Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 29 Dr Wesley Mair

Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, no. 29 Dr Wesley MairThis issue of Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics explores how universities have always borne the task of questioning, and how the role and status of the university itself has been put into question: the very idea of a university has been open to contestation, revision, and crisis. In todays world, how do universities preserve their capacity for social critique and independent thought when their campuses and research facilities have been both

as the two travel through Japan and through life

I sometimes had difficulty hearing what was said on crowded streets and busy interiors

his wife Tahia wrote a memoir of her beloved husband

communism and regional integration

and combatants

World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century

A detailed social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War

Technological change has affected the function of art

The chapter looks ahead to future trends and developments in this area

“The Mahatma Misunderstood” is a study of the fiction about Gandhi produced in his lifetime

Discusses several case studies where the ideas of conceptual authenticity

providing a number of field studies from Africa