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Lower Court Popular Constitutionalism
No full textScholars of popular constitutionalism have persuasively argued that an array of nonjudicial actors—social movements, the federal political branches, state and local political entities—play an important role in shaping constitutional meaning. To date, the accounts of such scholars have largely focused on the ways that constitutional doctrine at the Supreme Court level can be infiltrated and shaped by such popular constitutional influences. In this Essay, Professor Katie Eyer draws on the events following the Obama Administration’s February 2011 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) announcement—and the history of gay equality litigation that preceded it—to develop a theory of the lower federal courts as participants in the popular constitutionalism dialogue
New Jersey
No full textIn a crowded and diversely populated state such as New Jersey, social networking takes place in both physical and virtual forms.Anderson, K. E. (2011). New Jersey. In G. A. Barnett (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social networks (pp. 642-644). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.This is the author's final version of a chapter, New Jersey, in Encyclopedia of Social Networks, George A. Barnett, editor. The published two volume work is available at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book23436
Anthropological Networks
No full textNot only have anthropologists contributed to the study of social networks, they have also created their own anthropological networks in order to communicate and collaborate while conducting their study of human behaviors.Anderson, K. E. (2011). Anthropological networks. In G. A. Barnett (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social networks (pp. 44-48). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.This is the author's final version of a chapter, Anthropological Networks, in Encyclopedia of Social Networks, George A. Barnett, editor. The published two volume work is available at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book23436
Native Americans
No full textThe social networks of Native Americans are as diverse as the population, providing connections and communications within tribes, regions and nations as well as among these groups and with other populations.Anderson, K. E. (2011). Native Americans. In G. A. Barnett (Ed.), Encyclopedia of social networks (pp. 573-575). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.This is the author's final version of a chapter, Native Americans, in Encyclopedia of Social Networks, George A. Barnett, editor. The published two volume work is available at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book23436
Doing Coupledom: imagining, managing and performing relationality in contemporary wedding and civil partnership rituals
No full textThis thesis investigates how relationality is imagined, managed and performed by twenty-seven UK-based couples during their wedding and civil partnership rituals. The methodology involves a case study approach with eleven of the couples, who were followed through the planning of their ritual, retrospective interviews with sixteen couples and a photograph project with eight of these couples. Diversity in the sample in terms of age, gender and class allows these factors to be explored along with differences of sexuality between the couples.Commitment rituals put relationality into sharp focus as they demand practices of inclusion and exclusion. Each chapter of analysis (The Decision to Marry, Wedding Work and The Big Day) highlights how tradition and relationality are particularly significant to an understanding of the fateful moments that commitment rituals represent. The perceived expectations of family members and friends are implicated in the performance of traditional symbols, while these symbols also provide a recognised form for these relationships to take. The Discussion chapter builds upon these ideas in drawing the key themes, of imagining, managing and performing that run through each chapter, together in outlining a typology of strategies. This typology challenges a central idea of the reflexive modernisation thesis, as asserted particularly by Giddens (1991, 1992, 1994, 2002), that reflexivity involves the disembedding of individuals from their relational networks. In this way the research builds upon theorisations of relationality and embeddedness, particularly those developed by Smart (2007a) and Bottero (2010). The intersubjective nature of reflexivity is emphasised with the introduction of the terms ‘reflexive coupledom’ and ‘relational reflexivity’ alongside ‘individual reflexivity’. ‘Strategies of tradition’ is also included in the typology to emphasise how meaningconstitutive tradition continues to shape ritual action. These concepts aim to be of use in future exploration of these rituals as well as in relation to other areas of personal life
Storytelling
No full textOnce upon a time before words were written, before cultures and societies were observed and analyzed there was storytelling. Storytelling has been a part of humanity since people were able to communicate and respond to the basic biological urge to explain, educate and enlighten. Cave drawings, traditional dances, poems, songs, and chants are all examples of early storytelling. Stories pass on historical, cultural, and moral information and provide escape and relief from the everyday struggle to survive. Storytelling takes place in all cultures in a variety of different forms. Studying these forms requires an interdisciplinary approach involving anthropology, psychology, linguistics, history, library science, theater, media studies and other related disciplines. New technologies and new approaches have brought about a renewed interest in the varied aspects and elements of storytelling, broadening our understanding and appreciation of its complexity.Anderson, K. E. (2010). Storytelling. In H. J. Birx (Ed.), 21st century anthropology: a reference handbook (pp. 277-286). Thousand Oaks, Calif.: SAGE Publications.This is the author's final version of Chapter 28, Storytelling, in 21st Century Anthropology: A Reference Handbook, H. James Birx, editor. The published two volume work is available at http://www.sagepub.com/books/Book23180
Does Anyone Have A Quarter?
No full textChapter 12 of: SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking up Secrets Under the Sea, edited by Joseph FoyAnderson, Katie Elson. (2011). Does Anyone Have A Quarter? In J.J. Foy (Ed.), SpongeBob SquarePants and Philosophy: Soaking up Secrets under the Sea! (pp. 155-168). Chicago, Ill.: Open Court
Statutory originalism and LGBT rights
No full textIn the wake of marriage equality, LGBT claims to employment rights have taken center stage in the struggle for LGBT equality. Raising claims under federal sex discrimination law, advocates have argued that anti-LGBT discrimination is, necessarily, also sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (“Title VII”). Such claims have seen increasing success in the federal courts as biases against the LGBT community have receded, allowing courts to recognize the textual and doctrinal logic of such sex discrimination claims. As victories in the lower courts have accumulated, the LGBT employment discrimination issue has increasingly seemed poised to be the next major LGBT equality issue to reach the Supreme Court.
But a new argument has also arisen to dispute LGBT Title VII claims, sounding in “statutory originalism.” Arguing that the meaning of Title VII ought to be judged by reference to its “original public meaning”--and that the original public in 1964 would not have thought that anti-LGBT discrimination was proscribed--opponents of LGBT inclusion have contended that such sex discrimination claims cannot be allowed. In making these arguments, opponents have endeavored to sidestep well-established textualist case law that rejects virtually identical arguments when made under the rubric of congressional expectations or intent.
This Article contends that the “original public meaning” approach raised by opponents of LGBT inclusion is neither so distinctive, nor so uncontroversial, as its proponents have suggested. “Original public meaning” itself is a modality of statutory interpretation that has almost no pedigree in the federal statutory interpretation case law. And yet the arguments of its proponents do bear a striking resemblance to *64 another well-established, but now discredited approach: looking to the expectations or intent of Congress to limit broad and unambiguous statutory text. Moreover, the specific approach to “original public meaning” taken by opponents of LGBT inclusion--looking to “original expected applications”--is one that should concern both civil rights advocates and originalists alike. Thus, courts ought to reject the novel “original public meaning” arguments that have been raised in opposing LGBT employment equality claims
Book Review: Tacos and Tacquerias in North Cackalacky
No full textReview of The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina: New Roots in the Old North State / Hannah Gill. (2010, University of North Carolina Press) by Katie Case, Georgia State Universit
Katie Lundy
No full textHi. Katie Lundy, Millersville University. For those of us who are in the generation coming to power, in the millennial generation and so forth, for those of us who are high schoolers and in college, be it our undergrad, our master's, or our law degree, for the board and specifically for Professor Alston, how would you recommend that we help to help those who are in situations such as in the Manila case? How can we help with that justice? How can we help with the promotion of international law, and how can we inspire our peers to help those who are in danger and who are in need of aid?</jats:p
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