Archive for 'policy'
Congratulations, Professor Kristin Bumiller!
The formidable mind of my mentor Kristin Bumiller always deserves mention. Luckily, the American Political Science Association agrees with me. Bumiller’s excellent book, In An Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriate the Feminist Movement against Sexual Violence, won the APSA’s 2009 Victoria Shuck Award for the best book published in the previous calendar year on women [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2009 under book, policy, politics, power, power structure, sexual inequality, sexual violence, state.
Tags: abuse, award, book, book review, boundaries, central park jogger, criminalization, domestic assault, empirical analysis, exclusion, feminism, gender, government, identity politics, inequality, kristin bumiller, marginalization, neoliberalism, o.j. simpson, polarization, policy, political science, politics, postfeminist, power, race, rape, rape trial, rape trials, rights, scholarship, sexual violence, social control, state, strategy, surveillance, trauma, violence against women, women
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"War Has Got to Be A Last Option . . . I Believe that America Has to Exercise All Options"
Right. Buckle up, because we’re about to jump on the Hate-on-Palin bandwagon. Firstly, when a vice-presidential candidate evokes bitter articles from people from her own home state, political party, political faction, and gender, who used to consider her a close friend, that’s a bad sign. Secondly, when a vice-presidential candidate stalls her way through two [...]
Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Bush, Pakistan, bushmccain, palin, policy, politician, politicians, politics, religion, religious extremists, war.
Tags: Bush, bush doctrine, candidate, charles gibson, foreign policy, Georgia, God, interview, Katie Couric, leadership, mccain, Pakistan, palin, republican, russia, sarah palin, Tina Fey, ukraine, vice presidential, world leader
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Sir Robinson: Schools Kill Creativity – "Did I Miss a Meeting?"
In his talk at the Technology Entertainment Design Conference in Monterey, California, Sir Ken Robinson contends that schools kill creativity. In order to educate our children, we need to prepare them for the future, duh. Robinson is offering a perspective on creativity as something learned, or rather unlearned. To me, this is at least as [...]
Posted: September 12th, 2008 under creativity, policy, ted.
Tags: california, creativity, education, funding, ken robinson, lil' wayne, lip, lipring, mistakes, policy, ring, shakespeare, ted, TED talks
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