 | | | | The Mediterranean as a Hub of Maritime Trade and the Role of the New Suez Canal Freight is a key variable of the economy, has a crucial role in the spatial relationships between different and distant markets and, to that extent, represents the physical medium by which exchanges of goods are realized, constituting the backbone of world trade. Throughout history, man has always sought methods by which speed up and simplify the connections between the many points of the globe both through the use of increasingly efficient technologies, and through the construction of new ways of access frequently changing physical morphology of territories. This process is still evolving,... |
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| Humanizing the human is dehumanizing! Preforming Muslimness The proclivity of governments and civil society institutions across the globe to engage the Muslim subject has created a set of discourses that seek to humanize the Muslim in the face of Islamophobia and rising tide of bigotry. While the discourses were produced by diverse forces and interests, the running thread is nevertheless rooted in an effort to humanize the Muslim, the already known human subject, which translates to a dehumanizing epistemic. The point that has to be made here is that the act of humanizing the human revolves around a dehumanizing enactment that leads to an... |
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| Constitutional Acceleration within the European Union and Beyond Modern constitutionalism as an idea and practice is facing great uncertainty in current times. Scholarly debates focus predominantly on constitutions beyond the state, while the predicament of domestic constitutionalism is much less considered. This volume contributes to a theoretically informed analysis of the key challenges and changes affecting domestic constitutionalism in Europe and beyond, departing from the idea of 'constitutional acceleration' or the increased propensity of different actors to engage in (formal) reform of the constitutional order. The volume points to a fundamental... |
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| Sgueo Gamification Publics The use of game-design elements – a phenomenon known as 'gamification' – features prominently within ongoing processes of innovation of governance. According to the research and advisory firm Gartner, 2,000 of the top public organizations worldwide have at least one gamified application and/or process in place. Examples of gamification in public governance include " Run that town " (ideated by the Australian Bureau of Statistics to raise citizens' awareness of the national census), the " Red Balloon Challenge " (initiated by the United States' Defence Advanced Research Project Agency to... |
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| Epistemic Trespassing (forthcoming in Mind) Epistemic trespassers judge matters outside their field of expertise. Trespassing is ubiquitous in this age of interdisciplinary research and recognizing this will require us to be more intellectually modest. |
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| Researching Risks of Nanomaterials in Mexico The aim of this article is to evaluate, using available direct and secondary data, the risks to human health and the environment within nanotechnologies research in Mexico. The argument is advanced in four sections. The first illustrates the implications of the risks posed by nanoparticles and nanomaterials to workers, consumers, and the environment. Next, to provide context, is a review of the state of nanotechnologies development in Mexico. This is followed by an outline of the methodology employed, where two protocols were used: The first entailed the creation of a database containing... |
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