Six Open Debates on Sumak Kawsay by Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán, Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara

“…Such debates are analyzed from the premise that the authors who participate in them do so from different cultural paradigms (Andean worldview, modernism, or post-modernism) and from different schools of thought (socialist and statist, indigenist and pachamamista, or ecologist and post-developmentalist).…”
Get full text

Faide indiane e allarmismi lombardi. La mediatizzazione del conflitto ‘etnico’ e la sua eco sulla quotidiana convivenza migranti/autoctoni by Sara Bonfanti

“…An embittered xenophobic and racist imagination tainted the local public opinion, replacing the typecast of Indians as mild laborers with ruthless criminals, enmeshed in feuds of southern Italian memory. …”
Get full text

Allan Boesak: innocence and the struggle for humanity by M. Cloete

“…Boesak is of the view that post-apartheid South Africa is still deeply plagued by a racist legacy of moral-political “innocence”. I explore the validity of Boesak’s position from the perspective of his fundamental claim that the philosophy of Black Consciousness represents a legitimate framework for addressing the legacy of “innocence”, construed by him as an epistemic condition that refuses to engage with the historical “truth” of race thinking. …”
Get full text

Muito além da mestiçagem: anti-racismo e diversidade cultural nos governos Lula by Sérgio Costa

“…However, advances in anti-racist politics are more evident than in the field of protection of indigenous rights. …”
Get full text

Fractal Analysis of Stealthy Pathfinding Aesthetics by Ron Coleman

“…We show furthermore that paths generated with different stealth regimes are also statistically significantly unique. These conclusions are supported by statistical analysis of model results on experimental trials involving pathfinding in randomly generated, multiroom virtual worlds.…”
Get full text

Black soteriology: the physiological and ontological process by H. M. Mdingi

“… The Black experience that is historical and continues in post-oppressive and racist regimes proves to be problematic for Black existence. …”
Get full text

Schémas, jeux de lignes et dessins inédits dans les manuscrits de Salammbô by Geneviève Mondon

“…On three other pages we have identified symbolic figures: Tanit’s sign on two pages, and a sacred Egyptian basket. …”
Get full text

Le Græculus et la Chananéenne : Salammbô, le roman des traductions by Agnès Bouvier

“…When Hannon comes to harangue the mercenaries billeted in Sicca, Spendius the Greek twists the General’s words and causes the war to unleash. …”
Get full text

Los intereses sectoriales de la vivienda social en Cuba by Adriana Rabinovich

“…It sheds light on the statist model that has gradually given priority to quantity while defining quality via criteria for low-cost productivity. …”
Get full text

Perspectives on Heidegger’s Overcoming Nihilism in Dialogue with East Asian Thought Traditions by Tautvydas Vėželis

“… The article analyzes the perspectives of overcoming nihilism (Verwindung) by discussing Heidegger’s relationship with East Asian traditions of thought (first of all, chan/zen and daoism). We can consider the emergence of Enframing (Gestell or Ge-stell) of the essence of modern technology defined by the philosopher as a diagnosis of the fulfillment of nihilism and the end of the Western tradition of thought. …”
Get full text

Phenolic Composition, and Antioxidant and Antineurodegenerative Potential of Methanolic Extracts of Fruit Peel and Flesh of Pear Varieties from Serbia by Aleksandra Savić, Ana Alimpić Aradski, Jelena Živković, Katarina Šavikin, Snežana Jarić, Petar D. Marin, Sonja Duletić-Laušević

“…In search of bioactive compounds, six traditional pear varieties (‘Vidovača’, ‘Lubeničarka’, ‘Karamanka’, ‘Jeribasma’, ‘Lončara’, ‘Takiša’) and wild pear from Serbia were investigated and compared with a commercial variety (‘Williams Bartlett’). …”
Get full text

A categoria raça nas Ciências Sociais: revisitando alguns processos políticos, sociais e culturais na história do Brasil by José Ivo Follmann, Adevanir Aparecida Pinheiro

“…Departing from a reference to three mechanisms, such as the "ritual" of the forgetting tree, the imposture of a new official religion and the disaggregation of blood kinship and ethnic identities, the article emphasizes, as central argument, that the usage of racist theory, as justification, and the effort of the Brazilian State in the way of whiteness's policy, which is a characteristic of Brazilian history, were strongly determinant. …”
Get full text

Faire voir l'Orient : réflexion sur un artifice victorien by Laurent Bury

“…Victorian Orientalism also implied a “re-orientalisation” of the Christian myth; artists as diverse as David Wilkie or William Holman Hunt were motivated by their quest for authenticity, even though the racist prejudice then prevalent had to be taken into account. …”
Get full text

BIOPOLITICS AND HOMO SACER IN A TORTURE CENTER IN CHILE * by Hugo Rojas Corral

“…The reification process of the prisoners by sadist guards and agents was added to the impossibility of the victims to legally defend themselves in front of tribunals. …”
Get full text

A populist turn? by Ekman Mattias, Krzyżanowski Michał

“…Positioned within the ongoing discursive shifts in the Swedish public sphere and the growth of discursive uncivility in its mainstream areas, the analysis highlights how xenophobic and racist discourses once propagated by the far and radical right gradually penetrate into the studied broadsheet newspapers. …”
Get full text

Comparaison théorique sur la performativité de l’insulte homophobe. Austin, Bourdieu, Butler by Grégoire Ben-Aïssa

“…What does the homophobic (or racist, transphobic, misogynist, etc.) insult do to the person who receives it, and by virtue of what power relationship ? …”
Get full text

BEAUTIFUL PLACES AND RECREATING HUMANITY IN SOUTH AFRICA by G.J. Van Wyngaard

“…Through this, beauty and justice are intimately interwoven in the ongoing work of disruption and transformation of a white racist place. …”
Get full text

Réflexions sur la dichotomie entre néolocuteurs et locuteurs natifs/traditionnels dans le cadre de la revitalisation des langues minoritaires : vers un nouveau discours inclusif by Robert Neal Baxter

“…Tracing the colonial origins of the concept of the native speaker reveals how the divide is underpinned by an exclusivist narrative based on accident of birth, leading to a consensus within second language teaching for the need to overcome what is described as a racist ideology. The concepts of legitimacy and ownership highlight how the analogous traditional/new speaker dichotomy can replicate and perpetuate divides within minority speech communities, potentially hindering revitalisation efforts. …”
Get full text

KANITIN GÖTÜRDÜĞÜ YERİ TAKİP EDEN BİR FİLOZOF: ANTONY FLEW’UN ATEİZM’DEN VAZGEÇİŞİ ÜZERİNE by Emre Dorman

“…20. yüzyılın en etkili ateistlerinden biri olan ünlü İngiliz felsefeciAntony Flew’un Tanrı inancı konusundaki düşüncelerini değiştirmesifelsefe dünyasında ilgiyle karşılandı. 17. yüzyıldan 20. yüzyılın başlarınakadar ateist düşünürler, genelde, bilimi dinin karşısında konumlandırmayıtemel hareket noktası olarak benimsediler. …”
Get full text

The Power of Parody: Went With the Wind (1976), a Film Classic Revisited by The Carol Burnett Show (CBS, 1967-1978) by Taïna Tuhkunen

“…While failing to operate as a racial eye-opener, the 1976 skit paves the way for more critical reassessments of the famous cultural construction rooted in racist ideology and imagery.…”
Get full text