Heifer International’s ‘gift catalogue’ is filled with images of smiling, healthy children, thriving animals, and self-sufficient women, all set against green fields and lush forests. The program’s appeal to donors lies in its simplicity: the goats, heifers, and flocks of chicks are tangible evidence of how much the Global North
I believe in expressing your feelings, showing emotions, and being transparent. It is, I believe, what makes us humans disconcerting, touching and interesting. Men can not be “humans”. They are the pillars of our society. The world rests on their shoulders and they elevate us with their rationality. They can
We are, in the twenty-first century, amid a “world-wide crisis in education” (Nussbaum 2). In virtually every nation, “the humanities and the arts are being cut away, in both primary/secondary and college/university education” (Nussbaum 2). The future of their disciplines under assault, notable scholars such as Martha Nussbaum and Toby
Given the confusion about the birth of the story of Aladdin, I can’t help but wonder what this uncertainty reveals about the story’s function as a cultural mirror. In his article “Monstrous Births of Aladdin,” Cooperson suggests that the story’s unstable origins make it endlessly adaptable, reflecting the cultural and
Journeault et al. (2021) present a reframed understanding of Hydro-Quebec’s (HQ) sustainability reporting through the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI – an institutionally developed technocratic system, predicated on the Western ontology of naturalism that privileges quantitive indicators in HQ’s reports – misrepresents HQ’s sustainability performance. Accordingly, HQ’s reports not
In Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s, Diva Futura, female bodies occupy the center of the frame, but the film complicates a simple reading of the “male gaze”. On one hand, it reproduces aspects of what Maina and Zecca describe as pornography’s “principle of maximum visibility” (133): women are often shown nude, staged
Heifer International’s ‘gift catalogue’ is filled with images of smiling, healthy children, thriving animals, and self-sufficient women, all set against green fields and lush forests. The program’s appeal to donors lies in its simplicity: the goats, heifers, and flocks of chicks are tangible evidence of how much the Global North cares for people like Shilpi,
I believe in expressing your feelings, showing emotions, and being transparent. It is, I believe, what makes us humans disconcerting, touching and interesting. Men can not be “humans”. They are the pillars of our society. The world rests on their shoulders and they elevate us with their rationality. They can not fall, they can not
We are, in the twenty-first century, amid a “world-wide crisis in education” (Nussbaum 2). In virtually every nation, “the humanities and the arts are being cut away, in both primary/secondary and college/university education” (Nussbaum 2). The future of their disciplines under assault, notable scholars such as Martha Nussbaum and Toby Miller have in their texts
Given the confusion about the birth of the story of Aladdin, I can’t help but wonder what this uncertainty reveals about the story’s function as a cultural mirror. In his article “Monstrous Births of Aladdin,” Cooperson suggests that the story’s unstable origins make it endlessly adaptable, reflecting the cultural and political desires of each era
Journeault et al. (2021) present a reframed understanding of Hydro-Quebec’s (HQ) sustainability reporting through the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI). The GRI – an institutionally developed technocratic system, predicated on the Western ontology of naturalism that privileges quantitive indicators in HQ’s reports – misrepresents HQ’s sustainability performance. Accordingly, HQ’s reports not only neglect Cree peoples’ animist
In Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s, Diva Futura, female bodies occupy the center of the frame, but the film complicates a simple reading of the “male gaze”. On one hand, it reproduces aspects of what Maina and Zecca describe as pornography’s “principle of maximum visibility” (133): women are often shown nude, staged in ways that emphasize their
Some anthropologists are starting to question if the anthropology of modern-day Islam renders Muslim worlds as “too sober.”1 The anthropology of Islam has largely neglected studying Muslims who step outside of normative-legal Islam by, for example, drinking wine or consuming psychedelics. This approach often reduces Islam to piety, and depicts alternative expressions of Islam as
Militia amoris is a trope in Roman erotic elegy wherein love affairs are characterized through imperial language. Ovid’s Amores delineates the trope in “1.9” through extended comparison between behaviors supposedly consistent between lovers and soldiers. “1.9” consequently epitomizes how militia amoris undermined Roman mores in arguing that love affairs—associated with idleness or excess sexuality, and
