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Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith
No full textReview of: Brigham Young and the Expansion of the Mormon Faith, by Thomas G. Alexander
Iowa Confederates in the Civil War
No full textReview of: Iowa Confederates in the Civil War, by David Connon
Objectifying Love: Ladies and Their Tokens, Saints and Their Relics in Chrétien de Troyes
No full textRelics are powerful signifiers of the relationship between humanity and the divine because they allow humans to physically touch a part of a saint’s body or an extension of the saint’s body. This type of symbolism may also be found in the relationship between ladies and knights in Chrétien de Troyes’ Arthurian romances, when a part of the lady’s body (her hair, for example) or an object that once belonged to the lady is touched by the knight. The objects that represent these ladies provide their knights with some form of power at crucial stages in the romances, usually encouraging them to undertake or complete a pilgrimage-like quest. My paper explores the ways in which ladies and their objects are described similarly to saints and their relics, while also contrasting the objectification of the ladies with the agency of saints
Peppermint Kings: A Rural American History
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An Environmental History of the Civil War
No full textReview of: An Environmental History of the Civil War, by Judkin Browing and Timothy Silve
Bedrock Elevation and Quaternary Thickness Maps of the West Point 7.5\u27 Quadrangle, Lee County, Iowa
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“It’s just a cycle”: Resilience, poetics, and intimate disruptions
Get PDFThe phrase “It’s just a cycle” is commonly articulated in coastal resilience efforts and it also shapes broader public debates about climate change. Identifying the structure of arguments around cycles is a useful starting point for defining differences in perspective, but there is more to competing claims about cycles. It is this more that this essay aims to explore, starting with an opening example from an engaged rhetorical ethnographic project with Maine’s clam fishery. The example helps set up a methodological orientation to working with cycles within resilience-focused collaborations that draws from aesthetics and poetics. This approach aims to show how cycles shape world making and how attending to cycles as a trope can create a space for critical disruptions of colonial patterns. This is a space of intimate connection that allows cyclical rhythms, like those of tides, to help reveal a passageway to resilience
Addressing the Social Determinants of Health: “Vulnerable” Populations and the Presentation of Healthy People 2020
Get PDFPopulation health is a concept at the core of national healthcare reform efforts. Population health focuses on the social determinants of health, or the living conditions of people at work, home, and play. To participate in population health initiatives, organizations must collect population-level data, creating a discourse of resilience-as-ability-to-cope through mapping community demographics, as though a counting of bodies and their material conditions creates a foundation for sustained, improved health outcomes. In 2010, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (ODPHP) launched an initiative called Healthy People 2020, a set of ten-year national goals and objectives for health promotion and disease prevention. In this essay, we analyze this data project, arguing that the discourses of resiliency (through improved national, state, and local data collection efforts) and vulnerability (of the people who are reduced to data) create a constitutive rhetoric for U.S. public health officials to rally around the cause of population health yet exclude the very people upon whom such a cause should focus. Specifically, an examination of the ODPHP’s Healthy People 2020 website reveals that the reduction of bodies to quantification in data displays for health professionals, when viewed through the lens of Philip Wander’s Third Persona, objectifies groups of people already historically marginalized and obfuscates pathways to social action. We argue that instead, an ecological, relational definition of resilience must be fostered through autonomy of communities in the decisions they make about their own community members’ health and wellness