This paper contributes to a debate in the palaeoarchaeological community about the major time-lag between the origin of anatomically modern humans and the appearance of typically human cultural behaviour. Why did humans take so long--at least 100 000 years--to become 'behaviourally modern'? The transition is often explained as a change in the intrinsic cognitive competence of modern humans: oft...

Analytics, the application of advanced statistics to sport, has become increasingly prominent. This paper will focus on their in basketball. I argue that introduction analytics is an attempt expand logic modernity into area which, for Elias, its demands had historically been temporarily suspended. Instead we can see some key tenets – which explore via reference The Mid-Range Theory, a recent bo...

In this paper I am going to explore how ideas of Europe and European identity are used to articulate popular discourses on immigration and immigrants. In contrast with the literature on European identity and immigration which has mostly looked at institutions, adopting a top-down approach, I will look at popular discourses, adopting an approach from the bottom-up. I will base my analysis on eth...

Over the past two decades, the information systems community has become engaged in improving the environmental effects of information systems and technologies, which has given rise to the green IS field. Despite increasing interest, some have suggested that progress toward meaningful solutions for sustainability has been too slow. Responding to these concerns, we examine the development of gree...

The Latin American dependentistas produced a knowledge that criticized the Eurocentric assumptions of the cepalistas, including theorthodoxMarxist and theNorthAmericanmodernization theories. The dependentista school critique of stagism and developmentalism was an important intervention that transformed the imaginary of intellectual debates in many parts of the world. However, I will argue that ...

This article interrogates the modes by which cultural constructions of male contraceptive use emerge in Costa Rica by analyzing men's narratives of vasectomy. Drawing on ethnographic research data, I examine men's contraceptive decision making and perspectives on vasectomy and specify the ways they work through their vasectomy to rearticulate the relationship between masculinity and contracepti...

This article takes as its broad premise two related questions: how does Ulysses register the animal labour from which modernity was produced? And, in turn, do Joyce’s textual innovations—his labouring of language—respond to human-animal relationships that existed early-twentieth-century Ireland? Although critics are increasingly attuned way is a novel teems with all sorts life, less attention h...