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onward so as to make progress; toward a successful conclusion.
“There is a way forward
and yes
it is with a broken
heart
but it is our own way
collectively convened,
pondered,
Shared.”
Alice Walke
Believing in the American Dream Sustains Negative Attitudes toward Those in Poverty
Get PDFA critical lever in the fight against poverty is to improve attitudes toward those living in poverty. Attempting to understand the factors that impact these attitudes, we ask: Does believing that meritocracy exists (descriptive meritocracy) sustain negative attitudes? Using cross-sectional (N = 301) and experimental (N = 439) methods, we found that belief in the United States as a meritocracy is associated with blaming people living in poverty and predicts negative attitudes toward them. Replicating and extending these findings, we experimentally manipulated beliefs in meritocracy and blame. Weakening American Dream beliefs predicted improved attitudes toward those in poverty. Understanding the nuanced role of belief systems in attitudes toward those in poverty provides strategies for promoting more positive thoughts and feelings
Understanding the Effectiveness of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives at Youth Summer Camps
Get PDFThe purpose of this qualitative study is to explore the effectiveness of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and initiatives at camps in creating a community that is safe and inclusive of all participants. Many youth summer camps are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) as integral to their values and mission and consider themselves safe spaces for all regardless of their race, religion, or socioeconomic background. DEI should be a matter of concern for any camp, so that it might better prepare its participants to serve as advocates for social justice in society today and in the future. If DEI are strategic priorities for camps, it is important that camp leaders develop and implement DEI programs that are adequate and effective in meeting the needs within their community. Camp directors and leaders must continuously consider and evaluate how they will support and improve DEI within their respective communities both in the moment and in the future. DEI needs to be evident in every fiber of the camp culture such as staff, programming, financing, and governing policies. I intend for my research to demonstrate the effectiveness of specific practices, strategies, and tools focused on DEI at camps in creating a more positive, supportive, and safe experience for all participants. By gauging the level of effectiveness and impact of this work through assessment and accountability, camps might learn how they can modify and improve their efforts in the future to serve as centers for positive youth development and growth in this increasingly complex and diverse world
“Who shall be lord of the earth?” Nietzsche, Schmitt, and thinking “beyond the line”
No full textCarl Schmitt privately acknowledged that his late theory of Erd-Herrschaft (hegemony of the Earth) converged with some of Nietzsche’s thought, yet remained silent on this in his book The Nomos of the Earth. This essay reconstructs an implicit Nietzsche–Schmitt dialog, focusing on their related but distinct geopolitical and phenomenological concepts of Earth, the role of binary divisions in ethics and politics, and the nature of hegemony. Nietzsche and Schmitt both derive from a tradition of political theology that relies on the antitheses of state sovereignty and the Antichrist, but they draw opposed conclusions from this duality
Toilets for all: corporate social entrepreneurship in Bangladesh and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa
No full textThis case uniquely challenges students by introducing the history of how LIXIL transformed its corporate social responsibility (CSR) program to create shared value within the global sanitation sector by launching the SATO business unit as a social enterprise. SATO is a “self-sustaining social business that establishes a local Make, Sell, Use cycle in the community – creating jobs and allowing local manufacturers and stakeholders to continue the business independently” (LIXIL, 2019). From 2012 to 2021, NGOs helped the company design and market the SATO toilet pan and other products that form the SATO business unit. The SATO business unit must balance its social mission of improved sanitation with the need to gain a profit and become a sustainable business – the ongoing challenge of social entrepreneurship
Reseña - Ficciones de emancipación por María Julia Rossi
No full textEn Ficciones de emancipación. Los sirvientes literarios de Silvina Ocampo, Elena Garro y Clarice Lispector, María Julia Rossi presenta un conjunto de lecturas críticas de textos de autoras centrales en la matriz de la literatura y de los feminismos literarios en Latinoamérica. Los análisis evidencian una rigurosa metodología no solo en cuanto a la delimitación de la serie literaria estudiada dentro de un vasto corpus y en relación con los conceptos teóricos empleados, muchos de los cuales, dada la temática, provienen del campo de los estudios sociales y la economía, sino que demuestran una clara demarcación por parte de la autora de las tensiones que provoca el estudio del empleo doméstico en el campo académico
The Case for Challenge Trials.
No full textResearch ethics committees and policymakers should permit and encourage Covid-19 challenge trials for new potential vaccines and variations on the administration of existing vaccines. In a challenge trial, researchers deliberately expose participants to a virus in order to test vaccines or treatments. This differs from standard trial designs for vaccines, where researchers enroll people in a trial, vaccinate some of them, and wait for the participants to naturally acquire a disease in order to test the effectiveness of the vaccine. Researchers have proposed and used challenge trials in the past, for example to test the effectiveness of vaccines and treatments for influenza or Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV). In the UK, public officials recently partnered with researchers to begin Covid-19 challenge trials to test new vaccines and to answer other questions about the virus. Other countries should follow their lead