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La disposición censoria: las dos vidas de Fernández de Lizardi y las sensibilidades conservadoras en México
No full textLa obra narrativa de José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi (1776-1827) vivió un renovado auge editorial en el México de los 1830s, una década que se caracterizó por una reacción termidoriana que buscó contener los “excesos” populares y republicanos vistos durante los primeros años de vida independiente. Re-editadas en un nuevo contexto, las posturas y sensibilidades de las novelas de Fernández de Lizardi perdieron el carácter contestatario de su primera vida e hicieron eco a fuerzas antiliberales. A partir de esta re-articulación, este ensayo ofrece una lectura retrospectiva de las dos vidas del autor con el fin de mostrar cómo, a su centro, se halló lo que se podría denominar la “disposición censoria”. Así, se propondrá que, reactivada en la década posterior a su muerte, la obra tardía y disposición censoria de Fernández de Lizardi jugaron un papel fundacional en la articulación de las posteriores sensibilidades conservadoras de México
Do good lives make good stories?
No full textNarrativists about well-being claim that our lives go better for us if they make good stories-if they exhibit cohesion, thematic consistency, and narrative arc. Yet narrativism leads to mistaken assessments of well-being: prioritizing narrative makes it harder to balance and change pursuits, pushes us toward one-dimensionality, and can\u27t make sense of the diversity of good lives. Some ways of softening key narrativist claims mean that the view can\u27t tell us very much about how to live a good life that we can\u27t find in other theories of well-being; while there are smaller-scale ways we can incorporate narrativist insights into our views of well-being, narrativism should not be a universal organizing principle for our lives
What\u27s in a Name: How US Supreme Court Justices Shape Law and Policy in the Lower Courts
No full textWe investigate whether inherent differences between the majority opinions of US Supreme Court justices result in certain justices being systematically more influential compared to their peers. We offer a theory in which lower court adoption of the Supreme Court\u27s precedents are influenced through justice opinion attributes, case characteristics, and circuit-level influences. To test the predictions, we examine the universe of responses by US Courts of Appeals to the signed majority opinions of individual justices by assembling a dataset of over 130,000 observations. We assess the interdependence of the mechanisms at work through a coarsened exact matching algorithm. We find that intricate tendencies in opinion writing disparately impact lower court attentiveness to the Supreme Court\u27s decisions. These findings offer new and important implications toward a richer understanding of the influence of individual justices on legal development and policy adoption in the American courts
Why is Mother Earth on Life Support? Metaphors in Environmental Discourse
No full textFrom mother nature and carbon footprints to greenhouse gasses and the race against global warming, popular discourse on environmental issues is saturated with metaphor. Some people view these metaphors as obfuscating or ineffective, while others believe they are crucial for improving climate communications and environmental attitudes. In this paper, we provide a systematic overview and evaluation of the use of English metaphors in Anglo environmental discourse, drawing on a range of empirical and popular media sources. We begin by discussing the role of metaphor in language in thought. Next, we introduce a range of metaphors used to frame discussions of (1) our relationship to nature (e.g., the earth is our common home), (2) our impact on the environment (e.g., we are knocking the climate off balance), and (3) how we should address this impact (e.g., reduce our ecological footprint). We classify these metaphors along several dimensions, including how conventional they are, how systemic they are, how emotionally impactful they are, and how aptly they capture the topics they are used to describe. From this analysis, we derive several promising candidate metaphors that may help increase public understanding and engagement with environmental issues. However, we note that such claims must be tested empirically in future research; currently, there are few large, systematic, replicable experiments in the literature assessing the impact of environmental metaphors. We conclude by offering general recommendations for using metaphors in communications about climate change and sustainability
Stonewallin\u27 (2023)
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Vicarious Dissonance: Impacts on Group Identification and Ingroup Member Likability
No full textVicarious dissonance is the experience of watching one’s ingroup member behave in a counterattitudinal way. When witnessing this misalignment in words and actions in a member of one’s social group, discomfort often arises. The unpleasantness of this experience regularly leads to a behavior change to cope with this dissonance. This study examines whether the experience of vicarious dissonance leads to thinking more highly of the inconsistent ingroup member, which would align with Dissonance Theory, or leads to thinking more negatively of this group member, which would align with the Black Sheep Effect. Also, this study examines whether the experience of vicarious dissonance leads to a change in how closely people identify with their ingroup