I reinterpret the experiences and perceptions of child migrants through lens racialization White Supremacy by advancing work Cheryl Harris (1993) Lisa Guenther (2019) on critical phenomenology “Whiteness as Property” (WaP) protection “White Space.” WaP is “the collective investment in state violence” to protect economic, territorial, legal privileges Whiteness, while Space describes its two dim...

Between 1893 and 1908, at least six private consortia the municipality of Baghdad were denied permission to operate steamships on Tigris Euphrates grounds that a navigation concession had already been granted Privy Purse ( hazine-i hassa). The justified its insistence monopoly with reference emerging ideology development nafia), though ideas about role steam technology in nafia stood contrast t...

This roundtable shares the first-hand experiences of five crip, disabled, Mad, and/or neurodivergent doctoral students navigating academia in so-called Canada during COVID-19 pandemic. While we discuss and theorize our ableism, structural oppression, inaccessibility academy, also highlight world-building solidarity that have emerged for us crip community, particular among fellow graduate studen...

This article addresses two previously unresolved puzzles regarding the relationship between temporal and spatial conceptualizations in Mandarin Chinese. First, apparently conflicting data have led to disagreement over whether usages of terms qian hou , whose meanings ‘front’ ‘back’ are often considered be primary, based on a canonical facing Ego towards past or future. We argue that this issue ...

Theoretical background: A pandemic shock caused by the COVID-19 virus spread around world, negatively affecting social and economic life in short term. Lockdowns, shutdowns restrictions hit business performance extremely hard. Family businesses, a significant part of sector, are entities focusing generally on continuity, futurity perseverance. Due to their multi-generational perspective, these ...

Cristofaro (2010) voices a growing trend within cognitive-functional linguistics to explain language universals in terms of productive processes in language use rather than in terms of universal conceptual representations. Such mechanisms include metonymy and generalization. Even though I fully agree with this general approach, the proposed mechanisms remain too fuzzy and incomplete to shed new...

I argue that the thesis that time travel is logically possible, is inconsistent with the necessary truth of any of the usual ‘open future-objective present’ models of the universe. It has been relatively uncontroversial until recently to hold that presentism is inconsistent with the possibility of time travel. I argue that recent arguments to the contrary do not show that presentism is consiste...

Since McTaggart first proposed his paradox asserting the unreality of time, numerous philosophers have attempted to defend the tensed theory of time against it. Certainly, one of the most highly developed and original is that put forth by Quentin Smith. Through discussing McTaggart's positive conception of time as well as his negative attack on its reality, I hope to clarify the dispute between...