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beginning in 2019. The first six-month semester of the curriculum, called Foundations in Social Medicine, includes courses in critical thinking and communication, African history and global political economy ... philosophy may work against or eclipse indigenous understandings of humanity, limiting rather than opening students’ minds to new ideas (Kaya and Seleti 2013). Additionally, in resourcelimited settings (in
disciplinary grounding in philosophy and my experience engaging with the autistic adults I have met through my research. Overall, I try to approach disability as an expected part of everyone’s lives while ... class thinks it is normal to wear bowties and go around talking about philosophy (referring, of course, to myself). The point is that normal is not the same as good or worthwhile. Not everyone wants to
Political sociologists have typically studied the state as a self-enclosed institution hovering above civil society. In this formulation, the state is rendered as omniscient, gazing out over a ... actors become visible in the first place. We advocate a relational political ethnography that views the state and civil society as inextricably intertwined and mutually co-constitutive. People's
office due to felony disenfranchisement laws. Thus, habitual offender laws target a formally disenfranchised group—people with felony convictions. That creates an archetypal political process problem. As ... he should raise that concern in the political arena, not the courts, and cast his vote accordingly. The problem for Brooker, and the one that animates this Article, is that he cannot vote. Because of
could prevent hate crimes from occurring in the first place. Those measures potentially include educational initiatives, conflict resolution programs, political reforms, social services, or other ... , political reforms, social services, or other proactive efforts aimed at the root causes of hate crimes. Focusing on the public conversation around anti-Asian hate crimes, this Essay argues that very
-Asian hate crimes are motivated as much by the origins of COVID-19 in China as by the political, economic, and technological variables that have shaped modern China. ... engaged in stiff economic and political rivalries, culminating in rising trade tensions from 2012 to 2019. In fact, long before the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, the US had branded China a currency manipulator
The purpose of this article is to discuss an ethnography of code, specifically code ethnography, a method for examining code as a socio-technical actor, considering its social, political, and ... infrastructure hitherto unknown in the context of the political economy of the internet. Code ethnography is explained in terms of code assemblage, code literacy, and code materiality. It demonstrates the grammar
Ellis write, “Often, research projects begin with events that turn us—our thinking, feelings, sense of self and the world—and others—our friends and families, members of our social, political, and ... finding ways to articulate that experience authentically, the use of autotheory, a term which “refers to the integration of theory and philosophy with autobiography, the body, and other so-called objective
popular and political will to pass the reforms must extend beyond the passage of the law and must also create mechanisms to scrutinize, guide, and support the judiciary’s implementation of the law. ... . Although these reforms were democratic and popular, judges were not sufficiently incentivized to properly implement the changes. If reforms are to succeed, the popular and political will to pass the reforms
history and philosophy of psychology, psychiatry, and mental health studies will recognize that the brain disorders debate is not an isolated event. It is more like a contemporary outbreak of a conflict ... (literature, philosophy, history, the arts, etc.), which focus on interpretive understanding? Although the question is easy to ask, finding consensus on an answer has proven to be impossible for over 100 years
Criminology by an authorized editor of Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons - THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ENTRAPMENT RICHARD H. MCADAMS* INTRODUCTION By the time she was eighteen, Amy ... consider and critique the literature that seeks to justify the defense based on retributive theory, utilitarian theory, and political/institutional concerns. In each case, I do not claim that there is no
, INEQUALITY 247–48 (1993); G.A. Cohen, How to do Political Philosophy, in ON THE CURRENCY OF EGALITARIAN JUSTICE, AND OTHER ESSAYS IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 228–29 (Michael Otsuka ed., 2011). to be punished.162 ... grateful to participants at the Stanford Law and Philosophy workshop for feedback on an early draft of this paper. And I owe special thanks to Juliana Bidadanure, Jessica Eaglin, James Forman Jr., Aziz Huq
students from the natural sciences into disciplines, including literature, history, and philosophy, that they might not seek out as general electives. Beginnings As leaders of F&M’s Humanities Initiative ... intersection of the arts and peacebuilding. As someone invested in artistic peacebuilding and conflict transformation, I see strategic leadership and the transformation of political challenges as work that
is (prima facie) wrongful because it puts wrongful pressure on [the target’s] freedom to do otherwise.”); Mitchell Berman, Blackmail, in THE OXFORD HANDBOOK ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE CRIMINAL LAW 37, 62 ... personal or social characteristics such as psychological or emotional vulnerability, economic hardship, lack of a social safety net, and experience of natural disasters or political instability.56
scientist and philosopher Benjamin Studebaker examines how ideas from ancient and contemporary philosophy, political theory, and social science can contribute to our thinking about the age-old challenge of ... -driven deaths have historically been highly sensitive to economic volatility, political instability, and rising psychosocial stress. In the 1990s, after the fall of the Soviet Union and the rapid
Northwestern University School of Law Scholarly Commons Part of the Criminal Law Commons; Criminology Commons; and the Criminology and Criminal - AFTERWORD TO "LUNATICS AND ANARCHISTS: POLITICAL HOMICIDE IN
. The ontological turn (even in psychoanalysis and philosophy) seems to have passed Lear by. Neither political, economic, or social complexities of the ethical are presented. There are no real human ... her uncle, the political leader of Thebes, that she may not bury her brother (as is cultural custom required of her) on account of his political aggression against the state. Lincoln at Gettysburg, Lear
our current vantage point, considering the intense political polarization around vaccines and around therapies that became part of the story of the COVID-19 pandemic, we can acknowledge the historical ... History Specialist, Kansas City Public Library; Alex Welborn, Head Archivist, Department of History and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center; and the reference staff of the Missouri
for reform that contemporary US sex education regularly and rightly receives. For all of their importance, political debates over sex education in schools (Luker 2006) , and political fights for ... , its role as a driver towards online sexual exploration is likely to continue; in democratic political settings, the digital space will continue serving as a primary setting for sexual learning. Unless
