The Moon, indigenous philosophy, colonialism and heritage

Reviews: In Contemporary Political Theory: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41296-020-00388-3 In the Canadian Journal of Political Science: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0008423918000550 The idea of political unity – or belonging – contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification and hierarchy within the political unit itself. In Lived Fictions, John Grant explores the ways in which we imagine political unity can be achieved. The Canadian notion of progressive politics and social cohesion generates a collective commitment to imagining how society is structured. These political imaginaries – the citizen-state, the market economy, charters of rights, and so forth – are the lived fictions that bind us together. They orient our sense of national identity and shape our understanding of political legitimacy, responsibility, and action. Grant also persuasively details why the project of political unity must fail: it distorts our lived experiences and allows harmful relations of inequality and domination to take root. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state that protects the vulnerable, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. This book documents the historical failure of these promises and elaborates the kinds of institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions. This book will find a keen audience among students and scholars of Canadian politics, political theory, and Indigenous politics.

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Vanderbilt Journal Entertain. & Technology Law, vo 22, 725-783, 2020

Genetically modified ("GMO") corn germinates legal controversies in México. Since 2013, Mexican courts have temporarily suspended GMO corn because it threatens biodiversity. In the Colectividad del Maíz lawsuit, courts have prohibited México from issuing commercial GMO permits while the litigation continues. Companies like Monsanto need these permits to sell GMO seeds. Corn is the most essential food item for millions of Mexicans and is central to Mexican culture. Mexicans wait for Colectividad del Maíz's resolution, siding with biodiversity or GMOs. This Article describes scientific GMO controversies and analyzes biosecurity, class-action, and international environmental law. It argues that this corn fight feeds larger moral questions about biotechnology and México's sovereignty. Courts and policy makers respond to these controversies with their sovereign powers. Decolonial theory shows how assumptions about economics, law, and ideology rooted in historical colonial structures-"coloniality"-shape these responses. This Article illustrates the significance of coloniality to how the government responds to GMOs, at a time when GMO safety is increasingly questioned in México and elsewhere.

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Red Bull was conceived around the middle of the 1980s as emerging product of the recently established partnership of Messrs Chaleo Yoovidhya and Dietrich Mateschitz and was introduced to the international markets from 1987 onward to write history in many countries that never saw an energy drink before. According to an Indonesian academic paper by Irman Haniz 2 Red Bull has some recognition from various parties, among others, the ISO 9001: 2000, for mutual management systems, the HACCP: 2002 for security management systems, the .ISO 14001: 2004 for the system management and the OHSAS 18001: 1999 for health and safety management systems at work. Red Bull's CSR stretches from traditional social to revolutionary approaches.

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Collections: A Journal for Museum and Archive Professionals, 2020

This study investigates how authenticity is perceived and negotiated by curators at a selection of Scottish historic house museums (HHMs). Many HHMs are preserved so as to recreate the dwellings of remarkable historical personalities, thus showcasing a unique blend of period artifacts, replicas, and original objects once in the possession of their inhabitants. Focusing on three different case studies, this research investigates how these authentic museum objects are displayed to and interpreted for the public; how relevant their authenticity is from a curatorial perspective; what are the factors influencing curatorial perceptions of authenticity; and how (or, if) HHMs help visitors negotiating the inauthenticity of replicas and period objects displayed onsite. While most studies have examined constructions of authenticity at tourism sites and in terms of their impact on consumers' behavior, this work aims to shed light on how museum professionals conceive of authenticity within the under-researched context of HHMs, by discussing the outcomes of interviews with curators at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum and Cottage (Alloway), Broughton House (Kirkcudbright), and Ellisland Farm (Auldgirth).

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Dozens of First Nations in Canada lack access to safe and secure water resources. This thesis proposes the decentralization of water treatment in First Nations, and explores how architecture might integrate and decentralize water collection, purification, and storage strategies in Hiawatha First Nation. It simultaneously explores the very deep and layered spiritual connection between women and water in Anishinaabe culture. Feminist theory is used as a lens through which the research and design is approached. Synthesizing vernacular strategies with contemporary technologies led to the development of a regionally sensitive architecture that creates much needed space for purification, healing, and growth of the community and the individual. The Pimaadashkodeyaang Cultural Centre in Hiawatha First Nation investigates Anishinaabe architecture and culture, feminist theory and space, and water and productive landscapes. Multiple design strategies emerged that inform how to design with water from both a pragmatic and mythopoetic perspective.

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En clave Campo de Gibraltar. Patrimonio natural y cultural, 2023

En este capítulo de una monografía pensada para la divulgación, se analiza el contexto que propició la realización de obras de fortificación bajo diferentes coyunturas históricas, dentro del territorio del actual Campo de Gibraltar. Éste coincide grosso modo con la antigua provincia musulmana de al-Ŷazīra al-jaḍrā´. El estudio abarca todo el período islámico, desde la Conquista hasta la toma de Gibraltar en el siglo XV. Se hace especial énfasis en la Batalla del Estrecho, el conflicto que ha dejado mayor huella patrimonial en el paisaje actual y en el que este territorio se configuró como frontera.

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