we explore some ways of doing education differently. An education that moves beyond …
Jonathan Saha, Colonizing Animals. Interspecies Empire in Myanmar. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Book description Animals were vital to the British colonization of Myanmar. In this pathbreaking history of British imperialism in Myanmar from the early nineteenth century to 1942, Jonathan Saha argues that animals were impacted and transformed by colonial subjugation. By examining the …
Greer, K., King, H., Glackin, M. ‘Standing back’ or ‘stepping up’? Exploring climate change education policy influence in England (2023) British Educational Research Journal DOI: 10.1002/berj.3888 Abstract This paper explores the nature of climate change education-related policy influence in England at a time when public consciousness about the need to accelerate climate change action was …
Servalli, S., Gitto, A., Gandelli, F. Florence flood and the rescue of the Florence state archives: The role of accounting and accountability (2023) Accounting History DOI: 10.1177/10323732231175711 Abstract This archival research aims to explore the role of accounting for natural disasters. It is focused on the 1966 Florence flood. Considering the role of Florence in …
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