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Gender and European Integration
No full textThe paper assesses the contribution of gender approaches to understanding Europeanintegration. It offers a conceptualization of such approaches as including a distinctontology, epistemology and methodology. While feminist literature on the EuropeanUnion is diverse, all such literature sheds light on the gendered process of Europeanintegration. The authors identify two distinct contributions of this literature: (a) itillustrates the relevance of movement actors and other advocates in shaping EU policies;(b) it shows that economic integration entails the creation of new gender regimes. Thepaper illustrates these contentions presenting case studies of the EU’s response to sextrafficking, the reform of the common agricultural policy, and of enlargement.
Situated impoliteness: the interface between relational work and identity construction
No full textThis chapter reports on ongoing research interest in relational work, and impoliteness in particular. The author's interest in impoliteness comes from her research focus on power and politeness in disagreements, where she looked at conflictual data (Locher, 2004). While research on politeness has beein going strong since the 1970s, research on impoliteness has only recently picked up momentum, as for example evidenced by the 2006 and 2009 conferences on impoliteness and rudeness in Huddersfield and Lancaster, the special issue of the Journal of Politeness Research (Bousfield and Culpeper, 2008), the first monograph on impoliteness (Bousfield, 2008a), and edited collections on rudeness and impoliteness (Gorji, 2007; Bousfield and Locher, 2008). A few early exceptions are Lachenicht (1980), Kienpointner (1997), Culpeper (1996) and Culpeper et al. (2003). Research on impoliteness is motivated by the sociological importance of tackling the perceived increasing problems of blatant rudeness and inconsiderateness which are said to negatively affect public life in Britain, as for example evidenced by Tony Blair's 'respect agenda', and as studied by Jonathan Culpeper (2006) in his ESRC research project on 'Impoliteness : using language to cause offence'. These topical reasons, along with an interest in the interpersonal side of communication most generally, have led the author to return her interest to conflictual behaviour and behaviour that might be deemed rude or impolite
Greyville School District No. 3836 - 04
No full textPhotograph - Parents and students and Greyville School's first picnic near Athabasca, Alberta.ATS 15-67-23-W4. Left, front: Mrs. Locher and babyLocher, Mrs
Joint analysis of germline genetic data from over 29,000 cases with suspected hereditary breast and ovarian cancer (HBOC) as part of the NASGE initiative
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International Norms and European Policy Making : Trafficking in Women in the EU
No full textThis paper seeks to explore a striking puzzle of EU policy-making – namely the question how and why the EU even though the problem of trafficking in women continued to exist since the 1970s all the sudden began to put trafficking on its political agenda. Since 1995 the EU not only passed numerous resolutions and Recommendations, but also launched public awareness campaigns and costly policy programs such as Stop and Daphne. In order to solve this policy puzzle I employ a norm-oriented constructivist approach. I argue that the latest EU activities against trafficking in women can be explained by the „revitalization“ and implementation of the anti-trafficking norm on the European level. The move from normadoption to norm-implementation was possible through the interplay of various enabling factors such as actors comprising a „velvet triangle“, political opportunity structures, and effective frames that allowed norm-linking. „World time“ (see Risse et al. 1999) i.e. a particular historical setting beneficial for norms, their diffusion and implementation appears as a central feature in the case. In this sense the paper does not investigate how to explain the deepening of human rights, but rather concerns itself with its effects. In a first step, I scrutinze the policy-puzzle that guides this work, describe the quality and dimension of the phenomenon of trafficking in women, and trace the EU´s reaction to the problem. In a second step, I propose a norm-based constructivist approach focusing on actors, farmes, and political opportunity structures for solving the policy puzzle. Finally, I consider alternative explanations before reflecting on common theoretical propositions concerning norm-success on the base of the empirical results of the trafficking case-study
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