 | | | | | | A Metamodel for Disaster Risk Models As the world faces an increasing number of both natural and social disasters, attempts to support disaster risk reduction are also increasing. Although there is a general rule to calculate the disaster risk on an area based on the components of hazard, vulnerability, and capacity, disaster risk studies result in a number of disaster risk models which present different characteristics in terms of the number of components involved, indicators, and the calculations. This poses a difficulty for disaster analysts to choose the most appropriate model to calculate the disaster risk of an area.... | | | 'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference This is the introductory section to my book 'I am an American': Filming the Fear of Difference' (2011, Bristol, UK: Intellect Books and Chicago: University of Chicago Press) that gives an account of the behind-the-scenes events and issues behind my 'I am an American' film project. The films in this project are available at www.iamanamericanproject.com (click on the Project tab, which will take you to a flip book; explore the flip book by turning the pages at the bottom corners of each page or by clicking on the front panel of images - all of the films are embedded in the book). A great... | | | Writing History in a Paperless World: Archives of the Future The rapid expansion of the seemingly limitless digital universe invites us to rethink the question of archives. If information in the time of high-speed Internet connectivity is easily produced, searched, circulated and consumed, it is as easily deleted and effaced from the public domain too. The digital content (especially user-generated) on blogs, websites, and social media platforms is both plentiful – often expressed as 'information overload' – and fragile; it risks perishing almost as fast as it is produced. The historians of the future seeking to write the history of the early... | | | Emotional Complexity: Clarifying Definitions and Cultural Correlates There is much debate about the notion of emotional complexity (EC). The debate concerns both the definition and the meaning of ostensible cultural differences in the construct. Some scholars have defined EC as the experience of positive and negative emotions together rather than as opposites, a phenomenon that seems more common in East Asia than North America. Others have defined EC as the experience of emotions in a differentiated manner, a definition that has yet to be explored cross-culturally. The present research explores the role of dialectical beliefs and interdependence in... | | | It pays to be nice, but not really nice: Asymmetric reputations from prosociality across 7 countries Cultures differ in many important ways, but one trait appears to be universally valued: prosociality. For one's reputation, around the world, it pays to be nice to others. However, recent research with American participants finds that evaluations of prosocial actions are asymmetric—relatively selfish actions are evaluated according to the magnitude of selfishness but evaluations of relatively generous actions are less sensitive to magnitude. Extremely generous actions are judged roughly as positively as modestly generous actions, but extremely selfish actions are judged much more negatively... | | | Segurança Ambiental dos Recursos Hídricos Internacionais: conflito e cooperação na Bacia do Zambeze Since the dawn of the twentieth century a series of new security challenges have emerged, many of them related with environmental issues. Water resources have been majorly damaged. For instance, some researches point out that freshwater is becoming scarcer, especially due the increasing levels of population and economic growth in the south. In this context, this work intends to analyze the environmental security situation of international water resources in the region of Zambezi water basin, located in Southern Africa. In order to do that, first it was carried on a critical review of the... | | | The Eastern Origins of Capitalism? This is an updated and cleaned-up version of the unpublished review of Anievas and Nisancioglu, How the West came to Rule: The Geopolitical Origins of Capitalism that appeared on this website in August. A much shorter version will be published as part of a symposium on the book in the journal Historical Materialism, provisionally called, 'Mongols, Ottomans and the Origins of English Capitalism'. This longer version serves as a reference, containing much more detail and elaborated argument. | | |
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