Liberation Theologies, Periphery Existence, and Global Challenges: Towards a Transcultural Ideology of Liberation

Rochester Engines of Liberation Engines of Liberation 1

Electricity was born at the dawn of the last century. Households were inundated with a ßood of new consumer durables. What was the impact of this consumer durable goods revolution? It is argued here that the consumer goods revolution was conducive to liberating women from the home. To analyze this hypothesis, a Beckerian model of household production is developed. Households must decide whether...

Liberation Theology

The liberation-theology movement was partly inspired by the Second Vatican Council and the 1967 papal encyclical Populorum progressio. Its leading exponents include Gutierrez, Leonardo Boff of Brazil, and Juan Luis Segundo of Uruguay. The liberationists have received encouragement from the Latin American bishops, especially in resolutions adopted at a 1968 conference in Medellin, Colombia; othe...

The liberation of CD44

CD44 was once thought to simply be a transmembrane adhesion molecule that also played a role in the metabolism of its principal ligand hyaluronan. Investigations of CD44 over the past approximately 20 yr have established additional functions for CD44, including its capacity to mediate inflammatory cell function and tumor growth and metastasis. It has also become evident that intricate posttrans...

Ushahidi as a Liberation technoLogy

Towards The Liberation Of Managed Human Life.1

Traditional critiques of the sciences and social sciences from within process studies have argued that since they are premised on Newtonian reductionist conceptualisations of thought for the purpose of simplification, these disciplines have little to offer in terms of furthering the meaningful development of life in the 21 Century. What I shall be doing in this paper is demonstrating that such ...