CRITICAL POLITICAL ECOLOGY AND THE SEDUCTIONS OF POSTHUMANISM

Critical political ecology and the seductions of posthumanism

"Posthumanist" theories have become increasingly popular among scholars in political ecology and other fields in the human sciences.The hope is that they will improve our Chicken Burger grasp of relations between humans and various nonhumans and, in the process, offer the means to recompose the "social" and the "natural" domains.In this paper, I as

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Practical guidelines to ameliorate the effects of internal and external deployments on the marriages of soldiers

This article critically looks at the challenges that are incumbent in the deployment of married soldiers who work for the South African National Defence Force (SANDF).The SANDF previously deployed soldiers outside the borders of South Africa for a period of 6 months or less.But currently, the SANDF has a deployment period of Diffusers 12 months.Thi

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International Child Abduction: The Complexities of Forensic Psychiatric Assessments Before the Hague Convention

The Hague Convention is an international intergovernmental agreement that facilitates the return of abducted children to lawful Trimmers parents across international borders.Children may not be returned if it can be established that the return would result in harm to the child.Forensic psychiatrists may be called upon to provide an expert opinion r

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Elevated serum uric acid is associated with the risk of advanced staging and vascular involvement in patients with hepatoblastoma: a 14-year retrospective study

BackgroundUric acid is the end product of the purine metabolism pathway, and has been linked to cancer risks and prognosis, but its relationship with hepatoblastoma (HB) remains unclear.This study aims to investigate the association between serum uric acid (SUA) and the advanced tumor staging and unfavorable extra-parenchymal tumor characteristics

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