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KEYNOTE The Sexual Contract: 30 Years On
No full textThis is a video of Carole Pateman's Keynote address at the Sexual Contract: 30 Years On conference held at the School of Law and Politics, Cardiff University on 10-11 May 2018.In her address, Pateman reflects on the antecedents and contemporary context for the writing of her book, The Sexual Contract (Polity Press, 1988), in political theory and in the women's movement of the 1970s. She goes on to discuss several key features of the book, including the distinction made in chapter 2 between different historical forms of patriarchy, with the modern form of patriarchy being based on contract, in which sexual subordination is presented as voluntary. She notes that the book focuses on contracts concerning property in the person and in particular contracts within three institutions: employment, marriage and prostitution. She goes on to respond to some of the feminist criticisms of her argument about prostitution, before concluding by noting the interdisciplinary audience the book has attracted, particularly among legal academics
Arachnid Verve (Shauna Osborn)
No full textShauna Osborn's book is worthy of a deep reading. The reviewer's Okie roots are showing
On Decoloniality: Concepts, Analytics, Praxis (Walter D. Mignolo and Catherine E. Walsh)
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Skills for Employment in the Environment Profession: insights from Australia
Get PDFLike other professionals, the skills expected to be exercised by those working in the professional environment and sustainability sector cover a wide range. There has been considerable discussion given to what this range embraces, and which are the more important of the skills. Also discussed has been the terminology associated with skills; i.e. core skills, generic skills, transferable skills, competencies, capabilities, and more. An electronic survey of environment professionals based in Australia provided the opportunity to explore the skills that a sample of these professionals considered to be important in their professional work. The results indicated that the critical generic skills for being an environmental professional are: communication (written); project management; interpersonal skills; judgment and decision making; scientific approach and application; team work (coordination); initiative and enterprise; and computer skills. Considering others’ work regarding other professions, it appears that many of the skills in this list are also relevant to a range of professions. Further, the broad relevance of these skills is indicated as the survey participants considered them to be important for specific (current) jobs and for working in the sector generally. Surprisingly critical thinking, which is often noted in the literature as a high priority, was considered important for current positions, but not so for working in the sector generally. Also, the participants indicated little appreciation of aspects of ‘normative skills’; suggesting that practitioners are focused on skills needed for ‘getting the job done’, but show little recognition of what the ‘job is and its implications’. The results provide a snap-shot of the profession, and point to areas of research regarding the skills that future environment, and other, professionals will need, and how educational institutions will have to respond; given fast moving climate change, alongside the continuing roll-out of automation in work-places
As We Have Always Done: Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance (Leanne Betasamosake Simpson)
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Pre-Occupied
No full text“Pre-Occupied” is a new and experimental form, the poem-film. Originally written for the website 99 Poems for the 99%, poet Heid E. Erdrich created a visual landscape of associations and references that match the tremendous irony of how the word “occupy” can be meant. The film version of this poem is a collaborative collage that means to reveal the distracted human mind at a particular point in history. Released in early 2013, the film inadvertently anticipated the Idle No More Movement
Redwashing: Sedgwick's Blood Moon, a Case Study
Get PDFThis essay looks at the recently published book Blood Moon by John Sedgwick. The author and Colin Calloway were asked by the author and publisher to do readers reports on the book prior to publication. This essay discusses that process and the refusal of the author to make changes pointed out by the readers, including factual errors and negative stereotypes, all the while thanking the reviewers profusely in his acknowledgments, suggesting they had vetted and endorse the book
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