Mittels sorgfältig ausgewählter Schlaglichter auf einzelne Film-Aufreger zeichnet Stefan Volk in dem vorliegenden Buch eine cineastische Geschichte des Skandals nach und beleuchtet hierbei die ...Kontexte sowie die gesellschaftlichen und politischen Hintergründe. Eines wird wieder einmal klar: Filme sind, ebenso wie die sie umschwirrenden Skandale, Kinder und Spiegel ihrer Zeit.
•German far-right groups are increasingly aligning themselves with ecological ideas.•Völkisch settlers combine care for nature with xenophobic nationalism.•The (racial) future is a key terrain of ...struggle for this political ideology.•Far-right future-making takes place through an anticipatory and immunological register.•The utopian dimensions of far-right ecological praxis need to be better understood.
Focusing on the resurgence of so-called völkisch (ethno-nationalist) settlements in northern Germany over the past three decades, this paper explores the emergent socio-spatial forms through which nativist and xenophobic responses to the ecological crisis are being expressed. It argues that political ecologies of the future cannot be understood, in the present conjuncture, without taking into account those actors which are working to manifest the future in explicitly racialised and immunitary forms. After providing an overview of the development of völkisch movements and ideologies since the 19th century, I introduce contemporary actors and organisations which are attempting to reconfigure the climate crisis as a matter of right-wing concern. These strategies position Nature as a signifier that stitches together far-right concerns about the infiltration of the German Volk and landscape by racialised threats, facilitating a form of ecological praxis through rural settlement projects that is heavily centred around a homogenous and naturalised notion of German identity. Rather than an outright denial of the impending urgency of the climate crisis, I argue that völkisch discourses represent a different, and arguably more dangerous response to the spectre of ecological disorder, and one which works in an immunological and anticipatory register. The affective intensity of these imaginaries and strategies also demonstrate that the terrains of hope, possibility, and even utopia increasingly hold the potential to be claimed by the violent and exclusivist ideologies of the far-right. No mere harbinger of ‘things to come’, völkisch strategies represent a mode of responding to the climate crisis in the present, and of prefiguring an ethno-nationalist ‘solution’ which must be taken seriously by activists and scholars.
Purpose of Review
Climate change is causing warming over most parts of the USA and more extreme weather events. The health impacts of these changes are not experienced equally. We synthesize the ...recent evidence that climatic changes linked to global warming are having a disparate impact on the health of people of color, including children.
Recent Findings
Multiple studies of heat, extreme cold, hurricanes, flooding, and wildfires find evidence that people of color, including Black, Latinx, Native American, Pacific Islander, and Asian communities are at higher risk of climate-related health impacts than Whites, although this is not always the case. Studies of adults have found evidence of racial disparities related to climatic changes with respect to mortality, respiratory and cardiovascular disease, mental health, and heat-related illness. Children are particularly vulnerable to the health impacts of climate change, and infants and children of color have experienced adverse perinatal outcomes, occupational heat stress, and increases in emergency department visits associated with extreme weather.
Summary
The evidence strongly suggests climate change is an environmental injustice that is likely to exacerbate existing racial disparities across a broad range of health outcomes.
Originally published in 1969. The proverb vox populi, vox Dei first appeared in a work by Alcuin (ca. 798), who wrote that "the people are to be led, not followed. Nor are those to be listened to ...who are accustomed to say, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God.'" Tracing the changing meaning of the saying through European history, George Boas finds that "the people" are not an easily identifiable group. For many centuries the butt of jokes and the substance of comic relief in serious drama, the people became in time an object of pity and, later, of aesthetic appeal. Popular opinion, despised in ancient Rome, was something sought, after the French Revolution. The first essay documents the use of the titular proverb through the eighteenth century. In the next six essays, Boas attempts to determine who the people were and how writers and philosophers have regarded them throughout history. He also examines the people as the creators of literature, art, and music, and as the subject of others' artistic representations. In a final essay, he discusses egalitarianism, which has given a voice to the common person. Animating Boas's account is his own belief in the importance of the individual's voice—as opposed to the voice of the masses, which is by no means necessarily that of God or reason.
Gesellschaftskritik von rechts hat Konjunktur: Rechtspopulistische Parteien und Bewegungen erklären sich derzeit in vielen Staaten zum Sprachrohr (angeblich) unterdrückter Meinungen. Nicht erst seit ...der Covid-19-Pandemie ist das Internet dabei zentraler Schauplatz der Auseinandersetzungen. Der These folgend, dass rechtsextreme Narrative inzwischen auch in gesamtgesellschaftlichen Debatten ausgemacht werden können, haben wir Videos der Social-Media-Plattform YouTube auf diese Narrative analysiert. Gemeinsamen Bezug bilden die jüngsten Ereignisse um die Regulierung von Abtreibung in Polen, wo im Oktober 2020 das geltende Abtreibungsrecht für verfassungswidrig erklärt wurde, und Argentinien, dessen Regierung Abtreibung am 30. Dezember 2020 legalisierte. Während im analysierten Diskursausschnitt Frauenrechte und eine liberale Abtreibungspolitik oft positive Bewertung finden, bieten diese Themen auch Anlass hitziger Debatten, die häufig in Beleidigung, Herabwürdigung oder Hass umschlagen. Sexismus, Misogynie und vor allem Antifeminismus können dabei als besonders geeignete Anknüpfungspunkte für rechtsextreme Inhalte identifiziert werden.
Purpose of Review
Endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) exposure during pregnancy is linked to adverse maternal and child health outcomes that are racially/ethnically disparate. Personal care products ...(PCP) are one source of EDCs where differences in racial/ethnic patterns of use exist. We assessed the literature for racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy and prenatal PCP chemical exposures.
Recent Findings
Only 3 studies explicitly examined racial/ethnic disparities in pregnancy and prenatal exposure to PCP-associated EDCs. Fifty-three articles from 12 cohorts presented EDC concentrations stratified by race/ethnicity or among homogenous US minority populations. Studies reported on phthalates and phenols. Higher phthalate metabolites and paraben concentrations were observed for pregnant non-Hispanic Black and Hispanic women. Higher concentrations of benzophenone-3 were observed in non-Hispanic White women; results were inconsistent for triclosan.
Summary
This review highlights need for future research examining pregnancy and prenatal PCP-associated EDCs disparities to understand and reduce racial/ethnic disparities in maternal and child health.
Decolonizing social work Gray, Mel; Coates, John; Yellow Bird, Michael ...
2013., 2013, 20160513, 2016-05-13, 2016-05-18, 2013-02-20
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In this volume, Indigenous and non-Indigenous social work scholars examine local cultures, beliefs, values, and practices as central to decolonization. Supported by a growing interest in spirituality ...and ecological awareness in international social work, they interrogate trends, issues, and debates in Indigenous social work theory, practice methods, and education models including a section on Indigenous research approaches.
At the very beginning of cosmonautics, Ukraine distinguished itself as a space state. In the field of space conquest, we had significant achievements: the Ukrainian was in outer space, the Ukrainians ...participated in international programs, produced space transport. Among the astronauts of the USSR, many who were born in Ukraine and made a significant contribution to the development of the world astronautics. Such personalities include the 58th cosmonaut of the USSR, the 143rd cosmonaut of the world, the Hero of the Soviet Union, test pilot Igor Petrovich Volk. The article provides some historiographical information and notes the small number of such studies on the personality of the astronaut. It is stated that materials of a journalistic and popular science character prevail among scientific achievements. In the article, the authors detail the life path of a prominent astronaut. I. Volk studied flight business in Ukraine - graduated from Kirovograd military aviation school of aviation pilots. His activity began in 1965, and from May 1965 to 2001 he worked at the MM Gromov Flight Research Institute. Igor Volk has devoted many years of his life to trial work in the sky. He had the knowledge and experience to test the corkscrew of almost all types of aircraft that were in the USSR at the time. The authors emphasized that it was he who, during the execution of the "corkscrew program" on the Su-27 aircraft, first performed the so-called dynamic braking - "put the aircraft on its tail." This aerobatic maneuver is now known as the Pugachov Cobra. Igor Volk tested in the atmosphere a prototype of the Soviet multiple spacecraft fighter. This project was defeated, but later another project was developed - Buran, the commander of which was appointed Igor Volk. As part of the development of this project from July 17th to 29th, 1984, Igor Volk made a space flight as a cosmonaut-researcher for the Soyuz T-12. Immediately after returning from flight to Earth, an experiment was conducted to control the Tu-154LL and MiG-25LL aircraft, which were approximated by the aerodynamic parameters to the "Buran". It was noted that he was at the helm of the aircraft immediately after the flight - none of the astronauts in the world did a similar task. This experiment was strictly classified. The world knew about the successful experiment only in 1988 during the press conference of the head of Glavcosm O. Dunayev. Igor Volk had a special, detailed approach to the test flights: he prepared in advance, thought over every detail, listened to the opinions of colleagues, and used their experience. He never catapulted. Well-known flight experts consider him the key figure in the development of techniques for landing aircraft under the conditions of engine failure.
Although Volk may be considered as a central concept in the work of Carl Schmitt, and one to which the German jurist dedicated a sizable amount of writing, a remarkably limited number of publications ...have so far provided an analytical study of how Schmitt conceptualised Volk, particularly in English-language secondary literature. This article intends to address this gap by systematically reviewing how the concept of Volk appears in the Schmitt's theoretical effort, with a particular focus on his publications from the late 1920s to 1945, and how it relates to his main legal-theoretical and political claims, both in his constitutional doctrine (Staatsrechtslehre) as well as in international law. It sketches some interpretive pathways to locate Volk in a broader historical and theoretical context, and it offers a conceptualisation of the relation between Schmitt and existentialist nationalism.
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