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Most Adaptable to Change
In a globalized and networked world, where media crosses national borders, contributors reveal how transnational processes have shaped popular representations of scientific and religious ideas in the United Kingdom, Argentina, Ecuador, India, Spain, Turkey, Israel, and Japan. Most Adaptable to Change demonstrates the varied and divergent ways evolutionary ideas and nonscientific traditions and ways of understanding life on Earth have transformed across the globe. By examining a range of popular media forms across a multitude of different geopolitical contexts from the 1920s to today, this book traces how different evolutionary traditions and figures have been championed or discredited by different religious traditions, their spiritual leaders, and politicians using the cultural authority of religion as leverage. It analyzes the ways in which evolutionary theory has been mobilized explicitly for the purposes of addressing wider sociopolitical questions, and it is the first collection of its kind to explicitly explore the role of popular media formats themselves as mediators in institutional debates on the relationship between evolution and religion.
On the Backs of Tortoises
An insightful exploration of the iconic Galápagos tortoises, and how their fate is inextricably linked to our own in a rapidly changing world The Galápagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. This book tells the story of the islands' namesakes--the giant tortoises--as coveted food sources, objects of natural history, and famous icons of conservation and tourism. By doing so, it brings into stark relief the paradoxical, and impossible, goal of conserving species by trying to restore a past state of prehistoric evolution. The tortoises, Elizabeth Hennessy demonstrates, are not prehistoric, but rather microcosms whose stories show how deeply human and nonhuman life are entangled. In a world where evolution is thoroughly shaped by global history, Hennessy puts forward a vision for conservation based on reckoning with the past, rather than trying to erase it.
Language Acquisition in Study Abroad and Formal Instruction Contexts
This publication constitutes essential reading for academics, teachers and language policy makers wanting to understand, plan, and implement an educational language program involving learner mobility. The book provides data and analyses from a long-term program of research on study abroad (the SALA Project), which looked into the short and long-term effects of instructional and mobility contexts on language and cultural development from two perspectives: the participants' language acquisition development over 2,5 years, and the practitioners' perspective in relation to the design and implementation of a mobility program. The book is innovative in the longitudinal data it offers, the light it...
Historicizing Humans
With an Afterword by Theodore Koditschek A number of important developments and discoveries across the British Empire's imperial landscape during the nineteenth century invited new questions about human ancestry. The rise of secularism and scientific naturalism; new evidence, such as skeletal and archaeological remains; and European encounters with different people all over the world challenged the existing harmony between science and religion and threatened traditional biblical ideas about special creation and the timeline of human history. Advances in print culture and voyages of exploration also provided researchers with a wealth of material that contributed to their investigations into humanity’s past. Historicizing Humans takes a critical approach to nineteenth-century human history, as the contributors consider how these histories were shaped by the colonial world, and for various scientific, religious, and sociopolitical purposes. This volume highlights the underlying questions and shared assumptions that emerged as various human developmental theories competed for dominance throughout the British Empire.
Ciencia, política y poder
Este libro recoge los primeros productos del seminario doctoral en Ciencias Sociales con especialización en Estudios Políticos de FLACSO-Sede Ecuador (2007-2011) y da cuenta del estado de la cuestión de los distintos campos con los que se vinculan los proyectos de tesis.
Los Andes y el Amazonas o Notas de un viaje desde Guayaquil a Pará
Es para nosotros un gusto presentar este libro que trae a la lengua española la magnífica obra de James Orton Los Andes y el Amazonas, publicada originalmente en 1870, y ampliada en 1875. Debido a la atenta y la dedicada traducción de Irene Paz Durini y Fernando Hidalgo Nistri, llega esta narración que nos invita a viajar junto a Orton y explorar el recorrido de Sudamérica por su parte más ancha, desde Guayaquil hasta Pará. Sus travesías mostraron a la sociedad occidental del siglo XIX escenarios fabulosos con infranqueables montañas, profusos bosques y sociedades diversas.
Infectious Diseases in Solid-Organ Transplant Recipients
This book describes a practical approach to the diagnosis, management, and prevention of infectious complications in solid-organ transplant (SOT) candidates and recipients, based on both up-to-date clinical evidence and state of the art expert opinion from world-renowned experts in the field. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which explains risk assessment and the general approach to infectious diseases in the pre-, peri-, and early and late post-transplant periods. The remaining two sections address the prevention and treatment of infection with particular pathogens and the management of specific syndromes, such as pneumonia, CNS infections, UTIs, and skin infections. Infec...
Andaluzas exiliadas en México tras la Guerra Civil (1939-1948)
CD-ROM; Formato del archivo: PDF Resumen: El presente estudio tiene como objetivo el análisis, desde una perspectiva de género, de las mujeres andaluzas que se exiliaron a México en 1939. Setenta y cinco años después de aquel fenómeno que marcó la vida de miles de republicanos y republicanas españolas, los estudios sobre el exilio son a día de hoy muy numerosos y ricos en perspectivas, sin embargo, siguen planteando interrogantes sobre todo en lo que se refiere al destierro de la “gente corriente”. Gente de toda clase y condición social cuyo rasgo en común era su pertenencia a la izquierda y su posición a favor de la Segunda República. La historiografía andaluza comienza ah...
