... 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’’ ... dilemma ofthe salesman mentioned above But what must be the nature ofthe ends that thus give rise to moral capital? ‘ Politics is the pursuit of ends; decent politics is the pursuit of decent...
... 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 ... from politics for fear that the intrusion ofpolitics would undermine the distinctive character of law as an impartial system of rules From both sides ofthe divide, therefore, international politics ... 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...
... 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 Thetwo 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 ... lawyers, with everything that implies for the role of law, construct thepoliticsofthe administrative process? These questions lie at the intersection oftwo key themes featured in debates about contemporary ... and empirical research The fields that it covers are: studiesof law in action; the sociology of law; the anthropology of law; cultural studiesof law, including the role of legal discourses in...
... 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 ... evaluation ofthe policy theory that was used during thetwo phases of aid selectivity, the methodology that was applied in the selection ofthe 22 preferential and 36 partner countries, and the implementation...
... 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...
... rather than being in the hands ofthe gods.13 As partof a politicsof uncertainty, publics of varying kinds demand decisions and the right to hold decision-makers to account In this view, the ... 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...
... 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 ... 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...
... came the rise ofthe use ofthe vernacular as the language of power in an increasingly secularised society (Anderson, 1992) The rise ofthe role ofthe vernacular was strengthened by the spread 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 ... Chapter synthesises the work of some ofthe major writers on the study of nationalism, highlighting in particular the importance ofthe nationalist xi movements in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth...
... 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 ... practices ofthe street, these culture workers seek to articulate their experience of themselves as racial(ized) subjects ofthe state In the representation of crime the discursive alliance between the ... and thepolitics that enable it, the jazz left I use the concept ofthe jazz left in two ways: (1) to describe jazz styles and approaches that remain to the left (and therefore often on the margins)...
... 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 ... parts The first, focusing on thematic issues, raises important cross-cutting questions The second part offers case studies that convey some ofthe breadth of experience of individual countries The...
... “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 thepartof key CEA figures and, less surprising, on thepartofthe ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... injury, when the women registered at the unemployment bureau, they had been subjected to a demeaning IQ test At the root of these testing procedures, they believed, was the stereotype of women with...
... cultural politics and considers their relationship to one another For, when they gathered together libels and anti-courtly love poems, they likewise forced these two kinds ofpolitics together One ... greet her with a pleasant song of Coridon and Phyllida, made in three parts of purpose The song, as well for the worth ofthe Dittie, as for the aptnes ofthe note thereto applied, it pleased her ... construction and perception of court scandals.28 Literary critics, on the other hand, have opened up their working notion ofpolitics even more, by positing thepoliticsof a range of cultural phenomena...
... 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 ... attempt to judge the veracity of any individuals’ accounts of their own experiences of abuse, nor of accused individuals’ accounts of their own innocence Organization ofthe Book The book is organized...
... Professor and currently Head ofthe Department of Political and Administrative Studies at the University of Botswana Before taking up the appointment in Botswana, he worked at the University of ... providing the context in which to situate the country studies as well as explaining the methodological approach adopted for them The second partofthe book presents the experiences of eight countries ... 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...
... 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 ... cannot be subject to the actions ofthe legislature Thomas Jefferson’s “wall of separation” was now a partof constitutional jurisprudence and the metaphor was now partofthe American lexicon ... 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...
... mountainous or marginal areas of central and northern Sweden They are especially concentrated to the more mountainous northern parts of Dalarna County and to the western Page of 18 Eriksson Pastoralism: ... 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...
... 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 ... new, but the cultural constructions of it are more nuanced and detailed than in other studiesof pastoral food Food here is explained through a certain set of postmodern theories, and at the same ... 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...