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May All Have Life in Its Fullness and Dignity
VIVAT International 2000 - 2015 1 Table of Contents 5 INTRODUCTION LATIN AMERICA Argentina 6 Health: One Right for All 7 VIVAT and its Campaign Against Mega Projects 14 Bolivia – Empowerment 15 Brazil – The Long Journey to Life of Lower Piquia 19 Chile – Minorities: Voice of the Voiceless El Salvador 20 San Jose Las Flores: When A People Raises Its Voice AFRICA Ethiopia/South Sudan 28 In Defense of the Poorest:Women and Children 29 Ghana – Living Tree 31 Kenya – Advocacy for Persons with Disabilities WESTERN EUROPE 36 Geneva, Switzerland – Advocacy in Geneva 39 Ireland – Reading: Way to Knowledge 40 Italy – Staking All on Water ASIA India 45 Equality, No Castes 47 Freedom: Right for All 48 Indonesia – People’s Resistance Against Mining Companies NORTH AMERICA U.S.A 53 Weapons: Who Needs them? 54 Land Grabbing 2 INTRODUCTION The story of a tree begins with a seed. Its birthing takes shape in the mind of the sower, who envisions its growth in his/her dreams. Prior to getting to action, the sower sees in the seed a potential for growth. So it is with VIVAT International, a tiny seed sown fifteen years ago, by two Congregations founded by St. Arnold Jansen today has completed 15 years of spreading out its wings and roots in different directions. To mark the 15th anniversary of VIVAT International, the former VIVAT Executive Team in New York, especially Sr. Zelia Cordeiro, took the initiative to collect stories from members actively engaged in grassroots initiatives on the ground and from those at the national and international levels. -
Gender-Sternchen, Binnen-I Oder Generisches Maskulinum, … (Akademische) Textstile Der Personenreferenz Als Registrierungen?*
Gender-Sternchen, Binnen-I oder generisches Maskulinum, … (Akademische) Textstile der Personenreferenz als Registrierungen?* Helga Kotthoff (Freiburg) Abstract For more than 40 years, a debate on gender-related person references has been taking place in the German-speaking world. My contribution starts with a differentiation of four registers, which are currently practiced in writing and have developed specific reasoning discourses and specific social contexts of usage, as I try to show. I am going to examine these four styles of gendered person reference as “registers” in the sense of anthropological linguistics (Agha 2007). This concept of “enregisterment” implies that the producers connect themselves to a socio-symbolic cosmos and can be perceived with cultural evaluations (in production and re- ception), for example, as conservative, feminist, queer, liberal (Kotthoff 2017). Here I shall explore their (socio)linguistic underpinnings within conceptions of language ideology in order to grasp the communication-reflexive charges of these discourses. 1 Einleitung Seit über 40 Jahren findet im deutschsprachigen Raum eine Debatte um geschlechterbezogene Personenreferenzen statt. Mein Beitrag setzt bei einer Binnendifferenzierung von vier Registern an, die sich inzwischen mit spezifischen sozialen Verortungen herausgebildet haben, was ich zu zeigen versuche. Die traditionelle Schreibpraxis mit einem generisch gemeinten, ge- schlechtsübergreifenden Maskulinum1 (Typ 1), wie sie etwa von Eisenberg (2017), Glück (2018) oder dem Verein für Deutsche -
Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States
Historical Origins of the One-Drop Racial Rule in the United States Winthrop D. Jordan1 Edited by Paul Spickard2 Editor’s Note Winthrop Jordan was one of the most honored US historians of the second half of the twentieth century. His subjects were race, gender, sex, slavery, and religion, and he wrote almost exclusively about the early centuries of American history. One of his first published articles, “American Chiaroscuro: The Status and Definition of Mulattoes in the British Colonies” (1962), may be considered an intellectual forerunner of multiracial studies, as it described the high degree of social and sexual mixing that occurred in the early centuries between Africans and Europeans in what later became the United States, and hinted at the subtle racial positionings of mixed people in those years.3 Jordan’s first book, White over Black: American Attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550–1812, was published in 1968 at the height of the Civil Rights Movement era. The product of years of painstaking archival research, attentive to the nuances of the thousands of documents that are its sources, and written in sparkling prose, White over Black showed as no previous book had done the subtle psycho-social origins of the American racial caste system.4 It won the National Book Award, the Ralph Waldo Emerson Prize, the Bancroft Prize, the Parkman Prize, and other honors. It has never been out of print since, and it remains a staple of the graduate school curriculum for American historians and scholars of ethnic studies. In 2005, the eminent public intellectual Gerald Early, at the request of the African American magazine American Legacy, listed what he believed to be the ten most influential books on African American history. -
Biden Appoints Sociologist to Top Us Science Post
News in focus quite so stark as they are today,” she said. “I believe we have a responsibility to work together to make sure that our science and technology reflects us.” On Biden’s first day as president, his team announced a government-wide effort to pro- mote equity and dismantle structural racism, led by former US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice. The team also noted that confronting inequalities and injustice will be central to how the Biden administration tackles climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic. Wide-ranging influence News of Nelson’s leadership role triggered a wave of praise on Twitter from research- ers across disciplines, including computer science, history and American studies. “I think that that outpouring of support is indicative of her impact, and her impact across ALEX WONG/GETTY a whole bunch of different fields,” says Victor Alondra Nelson will help lead the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ray, a sociologist who studies race and ethnic- ity at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. The plaudits also acknowledged Nelson’s gener- osity to junior scholars, says Ray — something ‘INSPIRED CHOICE’: BIDEN he experienced when meeting her. She had “a genuine interest in me and my ideas, which APPOINTS SOCIOLOGIST junior scholars really appreciate from some- one of her stature”, he adds. TO TOP US SCIENCE POST Nelson has been president of the Social Science Research Council, a non-profit organ- Scientists praise president’s selection of Alondra ization that supports research in the social sciences, and a professor at the Institute for Nelson, a specialist in bioethics and social inequality. -
Graphemic Methods for Genderneutral
Graphemic Methods for GenderNeutral Writing Yannis Haralambous & Joseph Dichy Abstract. In this paper we present a model and a classification of graphemic genderneutral writing methods, we explore current practices in French, Ger man, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish languages, and we investigate in teractions between genderneutral writing forms and regular expressions. 1. Introduction: The General Issue of, and behind, Gender Neutral Writing The issue behind genderneutral writing is that of the representation of intergender relations carried by languages. What is at stake is the representation of equality, or not, between genders. The issue is also re ferred to as “inclusive writing,” which apparently refers to human rights, but does not cover all cases, i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. The term “GenderNeutral Writing” is, in fact, both clearer and more inclusive. Generally speaking, languages are conservative, if not archaic. A sig nificant example is that of the idea of time, which is traditionally repre sented as a dot sliding along a straight line in a continuous movement. This has been a philosophical image of time since ancient Greek philoso phers and throughout the Middle Ages both in Arabic and European phi losophy, but can no longer be considered as a valid representation after 20th century existentialist philosophers and Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit. Yannis Haralambous 0000-0003-1443-6115 IMT Atlantique & LabSTICC UMR CNRS 6285 Brest, France [email protected] Joseph Dichy Professor of Arabic linguistics Lyon, France [email protected] Y. Haralambous (Ed.), Graphemics in the 21st Century. -
Christina Ciocca Eller
CHRISTINA CIOCCA ELLER Columbia University [email protected] Department of Sociology (203) 520-9934 (mobile) Knox Hall, Suite 501 606 West 122nd Street New York, NY 10027 EDUCATION Expected Ph.D., Sociology 2019 Columbia University Dissertation: “College Effects on Bachelor’s Degree Completion for the New Majority” Committee: Thomas A. DiPrete (chair), Shamus Khan, Alondra Nelson 2016 M.Phil., Sociology Columbia University 2014 M.A., Sociology Columbia University 2007 M.Sc., Management Research, with Distinction University of Oxford, Saïd School of Business 2006 M.St., Women’s Studies University of Oxford 2005 B.A., Interdisciplinary Studies: Performance and Culture, summa cum laude and valedictorian of the College class Georgetown University RESEARCH INTERESTS Stratification, Inequality, and Social Mobility Organizations and Institutions Sociology of Higher Education Race and Social Class Mixed Methods Research Sociology of Culture PUBLICATIONS AND PAPERS UNDER REVIEW Thomas A. DiPrete, Thijs Bol, C. Ciocca Eller and Herman G. van de Werfhorst. 2017. “School-to- Work Linkages in the United States, Germany, and France.” American Journal of Sociology 122(6): 1869-1938. C. Ciocca Eller, 2017. “Increasing Success for Two-to-Four-Year Transfer Students within the City University of New York.” Technical report, Graduate NYC College Readiness and Success Initiative. C. Ciocca Eller and Thomas A. DiPrete. “The Paradox of Persistence: Explaining the Black-White Gap in Bachelor’s Degree Completion.” Second resubmission to the American Sociological Review. Thijs Bol, C. Ciocca Eller, Herman G. van de Werfhorst, and Thomas A. DiPrete. “School-to-Work Linkages and Labor Market Earnings.” Submitted to the American Sociological Review. Christina Ciocca Eller | 2 WORKS IN PROGRESS C. -
African Americans in the Military
African Americans in the Military While the fight for African American civil rights has been traditionally linked to the 1960s, the discriminatory experiences faced by black soldiers during World War II are often viewed by historians as the civil rights precursor to the 1960s movement. During the war America’s dedication to its democratic ideals was tested, specifically in its treatment of its black soldiers. The hypocrisy of waging a war on fascism abroad, yet failing to provide equal rights back home was not lost. The onset of the war brought into sharp contrast the rights of white and black American citizens. Although free, African Americans had yet to achieve full equality. The discriminatory practices in the military regarding black involvement made this distinction abundantly clear. There were only four U.S. Army units under which African Americans could serve. Prior to 1940, thirty thousand blacks had tried to enlist in the Army, but were turned away. In the U.S. Navy, blacks were restricted to roles as messmen. They were excluded entirely from the Air Corps and the Marines. This level of inequality gave rise to black organizations and leaders who challenged the status quo, demanding greater involvement in the U.S. military and an end to the military’s segregated racial practices. Soldiers Training, ca. 1942, William H. Johnson, oil on plywood, Smithsonian American Art Museum Onset of War The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 irrevocably altered the landscape of World War II for blacks and effectively marked the entry of American involvement in the conflict. -
Afrofuturism: the World of Black Sci-Fi and Fantasy Culture
AFROFUTURISMAFROFUTURISM THE WORLD OF BLACK SCI-FI AND FANTASY CULTURE YTASHA L. WOMACK Chicago Afrofuturism_half title and title.indd 3 5/22/13 3:53 PM AFROFUTURISMAFROFUTURISM THE WORLD OF BLACK SCI-FI AND FANTASY CULTURE YTASHA L. WOMACK Chicago Afrofuturism_half title and title.indd 3 5/22/13 3:53 PM AFROFUTURISM Afrofuturism_half title and title.indd 1 5/22/13 3:53 PM Copyright © 2013 by Ytasha L. Womack All rights reserved First edition Published by Lawrence Hill Books, an imprint of Chicago Review Press, Incorporated 814 North Franklin Street Chicago, Illinois 60610 ISBN 978-1-61374-796-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Womack, Ytasha. Afrofuturism : the world of black sci-fi and fantasy culture / Ytasha L. Womack. — First edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-61374-796-4 (trade paper) 1. Science fiction—Social aspects. 2. African Americans—Race identity. 3. Science fiction films—Influence. 4. Futurologists. 5. African diaspora— Social conditions. I. Title. PN3433.5.W66 2013 809.3’8762093529—dc23 2013025755 Cover art and design: “Ioe Ostara” by John Jennings Cover layout: Jonathan Hahn Interior design: PerfecType, Nashville, TN Interior art: John Jennings and James Marshall (p. 187) Printed in the United States of America 5 4 3 2 1 I dedicate this book to Dr. Johnnie Colemon, the first Afrofuturist to inspire my journey. I dedicate this book to the legions of thinkers and futurists who envision a loving world. CONTENTS Acknowledgments .................................................................. ix Introduction ............................................................................ 1 1 Evolution of a Space Cadet ................................................ 3 2 A Human Fairy Tale Named Black .................................. -
Miscegenation and Literary Form in the Plessy Era
“Our racket’s within th’ law, ain’t it?”: Miscegenation and Literary Form in the Plessy Era Christopher M. Brown* Abstract A rhetoric of strangeness marks so many of the texts of the African American literary tra- dition written during the Plessy era, a strangeness inextricably tied to the law’s effort to maintain the fiction of “separate but equal.” Anti-miscegenation laws, perhaps the most emotionally charged of the many legal attempts to police the color-line, were also some of the most difficult to parse and yet also the most entrenched. And so, it is no surprise that the illogic of the legal predicament in which blacks found themselves was often articulated in literary texts in two related ways: first, through the figure of the miscegenated baby; and second, through the narrative structure of the absurd. This article argues that while the possibility of a baby is usually read to reveal the anxiety of a text’s passing protagonists, in fact many Plessy-era works by African American writers deploy the combination of a trou- bling black baby and the farce of racial taxonomies as a kind of reductio ad absurdum, satirizing the law’s doomed attempts to protect the “purity” of the white race. An assessment of the law’s affective attachment to whiteness reveals the formal mode of the absurd—read through George Schuyler’s 1931 novel Black No More—as a pointed challenge to the ra- tionale underlying segregation as the law of the land. * * * “If then the progeny of the white race be uniformly distinct from that of the black, it may be said to be a law of nature, that a white couple cannot produce a negro or mulatto child. -
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Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: on Parable of the Trickster and Utopia
Marquette University e-Publications@Marquette English Faculty Research and Publications English, Department of 1-2019 Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia Gerry Canavan Marquette University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Canavan, Gerry, "Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia" (2019). English Faculty Research and Publications. 533. https://epublications.marquette.edu/english_fac/533 1 Gerry Canavan (Associate Professor, Marquette University) [email protected] // 414-899-7799 Eden, Just Not Ours Yet: On Parable of the Trickster and Utopia The last chapter of Octavia E. Butler’s Parable of the Talents (1998) sees an aged Lauren Olamina in 2090, surrounded by several of her most devoted disciples at the launch of the first Earthseed mission, the beginning of the extrasolar colonization project to which she has devoted her entire adult life. We are told very early on in Parable of the Sower (1993), when Olamina is still a young teenager, that “The Destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars” (Butler Sower 85)—and by the end of Talents that dream seems to have been achieved, though it has personally cost Olamina nearly everything else in her life, including her daughter, her husband, her brother, and her personal safety. She herself is now much too old to go on such a mission, a Moses permanently denied her own Promised Land—though she imagines her ashes someday being brought to one of the Earthseed colonies after her death. -
CHRISTIAN METZ and the CODES of CINEMA Analysis and Later with Enunciation Theory
EDITED BY MARGRIT TRÖHLER FILM THEORY FILM THEORY CHRISTIAN METZ IN MEDIA HISTORY IN MEDIA HISTORY AND GUIDO KIRSTEN AND THE CODES OF CINEMA FILM SEMIOLOGY AND BEYOND EDITED BY MARGRIT TRÖHLER AND GUIDO KIRSTEN A pioneering figure in film studies, Christian MARGRIT TRÖHLER is a professor in Metz proposed countless new concepts for the Department of Film Studies at the reflecting on cinema from the 1960s to the University of Zurich. 1980s. Rooted in a phenomenological struc GUIDO KIRSTEN is a postdoctoral re turalism, he worked out a film semiology searcher in the Department of Media which he then confronted with psycho Studies at Stockholm University. CINEMA OF CODES THE AND METZ CHRISTIAN analysis and later with enunciation theory. He also played a key role in establishing film studies as a scholarly discipline, making major contributions to its institutionaliza tion in universities worldwide. This book brings together a stellar roster of contribu tors to present a close analysis of Metz’s writings, their theoretical and epistemologi cal positions, and their ongoing influence today. ISBN 978-90-896-4892-1 AUP.nl 9 789089 648921 AUP_FtMh_KIRSTENe.a._(CMETZ)_rug28mm_v05.indd 1 18-01-18 12:16 Christian Metz and the Codes of Cinema Film Theory in Media History Film Theory in Media History explores the epistemological and theoretical foundations of the study of film through texts by classical authors as well as anthologies and monographs on key issues and developments in film theory. Adopting a historical perspective, but with a firm eye to the further development of the field, the series provides a platform for ground-breaking new research into film theory and media history and features high-profile editorial projects that offer resources for teaching and scholarship.