What Do Animals and Plants Know, Predict and Transmit?

1969 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-25
Author(s):  
Frédéric Laugrand ◽  
Lionel Simon
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The One

Taking stock of the research conducted in anthropology and related sciences in recent decades, this introduction examines the skills that are attributed to animals and plants by humans. On the one hand, the boundaries between Man and Nature have become more porous, and an increasing number of scientists are recognising the intelligence of these living beings. On the other hand, the categories used to measure this intelligence are inadequate and biased. A few ethnographic fragments taken from fieldwork carried out, in particular, among Indigenous people of the Philippines, Indonesia and Colombia are discussed, confirming this observation. Then, the contributions of the authors of this special issue are briefly presented. These authors call for a renewed reflection on animal and plant skills from the perspective of shared and interacting environments and worlds. Their aim is to deepen reflection on the anthropology of the living.

scholarly journals and nature, a complex relationship

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (26) ◽  
pp. 73-78
Author(s):  
Maria Antonietta Maria Antonietta Sbordone ◽  
Barbara Barbara Pizzicato
Keyword(s):  
Biological Sciences ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Other ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Evolutionary Line ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
The One

Over the course of its history, design has never lost sight of nature as a term of comparison, sometimes taking from it, sometimes moving away from it. To investigate the complex relationship between the two terms, design and nature, we cannot ignore the evolution of man and how it has been profoundly influenced by technological innovation, which is the most evident result of science. Tracing an evolutionary line of design thinking, a double trajectory can be registered: on the one hand the tension towards progress and the myth of the machine, on the other hand the idea of a harmonious co-evolution with nature and the need to be reconnected with it. Besides, it is progress that allows mankind to thoroughly investigate natural mechanisms and make them their own. Contemporary design, autonomous but at the same time increasingly interdisciplinary, has got blurred boundaries which intersect with the most advanced fields of biological sciences. This evolution has opened up a whole new field of investigation that multiplies the opportunities of innovation, especially from a sustainability-oriented point of view. Today the dramatic breaking of the balance between man and nature has turned into the concept of permanent emergency, which is now matter of greatest interest for design, a design that attempts to react, mend, adapt to change in an authentically resilient way.

Religion and Constitutional Practices in Asia: Five ‘Cs’ for Reflection

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Arif A JAMAL
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Comparative Law ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Short Commentary ◽  
Five Cs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

AbstractIn considering the articles in this Special Issue, I am struck by the importance of a set of factors that, in my view, both run through the articles like a leitmotif, as well as shape the major ‘take away’ lesson(s) from the articles. In this short commentary, I elaborate on these factors and the lesson(s) to take from them through five ‘Cs’: context; complexity; contestation; the framework of constitutions; and the role of comparative law. The first three ‘Cs’ are lessons from the case studies of the articles themselves, while the second two ‘Cs’ are offered as lessons to help take the dialogue forward. Fundamentally, these five ‘Cs’ highlight the importance of the articles in this Special Issue and the conference from which they emerged on the one hand, while on the other hand, also making us aware of what are the limits of what we should conclude from the individual articles. In other words, taken together, the five ‘Cs’ are, one might say, lessons about lessons.

scholarly journals Reflections on habituality across other grammatical categories

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
Nora Boneh ◽  
Łukasz Jędrzejowski
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Grammatical Category ◽  
Imperfective Aspect ◽  
General Overview ◽  
Grammatical Categories ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One

Abstract The main aim of this introduction article is to give a general overview of how habituality has been investigated in the literature as a grammatical category. In doing so, we first elaborate on the question of how habituality can be characterized and what difficulties one encounters in determining its properties, which include non-contingent modal event recurrence. A brief discussion of these issues is given in Section 2. Section 3 outlines selected (conceptual and formal) connections between habituality and other grammatical categories. What our observations essentially indicate is that habituality, on the one hand, closely interacts with several TAM categories, most prominently imperfective aspect and its derivatives (progressive, continuative), and also interacts in special ways with modal categories, such as the evidential or the future, on the other hand, we also observe – as has been done previously – that habituality is often not encoded overtly and can be expressed by several forms within one and the same language, and if overtly marked by a dedicated form, diachronically, it is not always stable. Finally, Section 4 summarizes the most relevant findings of the articles collected in the present special issue and highlights their importance for the general discussion about habituality.

scholarly journals Editorial: Why affirmative critique?

1970 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karin Gunnarsson ◽  
Riikka Hohti
Keyword(s):  
Gender Discrimination ◽  
The Other ◽  
Main Question ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Critical Research ◽  
Everyday Practices ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
The One

We begin this special issue by relating to two affective events situated in academia and education. These moments, and many similar, have stayed with us and kept us thinking about what kind of research we want to advance. These moments are laden with ambivalence. On the one hand, there was the joy of learning about power: being able to distract what was “behind” the everyday practices we had grown used to. After all, it was our uncompromised responsibility as researchers to uncover processes of oppression and discrimination. On the other hand, there were disturbing feelings as this kind of critical research seemed to drive both research subjects and researcher into positions that failed to connect: positions that did not facilitate dialogue or the creation of something different. For us, the main question arising was: how might we investigate pressing problems such as racial or gender discrimination while fostering the opportunity to make a difference? How can we raise these issues while at the same time creating possibilities for movement and change?

Introduction: Eurobonds beyond Crisis Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas Eger ◽  
Hans-Bernd Schäfer
Keyword(s):  
Crisis Management ◽  
Law And Economics ◽  
Debt Crisis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Promising Tool ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Economic Criteria

AbstractEurobonds, i.e. the mutualization of (some) of the Eurozone member states debts, remain a promising tool not as a remedy for the ongoing debt crisis but for a number of other, more long-term reasons. This introduction to the present special issue of the Review of Law and Economics lays the ground for the subsequent in-depth analyses by providing a framework comprised of, on the one hand, the most prominent proposals for Eurobonds and, on the other hand, the legal and economic criteria against which the suitability of these proposals may be judged.

The inventiveness of informality: an introduction

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Phelps
Keyword(s):  
Global South ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Urban Economic ◽  
Interdisciplinary Dialogue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
Polar Opposite

In this introduction I set the scene for the five full papers that appear in this special issue. Noting the lack of major overlaps in the concerns of different strands of literature as they address issues of urban economic informality, I argue the need for an interdisciplinary dialogue for uncovering aspects of the ingenuity, innovation and inventiveness found among informal businesses in the global South. I also argue the need to move beyond polar opposite perspectives on the radical inventiveness of businesses on the one hand and the purely imitative or survivalist behaviour of businesses on the other hand.

scholarly journals Post-national belongings, cosmopolitan becomings and mediating mobilities

2021 ◽  
pp. 144078332098763
Author(s):  
Noel B Salazar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Thinking ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Collective Identity ◽  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Cultural Processes ◽  
The Future ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship

In this commentary piece, I combine insights gained from the various contributions to this special issue with my own research and understanding to trace the (dis)connections between, on the one hand, (post-)nationalism and its underlying concept of belonging and, on the other hand, cosmopolitanism and its underlying concept of becoming. I pay special attention to the human (im)mobilities mediating these processes. This critical thinking exercise confirms that the relationship between place, collective identity and socio-cultural processes of identification is a contested aspect of social theory. In the discussion, I suggest four points to be addressed in the future if we want to make existing theories about post-national formations and processes of cosmopolitanization more robust against the huge and complex challenges humankind is facing.

scholarly journals “One of the First Matters to be Addressed but Distinct” or “Distinct but Inseparable”? The Distinction Between Maritime Entitlement and Sea Boundary Delimitation in the Philippines v. China Arbitration

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Christian SCHULTHEISS
Keyword(s):  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Law Of The Sea ◽  
Legal Argument ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The Law ◽  
The One

Abstract The distinction between disputes of sea boundary delimitation and disputes over the existence of maritime entitlements was one key element of the legal argument that the Philippines brought forward against China in the Philippines v. China Arbitration. On the one hand, the distinction between delimitation and entitlement allowed the Tribunal to establish its jurisdiction on several Philippine submissions despite the jurisdictional exclusions of China's declaration under Article 298(1)(a)(i) of the Law of the Sea Convention. On the other hand, the Tribunal's finding about the lack of China's entitlements has important consequences. China and a number of lawyers objected to the jurisdictional separability of entitlement and delimitation. The aim of this paper is to discuss the question of whether a tribunal can establish jurisdiction on the existence of maritime entitlements in a context where jurisdiction on boundary delimitation is excluded and where a determination of entitlements has consequences for boundary delimitation.

scholarly journals Introduction: Ecologising Taiwan

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-9
Author(s):  
Andrea Bachner ◽  
David Der-wei Wang
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Ecological Perspective ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Culturally Specific ◽  
Flexible Links ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ecological Thought ◽  
The One ◽  
Ecological Thinking

Abstract Ecologising Taiwan means to think ecologically about, from, as well as by way of Taiwan. On the one hand, we ecologise Taiwan by viewing it through an ecological perspective; on the other hand, we also want to treat Taiwan itself as an agent that drives our thinking, no longer merely an object of our anthropocentric and anthropocenic gaze. Taiwan, as an island that encompasses a particularly wide range of biotopes, redefines insularity in its connectivity to other global spaces and networks: it pits its infinite potential for different encounters, relations, and comparisons against any bias of smallness and isolation. Culturally specific representations—the stories we tell about the environment and how we tell them—are important in environmental thinking. Thus ecologising Taiwan is not only about what ecological thinking can do for Taiwan but also about what Taiwan can do for ecological thought. In order to sound out the different resonances of what ecologising Taiwan might mean, this special issue brings together six essays that explore flexible links between ecological thought and Taiwanese culture. As such, this special issue is part of the ecological chain of Taiwan studies, featuring topics (even topoi) on languages, genres, media forms, and methodologies in contestation and transformation.

Indian Medical Traditions Between State and Village

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 97-113
Author(s):  
Maarten Bode
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Indian Medical ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Asian Medicine ◽  
Political Act ◽  
The One ◽  
Medical Traditions ◽  
Indian Medicine

AbstractApart from an introduction to the eight essays that make up this special issue of Asian Medicine this opening piece discusses India’s hierarchical medical landscape and the politics of value involved. Inspired by recent scholarship, I argue on the one hand that state-sanctioned medicine—formal biomedicine and formal Indian medicine—and, on the other hand, subaltern medicine practiced by informal practitioners—both folk and biomedical—typify the Indian medical landscape. Forms of Indian medicine are not bounded by themselves. Their demarcation is a political act. These politics of signification beg to be deconstructed when we want policies concerning Indian medicine to be realistic and successful. After all, the assumption of this introduction and the special issue as a whole is that Indian medicine deserves a place next to biomedicine.

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