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Neither land nor sea
Nature & Environment

Neither land nor sea

...Human beings are as much a part of this environment and landscape as are the sea and the mountains. This Learning Journey explores the multiple interrelationships between the coast and the people of the archipelago. It does this through supporting text, images and other materials. It focuses on the residents of one small island, Nain Pulau (Nain Island), providing some...
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Activity 6 hrs
Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?
History & The Arts

Is Anthropology of Religion Racist?

...humanity’s earliest ancestors. As throwbacks to the stone age, their religious practices indicated patterns of thought and cognition that, according to the white, European standards of the day, were irrational and fatally enmeshed in “primitive” and mystical causalities. The origins of religion lay, according to these anthropologists and sociologists, in these...
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Article 10 mins
Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds
Society, Politics & Law

Syria, Spitsbergen and Seeds

...human world of science and politics, and the non-human world of material objects and other living things like plants, in a way that only a subject like Geography can do. So we start in Syria, a place which has been the site of intense armed conflict and political and social instability. The immediate human cost of war is something we often see in the news. But far less...
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Audio 5 mins
Rights and justice in international relations
Society, Politics & Law

Rights and justice in international relations

...human rights be applied across borders or are rights culturally specific? Is it realistic, or even desirable, to aim at an international system based on universal principles of justice? This free course, Rights and justice in international relations, takes a critical view of the assumption that 'rights are a good thing' and looks at the problems that arise when they are...
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Level 3: Advanced 13 hrs
What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?
Health, Sports & Psychology

What is female genital mutilation (FGM)?

...resources on OpenLearn. FGM has also been referred to as female circumcision. However, there is widespread disapproval of this term for likening it to male circumcision and for portraying FGM as a seemingly acceptable, innocuous practice, thus underplaying the illegality and harmful impact and health consequences of FGM. It should be noted that some argue that male...
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Article 5 mins
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...human processes. Then it helps students critique the relative benefits of trying to prevent or respond to the environmental challenge of wildfires in the future...This course explores how environmental and social factors interact to cause wildfires and shows why these interactions need to be considered when preparing for future wildfires. Focusing on the 2007 wildfires in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon
Science, Maths & Technology

Apollo 11’s ‘one small step’ sparked a new rush to reach the Moon

...human endeavour and perseverance...Astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin spent just under 24 hours on the Moon, including more than two hours of field work at the lunar surface. Meanwhile, Michael Collins circled the Moon in the ­command module, perhaps best-positioned to contemplate the meaning of life or our place in the universe. Down at the lunar surface,...
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Article 5 mins
Managing coastal environments
Nature & Environment

Managing coastal environments

...humans. The estuary provides resources that are fished and farmed. It also provides a means of dealing with wastes and pollution: after treatment, sewage is discharged into the estuary. Some radioactive wastes from Bradwell nuclear power station are either stored on site or emitted to sea or air, and other wastes and some toxic materials are disposed of to landfills. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs