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Selected AbstractsToward a New Critical Theory with a Cosmopolitan IntentCONSTELLATIONS: AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CRITICAL AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, Issue 4 2003Ulrich Beck In this article I want to outline an argument for a New Critical Theory with a cosmopolitan intent. Its main purpose is to undermine one of the most powerful beliefs of our time concerning society and politics. This belief is the notion that "modern society" and "modern politics" are to be understood as society and politics organized around the nation-state, equating society with the national imagination of society. There are two aspects to this body of beliefs: what I call the "national perspective" (or "national gaze") of social actors, and the "methodological nationalism" of scientific observers. The distinction between these two perspectives is important because there is no logical co-implication between them, only an interconnected genesis and history. [source] Couples' Relationships: Questioning Assumptions, Beliefs, and ValuesFAMILY PROCESS, Issue 2 2005Evan Imber-Black I want to express my deep appreciation to Howard J. Markman and Kim Halford for their excellent work as guest editors of the special section, Couple Relationship Education in an International Context. [source] A Postmodern Reply to Perez ZagorinHISTORY AND THEORY, Issue 2 2000Keith Jenkins This article engages with the arguments forwarded by Perez Zagorin against the possible consequences of postmodernism for history as it is currently conceived of particularly in its "proper" professional/academic form ("History, the Referent, and Narrative: Reflections on Postmodernism Now,"History and Theory 38 [1999], 1-24). In an overtly positioned response which issues from a close reading of Zagorin's text, I argue that his all-too-typical misunderstandings of postmodernism need to be "corrected",not, however, to make postmodernism less of a threat to "history as we have known it," or to facilitate the assimilation of its useful elements while exorcising its "extremes." My "corrections" instead forward the claim that, understood positively and integrated into those conditions of postmodernity which postmodernism variously articulates at the level of theory, such theory signals the possible "end of history," not only in its metanarrative styles (which are already becoming increasingly implausible) but also in that particular and peculiar professional genre Zagorin takes as equivalent to history per se. And I want to argue that if this theory is understood in ways which choose not to give up (as Derrida urges us not to give up) the "discourse of emancipation" after the failure of its first attempt in the "experiment of modernity," then this ending can be considered "a good thing." [source] Capital Culture Revisited: Sex, Testosterone and the CityINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2010LINDA McDOWELL Abstract In this essay I want to revisit and add to the arguments in my book Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, published a decade before the first signs of the current financial crisis. There I suggested that the City of London, the financial heart of the UK, is an arena riven by sexualized and gendered scripts: in other words capitalism is gendered. A decade or so later, these arguments seem just as relevant as the financial ,masters of the universe' are brought low, in part by their own behaviour. Here, I explore more explicitly the implications of testosterone-fuelled risk taking by both the traders and the chief executive officers of investment banks in the current world of casino capitalism. Résumé Ce travail reprend et complète le propos de Capital Culture: Gender at Work in the City, le livre que j'ai publié une décennie avant l'apparition des premiers signes de la crise financière actuelle. Cet ouvrage préconisait que la City de Londres, c,ur financier du Royaume-Uni, était une arène scindée selon des scénarios différenciés par sexe et genre, autrement dit le capitalisme était sexué. Près de dix ans plus tard, ces propos semblent tout aussi pertinents d'autant que les ,maîtres de l'univers' de la finance sont amoindris, en partie à cause de leur propre comportement. Sont examinées ici de plus près les implications des prises de risques nourries à la testostérone auxquelles se livrent à la fois les traders et les directeurs généraux des banques d'investissement dans un monde où règne un capitalisme de casino. [source] ,A Garland in Place of Ashes':1Transformative Spirituality and Mission in the Post-Modern and Secular ContextsINTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF MISSION, Issue 2 2009Peter Cruchley-Jones In this paper I aim to explore not what is the so-called ,post-modern and secular context' but how the church responds to it, which is predominantly to blame it for ,decline'. Yet it may not be decline, it may be something else altogether. I am reflecting on a western/UK context, but within this are theological assumptions that characterize the wider church. So, having made some remarks on how to approach decline I will then explore some transformations of spirituality and mission that are responses to the post-modern and secular context. Underlying this is an attitude to ,spirituality' which is not about how we worship or our experience of the ,ethereal' but is about our ,capacity for life'. But, I want to maintain that nothing new or transformative can emerge until the church stops resenting and despairing of the context and change we are experiencing. Further, I am not convinced the church in the UK or the West is able to adapt to the strangeness of this new context and will seek always to bring it back under church control. But, I will then offer a post-modern image for transformative spirituality and mission that could leave its mark on the church. [source] Reproductive Autonomy Rights and Genetic Disenhancement: Sidestepping the Argument from Backhanded BenefitJOURNAL OF APPLIED PHILOSOPHY, Issue 2 2004Martin Harvey abstract John Robertson has famously argued that the right to reproductive autonomy is exceedingly broad in scope. That is, as long as a particular reproductive preference such as having a deaf child is "determinative" of the decision to reproduce then such preferences fall under the protective rubric of reproductive autonomy rights. Importantly, the deafness in question does not constitute a harm to the child thereby wrought since unless the child could be born deaf he or she would otherwise never have existed, his or her prospective parents would simply have chosen to abort. As such, for this child, being born deaf counts as a benefit, albeit of the "backhanded" variety, since the only other practical alternative is nonexistence. In what follows, I want to investigate this argument in detail. The target of my investigation will be the possible future use of gene therapy technology to "disenhance" one's offspring. I intend to show that the apparently unlimited right to reproductive autonomy, that is, the right to choose both the quantity and qualities of future offspring, entailed by the argument from backhanded benefit can in fact be "sidestepped" through considering what sorts of reproductive practices we as a society ought to allow. [source] Civil Society or the State?: Recent Approaches to the History of Voluntary WelfareJOURNAL OF HISTORICAL SOCIOLOGY, Issue 3 2002Alan Kidd Since the 1970s a drift away from state corporatist solutions to social welfare problems has had its parallel in an academic rediscovery of the voluntary sector. Revived confidence in non,statutory approaches often assumes two things. Firstly, that voluntary action is a vital component in civil society and that civil society itself is an attribute of liberal democracy. These ideas are central to the perceived ,crisis of the welfare state'. They are also related to debates about political culture and the future of democracy with the institutions of civil society cast positively as ,schools of citizenship'. Secondly, it is frequently assumed that there is an opposition in principle between the voluntary and the statutory and in some quarters an assumption (reversing an earlier presumption about the rationality of state welfare) that voluntary action is the superior mechanism (at least morally). The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, I want to reflect on the revival of interest in the role of the institutions of civil society in the history of welfare provision. Second, I will survey some recent approaches to voluntary action and ,civil society'. Third, in the process of this survey I discuss the relevance of these approaches to the study of past states of welfare. [source] MYSTERIES OF ADAPTATION TO HYPOXIA AND PRESSURE IN MARINE MAMMALS The Kenneth S. Norris Lifetime Achievement Award LectureMARINE MAMMAL SCIENCE, Issue 3 2006Gerald L. Kooyman Presented on 12 December 2005 San Diego, California Abstract This paper reviews past and current work on diving behavior, effects of pressure, and the aerobic diving limit from the perspective of the Ken Norris Lifetime Achievement Award. Because of the influence of Norris to marine mammalogy in general, and to my career in particular, I want to emphasize the important tradition of mentors and colleagues as keystones to a successful career in science, and ultimately to the success of science itself. These two related activities are illustrated by studies on marine mammals that were conducted in an endeavor to understand: (1) the behavioral traits associated with deep diving, (2) the mechanical and physiological effects of pressure during routine dives to great depth, and (3) the degree of oxygen depletion that they routinely endure while diving. The search for answers has resulted in numerous physiological and ecological experiments, along with accompanying theoretical analyses. Currently it appears that some deep-diving mammals may suffer from bends, and some may resort more often than what seems physiologically possible to anaerobic metabolism while diving. Above all, the way divers manage their nitrogen and oxygen stores remains a mystery. [source] I want to be an independent consultant: Considerations before taking the plungeNEW DIRECTIONS FOR EVALUATION, Issue 111 2006Judah J. Viola The author reflects on his hopes and fears as he considers an independent consulting career. [source] An American Perspective on the EU's Constitutional TreatyPOLITICS, Issue 1 2007Alberta Sbragia This article argues that the American experience can help illuminate some of the tensions surrounding the European Union's embattled Constitutional Treaty. I want to emphasise, however, that I am not trying to make any rigorous comparative statement here. I am not arguing that the United States and the EU are similar. They have developed in very different historical periods: the 13 colonies were certainly not equivalent to the old and well-established nation states which form the EU. Nonetheless, I am saying that some aspects of the American experience may be useful in thinking about the current state of tension which surrounds the process of European integration. In this article, therefore, I shall very schematically contrast the American and the European experience of integration and use that contrast to help illuminate the tensions which are now at work in the EU. [source] The Concept of Law and Its ConceptionsRATIO JURIS, Issue 2 2006PETER KOLLER With this aim in view, I shall begin with a few remarks on concept formation and name a list of necessary requirements on an appropriate concept of law. On this basis, I intend to discuss a number of contemporary legal theories in view to their respective interpretations of the concept of law. Finally, I want to propose a definition of law that not only satisfies the requirements of the concept of law, but is also general enough to be compatible with both camps of legal thinking. [source] Some reflections on empathy and reciprocity in the use of countertransference between supervisor and superviseeTHE JOURNAL OF ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY, Issue 3 2000James Astor Reciprocity refers in its general meaning to a mutual give and take. It is a background feature of all productive supervisory relationships. In this essay I want to bring it into the foreground. I will describe it by contrasting supervision and analysis. For, in my view, that is exactly what reciprocity is in the supervisory relationship: it is an attitude of mind in which the supervisor performs the task of differentiating internally the supervisory from the analytic vertex, in the context of the asymmetry of the supervisory relationship. [source] PANOPTIC VISIONS OF LONDON: POSSESSING THE METROPOLISART HISTORY, Issue 2 2009DANA ARNOLD The role of sight in the experience of the metropolis as a cultural artefact had a special significance in the opening years of the nineteenth century. The visual register of the city was at once static , the panoptic vision , and fluid , the mobile and subjective gaze of the flâneur/euse. This scrutiny of the city as cultural capital operated on several levels. I want to demonstrate the complexities of the interaction of city, consumer/viewer and the role/agency of the textual/visual interlocutor. Any exploration of London as cultural capital must take into account this broader pan European phenomenon. The aim here is not to produce a comparative history, but rather to benefit from the specific points of contact between London and its near neighbour Paris as regards the consumption of the city and its emergence as cultural capital by a range of publics. My frame is the Benjaminian notion of the city as fragment or miniature as played out in his Arcades Project [source] ,For Our Devotion and Pleasure': The Sexual Objects of Jean, Duc de BerryART HISTORY, Issue 2 2001Michael Camille Jean, Duc de Berry (1340,1416), often seen as the first great ,collector' in Western art, is also described by some historians as a ,homosexual'. This article examines the relationship between these two terms and the problematic historical evidence for the latter claim, exploring the duke's desire for things, images and bodies in less categorical terms. The main argument is that we can best understand Jean's sexual tastes from the artworks he commissioned and in which we know from contemporary accounts he took great personal delight. Reinterpretations are provided of some well-known images, such as the January page of the unfinished Trés Riches Heures (1416), where the patron is pictured at the centre of a ,homosocial' feast for the eyes. This manuscript, along with the marginal decoration of his Grandes Heures, suggests his enjoyment of beautiful youthful bodies in general and of androgyny in particular. However, this has to be viewed within the very different gender system of the late fourteenth century in which women, youths and children were literally objects of male control. Only in this sense can we begin to understand how the duke's love of things intersected with his political position and power more generally. Rather than see his collecting in all its polymorphous perversity as a symptom of personal trauma, I want to view it as a socially creative and recuperative act that was part of the performance of a ruthless man of power. [source] "The Spirit of Sturdy Independence": Robert Menzies' Language of Citizenship, 1942,52,AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 2 2006Nick Dyrenfurth Empirical and theoretical studies have shown the development of both the idea and practice of Australian citizenship to be incremental and ad hoc. However, insufficient attention has been placed on the role political language has historically played in the formation and legitimation of such an ideal of citizenship. I contend that language has, in the absence of definition and explication, vastly shaped our past and present imaginings of the citizen. Within this superstructure, Australian Liberals have contingently and ideologically fashioned a language of citizenship emphasising duties and obligations. Robert Menzies provides the great example and it is his construction and use of language which I want to examine in detail as a coherent philosophy of citizenship as well as pointing to the historical limitations of language. [source] WHAT IS IT TO BE A DAUGHTER?BIOETHICS, Issue 1 2007IDENTITIES UNDER PRESSURE IN DEMENTIA CARE ABSTRACT This article concentrates on the care for people who suffer from progressive dementia. Dementia has a great impact on a person's well-being as well as on his or her social environment. Dealing with dementia raises moral issues and challenges for participants, especially for family members. One of the moral issues in the care for people with dementia is centred on responsibilities; how do people conceive and determine their responsibilities towards one another? To investigate this issue we use the theoretical perspective of Margaret Walker. She states that ideas about identity play a crucial role in patterns of normative expectations with regard to the distribution of responsibilities in daily practices of care. The results of this study show how the identity of a family-member is put under pressure and changes during her loved one's illness that leads to difficulties and misunderstandings concerning the issue of responsibility. These results offer an insight into the complexities of actual practices of responsibility and highlight the importance for those caring for people with dementia of attending carefully to how they see themselves and how they see other people involved (Who am I? Who do I want to be for the other?). Answers to such questions show what people expect from themselves and from one another, and how they, at any rate, are distributing responsibilities in a given situation. Professional caregivers should take into account that family members might have different ideas about who they are and consequently about what their responsibilities are. [source] Good governance is not about control,it's about remote controlBOARD LEADERSHIP: POLICY GOVERNANCE IN ACTION, Issue 49 2000Article first published online: 15 MAR 200 Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman of the Gallup Organization have written a challenging book for managers, First, Break All the Rules (Simon & Schuster, 1999). Their conclusions are built on twenty-five years' research with over a million employees. Whereas the authors deal with many facets that they found to characterize great managers, in this article I want to relate one of their points to principles of Policy Governance. [source] THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIA SETTINGS: A PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON THE INTERACTION OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND SOCIETYBRITISH JOURNAL OF PSYCHOTHERAPY, Issue 2 2005R.D. HinshelwoodArticle first published online: 17 NOV 200 ABSTRACT Psychoanalysis cannot explain social phenomena directly, but the human responses to social, economic and historical forces can be described. In this paper I want to look at the interaction between the underlying psychology of the unconscious of individuals in groups, and to theorize how that provides a basis upon which social forces may act. Certain aspects of racism and national identity serve as useful illustrations of how the social phenomena interact with the psychology of individuals. [source] Rorty, Caputo and business ethics without metaphysics: ethical theories as normative narrativesBUSINESS ETHICS: A EUROPEAN REVIEW, Issue 2 2010Andrew Gustafson Using the works of Richard Rorty and John Caputo, I want to suggest that we might be better off treating the traditional ethical theories of Kant, Mill, Aristotle and Hobbes as normative narratives rather than as justificatory schemes for moral decision making to be set up against one another. In a spirit akin to Husserl's ,bracketing' of metaphysics, when discussing ethical theories in business ethics, we can easily avoid metaphysics and use an approach that sees ethical theory as socially convincing normative narratives , narratives that unify us with others insofar as they describe our phenomenological experiences in a way with which many of us mutually resonate. I will do this by attempting to show how John Caputo's thinking in Against Ethics and Rorty's postmodern pragmatism might be appropriated to some extent by us in business ethics. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||