This article examines embodied learning among visually impaired (VI) students attending residential Schools for the Blind in Odisha, India. Grounding in patchwork ethnographic fieldwork across three institutions, the School for the Blind at Banpur NAC, Bhima Bhoi School for the Blind, and Louis Braille School for the Blind in Bhubaneswar, the study challenges the ocularcentrist assumption that...
The book ‘Meditation and Way of Life: Mantras and Texts from the Work of Rudolf Steiner’ is a new compilation offering a selection of the thoughts of Dr Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925), the Austrian New Age guru who was the most prolific philosopher of the past century. The book is recommended as a taster for Steiner newbies, as a refresher for Steiner devotees, and as a gift for the curious. The...
Social acceleration is not an accidental feature of contemporary societies but the organizing principle of a modernity that must continuously increase its rates of production, change, and innovation in order to sustain its own conditions of existence. This article examines whether qualitatively different temporalities can be produced within this structure, allowing for a relationship with time...
In his book, African Religions and Philosophy, Professor John S. Mbiti boldly affirms that in Africa people die only in body and not in spirit. In making such a generalized claim about Africans and their notions of death and the afterlife Mbiti appears to suggest the implication that in Africa people die only to continue living, everything being equal, as ancestors or members of the...