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The fundamental role of regional human rights courts in inciting social and health policy change
Get PDFThis case comment is an analysis on a a report by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. This case shows a fundamental shift in State compliance to the non-binding measures of the Court. While the compliance can be explained by political motives, it still ensures a further promotion and protection of human rights. In this case, HIV-infected servicemen were discharged from the Mexican military. In this instance, Mexico's compliance with the IACHR's recommendations may have positive effect on the reduction or even elimination of the spread of HIV/AIDS in the country as well as the region
Distance Learning: Can Telesupervision Facilitate GP Educator Supervision?
Get PDFAbstractDistance learning involving both time-synchronous (telephone) and asynchronous media (email, podcasts) has been used successfully in education and supervision of allied medical specialties over the years. However the poor social presence afforded by such electronic interfaces has, until recently, limited the application of distance learning to post- graduate medical education. High-quality real-time audio-visual communication software is now widely available and being used increasingly for social communication by more and more people. Could this technology be used to facilitate the educational development of remote learners? This paper offers the experience of senior GP Educators using remote, time-synchronous, audio- visual technology (namely Skype) to provide distance supervision to a peer educator
Brexit Logics: Myth and Fact - A Black Feminist Analysis
Get PDFOn June 24, 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union in a landmark referendum result. The ‘Brexit’ vote along with Trump’s presidential election in America, the Turkish referendum, the French election and the rise in far-right groups more globally, have been underpinned by certain populist ‘logics’. This comment seeks to agitate these Brexit logics through a Black Feminist perspective that refocuses current debates on power and the intersectional politics of gender, race and class
Consuming, Incarcerating, and “Transmoting” Misery: Border Practice in Vizenor’s Bearheart and Jones’s The Fast Red Road
Get PDFDrawing on Gerald Vizenor's complex notion of "transmotion" and concepts from carceral theory, an intertextual reading of two rich, initial novels by first and second-generation postmodern Native writers, namely Gerald Vizenor's seminal Bearheart: The Heirship Chronicles (1990; first published in 1978 as Darkness in Saint Louis Bearheart) and Stehen Graham Jones's The Fast Red Road: A Plainsong (2000), reveals both systemic miseries and strategies for combatting them. In the two novels, brutal imagery and experience of cannibalization, enclosure, and displacement menace the Native protagonists, but, paradoxically, these strong images also offer modes of resourceful and imaginative action - for my purposes here particularly at territorial borders - which enable totemic laughter and viable Native "survivance," to use Vizenor's own much-quoted term.Recent carceral theory tells us that the mapping of imprisonment must include a differentiated study of "practice" as well as of enclosed space and enforced borders (cf. Dominique Moran, 2015). Indeed, the border crossing in the two books at hand encodes centuries of discriminatory practice based on dangerously fixed stereotypes, demarcation of ethnic boundaries, and binary "terminal creeds" that Gerald Vizenor has always critiqued in his oeuvre. The miserable but epiphanic realization by Pidgin, one of Jones's protagonists, in yet another 'win-or-lose' trap that he "was consumed" (153) echoes on many levels in a synergetic analysis of the two experimental and engagé novels, which nonetheless demonstrate the creativity, transformation, convention defiance, the wisely grotesque clowning and trickery, the imagination involved in crafting and enabling Native transmotion.
It Consumes What It Forgets
Get PDFThis essay offers a reflection on what the wiindigoo is in Anishinaabe thought and experience, exploring it's cannibalistic impulses particularly as a presence in educational institutions and the contemporary fossil fuel economy. It explores this presence in the northwoods of the Anishinaabe homelands and as a presence in the experience of the author's family life. It explores the ramifications of forgetting one is a human and what sort of compassion it takes to face this destructive spirit without submitting to it
Book Review: Stephen Macedo, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage
Get PDFReview of Stephen Macedo, Just Married: Same-Sex Couples, Monogamy and the Future of Marriage (Princeton University Press, 2015)
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