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The Path To Eliminating Oppression: Why Anarchist Thinkers And Intersectional Practitioners Should Work Together, Samantha Montgomery Aug 2021

The Path To Eliminating Oppression: Why Anarchist Thinkers And Intersectional Practitioners Should Work Together, Samantha Montgomery

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

In this paper, I examine the similarities between the tenets of anarcha-feminism and the practices of those with intersectional viewpoints. During my research, I interviewed 3 women of color who are leaders in the elimination of oppression in Denver, CO, and learned that having an increased experience with interlocking oppression, as those with multi-marginalized identities do, results in having the expertise to recognize where oppression exists, and, in most cases, developing the empathy to fight against it. This paper thus concludes that if the United States of America was to systemically implement an intersectional perspective, it would then take measurable …


The Role Of Government In Cases Of Faith Based Child Medical Neglect, Megan Jacobson Feb 2017

The Role Of Government In Cases Of Faith Based Child Medical Neglect, Megan Jacobson

Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal

In the United States, parental rights have been defined by a strong liberal conception of individual rights, giving parents huge leeway in determining how their children are raised. In this paper, I examine one extreme example of parental rights gone wrong: faith based child medical neglect, a phenomenon that occurs when parents turn to faith healing for their children instead of standard medical care, resulting in the child’s death. First, I show how liberal theory has failed to address key questions regarding the limits of both parental and child rights as they apply to faith healing. Then I apply the …


Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi Jan 1978

Contemporary Peace Research: From Utopia To Feasibility, William O. Peterfi

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

This paper proposes to bring into focus some major problems confronting the discipline of peace politics. There appears to be an urgent need for systematic analysis of the many diverse areas and approaches currently lumped together in the general scope of so-called peace research.


New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett Jan 1978

New Towns As Laboratories Of Democracy: Early American And British Experience, Robert A. Barrett

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

New Towns have received attention as significant fields for study of urban systems and urban problems. Their early development in Great Britain and more recent development in the United States is a subject of public and private interest, yet little attention has been directed to their potential for improving the urban democratic process as well as dealing with housing, transportation, employment, planning, recreation, and other urban systems. This paper examines the potential of New Towns with reference to British experiences in improving urban democratic systems.


Utopian Communalism: A Comparison Of 19th And 20th Century Phenomena In The United States, Truman David Wood Jan 1973

Utopian Communalism: A Comparison Of 19th And 20th Century Phenomena In The United States, Truman David Wood

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

The utopian communal phenomenon has been present in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The longevity of various religious and secular utopian communal experiments is examined in terms of four organizational factors and the twentieth century communes are considered in terms of four ideals. The main stream of American society has assimilated nothing from these utopian communal experiments.