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Leviathans At The Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous And Corporate Actors In Papua New Guinea, Jerry K. Jacka Nov 2014

Leviathans At The Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous And Corporate Actors In Papua New Guinea, Jerry K. Jacka

International Dialogue

Social analysis in anthropology today “oscillates uneasily” between a concern with Foucauldian global regimes of governance on the one hand and Deleuzian assemblages of agentive actors on the other. In Leviathans at the Gold Mine: Creating Indigenous and Corporate Actors in Papua New Guinea, Alex Golub asks if there is “a better way to do justice to a contemporary scene characterized by both spontaneity and regime” (2). Golub’s book seeks to find this middle road through the analysis of the development of a world-class gold mine on the homelands of a group of indigenous people—the Ipili— living in the highlands …


Kindly Inquisitors, The New Attack On Free Thought, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz Nov 2014

Kindly Inquisitors, The New Attack On Free Thought, Jeremy Harris Lipschultz

International Dialogue

George F. Will’s forward to the 2013 edition of this book provides important focus to the problems arising when even one person is “offended” by free speech (xiii). From campus speech codes to legal and social theory aimed at balancing the First Amendment against other rights, Will flatly rejects the liberal movement toward “sensitivity,” “inclusiveness,” “multiculturalism” and other values that attempt to limit expression: What is needed is a book explaining why the usual, and intended, result of this practice is a finding that those objectives… are more worthy than the objective of maintaining a liberal regime of protected expression. …


What Is A Palestinian State Worth?, Paul Kriese Nov 2014

What Is A Palestinian State Worth?, Paul Kriese

International Dialogue

Sari Nusseibeh begins his study of the “Palestinian problem” with the comment “this is not an academic study” (18). Maybe that is why this particular study is so good. When asked to write this review my first response was not very positive. Most studies of this region lack clarity or are so ideological as to not be very useful. Many of these studies often also claim to be “academic.” Nusseibeh’s study is, unlike many reviews, a masterful academic study. His study succinctly and accurately portrays the tangled and tortured history of the region from a view that is both sympathetic …


The Words And The Land: Israeli Intellectuals And The Nationalist Myth, Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche Nov 2014

The Words And The Land: Israeli Intellectuals And The Nationalist Myth, Abdelwahab Hiba Hechiche

International Dialogue

Shlomo Sand opens this book with a significant sentence: “Every book is part autobiography” and, consequently, “autobiographical confession” (7). Although he was born in 1946, his early recollection has been marked by a certain residue of the consequences of the Shoa, because as a child he was an eyewitness of the living conditions of people “like his Polish parents moving from one “displaced persons camp to another” (8). But during that same period of his early childhood, his memory resonated with his father’s reminding him that “we had taken someone else’s home” (8).The reader begins to witness an existential ethical …


Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character And Spirit Of Chinese Zen, Owen G. Mordaunt Nov 2014

Essential Chan Buddhism: The Character And Spirit Of Chinese Zen, Owen G. Mordaunt

International Dialogue

This book embraces the essence of talks Guo Jun gave at a fourteen-day retreat at Chan Forest in the hills of Jakarta in 2010 as well as subsequent conversations the editor and his wife had with him. It is highly readable and accessible to the reader. It has poetic, spontaneous and witty qualities, providing deep insight into Chan (also spelled Cha’n) Buddhism. Chan is the Chinese form of Zen and is not well-known in the West as Zen is, but it derives from the traditions of India. It has flourished and continued to develop through many masters and its teachings …


Letters To Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby Nov 2014

Letters To Power: Public Advocacy Without Public Intellectuals, Russell Jacoby

International Dialogue

“Some of the smartest thinkers on problems at home and around the world are university professors, but most of them just don’t matter in today’s great debates.” So opens a recent New York Times column headlined, “Professors, We Need You!” (February 2014) Nicholas Kristof’s thoughts on the disappearance of the professoriate elicited heated responses, both irate and enthusiastic. The flap illustrates that the place of intellectuals in American life continues to generate controversy. Samuel McCormick, as assistant professor of communications at Purdue University, joins this on-going dispute with Letters to Power, a wide-ranging and historically informed study of intellectual dissent. …


Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces Nov 2014

Table Of Contents, Rory J. Conces

International Dialogue

Table of Contents for Volume 4


The Sports Gene: Inside The Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Dave Ogden Nov 2014

The Sports Gene: Inside The Science Of Extraordinary Athletic Performance, Dave Ogden

International Dialogue

David Epstein is another author chasing the elusive answer to one of the basic and ageless issues of social and natural sciences: Nature versus nurture. His discoveries and conclusions in The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance are not necessarily new, but he provides ample and interesting evidence that leans more heavily on the side of nature. In doing so, he takes on stock believers in Karl Anders Ericsson’s theoretical set called “deliberate practice.” Ericsson and his colleagues have studied elite “performers” in a variety of fields, including typing, chess playing, musicianship, and athletic skills. Ericsson found …


Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice, Pattaka Sa-Ngimnet Nov 2014

Human Rights & Gender Violence: Translating International Law Into Local Justice, Pattaka Sa-Ngimnet

International Dialogue

This book explains how international human rights laws are created by consensus through representatives of local and national governments and then become translated into content acceptable to local communities. In an introductory chapter the author presents the overall arguments of the entire work. She also gives examples that support the arguments and lays out the pattern of human rights legislation by using the specific example of gender violence. Emphasizing language, she explains how it is understood in diverse ways. The rest of the book is concerned with more specific examples. Chapter two deals with creating human rights law (36–71). Chapter …


Avatar And Nature Spirituality, Martin Schönfeld Nov 2014

Avatar And Nature Spirituality, Martin Schönfeld

International Dialogue

“To put it mildly, the world is a mess.” Madeleine Albright, former U.S. Secretary of State, 27 July 2014 James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) was the first film to combine stereoscopic imagining and motion-capture animation for a flawless 3-D presentation. It was nominated for nine Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, and won three, for Cinematography, Art Direction, and Visual Effects. It was also the first box-office hit to gross more than $2 billion, and it remains the highest-grossing film to date. It made cinematic history. But it was more than an aesthetic triumph. Avatar is also a cultural …


Derrida And Comparative Philosophy, Steven Burik Nov 2014

Derrida And Comparative Philosophy, Steven Burik

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This article argues that Derrida’s thinking is relevant to comparative philosophy. To illustrate this, at various stages classical Daoism is compared with Derrida’s thought, to highlight Derrida’s “applicability” and to see how using Derrida can contribute to new interpretations of Daoism. The article first looks into Derrida’s engagement (or lack thereof) with non-Western thought, and then proceeds to his extensive work regarding language and translation, comparing this with views on classical Chinese language and translation of key Daoist characters. It then explores Derrida’s efforts at opening up philosophy to its outside, and argues that he was very much concerned with …


Can American Christians Care About Hong Kong’S Umbrella Movement?, Justin Kh Tse Nov 2014

Can American Christians Care About Hong Kong’S Umbrella Movement?, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

It’s a delicate task to write about how American Christians, especially evangelicals, can care about Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement.


Jian Ghomeshi And Secular Sexualities, Justin Kh Tse Nov 2014

Jian Ghomeshi And Secular Sexualities, Justin Kh Tse

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The public conversation swirling around Jian Ghomeshi’s termination from the Canadian Broadcasting Company (CBC) is a grand exercise in secular sexualities.It begins with his Facebook post. Explaining that he was fired because of his private BDSM consensual acts with an ex-girlfriend, he castigates the CBC for both acknowledging that his acts were consensual and then wrongfully pulling the plug on him because he would serve as a poor role model.


Auburn Sun, Tiffany Scales Oct 2014

Auburn Sun, Tiffany Scales

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


She Slapped Me, Fawaz Alotaibi Oct 2014

She Slapped Me, Fawaz Alotaibi

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Smells Like Teen Spirit, Tony Joshua Oct 2014

Smells Like Teen Spirit, Tony Joshua

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Poet, Asalean Springfield Oct 2014

The Poet, Asalean Springfield

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


The Final Harvest, Rick D. Hallbeck Oct 2014

The Final Harvest, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Maiden Mantle, Rick D. Hallbeck Oct 2014

Maiden Mantle, Rick D. Hallbeck

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


My Black Community, Ashley Stewart Oct 2014

My Black Community, Ashley Stewart

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Karma, Shannon Stanton Oct 2014

Karma, Shannon Stanton

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Pining Through The City, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Pining Through The City, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Nightmares, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Nightmares, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Discourse Of Introduction And Other Foul Sentiments, Erica De La Cruz Oct 2014

Discourse Of Introduction And Other Foul Sentiments, Erica De La Cruz

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Daddy, Jack Perry Oct 2014

Daddy, Jack Perry

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


When You Grow Up To Be A Child, Viviauna Brown Oct 2014

When You Grow Up To Be A Child, Viviauna Brown

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Black Aesthetic, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Black Aesthetic, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Tell-Lie-Vision, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Tell-Lie-Vision, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


Man Divine, Steven Clark Oct 2014

Man Divine, Steven Clark

Sketches: the Online Creative Arts Journal of Tennessee State University

No abstract provided.


In Defense Of The Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out Of Politics, Bas Van Der Vossen Oct 2014

In Defense Of The Ivory Tower: Why Philosophers Should Stay Out Of Politics, Bas Van Der Vossen

Philosophy Faculty Articles and Research

Many political theorists, philosophers, social scientists, and other academics engage in political activism. And many think this is how things ought to be. In this essay, I challenge the ideal of the politically engaged academic. I argue that, quite to the contrary, political theorists, philosophers, and other political thinkers have a prima facie duty to refrain from political activism. This argument is based on a commonsense moral principle, a claim about the point of political thought, and findings in cognitive psychology.