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What Does It Mean to Explain? An interdisciplinary symposium report
No full textWe summarise and reflect on the symposium ‘Let me explain: Reason-giving across disciplines’, held at the University of Warwick\u27s Institute of Advanced Study in June 2024. The event brought together scholars from four faculties to discuss the concept of explanation and its relationship to interdisciplinarity. We pick out four questions that participants found especially stimulating: Is a good explanation really more than a good description? How does agency change the structure of explanations? Who explains to whom? And what does interdisciplinarity mean for the practice of explaining? We end by highlighting the refreshingly disruptive potential of genuinely interdisciplinary forums of knowledge-exchange.
Funder Acknowledgement
This symposium was supported by funding from the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick
Coproducing an Academic Career Development Programme to Train Future Leaders in Environment: Health research with a focus on research culture and equality, diversity and inclusion
No full textWith the emergence of new capabilities such as artificial intelligence, alongside remote working and the cost-of-living crisis, the needs of early career researcher (ECR) training are fast evolving. PhD students and ECRs increasingly face mental health challenges, driven by isolation and career uncertainty. This paper offers a critical reflection on the creation of a joint academic career development programme (JACDP) between multiple partners, which offers additional, tailored opportunities to support young researchers in universities and governmental public health institutions.
Our experience suggests that the success of a multi-institutional programme requires a deliberate collaborative and co-productive approach at all levels. In addition to sharing the different expertise in each institution to build a varied training programme, involving young researchers in planning and delivering the training and social activities, tends to increase relevance and peer participation, and to help them develop leadership and time management skills. It is important to continually review the activities, engagement and future events provided, to embed clearer evaluation within the programme, and to reflect on the accessibility of the training provided.
Our programme contributes to a positive research culture by providing relevant tailored and diverse academic and research training to develop future public health leaders while aiming to maximize inclusivity and recognising the value that PhD students and ECRs can bring to multi-partner research collaborations.
Funding Acknowledgement
This work is part funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Environment and Health and the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) Health Protection Research Units in Chemical and Radiation Threats and Hazards, and in Environmental Exposures and Health, which are partnerships between the UK Health Security Agency and Imperial College London.
Queer-ing single-hood intimacy(ies): resisting populist heteronormative imaginations
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There is an intimacy in belonging to these different relationships, hyphenated together. (un)belong you must, (un)break we would, love (distance and loneliness) may find me, you and us
Artist in Spotlight \u27To paint to tell our stories is resistance\u27: Malak Mattar in conversation with Pragna Patel and Rashmi Varma
No full textFeminist Dissent is proud and honoured to be able to showcase the art of Malak Mattar in issue 8. This interview features Malak Mattar in conversation with Pragna Patel and Rashmi Varma
Gastronationalism in Cornwall
No full textDiscussions of gastronationalism have largely focused on nationalist politics at the state level, especially in the realm of European integration and Americanisation. This paper, therefore, explores how gastronationalism is manifested at the subnational level by asking the question ‘What role does food play in the construction of Cornish national identity vis-à-vis England?’ This paper first reviews the literature around gastronationalism to explore how the concept has developed. It shall raise the example of Cornwall as having much in common with previous case studies of gastronationalism in how heritage foods are protected in a politics concerned with homogenisation. A contrast will then be drawn between the generally discussed contexts, with the strong economic incentives to develop an inclusive food culture as part of a national brand that appeals to tourists in Cornwall, which also contributes to the ‘lived brand’ of Cornwall. To investigate this question, a thematic and qualitative content analysis of local tourist boards’ promotional content is conducted in comparison to other English counties. Finally, it shall conclude that gastronationalism is conceptually relevant to the Cornish context, but the specific nature of cultural revivalism suggests the concept should be expanded to better account for subnational gastronationalist efforts
To What Extent Were There Attempts to Securitise the Malaysian Chicken Export Ban In Singapore? A Comparative Analysis of Frames Between Government and News Media
No full textThis article focuses on exploring the securitisation of the Malaysian chicken export ban that took effect on 1 June 2022. The effects of the chicken export ban seemingly went beyond the economics of food, and expanded into the realm of national identity, as the de facto national dish of Singapore got compromised. As food and national identity is intricately linked to societal security and a key part of securitisation theory, this research paper seeks to explore the extent to which the chicken export ban was securitised. Through the use of a frame analysis, three different categories of news media were analysed: governmental media, local news media and foreign news media. The analysis showed that the foreign news media had attempted securitisation, but the local news media and governmental media refrained from securitisation, and rather engaged in a prognostic framing to reframe the chicken export ban into a proactive management of the situation which desecuritised the ban
Contingency
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Metaphysics, Speculation, Correlation - QUENTIN MEILLASSOUX
Meillassoux\u27s Speculative Philosophy of Science: Contingency and Mathematics - FABIO GIRONI
The Medium of Contingency - ELIE AYACHE
Critique as a Practice of Learning: Beyond lndifference with Meillassoux, towards Deleuze - ANNA CUTLER AND IAIN MACKEN
Five Meanings of \u27Contingency\u27 in Kant\u27s Critique of Pure Reason - GIUSEPPE MOTTA
A Defence of Aristotle\u27s \u27Sea-Battle\u27 Argument - RALPH SHAIN
From a \u27History of Being\u27 to a \u27History of the Present\u27, Radical Possibility in Heidegger and Foucault - J. D. SINGE
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From the First to the Second Non-Philosophy - FRANÇOIS LARUELLE
François Laruelle, the One and the Non-Philosophical Tradition - NICK SRNICE
Recovering Historical Memory and Collective Knowledge: Strengthening Resilience in Ecuador’s Chota Valley in Response to Water Scarcity Challenges
No full textThis study examines the historical transitions, struggles, practices, and political participation related to irrigation water governance in Afro-Ecuadorian communities and their impact on redefining hydrosocial territories in the dry Chota Valley of the Ecuadorian Mira River Basin. In recent years, the shift in the region’s productive matrix has brought significant transformations to these territories. Using a case study approach, this research aims to recover historical memory about water access conditions through ancestral knowledge and collective rights. This effort presents a critical opportunity to protect the collective values of the Chota River and to recognize the intangible national heritage of this region in the face of water scarcity. The case study combines semi-structured interviews with community members and questions addressing the fairness and effectiveness of the current water governance system. Findings from community experiences across the Chota Valley suggest advocating changes to address inequalities and improving services for the local population, particularly during drought scenarios. The research employs qualitative methods, including bibliographic review, ethnographic data collection, and results validation
Liberalism as a Way of Life
Full text linkAlexandre Lefebvre\u27s Liberalism as a Way of Life is a book on the true power of liberalism. Rather than confining it to the political realm as contemporary philosophers do, if one recognises that the values of liberalism are omnipresent in any dimension of our lives, this would bring many advantages to redeem one\u27s life. To reach this goal, one should embrace liberalism as a way of life through three spirtiual exercises that can help live well as true liberals in societies that, in fact, are not such
Subordinate financialisation in Argentina and Brazil. Different patterns of dependence
Full text linkThis article contributes to the literature on dependency theory and subordinate financialisation in peripheral economies by examining the cases of Argentina and Brazil. Building upon the subordinate financialisation framework (Kaltenbrunner, Alami) and dependency theory (Marini), we analyse these nations\u27 distinct experiences of international subordinate financialisation. Drawing on original evidence from constructed datasets of national and international accounts, we demonstrate that Brazil exhibits conventional drivers of subordinate financialisation—including household indebtedness, financialisation of non-financial corporations, and a developed banking system reliant on high interest rates to attract foreign capital. Conversely, Argentina manifests financial subordination through structural foreign currency illiquidity (at both national and international levels), dollarisation of savings, cyclical external indebtedness shaping real business cycles, and persistent capital flight