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Architect Anupama Kundoo describes how ‘the dream of building a new city’ from scratch for an international spiritual community in southern India has created a magnet for architects around the world. As the city now approaches its 50th... more

Architect Anupama Kundoo describes how ‘the dream of building a new city’ from scratch for an international spiritual community in southern India has created a magnet for architects around the world. As the city now approaches its 50th anniversary, she asks whether Auroville can keep its architectural culture of innovation and experimentation alight. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

"Resumen: Este trabajo es una réplica al artículo de Joseba Lakarra (2010), publicado en Veleia 27. Se intenta aquí demostrar que no existe incompatibilidad entre los numerales ibéricos propuestos en Orduña (2005) y Ferrer i Jané (2009) y... more

A SCALE TO MEASURE THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION (LOA) OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AS A PREDICTIVE TOOL IN FUTURE OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE IS PRESENTED AND EXTENSIVELY EVALUATED IN THIS MONOGRAPH. THE OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION SCALE IS... more

A SCALE TO MEASURE THE LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION (LOA) OF SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS AS A PREDICTIVE TOOL IN FUTURE OCCUPATIONAL CHOICE IS PRESENTED AND EXTENSIVELY EVALUATED IN THIS MONOGRAPH. THE OCCUPATIONAL ASPIRATION SCALE IS AN EASILY ADMINISTERED INSTRUMENT WHICH FOCUSES ON IDEALISTIC AND REALISTIC EXPRESSION LEVELS AS WELL AS ON SHORT RANGE AND LONG RANGE TIME GOAL PERIODS. EMPIRICAL DATA PRESENTED SHOWS THAT THE PREDICTED CORRELATIONS IN THE LOA CONCEPT ARE BORNE OUT 80 PERCENT OF THE TIME WHILE PREDICTED NONCORRELATES ARE FOUND TRUE 70 PERCENT OF THE TIME. HYPOTHESES ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR OF LOA INCLUDE HIGH POSITIVE CORRELATIONS BETWEEN (1) LOA AND SUBSEQUENT LEVEL OF OCCUPATIONAL ACHIEVEMENT, (2) LOA AND ANY MEASURE OF SUCCESS IN SCHOOL, (3) LOA AND ANY PERSONAL ORIENTATION TENDING TO PRODUCE THE EXPERIENCE OF SUCCESS, (4) LOA AND ANY PERSONAL ORIENTATION EXPRESSING THE WILLINGNESS TO ACT INDEPENDENTLY, (5) LOA AND THE DEGREE TO WHICH THE SOCIAL STATES OF THE PERSON T...

In this essay, I make an unlikely case for a certain kind of value stability, arguing that people should almost never aspire to become radically different and that, given this, some people should be reluctant to pursue educational... more

In this essay, I make an unlikely case for a certain kind of value stability, arguing that people should almost never aspire to become radically different and that, given this, some people should be reluctant to pursue educational experiences that wildly broaden their life possibilities. My account is developed and structured around two borrowed examples, one literary and the other historical. Wendell Berry, his novel Hannah Coulter in particular, is the source of the first example; Jonathan Lear, specifically the case of Native American resettlement he develops in Radical Hope, provides the second. The essay contains three parts structured around three related ideas. Part one explores the rationality of wanting to be a different person. Part two explores the rationality of wanting to be the same person while doing entirely different things. And part three explores the rationality of desiring an education that teaches you to be suspicious of being anything in particular.

International migration is in the news almost daily and has risen up the political agenda of national governments and supranational organisations. Migration affects sending as well as receiving countries and is an inherent part of current... more

International migration is in the news almost daily and has risen up the political agenda of national governments and supranational organisations. Migration affects sending as well as receiving countries and is an inherent part of current processes of globalisation and internationalisation. In recent decades, international migrations have been characterised by profound changes. Global migration resulted in the transformation of societies and cultural diversity within specific countries. If the number of migrants in a country is high, this group automatically becomes relevant for multiple societal actors.

Edebiyat ve sanat tarihi boyunca sürgün, bir çok yazar ve şairin makus talihi olmuştur. Yazarlar ve sanatçılar kimi zaman fikirleri, kimi zaman yazdıkları, kimi zaman da toplumsal baskı nedeniyle zorunlu veya gönüllü bir göçün/sürgünün... more

Edebiyat ve sanat tarihi boyunca sürgün, bir çok yazar ve şairin makus talihi olmuştur. Yazarlar ve sanatçılar kimi zaman fikirleri, kimi zaman yazdıkları, kimi zaman da toplumsal baskı nedeniyle zorunlu veya gönüllü bir göçün/sürgünün öznesi olabilmektedirler. Bu çalışmada, önce zorunlu sonra gönüllü göçü/sürgünü ve yersiz-yurtsuzluk halini yaşayan çağdaş yazarlarımızdan Nedim Gürsel ve yazını, bu olgunun yazar ve edebiyatına yansımaları sosyolojik ve etno-psikolojik açıdan irdelenmeye çalışılacaktır. Bireyin aidiyet hissiyle bağlandığı mekândan ve kendine ait yaşam biçimlerinden koparılması, onun kültürel köklerinden ve insani bağlarından da koparılmasıdır ve bu durum bir yazar için edebi esin kaynaklarının da hem çeşitlenmesi ve varsıllaşması, hem de sarsılması anlamına gelir. Bu varsıllık ve sarsıntı edebi malzeme olarak kimi zaman olumlu etkiler yaratsa da, yazarın yaşamı ve yazını üzerinde derin izler bırakmaktadır. Nedim Gürsel, bu izleri hem olumlu hem de olumsuz yönleriyle ...

Internal reconstruction as well as comparative evidence demonstrate that historical loss of coda nasals in some varieties of Camuno has occurred, and involves four phonetic or phonological variables: stress, cluster vs singleton coda,... more

Internal reconstruction as well as comparative evidence demonstrate that historical loss of coda nasals in some varieties of Camuno has occurred, and involves four phonetic or phonological variables: stress, cluster vs singleton coda, voicing of the following obstruent in NC clusters, and place of articulation of the nasal. While historical loss of coda nasals is evident in other Romance languages , the absence of vowel nasalization and the occurrence of historical word-final obstruent devoicing in Camuno (Cresci 2014) make this historical development of special interest. In this study I suggest phonetic factors that may explain differential loss of *n vs *m in word-final position of stressed syllables, the role of obstruent voicing, and absence of contrastive nasalized vowels in the history of Camuno. I argue that Camuno exemplifies an alternative historical pathway to nasal loss, one in which nasals are lost without a trace, leaving behind plain oral vowels. Ohala & Busà (1995) account for such pathway as the inverse of spontaneous nasalization. *