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proven difficult to articulate a definition of domestic terrorism that does not implicate the right to political protest.25 The right to protest is critical to a functioning democracy26 — but so too is the ... ability to live free from a persistent threat of violence.27 It is thus difficult to express when, exactly, we should label an act that is meant to create political pressure as an act of terrorism. This
to examine the multiple identities of Black women and how such identities determine their representation in socio-cultural and political spaces. The findings from this study show that agency is a major ... ., 2019) . Lightfoot eventually emerged as the winner. Lori Lightfoot’s Black woman identity sets a new tone for the city’s political climate as well as the Black community. It showed a vigorous attempt to
This Comment argues that the death penalty is inconsistent with underlying principles of American democracy and is thus illegitimate as a matter of political philosophy, despite its conceded ... concludes that the death penalty ought to be rejected as a matter of political philosophy and that permanent abolition cannot be achieved through the traditional courtroom attacks. Lasting repeal of death
individual instructors. HB 7’s overarching objective is to disallow course discussions and assignments on systemic and structural analyses of how race and racism have impacted the social, political, and ... of Florida Historian Paul Ortiz describes faculty compliance with stringent new state laws as an example of the political theory concept of “anticipatory obedience,” saying: “The state doesn’t even
war crimes prosecutions in Ukraine. Second, we live in a time of polarization, both at home and abroad. Cultural and political division is elevated domestically, while the international community ... survey theories of philosophy, psychology, and sociology that show the complexity of social meaning. It argues that this dynamic thus complicates scholarly notions that criminal justice should do
has continued to ground anti-trans* activism in the United States. Gender Affirming Healthcare-as-Sterilizing: A Slippery Slope Broader cultural and political discourses around gender and sex/uality ... with trans* identities, but KP-0401 takes one step further to implicate not just youth, but their parents, into this “drift” and the negative affects it contains (p. 65). The political/social/legal
). 2. See, e.g., David Alan Sklansky, The Changing Political Landscape for Elected Prosecutors, 14 OHIO ST. J. CRIM. L. 647, 647–49 (2017); Bruce A. Green & Rebecca Roiphe, When Prosecutors Politick ... and political functions.10 Drawing on the work of cultural theorist Stuart Hall and criminologist Jonathan Simon, I argue that criminal law and prosecution have come to operate as primary sites of
This paper examines the political nature of library leadership and acknowledges consistent problems within the management and leadership literature. The political nature of leadership is offered as ... ), 347-370. temporary political philosophy: An anthology. Edited Wolin, S S. (2004). Politics and vision: Continuity and inby Goodin, R.E., & Pettit, P. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. novation in western political
This paper will discuss lobbying and political advocacy within librarianship and present findings from an exploratory study of state library associations. Each state has a library association that ... and Social Research 1 This Peer Reviewed is brought to you for free and open access by Washington University Open Scholarship. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Political Librarian by an
John Chrastka, Executive Director of EveryLibrary, discusses recent political attacks on libraries and the implications of the current political climate for library campaigns. ... Plainfield Library District. The library board asked economic philosophy or a Tea Party campaign has voters in their growing Chicago ex-burb to consider a targeted libraries as shrinkable units of government
This article draws some general connections between privatization and political accountability. Although the main focus of the article is to examine different types of privatization, specifically ... connections between privatization and political accountability. Political accountability is to be understood as the amenability of a government policy or activity to monitoring through the political process
. L.J. 91 (2017). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj/vol44/iss1/4 - Article 4 Follow this and additional works at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/ulj THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF CITY POWER ... revealed both the entrenched inequities in America’s basic infrastructure and the striking limits of the electoral, economic, and political power of residents living in struggling municipalities.7 This lack
opposed to a direct housing provider. Thus, there was a “steady disinvestment, both literal and political, from the commitment to provide safe, decent, and affordable housing through public ownership.” 62 ... During that era, many families that could leave public housing did. As Richard Rothstein noted, “[t]he loss of middle-class tenants also removed a constituency that had possessed the political strength to
draft will heavily influence public opinion against the draft. Historical perception is a political reality that policymakers must recognize. Public opinion has not always been against conscription. The
use their discretionary law enforcement authority selectively, not only to channel benefits to specialinterest groups in return for political support, l2 but also to quash dissent by harassing members
these analyses. The U.S. criminal legal system is in the midst of a deep reckoning as scholars, policymakers and activists across the political spectrum question the efficacy and equity of American ... . at 798 (quoting H. L. A. HART, Punishment and the Elimination of Responsibility, in PUNISHMENT AND RESPONSIBILITY: ESSAYS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF LAW 158, 162 (1968)) (holding that the Eighth Amendment
Act and state-led electricity decarbonization, may reduce the costs to building owners of lowering building emissions, and therefore increase the political and economic viability of New York City’s ... building mandates. In sum, the history of New York City’s decarbonization efforts emphasizes the potential for local action to address climate change and the difficult political economy of such action
different points on the political spectrum and different places on the American map. This Essay develops these descriptive claims and considers their normative implications. A more partisan politics of ... prosecution could pay dividends in the form of more transparent political tradeoffs, greater public engagement and participation, and enhanced local political agency. But it also carries risks — to societal
., & S. Kahn (Eds.). Activism and rhetoric: Theories and contexts for political engagement (pp. 38-48). Routledge. Pelias, R. J. (2013). Writing autoethnography: The personal, poetic, and performative as ... political engagement (pp. 159 - 172 ). Routledge. https://doi. org/10.4324/9781315144535 Bell , L. A. ( 2019 ). Storytelling for social justice: Connecting narrative and the arts in antiracist teaching (2nd
necessarily defined within the context of history, philosophy, and political theory, one larger than one is ordinarily able to consider as he praises or condemns the decisions of our courts. ... ultimate concern of this Essay is Bork's theoretical chapters, not his historical and political arguments. Section III examines problems that Bork's judicial philosophy raises from the perspectives of