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Abstract Since China entered the Xi Jinping Era, the CPC has formally put forward a series of significant theories on China’s future development path, including Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. These theories have sparked active discussions and responses within both domestic and international academic and theoretical circles. This paper argues that when analyzing the major relationships between Chinese civilization and other civilizations worldwide, the Chinese path to modernization and the modern civilization of the Chinese Nation, and Chinese culture and its constituent ethnic cultures, we should further elucidate relationships and adhere to the three foundational principles: subjectivity, the contemporaneity of Chinese culture, and the arterial and leading attributes of Chinese culture, which encapsulate the core issues in fostering the modern civilization of Chinese Nation. A proper understanding and nuanced handling of these issues not only bolsters the perpetuation and evolution of China’s excellent traditional culture but also propels the trajectory of the Chinese path to modernization and the overarching construction of the modern civilization of Chinese Nation.

In Algeria, the city of Tlemcen is home to 60% of the country's Arab-Islamic architectural heritage, also known as Moorish. During the French colonization, the rich Moorish historical and architectural heritage was largely diminished. The architecture of Tlemcen's historic old town was gradually replaced by classical architecture in the early days of colonization, and then by modern architecture from 1940 onwards. After the independence in 1962, the city has carried out huge programs of facilities and new housing, based on modern architectural principles. In 2011, Tlemcen was designated a “Capital of Islamic Culture” and, in preparation for this international cultural event, new cultural facilities and hotels have been built, inspired by Moorish heritage. Given the heterogeneity of references and in particular the identity crisis ensuing in architecture in Tlemcen, this event was the key moment for validating a stylistic choice, which directly recounts the history of the city. The question is: what authenticity is expressed by the current use of the Moorish referent? Is it technical and material authenticity, or merely symbolic and cultural genuineness? This study delves into the question of identity in architecture. It analyses the new Moorish-style buildings in Tlemcen and highlights their contribution to the quest for a local identity and the ambition to produce local architecture. The article supports the hypothesis that architecture is an effective means of expressing identity and that it has always had, and continues to have, a close relationship with memory. The methodology is based on a combination of several investigative tools: surveys, photographs and archive consultation. These tools helped develop a building analysis grid, which serves as a repertory for describing the buildings, according to two levels of reading of the architectural work. We have chosen three Moorish and four contemporary buildings to which the different criteria of the analysis grid are applied. The results of the analysis of the new buildings show that, in a way, they enabled to establish continuity and dialogue with the Moorish heritage.

This work analyzes the role of social management in the context of volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity, which is typical of the current era, but is, at the same time, a consequence of the prevailing economic model. Likewise, it analyzes the effects derived from the COVID-19 pandemic on a national scale. It is based on an integrative conceptual proposal of social management and reviews its foundations in order to assess its capacity to respond to the socio-institutional challenges that the pandemic had posed to social managers during the period of the health emergency. To achieve the purpose, a literature review was conducted with documents obtained from academic databases and institutional repositories of multilateral organizations. The theoretical corpus of the research was made up of documents related to social management, social acceleration and capital logic. The most important findings reveal the need to consider social management not only as an management model linked to the guarantee, access and promotion of fundamental rights, but as a multidisciplinary field of knowledge. This field has been updated not only to consider epistemological aspects but also to give value to the context, via adaptation and adjustment of this institutional mechanism.

Since China entered the Xi Jinping Era, the CPC has formally put forward a series of significant theories on China's future development path, including Xi Jinping Thought on Culture. These theories have sparked active discussions and responses within both domestic and international academic and theoretical circles. This paper argues that when analyzing the major relationships between Chinese civilization and other civilizations worldwide, the Chinese path to modernization and the modern civilization of the Chinese Nation, and Chinese culture and its constituent ethnic cultures, we should further elucidate relationships and adhere to the three foundational principles: subjectivity, the contemporaneity of Chinese culture, and the arterial and leading attributes of Chinese culture, which encapsulate the core issues in fostering the modern civilization of Chinese Nation. A proper understanding and nuanced handling of these issues not only bolsters the perpetuation and evolution of China's excellent traditional culture but also propels the trajectory of the Chinese path to modernization and the overarching construction of the modern civilization of Chinese Nation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents critical considerations that question oral testimonies from various angles. It highlights new theoretical and methodological contributions that aid in fundamental thematic approaches to reflecting on the uses of testimonies and their social, political, and cultural implications in the public sphere. By articulating different historiographical perspectives in dialogue with authors from the field of philosophy, the purpose is to establish connections with ways of thinking that denaturalize certain notions and concepts, such as "public space" and "testimonies," considering a range of political and social variables. On the other hand, the fundamental interest is to draw attention to the contributions of oral history in Brazil and its relation with the most pressing issues of the contemporary world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The period of artistic momentum for architect and artist Valdas Ozarinskas (1961-2014) can be described as both the extended end of the 20th century, which lasted for at least another decade in Lithuania as the country gradually integrated into the political, economic, and cultural space of the European Union, and as the threshold of the 21st century. Artists who began their careers during this transformative era reflected in various ways on the end of modernity's utopias and the new challenges of contemporaneity. This article aims to define the critical and analytical approach characteristic of Ozarinskas's artistic practice, highlighting the means of expression and imagery typical of his contemporary art projects, which convey flashes of modernist utopias, the effects of their conclusion, and the associated contradictions, treating these inconsistencies as an ambivalence in the artist's relationship with this liminal period. Applying the grid of architectural categories (space - scale, module - series, function - form) to the analysis of Ozarinskas's contemporary artworks reveals his critical view of the aspirations and values of modernity, particularly its Soviet version, and the aesthetics of Modernism. The artist's (and his collaborators') ambivalent relationship to this worldview and its physical forms is evident in his dual approach: he acted as a curious, even fascinated excavator of the (already) historical legacy of modernity, while also deconstructing it through various means as a conceptually minded contemporary researcher. Straddling the line between high-tech aesthetics and the melancholy of industrial relics, between the mundane, purely practical aspects and the new poetic functions of various objects, between the analytical decomposition of modernist architecture and attempts to destroy it, between the conceptualization of the series and system and its perception as an apparatus of power, and between the perspective of (space) flight and the narratives of crashing and failure, Ozarinskas's oeuvre represents the contradictions inherent to the turn of the epochs. On one side are the flashes of futuristic visions of modernity; on the other, the uncanny, frightening reflections of their utopianism in the present. The dystopian imagery in Ozarinskas's work - from domesticated military equipment, the terrifying light of a nuclear power plant, and repulsive industrial materials to a mutilated body, a ruined building, and the senselessness of a giant black pillow - also points to the then unnamed but rapidly approaching crisis of the Anthropocene. In this respect, his works can be seen as the precursors of the critical imagination of the Anthropocene, which is particularly relevant today and is unfolding in the work of a new generation of artists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This illustrated conversation between Parham Taghioff and Hamidreza Karami focuses on Taghioff's profound engagement with history and the philosophy of history within his photographic projects. The dialogue explores how Taghioff's work reveals the common tendency for individuals to unwittingly cast themselves as characters in the historical drama without a conscious understanding of their roles. Key projects, such as the 'Hands On/Hands Off' (2014) and the 'Asymmetrical Authority' series (2018), are discussed, emphasising the artist's reliance on personal historical understanding and historical memory. Taghioff highlights the dynamic nature of historical comprehension, stressing that continual emergence of new facts, documents and narratives prevents a definitive understanding of the past. The conversation also touches on Taghioff's perspective as a contemporary artist in Iran, highlighting the need to examine history to grasp one's contemporary position. The conversation concludes with insights into Taghioff's artistic methodology, involving the analysis and use of archival materials, texts and images to reconstruct and critically examine various historical perspectives. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In Algeria, the city of Tlemcen is home to 60% of the country's Arab-Islamic architectural heritage, also known as Moorish. During the French colonization, the rich Moorish historical and architectural heritage was largely diminished. The architecture of Tlemcen's historic old town was gradually replaced by classical architecture in the early days of colonization, and then by modern architecture from 1940 onwards. After the independence in 1962, the city has carried out huge programs of facilities and new housing, based on modern architectural principles. In 2011, Tlemcen was designated a "Capital of Islamic Culture" and, in preparation for this international cultural event, new cultural facilities and hotels have been built, inspired by Moorish heritage. Given the heterogeneity of references and in particular the identity crisis ensuing in architecture in Tlemcen, this event was the key moment for validating a stylistic choice, which directly recounts the history of the city. The question is: what authenticity is expressed by the current use of the Moorish referent? Is it technical and material authenticity, or merely symbolic and cultural genuineness? This study delves into the question of identity in architecture. It analyses the new Moorish-style buildings in Tlemcen and highlights their contribution to the quest for a local identity and the ambition to produce local architecture. The article supports the hypothesis that architecture is an effective means of expressing identity and that it has always had, and continues to have, a close relationship with memory. The methodology is based on a combination of several investigative tools: surveys, photographs and archive consultation. These tools helped develop a building analysis grid, which serves as a repertory for describing the buildings, according to two levels of reading of the architectural work. We have chosen three Moorish and four contemporary buildings to which the different criteria of the analysis grid are applied. The results of the analysis of the new buildings show that, in a way, they enabled to establish continuity and dialogue with the Moorish heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Engineers have played a key role in Tunisia’s modernisation process during and after its independence. They were crucial in almost all aspects of life. From the beginning of the reformist project, they were close to power and even made demands according to their interests. However, they did not know how to generate such cohesion within their group that would allow them to consolidate and have political influence. Two fundamental moments in the process of modernisation showing the evolution of a profession that went from the height of its splendour to its decline, with all that this meant and implied for all aspects of Tunisian life.

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The text discusses suicide from an existentialist psychology perspective. It delves into phenomenological ontology and highlights the biographical approach, existential psychoanalysis, and the progressive-regressive method for clinical management of family bereavement. The interplay between existential psychology and contemporary discussions proposed by Bauman and Byung-Chul Han highlights suicide as endemic, related to the phenomena of positivity and transparency posited by these authors. In the face of the human condition, which is pure negativity, suicide can be understood as a failure of the project of being. Technology, the current paradigm of relating to others, reveals an attempt to deny alterity, characteristic apparently underlying current suicidal behavior. Clinical management of survivors of a suicidal event should encompass dimensions such as prevention and postvention. Bereavement, experienced as a communal dimension, is accompanied by a certain impact of silencing and manifest itself as an expression of the ethical dilemma with the dimension of another age. The Sartrean methodology is highlighted in this context as a possibility for clinical intervention. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With technological advances it is notorious how social networks have influenced individuals to perform, affirm and produce ways of life. From these social impositions, the number of people in psychological distress is increasing. When analyzing contemporary society and its impositions, we cannot fail to mention the influence of Technique, Historicity, determinations and values of the time in the process of construction of the ways of being of the subject and his subjectivity. The existential-phenomenology casts a look at the individual understanding that he is a universe of possibilities in constant construction and indeterminate. In the construction of the ways of being of contemporary man, it is essential for psychologists not to reduce the subject to certain behaviors, symptoms and pathologies, and must then consider its entire context, the historical moment in which it is inserted, what are the social impositions present in this cybernetic epoch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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After an introduction to FRA Project NORISC-19 on Third Sector in Campania, the authors illustrate some aspects of the anthropological methodology used in a part of it, then focusing on the analysis of the materials from 21 interviews with representatives of associations in the 5 provincies of Naples, Caserta, Salerno, Avellino and Benevento. The themes analyzed in an anthropological perspective, showing old problems and new opportunities, concern collaborative networks with institutions and other associations and the impact of exogenous events such as the Third Sector Reform and the Covid-19 pandemic. The discussed results also allow reflecting on the potential of an anthropological approach to the study of these contemporary issues within an original mixed methods perspective, which, in NORISC-19, combines and integrates multiple disciplinary fields.

Este artículo explora los temas fundamentales en el relato breve “The Lazy River” (“El río vago”) (2017) de Zadie Smith. Desde la perspectiva de una turista, Smith construye los espacios narrativos para definir su propia identidad como británica y explorar la realidad política y socioeconómica de su país y de Almería, lugar que elige como destino turístico. En particular, este artículo pretende dilucidar cómo el movimiento de personas, reflejado a través del turismo y la migración, aparece como temática principal en el cuento de Zadie Smith y cómo sus reflexiones llevan al lector a incidir en las diferencias de estos desplazamientos y las concepciones que el espacio conlleva, en ambos casos, para la construcción del otro. Del mismo modo, pretendemos ilustrar el modo en el que el estatismo y la ausencia de movimiento aparece reflejado como un punto de partida para la reflexión acerca de los asuntos de la vida en el siglo XXI.

¿Qué hacer con toda la basura electrónica? La primera respuesta es convertirla en arte. Pero sin demasiada esperanza ni trascendencia. Lejos de esas especulaciones más clásicas sobre las posibilidades reivindicativas (y curativas) del arte, Diego Bianchi refuerza su presencia como la de un demiurgo de un futuro horrible que ya está entre nosotros. Tampoco es una declaración de principios, ni una crítica ecologista. Es una sinfonía verdaderamente sorprendente por lo nueva. Por la atonalidad de esas notas que suenan de las alarmas, por los colores alejados de la naturaleza, por el ambiente claustrofóbico. También, por la tristeza. O mejor dicho, la melancolía. La bilis negra, en su etimología, uno de los cuatro humores cardinales y su relación con la enfermedad pero además, con los hombres de genio. Abstract What to do with all the electronic waste? The first answer is to turn it into art. But without much hope or transcendence. Far from those more classical speculations on the vindictive (and curative) possibilities of art, Diego Bianchi reinforces his presence as that of a demiurge of a horrible future that is already among us. Neither is it a declaration of principles, nor an environmentalist critique. It is a truly surprising symphony because of its novelty. For the atonality of those notes that sound from the alarms, for the colors far removed from nature, for the claustrophobic atmosphere. Also, for the sadness. Or rather, melancholy. The black bile, in its etymology, one of the four cardinal humors and its relation with the disease but also with men of genius. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10436983

This study present an operational characterization of contemporaneity among variables based on the transformation of their corresponding time series into symbolic ones by applying either a Markov switching approach or the symbolic aggregate approximation method. Then, the authors extract vectors from the resulting symbolic time series, characterizing the pattern of change or permanence in time. The scalar product between the vectors corresponding to two variables yields the index of contemporaneity between them. The study apply this method to detect a ranking of synchronic patterns of evolution of gross domestic product (GDP) and investment between several South American economies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The exhaustion faced by academics served as the starting point for this special issue - edited, written, and reviewed exclusively by cis and trans women. We understand exhaustion as a consequence of historical and daily battles for gender equality, aggravated by the burden of reproductive work. Thus, even when exhausted, we accepted this challenge out of the conviction of the political role necessary to open spaces in the face of a masculine logic of science production. This editorial was structured based on recognizing the importance of producing, identifying, and living with the challenges necessary to disrupt oppression. These challenges come in the form of (1) bringing together female editors, authors, and reviewers from different regions, academic backgrounds, and diverse representations; (2) time, which revealed itself as an instrument of domination and gender violence; (3) the operationalization of the contradiction in producing an edition exclusively for women, considering the male logic of practicing science. This edition should be read as a pedagogical instrument to visualize the challenges experienced, and it is a call for collective responsibility in the fight to create space in everyday life, specifically in the academic field. Finally, if we are to combat injustices, we must provoke daily discomfort, and this edition set out to do just that. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The state of architecture being exhibited and (re)exposed through formats of public display does not present the central framework of architectural production. However, the condition of exhibiting architecture is opening a set of valuable prospects for the discipline - it creates a specific temporal form of displacement for architecture in which a multifaceted set of connotations and views of this discipline is being provoked. The exhibition and its structure are understood here primarily as a point in time; a specific temporal form with its own tactics of appearance that make the notion of contemporaneity occur. Taking the context of the Venice Biennale of Architecture as the most prominent platform for global overview of architectural practice, this paper will reflect on today's relevance of architecture as an aesthetic discipline related not only to designing (projection and production of architecture), but to its post-production (exhibiting architecture) as well. Claiming that architectural contemporaneity is motivated primarily by the urge for actuality - setting the new emerges as the formative property of the discipline. This paper aims to prove that the specific temporal form of exhibition reveals a proposition for regenerating the competency of architectural discipline. This proposition about being present manifests itself as a prospect for the immediacy of the discipline, as the qualitative evidence of architecture's immanency to continuously reconstitute and actualize, maintaining the passage to keep its influence in shaping our world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The concept of anthropological crisis is very popular in contemporary Russian humanities: the Russian Scientific Electronic Library, or Elibrary.ru, includes more than ten thousand publications with the keyword anthropological crisis. On the contrary, Google gives links to Russian publications only when one searches for anthropological crisis. This keyword has no reference in the famous online book catalogue Worldcat.org. Nowadays English-speaking scientific communities still explore the crisis in anthropology as a discipline. The difference between the anthropological crisis and the crisis in anthropology seems essential. The crisis of a scientific discipline is not a crisis of the human nature. The modern Russian academicians, including the late Vyacheslav Stepin, find many features of the anthropological crisis in the successes of genetic engineering and modern medicine as well as in the growing psychological pressures. Russian-language scholars find the traits of anthropological crisis in many fields, including studies of memory, bioethics, pedagogics, literature, and economics. The loss of the sense of life is often treated by Russian scholars, like Stepin and Boris Pruzhinin, as a trait of the anthropological crisis. The problems of self-identity are also marked by Russian authors as a mark of that crisis. Sergey Averintsev felt that human beings lack their human nature. Pruzhinin supposes humans cannot predict consequences of genetic engineering for their nature as a species. But all these trends have nothing in common with the anthropological crisis. Genetic engineering helps improving of sick human nature and self-realization. Certainly, all consequences are not open but there is no scientific discovery whose effects would be absolutely evident at once. Cyborgs are an inevitable step towards healthier and smarter humans. Existential problems are universal since the emergence of self-consciousness among the humans. Self-identities are in constant flux since the birth of complex societies, especially since the industrial revolution strengthened alienation. The growth and volume of information flows are not threats to humans as there is no necessity to memorize all the data in the world, and there are multiple network and personal filters which block garbage. The anthropological crisis seems a myth in contemporary Russian-language humanities in general and philosophy in particular.

Upbringing is a complex life process of building and developing a human being following his/her characteristics. For the process of upbringing to culminate in the formation of intellectually and morally complete and independent people, the question has always arisen as to what it is that makes it effective. The main intention of this paper is to present and analyze fundamental educational guidelines devised and posited by famous philosophers of antiquity –Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle who focused on achieving personal autonomy, without neglecting the fundamental characteristics of socially acceptable frameworks of morality. The paper will present the development of fundamental educational ideas in antiquity, with special emphasis on building the authentic individual and the citizen as one of the main instruments of upbringing both in the past and today.

The current Latin American scenario, marked by the advance of the new right, the concentration of media groups and their operations -especially the power of fake news associated with scandalous lawfare cases-, within the framework of socioeconomic and cultural disasters of neoliberalism, and a global pandemic raise new questions about how to think about contemporary media culture. In this context, rethinking our reality from the point of view of communication acquires an urgent meaning. Two questions will guide our work. What are the categories of Latin American critical communication thought that we must return to in order to think about the contemporary crossroads? Is it possible to think about continuities and limits in relation to decolonial thinking?. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

There is a significant amount of literature in which the educational question concerning intercultural communication is seen in terms of providing students with the knowledge, skills, dispositions, and competencies that will enable them to become effective intercultural communicators. While this line of thought seems to have become the 'common sense' of much educational policy, there is also a growing body of research in which critical questions are raised about this approach. There are particular concerns about the totalising tendencies in such approaches, and ethics is often mobilised as a way to understand and enact the intercultural encounter differently. In this paper, I contribute to these discussions from an educational perspective. I contrast a pedagogy of empowerment with a pedagogy of disarmament, show how the idea of culture functions as an explanatory device, raise the question of time in intercultural encounters, and argue that an ethical 'turn' may run the risk of becoming another totalising gesture in intercultural communication. Through these explorations, I outline the contours of a pedagogy for intercultural communication beyond culture and without ethics in which the central challenge is that of trying to become 'contemporaneous'. I pay particular attention to what this may require from the teacher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Relying on research and scholarship in the department of philosophy at the University of Tehran, this article seeks to formulate the essential elements of philosophy as an academic discipline and critically examine these elements on the basis of what can be called the "contemporaneity of philosophizing". In this article, the department of philosophy at the University of Tehran is characterized as the paradigm of academic philosophy--which is due both to its status as the first officially established department of philosophy in Iran, and to the fact that it was the institution in which many current professors of philosophy from other universities have cultivated their knowledge and education. For this reason, focusing on the educational and research concerns of the department of philosophy at the University of Tehran can be an illuminating and pathbreaking inquiry for understanding academic philosophy. This article identifies four crucial components in the 100-year history of the department of philosophy at the University of Tehran which, taken together, can more or less be construed as the distinctive elements of academic philosophy in Iran. In short, these factors are: 1) the centrality of metaphysical issues; 2) the strong presence of Islamic philosophy, including its history and tools (the Arabic language as well as Islamic Theology, logic and mysticism); 3) the permanent presence of comparative philosophy in all of its forms (and thus a dialectic-centric philosophy); 4) concerns about contemporary philosophical issues; 5) the gradual shift towards specialization and technical approaches to history and philosophy in both research and education; and 6) The involvement of some figures from the Philosophy Department in the structure of political power.This article accordingly asks the following questions: to what extent are the issues examined from in each of these five components contemporary philosophical issues? Has the method of reading philosophy in academia given rise to the possibility of inviting to philosophize? Can academic philosophy be concerned with the "conditions for the possibility of establishing philosophical thought in Iran"? Can it participate in shaping such conditions? As a final consideration, this article argues that shedding light on these questions requires critically examining one more distinct, but related issue--namely the relationship between academic philosophy and power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

В статье проводится анализ лексических и грамматических средств выражения категории времени современного монгольского языка. Целью настоящего исследования является комплексное изучение категории времени в функциональном и семантическом аспектах. Для достижения поставленной цели нами были следующие лингвистические методы исследования: описание, обобщение, интегрирование, метод сплошной выборки. В ходе исследования выявлены основные группы лексических маркеров времени, грамматических форм выражения глагольного времени, синтаксических конструкций выражения времени. Результаты исследования вносят определенный вклад в изучение категории времени, что открывает новые перспективы в описании лексического и грамматического строя монгольского языка.

We don't know almost nothing about boredom. Even though the experience of boredom has been part of our daily life for centuries, we are far from being clear about what its suffering consists of, what its main causes and consequences are, or how we can satisfactorily escape it. This is one of the most repeated myths about boredom among some boredom scholars; one from which many others derive, causing unnecessary confusion about a phenomenon around which there exists, in fact, a whole corpus of scientific knowledge. Most of them are harmless, simple narratives from our popular culture; others, however, have the power to condition the way in which we perceive reality, to the point of becoming stigmatizing. Breaking with some of our most ingrained beliefs about boredom is not an easy task, although it is necessary to understand the true nature of this state. In my essay, I will try to disprove some of the contemporary myths that circulate about the experience of boredom. Starting with the first myth, I will explore the scope of other related myths such as those that say that the study of boredom is in its infancy, that boredom has not been given the attention it deserves, that the experience of boredom is born in modern societies, that boredom is an exclusively human condition, that boredom only happens in leisure time, that being bored is the same as doing nothing, that it is desirable to have moments of boredom, that boredom helps our brain to rest, that boredom makes us more creative, and that those who get bored is because they want to or, what is worse, that only fools get bored.

The concept of decolonization was originally proposed as an epistemic project that focused on anti-hegemonic endeavors to counter power imbalances. However, in recent years, it has become a buzz word across different fields in the Global North, often slipping into a tokenistic exercise. This paper argues that the decolonizing promise of moving beyond power asymmetries and acquiring the ability 'to think from and with' others will not be fulfilled unless we take seriously the need for a radical shift in recognizing global others' epistemic status. Drawing on empirical case studies of China's and India's rises in the life sciences and their respective impacts on Anglo-American policy discussions, this paper demonstrates what decolonizing our temporal and spatial (or relational) assumptions of contemporary science could mean in practice. More importantly, it argues that decolonization in the pluriverse of contemporary science should simultaneously be a radical and prudent project. As such, decolonizing is not only a challenge for the Global North but also for the Global South. The decolonization project argued for in this paper is conducive to a fresh ontological attention of critical policy studies and a recalibrated relational focus of governing practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article has the main objective of reflecting on the constitution of teaching action with children up to 5 years old in early childhood education under the light of the continuing education offered to teachers. In particular, teaching action is only effective when involved in a solid training in relation to the educational intentions with children and in a need to meet the current demands and challenges presented to teaching in contemporary contexts. The opportunity for continuing education favors the teacher with better conditions for a higher quality work. Through a bibliographical study based on Adorno, Benjamin, Kramer, Kishimoto, among others, we found the importance of considering that moments of teacher self-reflection and ethical action by the teacher configure the way for learning to really take place in children's educational quotidian. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The theme of contemporary society and its relationship with Psychoanalysis has been the subject of debate for some years now, with many possibilities for dialogue. Our text intends to work on some aspects of this ongoing debate. To achieve this goal, we provide a brief overview of the concept of the Father in Freudian and Lacanian psychoanalysis. Following this brief journey, we will focus on the work of Massimo Recalcati and his proposal to rethink what remains of the Father in our time. If the fundamentalist proposal is somewhat recurrent in the Brazilian context, this would have to do with a desperate attempt to reclaim the lost Father, whom both Freud and Lacan already pointed out as a dead Father. Finally, we front the hypothesis that the rise of the far-right movement in Brazil can be interpreted through this hermeneutical key. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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