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Abstract The global struggle for inclusion – in Canada, the USA, India and beyond – represents a broader fight for civil rights, human rights and true citizenship for all. Exclusion has historically operated through multiple axes of discrimination, including race, religion, gender, ethnicity, disability and poverty. Rooted in centuries of colonialism, imperialism and capitalism, these hierarchies established a worldview in which a privileged few were deemed superior, while the majority were dehumanised and marginalised. The legacies of slavery, genocide, land seizure, apartheid and cultural erasure continue to shape modern systems of exclusion. Overcoming this deeply entrenched oppression demands a profound cultural transformation – a generational struggle toward equity, dignity and shared humanity.

Selon Victoria Kahn, les guerres civiles anglaises furent responsables d’une crise des notions transcendantales du pouvoir, car la crise de l'obligation politique met à nu les fondements contractuels de la société. Aphra Behn est consciente de la crise du consentement, comme en témoignent ses comédies, dans lesquelles elle explore de nouvelles façons pour les femmes de refuser ou de négocier leur consentement dans les relations amoureuses et avec leurs pères. Dans Oroonoko, la question du consentement semble être exclue d’emblée : Oroonoko et Imoinda sont des étrangers par l’origine et la race, vendus en esclavage, ce qui les prive du statut de sujets politiques. En raison de son statut ambivalent d’« esclave royal », néanmoins, Oroonoko est invité à plusieurs reprises à consentir à son asservissement et à renoncer à la résistance. La nouvelle, qui se lit d'abord comme une romance ratée (dans laquelle le héros n'est pas miraculeusement sauvé comme il l'aurait été dans les romances du passé), bascule dans la fable politique. Dans un contexte de crise du gouvernement central résultant de la disparition du régime monarchique, Oroonoko est paradoxalement placé dans la position d’un sujet politique qu'il faut convaincre d’accepter d’obéir. Cet article avance qu’Oroonoko peut se lire comme une parabole sur la crise du consentement et de la représentation dans une société qui a perdu son centre transcendantal. On se propose de lire la novella à la lumière de la conception de Hobbes du contrat politique, qui affirme la nécessité d'un gouvernement fort pour sortir de l'état de nature. On montrera comment le récit complique la question du consentement en présentant un cas de rébellion contre une société civile corrompue, tout en mettant en avant la notion de conscience.

Hermeneutics aims to open up new approaches to classical issues in phenomenology and hermeneutics. Thus its intentions are the following: to further the work of Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Martin Heidegger -as well as that of Paul Ricoeur, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Emmanuel Levinas; to enhance phenomenological thinking today by means of insightful interpretations of texts in phenomenology as they inform current issues in philosophical study; to inquire into the role of interpretation in phenomenological thinking; to take seriously Husserl's term phenomenology as "a science which is intended to supply the basic instrument for a rigorously scientific philosophy and, in its consequent application, to make possible a methodical reform of all the sciences"; to take up Heidegger's claim that "what is own to phenomenology, as a philosophical 'direction,' does not rest in being real. Higher than reality stands possibility. Understanding phenomenology consists solely in grasping it as possibility"; to practice phenomenology as "underway," as "the praxis of the self-showing of the matter for thinking," as "entering into the movement of enactment-thinking." The commitment of this book series is also to provide English translations of significant works from other languages. In summary, New Studies in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics intends to provide a forum for a full and fresh thinking and rethinking of the way of phenomenology and interpretive phenomenology, that is, hermeneutics.

An exploration of night-dwelling organisms encourages an appreciation of all things nocturnal.

Virginia Woolf reflects on her own medium in relation to the notion of personality. This article reads her essay “Personalities” (1947), in which she explores the reader’s response to the personalities of writers, in light of three essays that discuss the art of acting embodied by three celebrated nineteenth-century actresses, “The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt” (1908), “Rachel” (1911) and “Ellen Terry” (1941). It argues that Woolf theatricalises literature to understand it through the art of acting, in particular the building up of characters. Actresses embodying nineteenth-century acting, Ellen Terry, Sarah Bernhard and Rachel, as well as Woolf’s contemporary Lydia Lopokova, whose performance is reviewed in “Twelfth Night at the Old Vic” (1933), mediate Woolf’s reflection on literature from different perspectives: writing with the body, reading with gestures, creating from anecdotes, and becoming other.

A importância de se proceder à análise dos principais desafios jurídicos que a economia colaborativa coloca – pelas implicações que as mudanças de paradigma dos modelos de negócios e dos sujeitos envolvidos suscitam − é indiscutível, correspondendo à necessidade de se fomentar a segurança jurídica destas práticas, potenciadoras de crescimento económico e bem-estar social.O Centro de Investigação em Justiça e Governação (JusGov) constituiu uma equipa multidisciplinar que, além de juristas, integra investigadores de outras áreas, como a economia e a gestão, dos vários grupos do JusGov – embora com especial participação dos investigadores que integram o grupo E-TEC (Estado, Empresa e Tecnologia) – e de outras prestigiadas instituições nacionais e internacionais, para desenvolver um projeto neste domínio, com o objetivo de identificar os problemas jurídicos que a economia colaborativa suscita e avaliar se já existem soluções para aqueles, refletindo igualmente sobre a conveniência de serem introduzidas alterações ou se será mesmo necessário criar nova regulamentação.O resultado desta investigação é apresentado nesta obra, com o que se pretende fomentar a continuação do debate sobre este tema.

The essays in Nuances of Blackness in the Canadian Academy make visible the submerged stories of Black life in academia. They offer fresh historical, social, and cultural insights into what it means to teach, learn, research, and work while Black.

For many institutions, to ignore your university's ranking is to become invisible, a risky proposition in a competitive search for funding.But rankings tell us little if anything about the education, scholarship, or engagement with communities offered by a university.Drawing on a range of research and inquiry-based methods, Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge exposes how universities became servants to the rankings industry and its impact.Conceptually unique in its scope, Global University Rankings and the Politics of Knowledge addresses the lack of empirical research behind university and journal ranking systems.Chapters from internationally recognized scholars in decolonial studies provide readers with robust frameworks to understand the intersections of coloniality and Indigeneity and how they play out in higher education.Contributions from diverse geographical and disciplinary contexts explore the political economy of rankings within the contexts of the Global North and South, and examine alternatives to media-driven rankings.This book allows readers to consider the intersections of power and knowledge within the wider contexts of politics, culture, and the economy, to explore how assumptions about gender, social class, sexuality, and race underpin the meanings attached to rankings, and to imagine a future that confronts and challenges cognitive, environmental, and social injustice.