Reflections on Pseudoscience and Parapsychology: From Here to There and (Slightly) Back Again

Pseudoscience ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher C. French
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
The Way

This chapter presents a personal account of the author’s journey from being a believer in the paranormal to being a skeptic and his subsequent transformation from being one type of skeptic to another. Along the way, his views about parapsychology, and in particular its scientific status, were also transformed. His current position, an unusual one for a skeptic, is that parapsychology is indeed better described as being a science rather than a pseudoscience – even if paranormal forces do not exist.

Walking Upright Together

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-116
Author(s):  
Guy W. Rammenzweig
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Hans Küng ◽  
The Way

This is not the kind of lecture which old-fashioned German academics would present. It is much more a statement about my own 'learning' in the field of JCM trialogue: interfaith work amongst Jews, Christians and Muslims. Preparing my lecture I went through the writings of Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Raimundo Panikkar, John B. Cobb, Hans Küng and Jonathan Magonet again. I felt that most of the ideas and suggestions these great scholars of interreligous theology have made will be addressed directly or 'along the way' when I give you a rather personal account of my own interfaith pilgrimage: how my spirituality, my theology and my work have changed.

scholarly journals Complexities of Displaced Indigenous Identities: A Fifty Year Journey Home, to Two Homes

Genealogy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Lou Netana-Glover
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Biological Father ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Indigenous Resistance ◽  
The World ◽  
The Way

In colonised territories all over the world, place-based identity has been interrupted by invading displacement cultures. Indigenous identities have become more complex in response to and because of racist and genocidal government policies that have displaced Indigenous peoples. This paper is a personal account of the identity journey of the author, that demonstrates how macrocosmic colonial themes of racism, protectionism, truth suppression, settler control of Indigenous relationships, and Indigenous resistance and survivance responses can play out through an individual’s journey. The brown skinned author started life being told that she was (a white) Australian; she was told of her father’s Aboriginality in her 20s, only to learn at age 50 of her mother’s affair and that her biological father is Māori. The author’s journey demonstrates the way in which Indigenous identities in the colonial era are context driven, and subject to affect by infinite relational variables such as who has the power to control narrative, and other colonial interventions that occur when a displacement culture invades place-based cultures.

Journalism: The Way it is, as Seen by Black Reporters and Students

1969 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 499-544
Author(s):  
Melvin Mencher
Keyword(s):  
Personal Account ◽  
Racial Issue ◽  
The Way

In his personal account, the author tells of finding few black newsmen, virtually none of whom admit to handling meaningful assignments. Students shun journalism, charge newspapers lack understanding of racial issue.

An Unknown ‘Miracle’

2018 ◽  
pp. 165-186
Author(s):  
Konstantina Zanou
Keyword(s):  
Educational Programme ◽  
Liberal Politics ◽  
Ionian Islands ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
The Way

Chapter 10 provides insight into Andrea Mustoxidi’s biography (1785–1860), focusing in particular on the way this largely forgotten Corfiot, who was famous in his own lifetime, inserted himself into the Italian and European intellectual scene with works on philology and history inspired by Neoclassicism and philhellenism. It also unearths the unknown adventure of this man’s involvement in Russian diplomacy and the 1821 revolution in Piedmont, as well as his subsequent transformation from a Russian diplomat into a Greek minister (the first ‘Ephor’ for culture and education in Greece) and into a liberal politician on the British Ionian Islands. By so doing, the chapter also studies the educational programme of Kapodistrias’s government, as well as the adventure of liberal politics in the British Mediterranean Empire.

Localisation, Ghanaian Pentecostalism and the Stranger's Beauty in Botswana

Africa ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 560-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rijk van Dijk
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Host Society ◽  
Current Position ◽  
Migrant Community ◽  
Pentecostal Churches ◽  
The One ◽  
The City ◽  
Repulsion And Attraction ◽  
The Way

AbstractThis contribution considers the current position of the Ghanaian migrant community in Botswana's capital, Gaborone, at a time of rising xenophobic sentiments and increasing ethnic tensions among the general public. The article examines anthropological understandings of such sentiments by placing them in the context of the study of nationalisms in processes of state formation in Africa and the way in which these ideologies reflect the position and recognition of minorities. In Botswana, identity politics indulge in a liberalist democratic rhetoric in which an undifferentiated citizenship is promoted by the state, concealing on the one hand inequalities between the various groups in the country, but on the other hand defending the exclusive interests of all ‘Batswana’ against foreign influence through the enactment of what has become known as a ‘localisation policy'. Like many other nationalities, Ghanaian expatriate labour has increasingly become the object of localisation policies. However in their case xenophobic sentiments have taken on unexpected dimensions. By focusing on the general public's fascination with Ghanaian fashion and styles of beautification, the numerous hair salons and clothing boutiques Ghanaians operate, in addition to the newly emerging Ghanaian-led Pentecostal churches in the city, the ambiguous but ubiquitous play of repulsion and attraction can be demonstrated in the way in which localisation is perceived and experienced by the migrant as well as by the dominant groups in society. The article concludes by placing entrepreneurialism at the nexus of where this play of attraction and repulsion creates a common ground of understanding between Ghanaians and their host society, despite the government's hardening localisation policies.

Academic genealogy and direct calorimetry: a personal account

2011 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donald C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
Heat Production ◽  
Animal Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Metabolic Heat Production ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
Direct Calorimetry ◽  
Metabolic Heat ◽  
Academic Genealogy ◽  
The Way

Each of us as a scientist has an academic legacy that consists of our mentors and their mentors continuing back for many generations. Here, I describe two genealogies of my own: one through my PhD advisor, H. T. (Ted) Hammel, and the other through my postdoctoral mentor, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen. Each of these pathways includes distingished scientists who were all major figures in their day. The striking aspect, however, is that of the 14 individuals discussed, including myself, 10 individuals used the technique of direct calorimetry to study metabolic heat production in humans or other animals. Indeed, the patriarchs of my PhD genealogy, Antoine Lavoisier and Pierre Simon Laplace, were the inventors of this technique and the first to use it in animal studies. Brief summaries of the major accomplishments of each my scientific ancestors are given followed by a discussion of the variety of calorimeters and the scientific studies in which they were used. Finally, readers are encouraged to explore their own academic legacies as a way of honoring those who prepared the way for us.

scholarly journals Exploding the Cancer Myths: Brian Lobel’s Narrative Performance Ball

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 147
Author(s):  
Yeliz Biber Vangolu
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Cancer Patients ◽  
Medical Condition ◽  
Social Stigma ◽  
Personal Account ◽  
The Social ◽  
Narrative Performance ◽  
The Way

In his personal account of cancer, Ball (2003), the performance artist, Brian Lobel, intently refuses to succumb to the myths about the illness, challenging the cancer narratives that have traditionally been based on a discourse of heroism or martyrdom. While his performance is, at times, sensational with a keen focus on sexuality and a determination to produce humour out of a grave matter, they invite criticism for the way cancer has been perceived and presented as a medical condition and for the social stigma attached to the disease. This paper addresses the numerous ways in which Lobel challenges the assumptions, expectations and taboos regarding cancer, cancer patients and survivors by examining his strategies in the light of cultural studies on cancer and humour theories.

MESH Object-Oriented Hypermedia Framework

2005 ◽  
pp. 1922-1927
Author(s):  
Wilfried Lemahieu
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Linear Structure ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Information Space ◽  
Current Position ◽  
The Way

Hypermedia systems represent data as a network of nodes, interconnected by links. The information embodied within the nodes can be accessed by means of navigation along the links, whereby a user’s current position in the information space determines which information can be accessed in the next navigation step. This property of navigational data access raises hypermedia systems as utterly suitable to support user-driven exploration and learning. The user autonomously determines the way in which he or she will delve into the information, instead of being confined to the rigid “linear” structure of, for example, pages in a book.

Race and resistance: the IRR story

Race & Class ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Sivanandan
Keyword(s):  
Race Relations ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Organisational Change ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Object Lesson ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Way

What lay behind the founding of the Institute of Race Relations in 1958 and its subsequent transformation in the early 1970s, through the agency of its staff, radical academics and black activists, is told here by a major protagonist of that change. Edited and abbreviated from a 1974 pamphlet, long out of print, not only does the article give an object lesson in how to effect far-reaching and radical organisational change, but it also contextualises the IRR story in the history of post-war race relations in Britain, pointing the way to its future development.

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