Weathering:Ecologies of Exposure

Weathering is atmospheric, geological, temporal, transformative. It implies exposure to the elements and processes of wearing down, disintegration, or accrued patina. Weathering can also denote the ways in which subjects and objects resist and pass through storms and adversity. This volume contemplates weathering across many fields and disciplines; its contributions examine various surfaces, environments, scales, temporalities, and vulnerabilities. What does it mean to weather or withstand? Who or what is able to pass through safely? What is lost or gained in the process

Course Catalog 2010-2011

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Contemporary Australian novels and crises of ecologies

This thesis argues that literature can cultivate our sensuous attunement to ecological crises and enhance our powers of living amid these crises. These literary potentials are confirmed in studies of novels by Alexis Wright, Janette Turner Hospital and Tim Winton.<br /

Socio-Thermodynamics—Evolutionary Potentials in a Population of Hawks and Doves

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From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons: An Introduction to the History of Scientific Thought between Iran and the Atlantic

This work offers an introduction to the history of scientific thought in the region between Iran and the Atlantic from the beginnings of the Bronze Age until 1900 CE—a “science” that can be understood more or less as a German Wissenschaft: a coherent body of knowledge carried by a socially organized group or profession. It thus deals with the social and human as well as medical and natural sciences and, in earlier times, even such topics as astrology and exorcism. It discusses eight periods or knowledge cultures: Ancient Mesopotamia – classical Antiquity – Islamic Middle Ages – Latin Middle Ages – Western Europe 1400–1600 – 17th century – 18th century – 19th century. For each period, a general description of scientific thought is offered, embedded within its social context, together with a number of shorter or longer commented extracts from original works in English translation

Reconceptualizar la seguridad en el siglo XXI

El libro revisa desde los aspectos filosóficos, pólíticos, socioeconómicos, culturales, ambientales, de género y de leyes internacionales las instituciones y las políticas de seguridad existentes y propone cambios en su comprensión que lleven hacia una profundización del concepto de seguridad. En el contexto regional de América Latina se propone seguritizar humana, social y ambientalmente el bienestar, para abrir el camino hacia políticas y prácticas sociales que permitirán mitigar los riesgos y desafíos que se presentarán en este siglo XXI.1. Conceptos básicos de seguridad. 2.Debate filosófico sobre seguridad en Mesoamérica y Brasil. 3. Globalizacion y transnacionales en América Latina. 4. Reconceptualizar la seguridad en el siglo XX