The paper offers a mutliscalar appreciation of vernacular cosmopolitanism as changing across space, time, and networks relations. Drawing on observations from the UK Greece, I argue for an expanded understanding to incorporate everyday appreciations multiculturalism, tolerance, social liberalism that are produced within specific socio-historical contexts. Proposing theory ‘timespace’ where epoc...

Abstract Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers struggle for survival, justifying the breaking rules and excesses power. While there been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, has remained an analytical blind spot in studies. The dominance elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm study foreclosed possibility alternative conc...

It is now more than a quarter century since Leonard Primiano’s seminal article “Vernacular Religion and the Search for Method in Religious Folklife” launched concept of Vernacular to denote study “religion as it lived: human beings encounter, understand, interpret, practice it” (Primiano 1995: 44). demands that scholars take seriously minutiae how people live their religion particular contexts,...

Recent computer models of landform evolution have focused on surface processes of river networks and hillslopes (e.g., Ahnert, 1976; Kirkby, 1986; Willgoose et al., 1991a, b; Koltermann and Gorelick, 1992; Howard, 1994; Howard et al., 1994; Smith et al., 1997). Most of these models are based on complicated differential equations that are difficult to solve. Chase (1992) developed a cellular aut...

We tested for the occurrence of Bergmann's rule, the pattern of increasing body size with latitude, and Rapoport's rule, the positive relationship between geographical range size and latitude, in 34 lineages of Liolaemus lizards that occupy arid regions of the Andean foothills. We tested the climatic-variability hypothesis (CVH) by examining the relationship between thermal tolerance breadth an...

The evidence that climate warming is changing the distribution of Ixodes ticks and the pathogens they transmit is reviewed and evaluated. The primary approaches are either phenomenological, which typically assume that climate alone limits current and future distributions, or mechanistic, asking which tick-demographic parameters are affected by specific abiotic conditions. Both approaches have p...

A reverence for ancestors that has pre-occupied humans since time immemorial persists to the present. Reconstructing ancestry is the focus of many biological studies but failure to distinguish between present-day descendants and long-dead ancestors has led to incorrect interpretation of phylogenetic trees. This has resulted in erroneous reconstruction of traits such as morphology and ancestral ...