Editorial: Child-Animal Relations and Care as Critique

Bringing Cities to the Table: Child Care and Intergovernmental Relations

Foreword The growing interest and concern about Canada's urban areas has provoked a recent wave of research papers and policy conferences in and about our cities. CPRN has chosen to contribute to this lively discourse by playing an integrative role – linking research and policy communities across Canada, across jurisdictions, and across disciplines. The first paper in the CPRN series by Neil Br...

Editorial: concepts of animal welfare.

Four of the papers (by Donald Broom, Lennart Nordenfelt, Kirsten Schmidt and Christine Leeb) in this issue of Acta Biotheoretica stem from a symposium on the theme ,,Concepts of animal welfare—interdisciplinary perspectives’’ that was held on 8–9 October 2009 in Bad Neuenahr (Germany), organised by the Europäische Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Ba...

Correlates of Parent-child Relations as Perceived by the Child, Type of Humor Appreciations, and Neuroticism

Editorial: Schizophrenia: Human and Animal Studies

Schizophrenia is a complex disorder with relatively stable prevalence rates estimated at about 0.5–1% (Saha et al., 2005). Schizophrenia is characterized by the occurrence of various psychopathological symptoms that have been described as positive symptoms (delusions and hallucinations), negative symptoms (apathy, lack of motivation, flat affect, poverty of speech, and social withdrawal), disor...

Social Relations and the Green Critique of Capitalism in Melanesia

In this article, I explore what a critical environmental perspective would look like in Melanesia, where the distinction between nature and culture, and the expectation that science interprets the former in terms of the latter, may not apply. I consider changes in scientific knowledge production and the shift from cultural ecology to political ecology in Melanesian anthropology, including the a...