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#liste #OA #open_access #édition_scientifique #université #revues #revues_scientifiques

« Le #crapaud et le prédicateur » | Jacques Berlioz - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/2919958/_Le_crapaud_et_le_pr%C3%A9dicateur_

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Erasing Assyrians: How the KRG Abuses Human Rights, Undermines Democracy, and Conquers Minority Homelands | Matthew Barber - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/34684148/Erasing_Assyrians_How_the_KRG_Abuses_Human_Rights_Undermines_Democracy_and

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#Irak #Assyriens #Kurdes

Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At #Academia.Edu

As privatized platforms like Academia.edu look to monetize scholarly writing even further, researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future.

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#science #connaissance #privatisation #recherche

Contours of Conversion: The Geography of Islamization in Syria, 600-1500 | Thomas Carlson - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/5671727/Contours_of_Conversion_The_Geography_of_Islamization_in_Syria_600-1500

This lengthier process was also not one-directional. Muslims converted to Christianity as well as vice versa. Ruined non-Muslim religious sites could sometimes be rebuilt.

Al-Muqaddasī (fl. late tenth century) acknowledged that despite his high praise for Syria’s many advantages, “some [of its people] have apostasized.”

Yāqūt al-Ḥamawī (d. 626/1229) mentioned a village named ʿImm between Aleppo and Antioch, “in which today everyone is Christian,” but he quotes the Risāla of Ibn Buṭlān from the eleventh century to say that two centuries earlier it had a mosque.

In certain contexts Islam was not the only religion supported by the state, as Muslim rulers sometimes provided stipends to Jewish and Christian religious authorities in addition to the ulema.

Furthermore, the Byzantine reconquest and the Crusades reintroduced non-Muslim rule to portions of Syria from 358/969 to 690/1291, so that even state support for Islam could not be taken for granted. Indeed, under Frankish rule a large enough number of Muslims sought to become Christian that canon law needed to be developed in order to handle difficult social questions regarding marriage and slavery in such cases.

As Benjamin Kedar concludes, “in the Frankish Levant, passages from Islam to Christianity and vice versa were not rare at all.”

#Syrie #histoire

Economic downturns, universal health coverage, and #cancer mortality in high-income and middle-income countries, 1990–2010: a longitudinal analysis | Richard Sullivan - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/25722017/Economic_downturns_universal_health_coverage_and_cancer_mortality_in_high-

both unemployment and PEH are significantly associated with cancer mortality, with associations lasting up to 5 years. We estimate that the 2008–10 economic crisis was associated with about 260 000 excess cancer-related deaths in the OECD alone. Our analysis also suggests that UHC might mitigate the association between unemployment and cancer mortality, lending evidence in favour of ambitions to adopt and deliver UHC across different countries.

#santé #inégalités #chômage #mortalité

Rural Land Justice (Special Edition of the People’s Law Journal) | Tara Weinberg, Michael Clark, and Thuto Thipe - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/24599570/Rural_Land_Justice_Special_Edition_of_the_Peoples_Law_Journal_

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#afrique_du_sud #justice_sociale #ruralité #agriculture #femmes #apartheid (non-) #redistribution via ▻https://twitter.com/sparktheclark

An introduction to electroacoustic, noise and experimental music in Asia and Africa. | C-drík Kirdec - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/10784921/An_introduction_to_electroacoustic_noise_and_experimental_music_in_Asia_an

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This essay as specified in the title is only a short introduction to the history of alternative electronic and experimental music in asia and africa, Very fe$ has been written on this topic and forgive me if ’ didn(t mention some important composers or events, and if i didn(t develop this topic a bit more regarding some countries, this is a work in progress that will lead to a book including a more detailed vue on events, composers, music genres and other references. ’n the present paper, i speak about some major places $here electro-acoustic and experimental music *mostly academical+ de!eloped or are under dev elopment and composed by local musicians, i’ purposely omit expatriateswho live*d+ and compose*d+ there, not that their works as a lower value, it is simply not the topic of this paper.we can trace back the first electric instruments and other tools in the 18th and 19th century /

An Introduction to Electroacoustic Noise and Experimental Music in Africa and Asia :: CTM Berlin - Festival for Adventurous Music and Art
▻http://www.ctm-festival.de/festival2016/2016/02/02/programme/event/an_introduction_to_electroacoustic_noise_and_experimental_music_in_afri
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The first experimental music piece composed outside of the Western world was written by Halim El-Dabh in Cairo, Egypt in 1944. In 1948, the Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu conceived of a music in which he used technology to “bring noise into tempered musical tones”. These are some of the starting points for a hidden or largely ignored history of Asian and African sound art and electroacoustic, electronic, experimental and noise music. This presentation will not only focus on early academic experiments but also on non-academic artistic genres such as noise, electronica, and industrial, as well as on some of the developments that have occurred in the past decades in various Asian and African music scenes.

Becoming “White”: Race, Religion and the Foundations of Syrian/Lebanese Ethnicity in the United States | Sarah Gualtieri - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/12158528/Becoming_White_Race_Religion_and_the_Foundations_of_Syrian_Lebanese_Ethnic

ON 14 SEPTEMBER 1915, George Dow, a Syrian1 immigrant living in South Carolina appeared before a circuit court judge and waited to hear the fate of his petition for naturalization. Twice already, it had been denied in a lower court because he was deemed racially ineligible for citizenship. Specifically, Dow had been refused naturalization on the grounds that he did not meet the racial requirement of the United States law, which limited naturalization to "aliens being free white persons, and to aliens of African nativity and to persons of African descent."2 George Dow could not, therefore, be accepted into the fold of American citizenry. The Syrian community which by conservative estimates num bered around 150,000 persons nationwide was outraged by the refusal to naturalize Dow.3 His was not the first case to ignite a community response, but around it Syrian immigrants mobilized to a degree that was unprecedented. Their efforts would ultimately prove effective, for in this, George Dow’s final appeal, the judge ruled that Syrians “were to be classed as white persons,” and were eligible for naturalization.4 Although it was not the last time a Syrian appeared before the courts attempting to litigate his (the cases involved men only) racial status, the Dow case established a weighty legal precedent in favor of Syrian white
ness.

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Simply put, Syrians wanted to be recognized as white because it made them eligible for citizenship and the privileges it afforded (such as the right to vote and travel more freely); but being white was not the only way to gain naturalization. It was also possible, since the amendment of the naturalization statute in 1875, to argue for naturalization on the basis of African nativity or descent. Yet, not a single appliant in the racial prerequisite cases, Syrian or otherwise, attempted to make this argument.9 One could argue that it would have been inherently illogical for Syrians to argue for naturalization on the basis of African nativity or descent since Syria was not in Africa. However, as this essay attempts to show, arguments in favor of Syrian whiteness were rooted more in ideology than logic, for there was nothing more fanciful, ridiculous and illogical than the idea that whiteness could be linked to a single skull; that of a Georgian woman found in the Caucasus.10

The main reason Syrians chose to stake their claim to citizenship on the basis of membership in the “white race” was that there was some thing compelling, even alluring, about whiteness that went beyond the strategic and the practical. Historian David Roediger, drawing on W.E.B. DuBois, has called this the “wages of whiteness”, the psychological compensation of being “not black” in a racist, exploitative society.11 This theory helps explain why working-class immigrants claimed whiteness, but there is also the question of how they did so. As Roediger and Noel Ignatiev’s work on the Irish shows, immigrants participated in and transformed institutions and cultural traditions that marked them as “white” and blacks as "others."12 “To enter the white race,” Ignatiev reminds us, “was a strategy to secure an advantage in a competitive society,” and whiteness was, ultimately, the "result of choices made."13

Why a radical geography must be anarchist | Simon Springer - Academia.edu

▻https://www.academia.edu/2254767/Why_a_radical_geography_must_be_anarchist

Why a radical geographymust be anarchist

Simon Springer

University of Victoria, Canada

Radical geographers have been preoccupied with Marxism for four decades, largely ignoring an earlieranarchisttraditionthatthrived acenturybeforeradicalgeographywas claimedas Marxistinthe1970s. Whenanarchism is considered, it is misused as a synonym for violence or derided as a utopian project.

#géographie_critique #cartographie_radicale

In Search of Local Knowledge on ICTs in Africa | Nicole Stremlau, Iginio Gagliardone, Lauren Kogen, Ashnah Kalemera, and Wairagala Wakabi - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/13443823/In_Search_of_Local_Knowledge_on_ICTs_in_Africa

a narrative has developed about the transformative potential of ICTs – one that emphasizes particular uses and strategic benefits of ICTs and de-emphasizes others. ICTs have tended to be used in building new images of the nation – encompassing all citizens, promoting fairness, and offering a future of security, economic prosperity, and everyday well-being. To date, most analyses have focused on this plane, viewing ICTs as a new reality that is being built on top of pre-existing ones, rather than exploring the ways in which new and old practices and technologies coexist and integrate.Insufficient research and critical discourse exist

#technologies #afrique #discours #idéologie #critique

Le rituel hypnotique | Thierry Melchior - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/11442771/Le_rituel_hypnotique

La connaissance hypnotique | Thierry Melchior - Academia.edu
▻https://www.academia.edu/11558126/La_connaissance_hypnotique

Why did the woman cross the road? The effect of sexist humor on men’s rape proclivity | Manuela Thomae - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/4519526/Why_did_the_woman_cross_the_road_The_effect_of_sexist_humor_on_mens_rape_p

TL ;DR : L’exposition à des blagues sexistes augmente la tolérance envers les comportements sexistes (ici, le viol) Le hommes qui trouvent plus drôles les blagues sexistes sont ceux qui font preuve d’un sexisme plus hostile.(Permalink)

#feminisme

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卓史 岩根 | Ritsumeikan University - Academia.edu ritsumei.academia.edu/%E5%8D%93%E5%8… // インデックス、というか。 posted at 01:57:02

RT @kaeru_no_neko: Paper on Academia.edu: 「国文学研究」を問い直すということ／問い続けるということ www.academia.edu/6343176/_ posted at 01:50:35

Interview with Avital Ronell bit.ly/1cMwm5F posted at 01:38:41

Les Entretiens de Po&sie ♯16 : Poésie, savoir, imagination bit.ly/1qmgLCM posted at 01:21:16

Entretien avec Bernard Stiegler bit.ly/1cGDVjQ posted at 01:12:12

Marvin Gaye - Ain’t No Mountain High Enough (Greatest Hits. Live In ’76): youtu.be/-crsuEOlUO0 via @YouTube

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Reflections of the First Muslim Immigration to America in Ottoman Documents | Mehmet Uğur Ekinci - Academia.edu

▻https://www.academia.edu/5405036/Reflections_of_the_First_Muslim_Immigration_to_America_in_Ottoman_Document

Mehmet Uğur Ekinci REFLECTIONS OF THE FIRST MUSLIM IMMIGRATION TO AMERICA IN OTTOMAN DOCUMENTS
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In the early 1890s, the Ottoman state discovered that some of its Muslim subjects had recently emigrated to the United States. It already was known that many Ottoman Christians had departed to the New World, but the emigration of Muslims was a somewhat unexpected development. Soon the investigation of the number and conditions of the Muslim immigrants became an essential task for the Ottoman legation and consulates in the United States although a lack of official records made it a difficult one as well. The aim of this article is to portray the official attitude of the Ottoman state towards the first Ottoman Muslim immigrants in the United States, primarily using Ottoman archival documents from the late 1880s and early 1890s. Because the intention is to provide some idea of the reasons for, as well as the extent of, the Ottoman government’s interest in the migration, contemporary reports and figures are cited for this purpose, rather than as factual data. The official documents categorized the emigrants according to their religion, so it could be misleading to ascribe ethnicity to these people, no matter how much about their ethnic background can be inferred from the documents. For example, almost all of the Muslim emigrants from Harput and its vicinity can be considered Turks. For scientific purposes, however, ethnic identification will be used in this article only if such information is found in the documents.

#Elsevier is taking down papers from #Academia.edu

Lots of researchers post PDFs of their own papers on their own web-sites. It’s always been so, because even though technically it’s in breach of the copyright transfer agreements that we blithely sign, everyone knows it’s right and proper. Preventing people from making their own work available would be insane, and the publisher that did it would be committing a PR gaffe of huge proportions.

Enter Elsevier, stage left. Bioinformatician Guy Leonard is just one of several people to have mentioned on Twitter this morning that Academia.edu took down their papers in response to a notice from Elsevier. Here’s a screengrab of the notification:

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▻http://svpow.com/2013/12/06/elsevier-is-taking-down-papers-from-academia-edu

#copyright #revue #revue_scientifique #revue_académique #université #propriété_intellectuelle
(mais, en fin de compte, cher Elsevier, les #auteurs ne comptent vraiment rien du tout ?)

J’aime beaucoup ce « Hi guy » (et tout le reste évidemment...)

Predator Empire: The Geopolitics of U.S. Drone Warfare | Ian Shaw - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/2125232/Predator_Empire_The_Geopolitics_of_U.S._Drone_Warfare

What I term the Predator Empire names the biopolitical power that digitizes, catalogues, and eliminates threatening “patterns of life” across a widening battlespace. This permanent war is enabled by a topological spatial power that folds the distant environments of affiliates into the surveillance machinery of the Homeland.

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#drones via @cdb_77

Christianity in the Gulf during the first centuries of Islam | Robert Carter - Academia.edu
▻http://www.academia.edu/173150/Christianity_in_the_Gulf_during_the_first_centuries_of_Islam

This article re-examines the ceramics of SBY-9, a church and monastery site on the island of Sir Bani Yas, Abu Dhabi emirate, U.A.E. It then explores other archaeological evidence for Christianity in the Arabian Gulf and compares it to the textual data, resulting in a reconsideration of the history and activities of the Church of the East. The pottery of SBY-9 indicates that the monastery complex was occupied some time between the second half of the seventh century and the mid-eighth century AD and not, as previously believed, the sixth–seventh centuries AD. Other excavated churches and monasteries in the Gulf region should also be redated to the eighth and ninth centuries AD (al-Qusur, Kharg). These findings cast a new light on the history of Christianity in the Arabian Gulf after the Muslim conquest

Anarchism and geography: a brief genealogy of anarchist geographies | Simon Springer - Academia.edu

▻http://www.academia.edu/2006727/Anarchism_and_geography_a_brief_genealogy_of_anarchist_geographies

Anarchism and geography have a long and disjointed history, characterized by towering peaks of intensive intellectual engagement and low troughs of ambivalence and disregard. This paper tracesa genealogy of anarchist geographies back to the modern development of anarchism into a distinctpolitical philosophy following the Enlightenment.

The initial rise of geographers’ engagementwith anarchism occurred at the end of the 19th-century, owing to E´lise´e Reclus and Peter Kropotkin, who developed an emancipatory vision for geography in spite of the discipline’senchantment with imperialism at that time. The realpolitik of the war years in the first half of the20th-century and the subsequent quantitative revolution in geography represent a nadir for anar-chist geographies.

Yet anarchism was never entirely abandoned by geographical thought and thecounterculture movement of the 1970s gave rise to radical geography, which included significantinterest in anarchist ideas. Unfortunately another low occurred during the surge of neoliberal poli-tics in the 1980s and early 1990s, but hope springs eternal, and from the late 1990s onward theanti-globalization movement and DIY culture have pushed anarchist geographies into more wide-spread currency. In reviewing the literature,

The Political Economy of Global Development 1: The Age of Organized Capitalism (Alf Gunvald Nilsen) - Academia.edu
►http://uib.academia.edu/AlfGunvaldNilsen/Papers/885023/The_Political_Economy_of_Global_Development_1_The_Age_of_Organized_Cap

Une histoire du capitalisme en graphique et organigramme