This article argues that the Haitian Vodou spirits(lwas)of fertility and death,Gede,do not promote homosexuality or the fluidity of sexuality in Haitian culture.The latter position is a Western reading of Gede grounde...This article argues that the Haitian Vodou spirits(lwas)of fertility and death,Gede,do not promote homosexuality or the fluidity of sexuality in Haitian culture.The latter position is a Western reading of Gede grounded in postmodern and post-structural identity theorizing.Gede in Haitian ontology and epistemology is lwas of fertility and death not sexual identity confusion or fluidity.展开更多
This article attempts to outline Paul C.Mocombe’s nominalism as highlighted in his theory of phenomenological structuralism(PS).Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and th...This article attempts to outline Paul C.Mocombe’s nominalism as highlighted in his theory of phenomenological structuralism(PS).Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and things of the multiverse,which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of language and mathematics.So,the facts and things of the world exist irrespective of the human mind,which simply highlights and categorizes them in order to experience being-in-the-world with others and things they encounter.展开更多
Current inner-city-1 depopulation coupled with significant peripheral expansions disrupting nature, are the rule in many of the world＇s large cities such as Montreal. Expansion needs to be balanced from the inner-cit...Current inner-city-1 depopulation coupled with significant peripheral expansions disrupting nature, are the rule in many of the world＇s large cities such as Montreal. Expansion needs to be balanced from the inner-city attraction perspective. To deal with that objective and following an inductive process in the scientific method, two field surveys were implemented in one of Montreal＇s inner-city most popular neighbourhoods（Sainte-Marie） for measuring its current attraction power. Results expose that current local residential housing/services improvement in terms of their medium to high needs/impedances-2 linear correlations to achieve it discourage people to continue living in Sainte-Marie on a ＂free will＂ basis. This report concludes that limiting city expansion at least through this inner-city neighbourhood＇s attraction level is still very much a myth.展开更多
文摘This article argues that the Haitian Vodou spirits(lwas)of fertility and death,Gede,do not promote homosexuality or the fluidity of sexuality in Haitian culture.The latter position is a Western reading of Gede grounded in postmodern and post-structural identity theorizing.Gede in Haitian ontology and epistemology is lwas of fertility and death not sexual identity confusion or fluidity.
文摘This article attempts to outline Paul C.Mocombe’s nominalism as highlighted in his theory of phenomenological structuralism(PS).Mocombe posits that the human mind or consciousness is presented with brute facts and things of the multiverse,which it attempts to reify and universalize through concepts of language and mathematics.So,the facts and things of the world exist irrespective of the human mind,which simply highlights and categorizes them in order to experience being-in-the-world with others and things they encounter.
文摘Current inner-city-1 depopulation coupled with significant peripheral expansions disrupting nature, are the rule in many of the world＇s large cities such as Montreal. Expansion needs to be balanced from the inner-city attraction perspective. To deal with that objective and following an inductive process in the scientific method, two field surveys were implemented in one of Montreal＇s inner-city most popular neighbourhoods（Sainte-Marie） for measuring its current attraction power. Results expose that current local residential housing/services improvement in terms of their medium to high needs/impedances-2 linear correlations to achieve it discourage people to continue living in Sainte-Marie on a ＂free will＂ basis. This report concludes that limiting city expansion at least through this inner-city neighbourhood＇s attraction level is still very much a myth.
