Introduction: Uncovering Canada's Environmental Cultural Politics

Environmental epidemiology: An introduction

Introduction : Disasters as Politics – Politics as Disasters

What is the relationship between politics and disasters and how does this relate to the recent boom in disaster studies? The introduction to this volume argues that the recent interest in disasters is not because there are more disasters, but because of two recent developments within the social sciences: first, a focus on rupture rather than on continuity and second, a focus on materiality. Dis...

FIELD STATEMENT POLITICS DEPARTMENT: APPROACHES TO COMPARATIVE POLITICS: A CULTURAL POLITICS CRITIQUE INTRODUCTION APPROACHES Developmentalism Crisis in Modernization Dependency New Institutionalism Rational Choice Cultural Politics Cultural political analysis of the formal political realm Democracy POLITICAL CULTURE

Uncovering the cultural knowledge of sanctuary apes

Behavioral differences observed between wild communities of the same species have been called "cultures" by some researchers who aimed to underline the similarities with human cultures. However, whether these differences truly result from social learning processes is debated. Despite promising recent research, data acquired in the wild still fail to exclude genetic and ecological factors from b...

Introduction: politics, misperception, or apropos?