... And for the most part, the initiators of totalitarian rule pursued their aims in the name of some grand moral imperative – the Aryan domination ofthe sub-human races ofthe world or the Wnal ... to political agents on the basis ofthe perceived merits ofthe values and ends they serve and of their practical Wdelity in pursuing them It is only thus that the breed of ‘‘scurvy politicians’’ ... themselves, at the very least in the eyes of their supporters, as legitimate interests, arguing not just the contingent existence of their desires but the rightness and justness of their claims...
... in the dominant paradigm of fertility and reproduction, a shift generated by the development ofthe ‘seductive egg’ theory 119 120 C.R Daniels The ‘seductive egg’ theory The ‘seductive egg’ theory ... gender diVerence generated by thepoliticsof fetal risks, and the problematic nature ofthe idea of individual causality in discussions of fetal harm Social constructions of maternity and paternity ... from virtually all ofthe news stories on fetal health and addiction The absence of fathers in news reports of crack babies was made easier to believe by the racial subtext ofthe story: African–American...
... the large majority of other states that voted to adopt the Rome Statute ofthe Court, in particular the role ofthe Security Council, the powers ofthe prosecutor, the questions of jurisdiction ... terrorism’, the intervention in East Timor, the treatment of refugees, the expansion ofthe European Union, and the creation ofthe International Criminal Court In each of these cases the political ... view of ‘law as process’,15 Wheeler shows the limits ofthe ‘law as rules’ approach and the value ofthe proposition that communicative dynamics shape the possibilities ofpolitics Although the...
... suggest the critical significance ofthepoliticsof healing to the general politicsof democracy.15 ThePoliticsof Healing contains five parts The first, “Precursors: The Years in the Wilderness,” ... States was the establishment ofthe Office of Alternative Medicine (OAM) within the National Institutes of Health The two legislators with the greatest responsibility for the growth of this office, ... matter ofpolitics These essays therefore represent a purposeful step beyond the traditional boundaries within the historical profession that have separated the study of medicine and the study of the...
... account ofthe varieties of institutional form and the nature ofthe policy area, but the unique features ofthe American system compound the problem and beg the question ofthe significance ofthe ... interests they represent Whatever their methods, lawyers undermine the objectives of regulation 12 INTRODUCTION Lawyers and the complexity of regulatory politicsThe assertion that any body of writing, ... struggles and the roles of lawyers may adapt to the setting; at another level, the meaning ofthe law” in practice reflects the meanings brought into regulatory spheres through the practices of interested...
... detail the policies of aid selectivity adopted by the World Bank, the Netherlands and the United States since the end ofthe 1990s The main assumptions underlying the policies, as well as the key ... In economic theory, the increasing prominence ofthe new institutional economics and the emphasis of information for the functioning of markets has led to a rethinking ofthe role ofthe market ... implementation ofthe CPIA During the negotiations on IDA12 (1999–2002), a major overhaul ofthe CPR system was undertaken This resulted in the replacement ofthe CPR by the CPIA and the removal of the...
... crises ofthe future – always different from past events – only if they learn from the variety of experiences they themselves and other leaders have had in other types of crisis 1.3 The ubiquity of ... within the organizations that are responsible for preventing the disasters they encounter.14 But the policy makers at the top of these organizations just cannot put together the pieces ofthe crisis ... surprisingly long period of time On the eve ofthe German invasion of Holland, in the spring of 1940, Dutch politicians reassured their anxious people that the Netherlands would escape the war threat Dutch...
... a new risk politics; on the other it may exacerbate the risk management of everything The example ofthe UK General Medical Council (GMC) is instructive The official inquiry into the serial murders ... regulation; the invention ofthe category of ‘operational’ risk to name a diverse basket of threats to organisations; the emergence ofthe category of reputational (and ethical) risk and the manner ... rather than being in the hands ofthe gods.13 As part of a politicsof uncertainty, publics of varying kinds demand decisions and the right to hold decision-makers to account In this view, the...
... economically, so they can take the benefit of increased economic efficiency in the form of more free time for their families and their own interests, rather than in the form of more consumer goods of dubious ... cause the economic boom ofthe 1960s, and together with Lyndon Johnson’s large deficits, they helped cause the inflation ofthe late 1960s During the 1970s, the inflation already built into the ... schooling than the average ofthe other industrial nations, but we have lower achievement than the average ofthe other industrial nations Many studies have shown the same thing, beginning with the largescale...
... is on thepoliticsof language and the way these operate in the Spanish-speaking world Grillo (1989:7–21) gives an excellent summary of current definitions ofthe field ofthepoliticsof language ... of intellectuals, usually linked together under the name ofthe ‘98 Generation, were prominent in their questioning ofthe fate of Spain, critical of her inability to throw off the failings of ... the case of Quechua in the Incan empire ofthe Andean region, or Nahuatl ofthe Aztec empire through parts of Mexico Other major indigenous languages being used at the time ofthe conquest, often...
... practices ofthe street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects ofthe state In the representation ofcrimethe discursive alliance between the ... ofthe innate ability of early jazz musicians Because of these writers’ lack of understanding ofthe mechanics of music, they thought there weren’t any mechanics It is the ‘they all can sing, they ... television is on the occupational hazards (or glories) ofthe legal profession, the character defects of individual criminals, or the fetishization ofthe technical machinations ofthe criminal justice...
... Taken together, the results of these studies paint a rich picture ofthe general and the specific, the common and the uncommon, for better understanding the dynamics of decentralization in the forestry ... findings on: the implementation of decentralization; 18 ThePoliticsof Decentralization the role of forestry within the broader political context and the importance of cross-sectoral linkages; the importance ... reluctantly ThePoliticsof Decentralization conclude that they need the help ofthe government; and the authors ofthe Guatemalan case present conflict-ridden scenarios with the potential for...
... “mistrustful ofthe whole idea of a ‘general theory’ of employment, of money, of economic enterprise, or of any one ofthe significant segments ofthe economic process and still more ofthe idea that there ... for the underdevelopment ofthe relationship between policy and theory was the striking lack of interest in theory per se on the part of key CEA figures and, less surprising, on the part ofthe ... economic theory and by the experiences ofthe 1930s The second NRPB report, on the other hand, entitled National Resources Development, reflected the experience of wartime mobilization Its view of the...
... sight ofthe human face ofthe NGO sphere, the individuals who populate it, or their stories The problem with existing models of civil society, and with many critiques of these models, is that they ... and learning about the lives of women in different parts ofthe world Their commitment to social change and their insights into the effects of socialist collapse on the lives of everyday people ... in the sense that they are used in the Ukrainian lexicon (in of cialese, at least), but they also reflect the influence of processes of globalization on Ukrainian social reforms, especially the...
... another For, when they gathered together libels and anti-courtly love poems, they likewise forced these two kinds ofpolitics together One could say that the authors of libels did as much on their ... Shakespeare’s sonnets, they turned The Anagram’ into a central example of a genre that they were fashioning themselves 11 The Donne Variorum editors record 62 copies ofThe Anagram,’ 63 ofThe Bracelet,’ ... regarding their access to texts; their tastes; their working deWnitions of literary genres, or lack thereof; and their perspectives on recent politics Without necessarily realizing the ramiWcations of...
... yet, there have been numerous struggles over it: Can the claims of adult survivors, the testimony of children, or the denials of those accused of offenses be believed? What is the nature of memory? ... contradictions ofpolitics on the ground, and to take seriously the aims and understandings ofthe activists involved in these social changes (Apostolidis 2008: 546) Therapeutic Politics and the Therapeutic ... We see the use ofthe term “rape” to describe assaults, regardless ofthe age ofthe victim A lengthy article in the Seattle feminist newspaper Pandora in 1974 provides another example ofthe equation...
... in much of African political rhetoric, but instead to recognize that the symbols politicians employ is the surface rather than the essence ofpolitics (Szeftel 2000b) The corollary of these analyses ... in the name of development or in the name ofthe poor, they face the same criticisms as past colonial rulers: they cannot claim to be representatives of recipient country populations and they ... they have the right to dictate, in practice, the terms of use of that aid, which is done according to their own interests, irrespective ofthe views ofthe recipient Thus, in some cases, the priorities...
... 1990) suggests ThePoliticsof Tolerance 23 that the answer is “no.” Given the record of results, I nevertheless advance the argument that the religion/religiosity of individuals in the contemporary ... integration ofthe values of liberal democracy with the experience of religion and religiosity within America in the twenty-first century Chapter ThePoliticsof Tolerance h America has from the beginning ... by revulsion with the corruptions of a contemporary society —Michael Kazin, ThePoliticsof Devotion” in The Nation, April 6, 1998 The more things change the more they remain the same In every...
... farmers ofthe benefits of abandoning forest pasturing in favour of cultivating fodder for dairy animals Small-scale farming was seen as a challenge to the creation ofthe welfare state, as the profit ... saving the breed, which was by then close to extinction The rapid development of new technologies was another important factor in the rationalisation of agriculture For example, the expansion of ... raised in southern Sweden In the very first summer, the cattle herd was pastured in the forest, they started what the farmer called a kindergarten all by themselves Every day the cattle gathered before...
... privileged food The irony is that women are better off nutritionally than men and that there are many ways that women can deny men food as they are in control ofthe distribution of food within the household ... and as a decline of Samburu culture All Samburu also link these foods and new ways of eating to the drastic reduction in livestock holdings in the last decades Another example of change is beer ... new, but the cultural constructions of it are more nuanced and detailed than in other studies of pastoral food Food here is explained through a certain set of postmodern theories, and at the same...