PSYCHOECOLOGY FROM MEGA-POLIS TO ECO-POLIS

Extending POLIS with User-Defined Data Types

Introduction: Sustaining the Life of the Polis

How are publics of protection and care defined in African cities today? The effects of globalization and neo-liberal policies on urban space are well documented. From London to São Paulo, denationalization, privatization, offshoring and cuts in state expenditure are creating enclaves and exclusions, resulting in fragmented, stratified social geographies (see Caldeira 2000; Ong 2006; Harvey 2006...

The Gendered Polis in Eupolis' Cities

Ever since Antiphanes brought on the stage a character, perhaps Comedy herself, complaining that comedy was more difficult to compose than tragedy (fr. 189.17-23 K-A), it has become something of a truism to say that the poets of Old Comedy had at their disposal much richer and less generically restricted literary possibilities than their colleagues working in tragedy. Comments Postprint version...

POLIS : Test of the scan unit

This document contains brief descriptions of recent scientific results and instrument developments. In many cases intermediate results are presented, as well as isolated topics taken from larger projects. The papers are sorted in alphabetical order with respect to the first author.

Voegelin on Aristotle's "Science of the Polis"

In his 1951 Walgreen lectures published as the New Science of Politics, Eric Voegelin calls for the restoration of political science as a science of order. This restoration is necessary because political science has fallen into degenerate state as a Weberian, value-free social science concerned with "objective, value-free" measures of political phenomenon. Political science as a genuine science...