This chapter surveys and assesses from an ecocentric perspective some representative literary portrayals of the Australian deserts. Generally, it contrasts works that portray the desert as an alien, hostile, and undifferentiated void with works that recognise and value the biological particularities of specific desert places. It explores the literature of three dominant cultural orientations to...

This paper proposes a developmental view on imagination: from this perspective, imagination can be seen as triggered by some disrupting event, which generates a disjunction from the person's unfolding experience of the "real" world, and as unfolding as a loop, which eventually comes back to the actual experience. Examining recent and classical theorization of imagination in psychology, the pape...

Article history: Received 18 August 2007 Received in revised form 13 March 2008 Available online 1 July 2008

the present article studies the quran's view on free will and freedom. some related issues discussed here are: (1) human freedom is the basis of the creation; (2) respecting human freedom is the basis of the prophet's invitation of the people to islam; (3) political freedom is the foundation of forming political societies, and so on. with reference to the quranic verses and moslem sch...

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Delay discounting (DD) refers to the phenomenon that individuals discount future consequences. Previous studies showed that future imagination reduces DD, which was mediated by functional connectivity between medial prefrontal valuation areas and a key region for episodic memory (hippocampus). Future imagination involves an initial period of construction and a later period of elaboration, with ...

Abstract This article presents a conceptualisation of children’s participation rights based on Miranda Fricker’s epistemic injustice. Drawing research conducted in secondary school the UK, applies framework, particular her concepts testimonial and hermeneutical injustice, to explain some reasons for adults’ disquiet around rights. concept injustice explains how prejudice about social group resu...

In Tropic of Orange (1997), Karen Tei Yamashita uses literary imagination to challenge the settler-colonial discourse on space and time in Americas. The influence Latin American magical realism is most pronounced orange, a nonhuman object imbued with human agency. orange magically initiates cross-border movements people that disrupt binaries local/global, East/West, North/South, challenging une...