SETTLER FRAGILITY: Four Paradoxes of Decolonizing Research

Indigenous Métissage: a decolonizing research sensibility

Four paradoxes of human dignity

Research on indigenous elders: from positivistic to decolonizing methodologies.

Although indigenous peoples have lower life expectancies than the social majority populations in their countries, increasing numbers of indigenous people are living into old age. Research on indigenous elders is informed by a number of research traditions. Researchers have mined existing data sets to compare characteristics of indigenous populations with non-indigenous groups, and these finding...

Four Paradoxes Involving the Second Law of Thermodynamics

Ð Recently four independent paradoxes have been proposed which appear to challenge the second law of thermodynamics [1-8]. These paradoxes are briefly reviewed. It is shown that each paradox results from a synergism of two broken symmetries Ð one geometric, one thermodynamic.

Problems , paradoxes , paradigms : triangulating fire research ∗

Wildland fire research has historically orbited around a physical paradigm of fire. This strategy has yielded remarkable results, yet increasingly it cannot speak to the core issues that concern fire management. Two additional paradigms are needed. One would build on fire’s origins in the living world.The other would evolve out of fire’s significance to humanity, and humanity’s unblinking impor...