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LMDA New & Noteworthy, February 2019
Get PDFContents include: Happy February!; Q&A | Thomas Choinacky; Another Successful Lessing Week!; Upcoming Regional Events; Call for Translators.https://soundideas.pugetsound.edu/lmdanewsletter/1045/thumbnail.jp
Comments “Listening to Music: A Philosophical Account”
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By Paskalina Bourbon (Pomona College)
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Chair: Colleen Hanso
Epistemic Injustice and Suicidality
Get PDFThis paper extends both Miranda Fricker\u27s framework regarding epistemic injustice, found in her book \u27Epistemic Injustice, as well as Ian James Kidd and Havi Carel\u27s essay Epistemic Injustice and Illness to a small population of people who identify internally with the desire to kill oneself i.e. suicidality. I argue that a certain population of suicidal people are especially vulnerable targets of epistemic injustice
A Letter from Ayanna Drakos
Get PDFThe following is a letter to the faculty, staff, and community partners who were all essential to my experience as a student of African American Studies and as an organizer with the Race & Pedagogy Initiative (now Institute!). The subject “you” is plural, and refers to those mentioned above
The Temperance Movement: Feminism, Nativism, Religious Identity, and Race
Get PDFOver the course of the nineteenth century, an anti-alcohol movement known as the Temperance movement, supported mainly by Protestant women, grew in America. Despite being unable to vote, many of these women were hugely influential in politics, creating the foundation for the Prohibition movement. The ways in which drunkards were discussed and depicted was often as racialized Irish and Italian Catholics: both European groups were not considered “White” at the time, and many of the men came from Catholic countries, which was viewed as a threat by American Protestants. Depicting non-white people as agents of both violence and uncontrollable sexuality was in many ways an appeal to the American people, who at the time were caught up in Nativist anti-Catholic and anti-Irish/Italian beliefs. Political cartoons during the late nineteenth century give modern-day historians a window into the mind of the American people during the Temperance movement, including but not limited to how they viewed women, race, religion, and the prohibition of alcohol
LMDA Conference Schedule, 2019
Get PDFThe 2019 LMDA Conference was held June 20-22, 2019 at Columbia College, Chicago, IL. Contents include the schedule and press release
Magnetic Exploration of the Crescent Formation, Washington: The search for a hidden fault near Dusk Point
Get PDFThe mafic rocks of the Olympic Peninsula, Washington, are part of an accreted terrane known as Siletzia which experienced transpressional stresses as far as 50 Ma ago in the early Eocene. The Peninsula has an accretion-thrust marine sedimentary interior and a mafic volcanic periphery juxtaposed along the Hurricane Ridge fault; a terrane-scale thrust fault. The mafic Crescent Formation (CF) can be subdivided into two units: The Lower Crescent member (LC) and the Upper Crescent member (UC) as defined by Tabor and Cady (1978). The LC consists of submarine basalt flows that have composition similar to mid-oceanic ridges with zircon fission-track age dates ranging from ≥53.2 Ma to ≤51.1 Ma while the lavas of the UC are mostly ocean island basalts; the youngest flows around 48.4 Ma (Clark, 2019) in age. New geochemical data and age dates collected by Ken Clark (2019) in the CF show that a section of mafic material is younger and chemically distinct from the material sitting above it. The third and newer section, called the Crescent thrust sheet (CT) is thrust beneath the LC and contains basaltic material composition closer to ocean island basalts. The Blue Mountain Unit (BMU) within the CT has been dated to around 47.8 Ma (Clark, 2019). This study seeks to provide magnetic data across the geochemical boundary to the west of Dusk Point in order to locate magnetic anomalies potentially relating to the Crescent thrust and to determine the extent of the boundary between the CT and LC by chemical analysis.
Evidence for the Crescent thrust includes magnetic intensity anomalies and changes in rock composition near Dusk Point in the Olympic National Forest in Mason County. High intensity readings accompanied mafic intrusions in outcrops which were sampled along with other massive and sheared pillow flows. These samples were analyzed via ICP procedure as well as scanned for trace elements. Enriched Y/Nb ratios are found in the CT and UC while less enriched Y/Nb are found in the LC member. Magnetic transects taken across the chemical break show potential subsurface structures related to thrust faulting due to the similarities in magnetic profiles and anomalies in one transect reappearing along places where the geochemical break was proposed to extend to. Along Transects F101, F102, F103, and F202 are repeated depressions of 150-200nT (nanoTeslas) before and after a rise of 200-400nT. F202, having the most detailed data so far, shows a sharper drop in intensity than in other transects parallel to it and this is where I believe the fault lies due to a change in where the drop appears in other transects.
We suggest that the differences in composition and magnetic anomalies in the Dusk Point area may be the result of a separate package of submarine basalt flows (the Crescent thrust sheet) being thrust beneath older flows, making a third member of the Crescent Formation. In addition, a previously unrecognized thrust fault, tentatively named the Dusk Point Fault, bounds the chemically and magnetically different units in the area. More chemical sampling is underway to better define the extent of this fault and the CA unit
A Patchwork of Detention: Understanding Variation in Community Resistance to ICE Contracts with Local Jails
Get PDFAs undocumented immigration has come to the forefront of mainstream political priorities in the last two decades, the number of immigrants being detained in the US has grown much faster than bed space in detention centers meant to house them. For Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the solution has been to contract with state, county, and local jails. As of 2017, around 850 such jails around the country had Intergovernmental Service Agreements with ICE to rent out bed space. For local jails, these contracts can bring in much needed revenue to keep the jail running without taxing the local community. However, as law professor Margo Schlanger testified before the Homeland Security Advisory Council in 2016, “chaotic local jails are even less equipped to deal with immigration populations than even the ‘prison-like’ dedicated private detention centers” and the only federal oversight they are subject to are inspections that are “very very difficult to fail”.
These contracts, and the issues that come with them, have become more public over time, leading many communities to demand that their local governments cancel their contracts. But the timing of the terminations -- if they happened at all -- and the conditions that surrounded them have differed immensely from place to place. This raises the central question of my research: what factors contribute to this variance in how local communities resist ICE contracts with their jails, when resistance happens, and its level of success? I argue that these differences can be explained by variation in jails’ economic and political structures, the discourse used by resistors, and the larger political climate in which the community is embedded
PIP/DIP Joint Capsule Stiffness: Current Evidence For Effective Interventions
Get PDFThis research aimed to identify and analyze intervention approaches to remediate Proximal and Distal Interphalangeal (PIP/DIP) joint capsule stiffness and was performed to inform practice of hand therapists in an outpatient occupational therapy (OT) clinic. The treatment protocols were analyzed according to practicality for the practice and overall efficacy. Ten databases were searched to collect appropriate data based on a specific predetermined list of search terms. Articles were examined against specific inclusion and exclusion criteria, and sixteen were eventually selected for analysis. Six different intervention strategies emerged from the research including occupation-based practice, electromagnetotherapy, technology-assisted therapy, orthoses, and preparatory methods/modalities. No evidence was found to support one specific intervention strongly over another, rather each had a set of circumstances such as the type of hand condition and/or diagnosis that would warrant the use of that protocol. This suggests that it is important for practitioners who treat PIP/DIP joint capsule stiffness to be aware that there are a multitude of different treatment options available. Selecting one to use with a client will require clinical consideration of their client factors, disease/diagnosis factors, as well as clinic factors such as resources or therapist qualifications