Upson-Saia talks with transgender professors H. Adam Ackley and Joy Ladin and theologian Cameron Patridge, who share the entanglement of gender and religion in their experience of teaching. They ...discuss their views about the appropriate place and time in which they disclose their identities to their students and the relationship between that disclosure and their ability to be fully present in the classroom. They deliberate the politics and risks involved in being openly transgender, especially as it relates to interactions with their colleagues and their institutions and as it relates to challenges of the job market. Despite the ever-present, and sometimes stifling issues they face, they also detail the transformative engagements with students that can occur when a transgender professor is fully present in the classroom.
The recent decision of 'Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE) v Italy' constitutes a key step in the evolution of the collective complaints jurisprudence of the European Committee of Social ...Rights. In addition to being a substantial addition to that body's existing jurisprudence on housing rights and Roma rights, it contains a number of new elements with major implications for human rights protection under the European Social Charter 1961 and the Revised European Social Charter 1996 (Revised Charter). These relate to both process and standards: the complaint marks the European Committee of Social Rights' ('the Committee') first use of its expedited process for addressing complaints, as well as its initial engagement with the development of the concept of an 'aggravated violation', the issue of 'retrogressive steps'and the expulsion of migrants.
The Obama administration is shaping up to be one of the most consequential in recent American history. In this book, a diverse group of presidential scholars step back from the partisan debate to ...consider the first two years of the Obama presidency through the lens of the U.S. constitution's theory, structure, and powers. They ask how Barack Obama understands and exercises the President's formal constitutional and informal powers and responsibilities of the president, from foreign policy and public policy to his political leadership of the Democratic party and the nation as a whole. This timely first look at the Obama presidency establishes a constitutional yardstick of interest to scholars of the presidency, constitutional thought, and American political thought.
In 1965, Gene Basset, a well-known political cartoonist, was sent to Vietnamby his newspaper publishing syndicate. His assignment: to sketch scenes of theincreasingly controversial war in order to ...help the newspaper-reading publicbetter understand the events occurring in Southeast Asia.In much the same way that M.A.S.H. gave viewers an irreverent, wry view ofwar and its devastating effects on citizens as well as soldiers, Basset's sketchesportray the everyday, often mundane, aspects of wartime with an intimate touchthat eases access to the dark subject matter. In this affectionately curated collection,author, doctor, and longtime friend of the artist, Thom Rooke, deftlyleads us through more than eighty of Basset's cartoons, organizing his insightsaccording to the well-known stages of grief, from denial to acceptance, anddemonstrating how Basset's images convey moments of trauma, coping, andhealing. From scenes of American GIs haggling with Vietnamese street vendorsto a medic dressing the wounds of a wide-eyed soldier, Basset's endearingsketches and Rooke's friendly prose humanize life during wartime. The seriocomicvignettes and analyses are delivered with wit, compassion, and subtlecharm sure to please academic, artistic, and casual readers alike.
Examines the educational programs American Indians developed to preserve their cultural and ethnic identity, improve their livelihood, and serve the needs of their youth in Chicago.
Situating Obama's end-of-war discourse in the historical context of the 2001 terrorist attacks, Obama, the Media, and Framing the U.S. Exit from Iraq and Afghanistan begins with a detailed comparison ...with the Bush war-on-terror security narrative before examining elements of continuity and change in post-9/11 elite rhetoric. Erika King deftly employs two case studies of presidential and media framing - the weeks surrounding the formal announcements of Obama's December 2009 'surge-then-exit' strategy from Afghanistan and the end of combat operations in Iraq in August 2010 - to explore the role of mass media in presenting presidential narratives of war and finds evidence of an interpretive disconnect between the media and a president seeking to present a more nuanced approach to keeping America safe. Eloquently scrutinizing Obama's discourse on the U.S. exit from two post-9/11 wars and contrasting the presidential endgame frame with the U.S. mainstream media's narratives of the wars’ meaning, accomplishments, and denouement provides a unique combination of qualitative content analysis and topical case studies and makes this volume an ideal resource for scholars and researchers grappling with the complicated and ever-evolving nexus of war, the president, and the media.
The political and cultural upheaval of the '60s has become a subject blighted by misconceptions and stereotypes. To many, it is synonymous with widespread drug abuse, failed social experiments, and ...general irresponsibility. Despite sustained public interest, few remember that many of the freedoms and rights Americans enjoy today are the direct result of those who defied the established order during this tumultuous period. It was an era that challenged both mainstream and elite American notions of how politics and society should function. In Generation on Fire, Jeff Kisseloff's continuing work in oral history, witnesses speak about their motives and actions during the 1960s through the present. Kisseloff provides an eclectic and highly personal account of the political and social activity of the decade. Among other things, the book offers firsthand accounts of what it was like to face a mob's wrath in the segregated South and to survive the jungles of Vietnam. It takes readers inside the courtroom of the Chicago Eight and into a communal household in Vermont. From the stage at Woodstock to the playing fields of the NFL and finally to a fateful confrontation at Kent State, Generation on Fire brings the '60s alive again. In this riveting collection of never-before published interviews, Generation on Fire unapologetically contextualizes the world of the 1960s, illuminating the ingrained social and cultural obstacles facing those working for change as well as the courage and shortcomings of those who defied "acceptable" conventions and mores. Sometimes tragic, sometimes hilarious, the stories in this volume celebrate the passion, courage, and independent thinking that led a generation to believe change for the better was possible.
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