Legacies in life histories.

Histories that Matter: Illiberal Politics and National Legacies in the New Europe

Anthropogenic Natal Environmental Effects on Life Histories in a Wild Bird Population

Recent work suggests that the environment experienced in early life can alter life histories in wild populations, but our understanding of the processes involved remains limited. Since anthropogenic environmental change is currently having a major impact on wild populations, this raises the possibility that life histories may be influenced by human activities that alter environmental conditions...

Environmental Sociology and the Sociology of Natural Resources: Institutional Histories and Intellectual Legacies

While environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources nominally focus on the same subject matters, in practice the literatures in the two subdisciplines have tended to be quite separate intellectual enterprises. Environmental sociology and the sociology of natural resources have different origins, their practitioners tend to have distinctive institutional locations, their problem...

Applying Islamic sources in Spain’s medieval histories: a case study of the Historia Arabum and Historia Gothica emphasizing the conquest of Andalusia and the life of Muhammad (PBUH)

Historia Gothica and Historia Arabum written by the Spanish prominent bishop, Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, are of the most outstanding medieval historical works. Historia Arabum is the first Western work on Islamic history due to attention to Islamic history, which led to the importance of Rodrigo Jimenez among historians. The main question of the article is to what extent Islamic sources have infl...

Conceptualizing Learning Experiences: Contributions and Mediations of the Social, Personal, and Brute

This article conceptualizes and elaborates what constitutes learning experiences. It does so from a perspective that centres on experiences as arising through relations between social and personal worldsyet also acknowledges the mediation of brute facts (i.e., nature). The social contributions are twofold, yet quite distinct. First, there are immediate social experiences that are projected by t...