ePaper ini menyajikan A Rise in Humanity, kuliah pembuka tahun akademik 2021–2022 yang disampaikan oleh Felwine Sarr di Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies di Jenewa. Dalam kuliahnya, Bapak Sarr menjelaskan bagaimana masyarakat perlu mengambil kepemilikan atas masa kini dan masa depan mereka, dan mengusulkan jalur untuk terlibat kembali pada tingkat kolektif guna mengi…
Amphibious Subjects is an ethnographic study of a community of self-identified effeminate men- known in local parlance as sasso-residing in coastal Jamestown, a suburb of Accra, Ghana's capital. Drawing on the Ghanaian philosopher Kwame Gyekye's notion of "amphibious personhood," Kwame Edwin Otu argues that sasso embody and articulate amphibious subjectivity in their self-making, creating an id…
A New Rival State? adalah koleksi unik dari laporan-laporan yang ditulis pada tahun 1857–1917 oleh konsul Rusia di Melbourne kepada Kedutaan Besar Kekaisaran Rusia di London dan Kementerian Luar Negeri Rusia di St Petersburg. Ditulis oleh delapan konsul, laporan-laporan ini menawarkan pandangan Rusia tentang perkembangan koloni pemukim pada akhir abad kesembilan belas dan tahun-tahun pertama …
In the past two decades, great advancements have been made in phonetic, auditory, and psycholinguistic research on speech perception. As the fields have advanced, there has been increasing interdisciplinary collaboration between them, which has, in turn, revealed their interdependence. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together top scholars in these three related areas to present resear…
The atomic force microscope (AFM) has become one of the leading nanoscale measurement techniques for materials science since its creation in the 1980's, but has been gaining popularity in a seemingly unrelated field of science: biology. The AFM naturally lends itself to investigating the topological surfaces of biological objects, from whole cells to protein particulates, and can also be used t…
Biodiversity and Protected Areas assembles twelve topics from around the world, illustrating the complexities and promise of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Authors from Mongolia, Africa, India, Canada, Iraq, and the United States dwell on particular aspects and challenges relevant to those regions. Lessons and approaches from interesting localities, coupled with global analyses give the re…
Selama empat dekade terakhir, pendekatan siklus hidup sosiologis dengan fokusnya pada interaksi struktur dan agensi sepanjang waktu, perspektif siklus hidup, telah menjadi perspektif penelitian penting dalam ilmu sosial. Namun, meskipun telah berhasil diterapkan pada hampir semua bidang penyelidikan sosial, penggunaannya jauh lebih sedikit dalam penelitian yang mempelajari populasi migran dan p…
A clear-eyed examination of the open access movement: past history, current conflicts, and future possibilities.Open access (OA) could one day put the sum of human knowledge at our fingertips. But the goal of allowing everyone to read everything faces fierce resistance. In Athena Unbound, Peter Baldwin offers an up-to-date look at the ideals and history behind OA, and unpacks the controversies …
Asset pricing, investment, and trading strategies are very important in finance. They are useful in various situations, for example, supporting the decision-making process of choosing investments; determining the asset-specific required rate of return on the investment; pricing derivatives for trading or hedging; getting portfolios from fixed incomes or bonds, stocks, and other assets; evaluati…
This book commemorates the history of the psychology schools in Adelaide’s three Universities: The University of Adelaide, Flinders University and the University of South Australia. Its publication in 2016 coincides with their 60th, 50th and 25th birthdays respectively. Their core activities comprise undergraduate teaching, postgraduate research training, research and postgraduate professiona…