In the past decade Diaspo youths – second generation immigrants in Côte d’Ivoire who were forced to migrate to their parents’ country of origin, Burkina Faso, during the Ivorian civil war – have become a visible presence in Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso’s second largest city. By consciously displaying their Ivorian origins, they have provoked both the admiration and resentment of local youths, w...

Addressing integrative possibilities between psychology and anthropology, this paper aims to design conceptual linkages between semiotic-cultural constructivist psychology and the anthropological theory of Amerindian perspectivism. From the psychological view, it is the interdependence between the structural and processual dimensions of the personal culture that makes parallels with Amerindian ...

Following Gerald Edelman’s understanding of the formation of consciousness, and using contemporary neuroscience findings about the functional qualities networks add to consciousness when they are included in a distributed top‐down network, I have gathered data about how the social brain transforms neural to mental function. I think all social neuroscientists are indebted to Raichle’s group’s di...

Gay men and heterosexual women may share some common interests in critiquing heteropatriarchy. However feminism and gay liberationist politics do not always coincide and the role of individual subjectivities in recognising oppressive discourses of normativity remains debated. Interviews were conducted with seven friendship dyads of heterosexual women and gay men. Transcripts were subjected to d...

Felsefe tarihindeki önemli tartışmalardan biri hakikat (aletheia) ile imge (eikon) arasındaki ilişkinin mahiyetidir. Antik dönemde, özellikle Platon düşüncesinde, imge, hakikatten uzaklığı üzerinden ele alınmaktadır. Kopyanın da kopyası olarak imgeler alanına dair bir şey söyleyememektedirler. Onlar ancak görünür dünyanın formu ortaya çıkmaktadırlar. Modern dönemde ise Cogito merkezli düşünceyl...