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Growing Gardens And Nurturing Community In The Urban Environment, Katie Shaw
Growing Gardens And Nurturing Community In The Urban Environment, Katie Shaw
Global Studies Student Scholarship
The following literature will analyze how urban agriculture (UA), and more specifically community gardens, address the rising global pressures on urban areas by rebuilding local networks. First, it will present community gardening as a solution to the global food crisis. Second, five case studies will compare cities’ community garden projects throughout the world: Accra, Shanghai, St. Petersburg, Havana, and Philadelphia. The next section will study the demographics of community gardeners, especially its impacts on marginalized members of society: children, women, elderly, immigrants and ethnic minorities, and physical and mentally challenged. And finally, the issues of city planning and green design …
Identifying Critical Junctures In Macroeconomic Policy - The Cases Of Mexico And Sweden In The Early 1980s, Ana Haro Maza, John Hogan
Identifying Critical Junctures In Macroeconomic Policy - The Cases Of Mexico And Sweden In The Early 1980s, Ana Haro Maza, John Hogan
Articles
Abstract: This paper utilizes a new critical junctures framework to help understand the nature of the changes in macroeconomic policy. The framework consists of three elements which must be identified in sequence to be able to declare, with some certainty, if an event was a critical juncture. These are crisis, ideational change, and radical policy change. Utilizing the critical juncture framework, we will determine whether changes to Mexican and Swedish macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s constituted clean breaks with the past, or were continuations of previously established policy pathways, and why that was.
Interview With Carol Thompson, Marcia Monaco
Interview With Carol Thompson, Marcia Monaco
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 91 minutes
Oral history interview of Carol Thompson by Marcia Monaco
In this interview, Carol Thompson recalls her involvement and work in the anti-apartheid movement. She explains that her awareness of the anti-Apartheid movement began while at Northern Illinois University, but she first became involved after she moved to Chicago, when she met South African author, Donald Woods, which led to her involvement in the Dennis Brutus’ defense committee. She recalls that she initially worked with Clergy and Laity Concerned and later, alongside Prexy Nesbitt, became a founding member of CIDSA, which was committed to passing legislation in Chicago …
Advocate, February 2009, Vol. [20], No. [5], Advocate
Advocate, February 2009, Vol. [20], No. [5], Advocate
The Advocate
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
From the Editor's Desk: Putting Away Childish Things (p. 2)
An Open Letter to President Jennifer Raab, Hunter College, CUNY (p. 3)
In Memoriam: John Patrick Diggins (1935-2009) (p. 4)
Framing Shape: War Crimes and Paralysis, Alan Koenig (p. 6)
Adjuncting: Free Choice and Adjunct Equity, Renee McGarry (p. 8)
Afghanistan: The Use and Abuse of a Buffer State (Part 2), Christian Parenti (p. 9)
Gaza Forum: The War of Punishment and Frustration, Adel Safty (p. 12)
The Dark Days: Fortress Israel’s Final Stand, Naji Ali (p. 13)
Book Review: The Crisis of Labor, Carl Lindskoog (p. …
"Good Politics Is Good Government": The Troubling History Of Mayoral Control Of The Public Schools In Twentieth-Century Chicago, James (Jim) C. Carl
"Good Politics Is Good Government": The Troubling History Of Mayoral Control Of The Public Schools In Twentieth-Century Chicago, James (Jim) C. Carl
Educational Studies, Research, and Technology Department Faculty Publications
This article looks at urban education through the vantage point of Chicago's mayors. It begins with Carter H. Harrison II (who served from 1897 to 1905 and again from 1911 to 1915) and ends with Richard M. Daley (1989 to the present), with most of the focus on four long-serving mayors: William Hale Thompson (1915--23 and 1927--31), Edward Kelly (1933--47), Richard J. Daley (1955--76), and Harold Washington (1983--87). Mayors exercised significant leverage in the Chicago Public Schools throughout the twentieth century, making the history of Chicago mayors' educational politics relevant to the contemporary trend in urban education to give more …
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American’S Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Erik Von Kuehnelt-Leddihn: The Intelligent American’S Guide To Europe (1979) Study Guide, Steven Alan Samson
Faculty Publications and Presentations
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The Limits Of Self-Reliance: Emerson, Slavery, And Abolition, James Read
The Limits Of Self-Reliance: Emerson, Slavery, And Abolition, James Read
Political Science Faculty Publications
In the 1841 essay “Self-Reliance” Ralph Waldo Emerson presupposed a democratic society of free and equal individuals – an idealized America with a veil drawn over racial slavery. As his own commitment to the antislavery cause deepened over time Emerson sought to reconcile his ideal of self-reliance with organized political action necessary to fight slavery.
Recent scholarship has corrected the previously dominant image of Emerson as detached from politics and indifferent to abolitionism. But even as he participated in it, Emerson saw antislavery activism as a distraction from his own proper work of freeing “imprisoned spirits, imprisoned thoughts, far back …