Co This article pushes for the possibility of alternative ways of thinking about the concept of interculturality depending on where and by whom it is being articulated (the geopolitics and body politic of knowledge). To illustrate this, the focus is shifted away from the policies of the European Union and UNESCO to the Andean region of Latin America where the notion of interculturalidad is not ...

Interwar France witnessed a convergence of two ostensibly diametrically opposed phenomena: eugenics and pro-natalism. In the 1930s in particular, pro-natalists, desiring to raise the French birthrate, and eugenicists, pursuing racial hygiene, came together both literally and discursively, allowing them to exercise a high degree of influence on politics and policy. In this manner, although Franc...

The volatility of output and inflation has varied substantially across countries and over time. While the global economy was very turbulent in the 1970s, macroeconomic volatility declined sharply in the following years in what has been termed the ‘Great Moderation’. This decline took place to different extents in different countries. In the United States, for example, the Great Moderation is us...

© 2005 Society for the Study of Addiction Addiction, 100 , 293–298 challenge could now be made to leaders in the alcohol treatment field in the United States. Low-risk drinking outcomes are a documented pathway to recovery in the United States as in other countries. Importantly, having moderation services available could facilitate such recoveries. Yet, advocacy for such services, even by gover...

We describe the CoJACK cognitive architecture. It is designed to provide an intuitive, high level behaviour representation language that exhibits variability across individuals and across time for use in synthetic environments. The included moderator layer enables modelling of physiological factors and affect. We report initial results of an investigation of variability and time-based moderatio...

Volunteer moderators of online platforms have done fundamental work to foster social relations for over forty years. Moderators create, support, and control public discourse for millions of people, even as their uncompensated labor upholds platform funding models. In this paper, I examine the “civic labor” of moderators on the social news platform reddit, where a strike by over two thousand sub...

We estimate the parameters of a reputational game of political competition using data from five two-party parliamentary systems. We find that latent party preferences (and party reputations) persist with high probability across election periods, with one exception: parties with extreme preferences who find themselves out of power switch to moderation with higher probability than the equivalent ...

This article critically investigates the reasoning behind social media content policies and opaque data politics operations regarding sexual visual practices talk, asking what is at stake when giants govern sociability on an international scale. Focusing Facebook, in particular, this proposes alternative perspective for handling various expressions of sexuality platforms by exploring wide-rangi...

In light of the World Health Organization's declaration that non-dependent drinking contributes more to the global burden of alcohol-related disease than does drinking by those who meet diagnostic criteria for dependence, this paper argues that clinicians, researchers and decision-makers need to consider microsocial and macrosocial impacts of alcohol use, not just addiction and clinical effects...

The year 1997 is a historic year on many counts. It is on the one hand the Golden Jubilee year of our Nation, as also of the Indian Psychiatric Society. Our meeting here today is a historic event which marks an important epoch in the development in this field of specialisation - as it is the first ever meeting of Military Psychiatry section of Indian Psychiatric Society.However the world of tod...