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Published On: May 22 2025
This volume explores the diverse meanings and ways of implementing development programs and technical assistance projects, through several case studies grounded in Mexico but transcending its geography. Despite – or perhaps because of – claims of “revolutionary nationalism”, Mexico played a crucial international role during the decades following World War II, both by challenging and enacting developmentalist models, values, and projects that stressed national priorities, resonating beyond its borders and even outside Latin America.
Published On: May 22 2025
This Open Access book explores the hidden politics of time (the 'chronopolitics') that profoundly shapes the contours of academic life and knowledge production in contemporary universities. Moving beyond familiar critiques of academic acceleration, Ulrike Felt explores the diversity of time generators and the resultant complex, multilayered timescapes that govern scholarly work and life. Arguing for a more mindful approach to research, Felt advocates for rethinking academia through the lens of time, emphasizing the need for temporal care work in order to achieve sustainable and responsible cha...
Published On: May 22 2025
This collection is designed to be a resource for a broad audience with various backgrounds, skills, and interests, including those who may not be familiar with the existing AI landscape. From educational and research contexts to policymaking and activism, we hope the ideas featured here will help us to reflect upon the challenges ahead when building, using and evaluating AI in different contexts. At the heart of these short essays are questions about the current state, and possible future of, creativity and environmental sustainability in a world with, of, and through, AI. If AI is contributin...
Published On: May 22 2025
Deadline: Jul 31, 2025
The Berggruen Prize Essay Competition, in the amount of $50,000 USD, is calling for essay submissions in English and Chinese on the theme of consciousness. It is given annually by the Berggruen Institute with the goal to stimulate new thinking and innovative concepts while embracing cross-cultural perspectives across fields, disciplines, and geographies. Inspired by the pivotal role essays have played in shaping thought and inquiry, we are inviting essays that follow in the tradition of renowned thinkers such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Michel de Montaigne, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Submissions s...
Published On: May 8 2025
Deadline: Jun 15, 2025
The Department of Humanities, Social and Political Sciences at ETH Zurich invites applications for two professorships, one in History of Technology, the other in Philosophy of Science. We are looking for two researchers with an outstanding record in philosophy, history or neighbouring disciplines whose research focuses (a) on the history of technology and (b) on the philosophy of science. The search is also open to candidates who combine historical and philosophical methodologies and to those who combine them with other related methodologies. The candidates should essentially contribute to the...
Published On: May 22 2025
Health inequalities in the U.S. persist despite lots of concern about them. Civil rights are being quickly dismantled, even though we know, for example, that pulse oximeters don't read as well on darker skin. From insurance denials to gender identity in medical records, Anna Kirkland details the practices and policies that create health care civil rights. Health Care Civil Rights is based on 118 in-depth interviews with healthcare administrators in charge of implementing civil rights regulations in healthcare settings, advocates and policy leaders, trans and non-binary people navigating their ...
Published On: May 22 2025
Manorial Capitalism, Enslavement, and the Logic of Dividuation proffers three perspectives on the plantation slave economy of the Antebellum South. The first explores the paternal function as exemplified in the structural authority of the lord of the manor both symbolically and operationally. This figure of masculine authority persisted from the Medieval period to orchestrate what is called here Manorial Capitalism. The second examines the exploitation and alienation that epitomize the logic of capitalism from the plantation economy to the present. And the third deploys retroactively the logic...
Published On: May 22 2025
Deadline: Oct 31, 2025
Princeton University seeks to appoint a distinguished humanist whose work is related to the environment for the 2026-2027 academic year. The on-campus position will provide salary plus benefits for the academic year. The funds may be used to supplement a sabbatical leave. The position is supported by the High Meadows Environmental Institute – the interdisciplinary center of environmental research, education, and outreach at Princeton University. Persons appointed will hold the title of the Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor in the Environment and Humanities. Applicants sho...
Published On: May 22 2025
This groundbreaking collection draws together case studies of social medicine in the Global South, radically shifting our understanding of social science in healthcare. Looking beyond a narrative originating in nineteenth-century Europe, a team of expert contributors explores a far broader set of roots and branches, with nodes in Sub-Saharan Africa, South America, Oceania, the Middle East, and Asia. This plural approach reframes and decolonizes the study of social medicine, highlighting connections to social justice and health equity, social science and state formation, bottom-up community ini...
Published On: May 15 2025
Deadline: Jun 1, 2025
As part of our mission to promote scholarship and activism towards more equitable forms of labor and technology, LaborTech hosts three annual awards -- Book, Graduate Student Paper, and Social Justice. These honor projects which: have distinctive intellectual merit or activist impact; advance the knowledge about labor and technology in the global society; and address our core focus on labor and technology and which may simultaneously address feminism, anti-racism, and/or transnationalism.