Penelitian tentang Alkitab Ibrani, Timur Dekat Kuno, Filsafat, dan Sejarah telah lama mempertimbangkan apakah pemikiran di wilayah budaya Timur Tengah kuno berbeda dengan pemikiran di Mediterania barat. Dimasukkannya neurobiologi, psikologi, penelitian otak, dan penelitian evolusioner akan memperluas cakrawala ini dan memungkinkan pendekatan baru. Volume ini memberikan bagian dalam yang mendala…
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The place-based approach is at the forefront of the current European cohesion policy reform. The Smart Specialisation Strategy (S3) boosts economic development through research and innovation. It is built on place-based areas showing higher potential for growth. Although S3 is deeply rooted in the uniqueness of the place, its implementation is still far from being clearly spatial-led. The resea…
This This chapter reads Beckett’s fascination with what Steven Connor has called ‘slow going’ alongside Rob Nixon’s description of the ‘slow violence’ of climate breakdown. Following Nixon’s suggestion that ‘slow violence’ does not register readily in narratives and temporalities of crisis, I examine Beckett’s attention to what remains in a paradoxically stuck and ongoing ti…
This chapter investigates the setting up of a network of lazarettos along the southern and eastern littorals of the Mediterranean during the nineteenth century. The fundamental thesis is that these lazarettos, constructed and frequently directed by Europeans, sustained the expansion of Western colonialism in the region. Starting with an investigation of the workings of the first Sanitary Counci…
In 2008, the first mandate of President Michelle Bachelet and the (much delayed) ratification of ILO169 by Chile relaunched the debate on Indigenous rights throughout the country. In particular, this debate focused on their right to (prior) consultation. Since then, Chile has held a number of consultations with Indigenous Peoples. Some of these processes have focused (and overlapped) on the ver…
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in “field trials”, which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines ava…
"Based on the premise that the project of Western Modernity is a structuring element of our societies, Racism and Racial Surveillance explores in detail its legacies of coloniality and racialization that interfere in a subtle and perverse way in the current social, cultural and political systems. Guided by an interdisciplinary methodology, the various contributions privilege historical contexts…
Scottish Medicine and Literary Culture, 1726–1832 examines the ramifications of Scottish medicine for literary culture within Scotland, throughout Britain, and across the transatlantic world. The contributors take an informed historicist approach in examining the cultural, geographical, political, and other circumstances enabling the dissemination of distinctively Scottish medico-literary dis…
Proyek Investigasi Arkeologi (AIP), yang didanai oleh English Heritage, secara sistematis mengumpulkan informasi tentang sifat dan hasil dari lebih dari 80.000 proyek arkeologi yang dilakukan antara tahun 1990 dan 2010. Volume ini membahas tren jangka panjang dalam penyelidikan dan pelaporan arkeologi, menempatkan karya ini dalam konteks sosial, politik, dan profesional yang lebih luas, dan men…