The Corporate University: An E-interview with Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti

Since the neo-liberal turn, corporate investment in universities has accelerated as the withdrawal of government funding, among other factors, has further exposed universities to market forces. While this process offers numerous benefits for corporations and wealthy individuals, it has been mostly detrimental for students, educators, and the public at large. In this interview, international scholars Dave Hill, Alpesh Maisuria, Anthony Nocella, and Michael Parenti broadly explain why corporations have been aggressively investing in universities. They address the numerous ways that corporate involvement in university activity negatively impacts academic freedom, research outcomes, and the practice of democracy. The interview ends on a hopeful note by presenting examples of resistance against corporate influence. Their analyses focus primarily on the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada.

Lines of Descent d'Anthony K. Appiah : un regard oblique sur le panafricanisme

Sur les traces de l’auteur afro-américain W.E.B. Du Bois, le philosophe Anthony Kwame Appiah se préoccupe dans son Lines of Descent (2014) de l’articulation entre identité personnelle, nationalisme culturel et universel cosmopolitique, à la lumière du signifiant social de la race. Appiah se penche spécifiquement sur l’influence qu’a exercée la pensée allemande de la fin du 19e siècle sur le développement de la pensée de Du Bois. Dans la foulée de travaux antérieurs 1, il s’y intéresse à la question de l’identité raciale et à la place qu’elle occupe dans sa théorisation du panafricanisme. Après un survol biographique des auteurs abordés, cette note de lecture s’intéressera à ces trois thèses fortes en les soumettant à quelques réflexions critiques.

"Lines of Descent" d'Anthony K. Appiah : un regard oblique sur le panafricanisme.

Sur les traces de l’auteur afro-américain W.E.B. Du Bois, le philosophe Anthony Kwame Appiah se préoccupe dans son Lines of Descent (2014) de l’articulation entre identité personnelle, nationalisme culturel et universel cosmopolitique, à la lumière du signifiant social de la race. Appiah se penche spécifiquement sur l’influence qu’a exercée la pensée allemande de la fin du 19e siècle sur le développement de la pensée de Du Bois. Dans la foulée de travaux antérieurs 1, il s’y intéresse à la question de l’identité raciale et à la place qu’elle occupe dans sa théorisation du panafricanisme. Après un survol biographique des auteurs abordés, cette note de lecture s’intéressera à ces trois thèses fortes en les soumettant à quelques réflexions critiques.

Anthony Giddens e a teoria da estruturação

O presente artigo versa sobre o contributo teórico de Anthony Giddens, pela visibilidade e impacte que a sua obra sociológica tem vindo a assumir como um relevante modelo conceptual para as ciências sociais, em geral, e para a teoria sociológica, em particular, associado a uma abordagem de caráter crítico. A relação entre a permanência (estrutura) e o movimento (ação social), perspetivada na sua teoria da estruturação, representa de facto a componente base da sociedade, uma vez que é esta dualidade que torna a sociedade possível e molda o seu caráter ora na direção da permanência, ora na direção da mudança. Em síntese, o presente artigo é uma revisita a um trabalho anterior [1], que face à pertinência do seu conteúdo se justifica a sua divulgação nesta revista para estimular e aprofundar o debate científico-pedagógico junto dos doutorandos em Sociologia, sobre os sistemas sociais, contextualizando o seu lugar no tempo-espaço, e problematizando a ideia de estrutura como uma certa ordem virtual de diferenças, dita no sentido giddensiano, produzida e reproduzida no âmbito das interações sociais.

Una peste de viruelas en la región de la frontera de Guerra hispano-indígena en el Reino de Chile (1791)

ResumenEn la frontera de guerra del río Bío Bío se enfrentaron dos sociedades totalmente diferentes: la sociedad colonial hispánica contra los mapuches y otras sociedades indígenas. El análisis de los documentos sobre la peste general de viruelas que se desató en la región de frontera en 1791, permite al autor adentrarse en el conocimiento de aquellas sociedades.AbstractTwo completely different societies confronted each other on the military frontier of the Bío Bío River: Hispanic colonial society and that of the Mapuches and other Indian societies. An analysis of the documents on the widespread small pocks epidemic of the frontier region in 1791 allows the author to study those two societies in contact.

Thermal decomposition of the synthetic hydrotalcite iowaite

The thermal stability and thermal decomposition pathways for synthetic iowaite have been determined using thermogravimetry in conjunction with evolved gas mass spectrometry. Chemical analysis showed the formula of the synthesised iowaite to be Mg6.27Fe1.73(Cl)1.07(OH)16(CO3)0.336.1H2O and X-ray diffraction confirms the layered structure. Dehydration of the iowaite occurred at 35 and 79°C. Dehydroxylation occurred at 254 and 291°C. Both steps were associated with the loss of CO2. Hydrogen chloride gas was evolved in two steps at 368 and 434°C. The products of the thermal decomposition were MgO and a spinel MgFe2O4. Experimentally it was found to be difficult to eliminate CO2 from inclusion in the interlayer during the synthesis of the iowaite compound and in this way the synthesised iowaite resembled the natural mineral.

Weather variability, tides, and Barmah Forest Virus Disease in the Gladstone region, Australia

In this study we examined the impact of weather variability and tides on the transmission of Barmah Forest virus (BFV) disease and developed a weather-based forecasting model for BFV disease in the Gladstone region, Australia. We used seasonal autoregressive integrated moving-average (SARIMA) models to determine the contribution of weather variables to BFV transmission after the time-series data of response and explanatory variables were made stationary through seasonal differencing. We obtained data on the monthly counts of BFV cases, weather variables (e.g., mean minimum and maximum temperature, total rainfall, and mean relative humidity), high and low tides, and the population size in the Gladstone region between January 1992 and December 2001 from the Queensland Department of Health, Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Queensland Department of Transport, and Australian Bureau of Statistics, respectively. The SARIMA model shows that the 5-month moving average of minimum temperature (β = 0.15, p-value < 0.001) was statistically significantly and positively associated with BFV disease, whereas high tide in the current month (β = −1.03, p-value = 0.04) was statistically significantly and inversely associated with it. However, no significant association was found for other variables. These results may be applied to forecast the occurrence of BFV disease and to use public health resources in BFV control and prevention.