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"Latino/A Spirituality And The Universal Call To Holiness", Peter J. Casarella

Peter J. Casarella

This essay represents a translation and significantly expanded version of my earlier piece, "La Mística Hispana: ¿Un nuevo camino a la santidad en los Estados Unidos?"

"The Mozarab Cross And Latino/A Spirituality: Are They Walking On The Same Path?" Response To Raúl Gómez-Ruiz's Mozarabs, Hispanics, & The Cross, Peter J. Casarella

Peter J. Casarella

No abstract provided.

Tourism Development In Aqaba And Human Sustainability, Philadelphia University

Philadelphia University, Jordan

No abstract provided.

Privacy 2.0 ?, Gloria González Fuster, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Les différentes pratiques qui sont généralement regroupées sous le terme « web 2.0 » représentent sans aucun doute un défi majeur pour la protection de la vie privée et la protection de données personnelles. Ce défi ne découle cependant pas que des traits particuliers du phénomène « web 2.0 » en tant que tel, c’est-à-dire, en tant que phénomène reposant sur la participation active des utilisateurs à la création et au fonctionnement de sites ou applications. Il est aussi fortement lié au fait que le « web 2.0 » se place au cœur d’une dynamique globale de numérisation croissante aussi …

Legal Pluralism And Islam In The Scales Of The European Court Of Human Rights : The Limits Of Categrorical Balancing, Karen Meerschaut, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

Starting from the Refah v. Turkey case we dig deeper in the issue of conflicting rights in pluralist legal systems, comparing the Strasbourg Court’s case law with solutions devised in the Malaysian legal system. Legal pluralism generally includes a set of tensions between the minorities’ rights to live following their own norms and rules (article 27 ICCPR and article 8 ECHR), the religious freedom (article 9 ECHR) and, the equality and non-discrimination principles. The idea of the separation of state and church and the principle of secularism are also often brought up as an argument against legal pluralism. How to …

The Contribution Of The Article 29 Working Party To The Construction Of A Harmonised European Data Protection System: An Illustration Of 'Reflexive Governance'?, Yves Poullet, Serge Gutwirth

Serge Gutwirth

The Art. 29 Working Party, which brings together representatives of the different national supervisory Data Protection Authorities, is a body responsible for giving advice and making recommendations to the European institutions on specific data protection issues. It works closely with the Commission. At European level, no similar institution has been established for example as regards consumer or environmental protection, although some national legislations do provide for supervisory bodies in these matters . To put it a little bit bluntly, it could be said that Art. 29 of the Data Protection Directive has officially installed a kind of ‘privacy lobby group’ …

El Principio Socioantropico: La Conexión Libertad-Determinismo Y Una Nueva Estructura Explicativa Para Las Ciencias Sociales, Jorge Gibert-Galassi

jorge gibert-galassi

No abstract provided.

The Epistemic Transformation On The Relationship Between Power & Truth In Sociological Theory After May 1968, Jorge Gibert-Galassi

jorge gibert-galassi

No abstract provided.

Colonised Epistemologies, Ashok Agrwaal

Ashok Agrwaal

A polemical piece

Beyond Sovereignty? The State After The Failure Of Sovereignty, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Sovereign state power, absolute and unlimited, was to guarantee the lives and property of citizens. Instead, States became vectors for mass violence. The realist/atomist model of sovereignty failed to preserve peace and instead led to global wars of mass destruction. The same technological progress which makes human extinction possible also makes global governance possible through nearly instant global communication and travel. The possibility for global governance confronts the reality of an archaic and inapt juridical concept. Sovereignty must be reconceptualized and understood as a relative and partial power shared at multiple levels in an intensively networked world rather than in …

The Fake Revolution: Understanding Legal Realism, Eric A. Engle

Eric A. Engle

Abstract: Legal interpretation in the United States changed dramatically between 1930 and 1950. The Great Depression and World War II unleashed radical critique (particularly prior to the war). Legal realism proposed radical new methods of legal interpretation to try to meet the challenges of global depression and global war. The new legal methods proposed by realism at first seemed to indicate a new legal order. In fact, they only preserved the old order, protecting it from fundamental change. Thus, the same problem, cyclical economic downturn triggering war for resources and market share recurred in Vietnam. Just as the depression and …

The Erotics Of Mercantile Imperialism: Cross-Cultural Requitedness In The Early Modern Period, Carmen Nocentelli

Carmen Nocentelli

This article explores the early modern vogue for intermarriage narratives, arguing that cross-cultural unions served as both a crucial instrument of and a privileged metaphor for European imperialism. Adapting medieval precedents to the exigencies of colonial governance and mercantile penetration, plots of interracial requitedness exorcized the specter of European “degeneration” abroad and legitimized the subordination of countries from which enormous profits could be extracted. At the same time, these popular narratives bolstered a regime of domestic heterosexuality that increasingly confined eroticism within the bounds of marriage. With their exotic backdrops and amorous exploits, they celebrated heteropatriarchy while racializing practices and …

Libertarianism, Karl Widerquist

Karl Widerquist

This is an encyclopedia entry on libertarianism covering right-libertarianism, left-libertarianism, and libertarian socialism.

Truth And Virtue In Spiritual Eclecticism, Eric Bain-Selbo

Eric Bain-Selbo

No abstract provided.

A Whale Of A Tale: Post-Colonialism, Critical Theory, And Deconstruction: Revisiting The International Convention For The Regulation Of Whaling Through A Socio-Legal Persepctive, Nick J. Sciullo

Nick J. Sciullo

This article is a critical interpretation of the indigenous whaling debate, which, although often discussed in legal academia, has received only passing critical attention. As a scholar in the critical theory/critical legal studies model, I am primarily concerned with the impact that law and debates about law have on divergent groups (racial, ethnic, gender, etc.). This article develops a criticism of the United States's postcolonial opposition to whaling, arguing, instead, for cultural relativism. The article indicts U.S. imperialism, and treatment of indigenous peoples, arguing for interdisciplinary analysis and a more keen appreciation for the voice of indigenous peoples. As I …

Schönle, Andreas, The Ruler In The Garden: Politics And Landscape Design In Imperial Russia, Gitta Hammarberg

Gitta Hammarberg, Retired

No abstract provided.

Recasting The Chinese Self In Musical Globalization: A Response To Joseph Lam's Chinese Music And Its Globalized Past And Present, Chuen-Fung Wong

Chuen-Fung Wong

No abstract provided.

A Rawlsian Perspective On Justice For The Disabled, Adam Cureton

Adam Cureton

I aim to identify and describe some basic elements of a Rawlsian approach that may help us to think conscientiously about how, from the standpoint of justice, we should treat the disabled. Rawls has been criticized for largely ignoring issues of this sort. These criticisms lose their appeal, I suggest, when we distinguish between a Rawlsian standpoint and the limited project Rawls mainly undertakes in A Theory of Justice. There his explicit aim is to find principles of justice, which are to govern the basic structures of a closed, well-ordered society that exists under reasonably favorable conditions, that would be …

Oromummaa As The Master Ideology Of The Oromo National Movement, Asafa Jalata

Asafa Jalata

Oromummaa, as an element of culture, nationalism, and vision, has the power to serve as a manifestation of the collective identity of the Oromo national movement. The foundation of Oromummaa must be built on overarching principles that are embedded within Oromo traditions and culture and, at the same time, have universal relevance for all oppressed peoples. The main foundations of Oromummaa are individual and collective freedom, justice, popular democracy, and human liberation all of which are built on the concept of saffu (moral and ethical order) and are enshrined in gada principles. Although, in recent years, many Oromos have become …

Prácticas De Lectoescritura En Los Exvotos, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Prácticas de Lectoescritura en los Exvotos Abstract Maria Eugenia de Luna University of Western Ontario mdelunav@uwo.ca En este trabajo estudio las prácticas de lectoescritura en los exvotos, su producción y usos, tomando en cuenta que las prácticas de lectoescritura nos ayudan a tener una mejor idea del concepto de cómo se unen en la práctica la escritura y la lectura con las estructuras sociales. Un exvoto es un documento lleno de información tanto visual como narrativa y gracias a estos se puede decir que se tienen un acervo histórico popular, donde a través de los siglos podemos ver ilustrados y …

Leer Y Escribir En Español: Una Manera De Mantener La L1 De Inmigrantes Mexicanos En Canadá, Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

Maria Eugenia De Luna Villalón

No abstract provided.

Zur Gewalt Der Bilder In Elfriede Jelineks Prinzessinnendramen, Solibakke Ivan Karl

Karl Ivan Solibakke

No abstract provided.

From Sucre To The ‘Big Apple’: Roberto Berdecio And The Vanished Murals Of 13th Street, Peter A. Stern

Peter A. Stern

Paper presented at the Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials (SALALM) LII meeting, May 2007. Images of Berdecio's art, which accompanied the presentation, cannot be reproduced without clearing copyright. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons attribution 3.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/).

Mexico City Blues: Part V, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder

Fl., Cl., Bn., Narrator Mexico City Blues: Part Five features poems using “nonsense”, made-up words reflecting to some extent jazz scat, dada/surrealist automatic writing as well as neologisms ala James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. The overall mood of this grouping suggests humor sliced with large amounts of bewilderment/cynicism. The two principal movements, Glossolalia and Xenoglossy (speaking in tongues ) are separated by two short interludes: Harvest Moon Interlude, based on the song, “Shine On Harvest Moon” quoted in the bassoon (followed by its inversion) that held particular symbolism for Kerouac, and Pastoral Interlude which imitates sheep braying. One interesting moment occurs …

Mexico City Blues: Part Iv, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder

Vibraphone, Harp., Narrator

Second Quartet For Saxophones, Randall Snyder

Randall Snyder

No abstract provided.

Child Production Of Quechua Evidential Morphemes In Conversations And Story Retellings, Ellen H. Courtney

Ellen H Courtney

Languages such as Turkish, Korean, and Japanese exhibit evidential morphemes encoding information source as direct or indirect evidence. Investigations of child acquisition of evidential systems (notably, Aksu-Koc, 1988; Choi, 1995; Matsui, Yamamoto & McCagg, 2006) reveal that development of evidential meaning is a protracted process, relying on children’s incremental understanding of mental states.

This study examines child production of five Quechua suffixes, including three evidential enclitics (direct evidence, hearsay, report), and two verb inflections that differentiate perceived and unperceived events in past time. For this purpose, the research team recorded 15 conversations between mothers and their children, aged 2;3-8;0, as …

The Quasi-Confessional Autobiography: Mort D'Un Silence, By Clémence Boulouque, Jane E. Evans

Jane E. Evans

Since 2003, when Clémence Boulouque's memoir, Mort d'un silence, was published, its author has written in a variety of genres, including novels, articles, and film scripts. Mort d'un silence, her first autobiographical work, interests the reader for several reasons: it revisits Judge Gilles Boulouque's suicide in December 1990 and the consequences of this act for his family, especially his thirteen-year-old daughter, Clémence; it recalls the political climate in France during the late 1980s, when Gilles Boulouque had already begun to fight terrorism; and it illustrates the tension between disclosure and concealment as its twenty-six-year-old narrator describes her passage …

Acculturation, Allen Gnanam

Allen Gnanam

Acculturation is an experience/ phenomenon that occurs when groups of individuals with different cultural backgrounds engage in on going/ continuous physical contact, which in turn causes one or more of the different cultures too experience adaptation/ a change in their original cultural practices (Berry, 1997); (Berry, 2008). Acculturation is a phenomenon that occurs at a macro level/ group level and a micro level/ individual level, and this means that an individual of a certain ethnic minority group can experience acculturation differently than their ethnic minority group (Berry, 1997). Macro level acculturation occurs when the original culture of a specific ethnic …

China- Tibet Conflict, Allen Gnanam

Allen Gnanam

China- Tibet tensions are continually growing, as Tibetans are protesting for total independence from China, despite condemnation from their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who is only seeking a sense of autonomy for Tibet (Sinder, 2008). As Tibetan protests are becoming violent and aggressive, the Dalai Lama has also threatened to resign as Tibet’s government in exile (Sinder, 2008), however, his rhetoric is not being exposed to the Tibetan people, due to government censorship in China. Therefore the Dalai Lama, an exiled institutional entrepreneur, has to find new methods that will enable his influential message, to be received by the …