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Legally Affective: Mapping the Emotional Grammar of LGBT Rights in Law School

and beyond. While there is some academic discussion on the personal and political significance of ‘promoting LGBT rights’ within law schools, less considered is how ‘LGBT rights’ are shaped by the ... my emotional experiences as a methodological tool to explore how emotions co-constitute the pedagogical, political, scholarly, and personal registers of LGBT rights as a descriptive, critical, and

Governing Through Ignorance: Swedish Authorities’ Treatment of Detained and Non-deported Migrants during the COVID-19 Pandemic

political irresponsibility for the harmful effects of migration enforcement. A broader aim of the article is to challenge the structural, societal and epistemic ignorance of the conditions for detained and ... continued to detain, deport, and render non-deported migrants destitute. Meanwhile, the effects of the pandemic on the legal and social condition of this group have been entirely absent from Swedish political

Pragmatic Features of Prayer

regarding the motivation for studying this topic as well as the approaches and underlying assumptions in key definitions (Downes, 2018) . Whereas other approaches from philosophy and the like describe ... , K. , & Staudigl , M. ( 2017 ). A Schutzian Analysis of Prayer with Perspectives from Linguistic Philosophy . Human Studies , 40 ( 4 ), 543 - 563 . Jingwei , T. ( 2013 ). Pragmatic functions of hedges

"A Guiding Star to the Youth of Every Land": Analyzing E. D. E. N. Southworth's Depiction of the 19th Century Ideal Man in Ishmael

“stylistic intricacy, psychological subtlety, [or] epistemological complexity,” but “as a political enterprise, halfway between sermon and social theory, that both codifies and attempts to mold the value of ... to factories (Pearcey 329-330). Pearcey argues that this shift to industrialization “fostered an economic philosophy of atomistic individualism” as men challenged one another for better wages and

Beyond Women’s Voices: Towards a Victim-Survivor-Centred Theory of Listening in Law Reform on Violence Against Women

Australia is witnessing a political, social and cultural renaissance of public debate regarding violence against women, particularly in relation to domestic and family violence (DFV), sexual assault ... feminism, and now in the digital era, women’s voices have challenged cultures of violence and sexual harassment. Drawing on the feminist precept that "the “personal is political”, women’s storytelling is

Language as a Bridge to the Soul: The Role of the Urban, Multilingual, Literate Amazigh Woman and Tarifit in Preserving Amazigh Ethnic Identity in the Rif

: Darijah (Dialectal Moroccan Arabic) and Tamazight (Berber languages) (Marley, 2004) . Literate Arabic grew in prestige in political, administrative, legal, religious, and media spheres. A combination of ... efforts in the 1970s, many scholars questioned whether the seemingly isolated and disconnected Berbers would ever be able to form a significant political force in the unstable political climate of

Gendered Childhoods, Linear Sex Development and Unruly Temporalities

article takes place at an important moment in the political construction of sex and gender. There has been a growing political and social debate around the concept of ‘sex-based rights’ or ‘gender critical ... the experiences of gender diverse children. In order to do so we utilise temporality as a theoretical lens to reveal how the social and political constructions of sex and gender in ‘sex-based rights

Transgender EU Citizens and the Limited Form of Union Citizenship available to them

): 332 - 344 . Lippert-Rasmussen , Kasper . 2015 . Discrimination: An Intriguing but Underexplored Issue in Ethics and Political Philosophy . Moral Philosophy and Politics 2 ( 2 ): 207 - 217 Mantu , Sandra ... the most articulated and developed part of EU citizenship. Other rights, such as those related to political participation, do not present significant difficulties for transgender EU citizens or, as in

Crafting Prefigurative Law in Turbulent Times: Decertification, DIY Law Reform, and the Dilemmas of Feminist Prototyping

gender as part of legal personhood (see Cooper and Renz 2016) —as a ‘prefigurative law reform’ proposal. Prefiguration is understood in different ways in political and academic debate (see Monticelli ... 2022). Typically, it refers to socio-political practices that reject a means-ends distinction, instead treating political means as ends and ends as means. Prefiguration also refers to the representation

Introduction to Special Issue: Decertifying Legal Sex—Prefigurative Law Reform and the Future of Legal Gender

, the assumption that minorities should be incorporated within existing classificatory structures, with all the political and Vol.:(012134536789) - 1 Our analysis includes laws that relate specifically ... to England and Wales as well as laws which also extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland, e.g., see Ministerial and Other Maternity Allowances Act 2021, s7(1). 2 Political contestation over the terms of

The #metoo Movement in India: Emotions and (in)justice in feminist responses

political and media critique, and an engagement with the present”. Nivedita Menon, a well known Indian feminist thinker and academic, one of the authors of the letter, is also one of the founder members of ... caste groups, who are part of the Varna (caste) within the four main castes (Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya and Shudra), but in contemporary parlance, refers to the dominant caste. Dalit is a political term

Antimicrobial Stewardship: Philosophy Versus Practice

measuring the impact of these programs. PHILOSOPHY: CURRENT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR METRICS OF ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP PROGRAMS A policy statement from SHEA, IDSA, and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society

Eisenhower: From “Do-Nothing” to “Did-Everything”

domestic political legacies, display that he was intimately involved in every aspect of his presidency. The evidence strips Eisenhower of the “do-nothing” label and proves him to be a president who “did ... Eisenhower Administration 1953-1961: A Documentary History, which dives into the political philosophy and leadership style of Eisenhower as President. Robert Branyan and Lawrence Larson, the editors, work to

Afterword

be unavailable. Sex/gender is therefore not only legally inscribed, but emergent from and interwoven with socio-cultural and political norms and expectations. But, second, sex/ gender also does not ... , Systems Theory, and Multiple Intersecting Inequalities. Philosophy of the Social Sciences 37 : 449 - 470 .

Networked Struggles: Placards at Pakistan’s Aurat March

conservative religious and political segments of society for reasons relating to propriety. This commentary explores how placards predominantly form the object of censure in the movement’s backlash. By ... annual event organised in various cities across Pakistan to observe International Women's Day. Since its inception in 2018, the March has been condemned by conservative religious and political segments of

‘Is this a Time of Beautiful Chaos?’: Reflecting on International Feminist Legal Methods

theoretical tools and explicit temporality in navigating this tension. Finally, I depart from Radin to centre ideal thinking in my argument; I turn to conceptual debates within political philosophy to ... . Questions surrounding ideal theorising, in tandem with nonideal feasibility constraints, have been a recurring focus in political philosophy (see Rawls [1971] 1999, 216; Sen 2006; Cohen 2008) . Considering

Being Right-With: On Human Rights Law as Unfreedom

arrived at a wrong decision in convicting the appellant of cyber harassment; and (ii) that the decision to prosecute Nyanzi was unlawful because it infringed on her political speech rights under the right ... detail later under my discussion of “freedom of expression”. But by way of introduction, a brief interrogation of Stella Nyanzi’s political speech which led to these charges and trials is necessary. Nyanzi

Seeking Justice and Redress for Victim-Survivors of Image-Based Sexual Abuse

Despite apparent political concern and action—often fuelled by high-profile cases and campaigns—legislative and institutional responses to image-based sexual abuse in the UK have been ad hoc ... happening, and how to restrict and respond to its harms (Haynes 2018; Nigam 2018; Flynn and Henry 2019) . In the UK, despite apparent political concern and action—often fuelled by high-profile cases and

The Art of Waiting Humbly: Women Judges Reflect on Vertical Gender Segregation

nature of gender and the systematic nature of patriarchy ( Havelková 2017 ). Thus, the post-1989 economic and political transition and transformation began with the inherited laws and policies that were ... . American Journal of Political Science 63 ( 1 ): 113 - 129 . Crouch , Melissa. 2021 . Women and the Judiciary in the Asia-Pacific . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Cukrowska-Torzewska , Ewa, and Anna

“We’re not there yet” but it’s not “pie-in-the-sky”: Legal Consciousness, Decertification and the Equality Sector in England and Wales

legal consciousness of people engaged in the governmental and administrative work of interpreting and applying law on the ground, including the political challenges of governing in the face of disliked ... Taylor 2020) and the political opportunity structure discussed by social movement theorists (see, e.g., McAdam et  al 1996; McCann 2006; Meyer 2004; Meyer and Minkoff 2004) . Whilst beyond the scope of