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Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946 (2014)
Journal Article
Rodet, M. (2014). Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946. International Labor and Working-Class History, 86, 107-123. https://doi.org/10.1017/S014754791400012X

In this article I analyze how African gender categories have interacted with those produced and imposed by French colonization and how these forced interactions may have given rise to specific kinds of resistance from local populations. Using the cas... Read More about Forced Labor, Resistance, and Masculinities in Kayes, French Sudan, 1919–1946.

Drawn by Images: Control, Subversion and Contamination in the Visual Discourse of Tokyo Metro (2014)
Journal Article
Padoan, T. (2014). Drawn by Images: Control, Subversion and Contamination in the Visual Discourse of Tokyo Metro. Lexia (Torino), 17-18, 579-599. https://doi.org/10.4399/978885487680428

This paper intends to investigate the active role of images in shaping contemporary urban life, by exploring the trail of strategies, actions, counteractions and transformations produced by a particular corpus of subway posters. Since September 1974,... Read More about Drawn by Images: Control, Subversion and Contamination in the Visual Discourse of Tokyo Metro.

A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education (2014)
Book
Wilkinson, M. L. N. (2014). A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315745657

A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-Faith World provides a comprehensively theorised and practical approach to thinking systematically and deeply about Islam and Muslims in a multi-faith world. It makes the case for a contemporary educational philosophy... Read More about A Fresh Look at Islam in a Multi-faith World: a philosophy for success through education.

Ostrich nominalism and peacock realism: A hegelian critique of quine (2014)
Journal Article
Giladi, P. (2014). Ostrich nominalism and peacock realism: A hegelian critique of quine. International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 22(5), 734-751. https://doi.org/10.1080/09672559.2014.923016

My aim in this paper is to offer a Hegelian critique of Quine’s predicate nominalism. I argue that at the core of Hegel’s idealism is not a supernaturalist spirit monism, but a realism about universals, and that while this may contrast to the nominal... Read More about Ostrich nominalism and peacock realism: A hegelian critique of quine.

Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī (2014)
Journal Article
Shihadeh, A. (2014). Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī. Oriens: Journal of Philosophy, Theology and Science in Islamic Societies, 42(2-4), 364-396. https://doi.org/10.1163/18778372-04203004

This article explores a previously unknown twelfth-century debate surrounding Avicenna’s theory of matter, in particular his views that, being deprived of actuality, prime matter is non-corporeal, and that body is invested with corporeity by a substa... Read More about Avicenna's Corporeal Form and Proof of Prime Matter in Twelfth-Century Critical Philosophy: Abū l-Barakāt, al-Masʿūdī and al-Rāzī.