176 research outputs found
Liberal Nationalism of Yael Tamir:Theory and Polemics
No full textThis thesis deals with a theory of liberal nationalism, specifically its rendition presented by an Israeli author Yael Tamir. The set goal is to provide a detailed description of this specific interpretation using a theoretical framework provided by Michael Freeden. His definition of nationalism as a complementing rather than full-fledged ideology, as is the case with liberalism for example, provides an ideal framework for us to use when attempting to analyze the work of Tamir due to her trying to improve liberal theory by adding positive elements present in nationalism to it. After the full description of this form of liberal nationalism is made, the thesis then proceeds to introduce critics of said literary work, namely from critics such as Bernard Yack, Jamie Mayerfeld, or Liah Greenfeld, but also from the author herself, who had published a book dealing with similar topic 26 years after publishing the one this thesis focuses on. The goal is then to ascertain how the author's ideas changed during this time period. The thesis aims to give a descriptive account of a theory that seems to be an oxymoron at first glance, as liberalism and nationalism tend to be considered as opposites of a spectrum. Whether it is a theoretical approach that holds merit and could be helpful in our attempts to...Tato diplomová práce se zabývá liberálním nacionalismem, konkrétně jeho formulací z pera izraelské autorky Yael Tamir. Cílem je poskytnout detailní charakteristiku konkrétní podoby tohoto teoretického přístupu použitím teoretického rámce nabídnutého Michaelem Freedenem. Jeho definice nacionalismu jakožto obohacující ideologie namísto ideologie plnohodnotné, za kterou se dá považovat například liberalismus, je silně kompatibilní s teorií Yael Tamir, která se pokouší o zdokonalení liberální ideologie skrze absorbování komplementárních prvků nacionalismu. Po představení této konkrétní podoby liberálního nacionalismu je čtenáři přiblížena kritika tohoto díla a to jak ze strany kritiků jako Bernard Yack, Jamie Mayerfeld, nebo Liah Greenfeld, tak ze strany samotné autorky, která svou druhou knihu na téma nacionalismu vydala 26 let po vydání knihy první. Cílemje tak zjistit, zda, případně dojaké míry se změnil názor autorky napříč lety. Práce si klade za cíl představit teoretický přístup, který se zdá být na první pohled oxymoronem, neboť liberalismus a nacionalismus stojí v očích mnoha v opozici. Zda se jedná o proud představující cestu kupředu ve snaze zvrátit současnou krizi liberalismu, nebo o slepou uličku záleží na úsudku čtenáře. Klíčová slova: Liberální nacionalismus, Liberalismus, Nacionalismus,...Institute of Political ScienceÚstav politologieFilozofická fakultaFaculty of Art
“I get by with a little help from my friends": a survey of teachers' perceptions of adminstative support and their attitudes toward inclusion in New Jersey
No full textPrior to federal law PL-94-142, children with disabilities typically were excluded from regular, mainstream classes. This law emphasized the least restrictive environment since research had shown that all children benefited from inclusive learning environments. In the late 1990s, New Jersey was cited as having too high a proportion of children with disabilities in segregated placements. New Jersey received a State Improvement Grant (SIG) to increase the number of students with disabilities in regular education classes. This dissertation was designed to evaluate one aspect of local school districts’ program initiatives to achieve this end: teachers’ attitudes and perceptions regarding inclusion. Teachers are responsible for the daily implementation of inclusion practices. Their attitudes, perceptions, and beliefs are crucial for the success of inclusion. Although findings from previous research have indicated that teachers favor inclusion, their willingness to implement inclusive practices depends on the availability of supports and resources, as well as the attitudes of school personnel. A total of 856 general education, special education, and special area teachers from seven districts in New Jersey were surveyed regarding: (a) their attitudes and beliefs about inclusion; (b) their perceived administrative support; (c) their perceived ease in meeting the needs of students with disabilities in their classroom; and (d) the factors that have helped or hindered their ability to include students with disabilities in their classroom. Quantitative (Pearson product-moment correlation, multiple regression, independent samples t test) and qualitative (content analysis) methods were used to analyze the survey data. Special education teachers had more positive attitudes toward inclusion than did general education teachers. Relationships between teachers' attitudes and perceptions, and administrative support were found for general education teachers but not for special education teachers. Years of experience working with students with disabilities did not influence these relationships. Teachers identified training, positive attitudes, and support from colleagues, administrators, and other school personnel as factors facilitating inclusive practices. Barriers to implementation included large class size, insufficient planning time, lack of support from colleagues and school administrators, student behavior and ability, and teachers' negative attitudes. Implications for practice are discussed for administrators and school psychologists.Psy.DIncludes bibliographical references (p. 112-123)by Yael Rachel Shemes
A Bacterial Growth Law out of Steady State.
No full textBacterial growth follows simple laws in constant conditions. However, bacteria in nature often face fluctuating environments. We therefore ask whether there are growth laws that apply to changing environments. We derive a law for upshifts using an optimal resource-allocation model: the post-shift growth rate equals the geometrical mean of the pre-shift growth rate and the growth rate on saturating carbon. We test this using chemostat and batch culture experiments, as well as previous data from several species. The increase in growth rate after an upshift indicates that ribosomes have spare capacity (SC). We demonstrate theoretically that SC has the cost of slow steady-state growth but is beneficial after an upshift because it prevents large overshoots in intracellular metabolites and allows rapid response to change. We also provide predictions for downshifts. The present study quantifies the optimal degree of SC, which rises the slower the growth rate, and suggests that SC can be precisely regulated
Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories (Yael Ben-zvi)
No full textYael Ben-zvi, Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories. Dartmouth UP, 2018. 276 pp. ISBN: 9781512601466. www.upne.cpm In Native Land Talk: Indigenous and Arrivant Rights Theories, Yael Ben-zvi employs EuroAmerican human rights theories to examine and compare the distinctive resistances of African and indigenous Americans to colonization. Delving into a rich array of resources—petitions, letters, newspaper articles, and speeches, among others--to examine EuroAmerican rights claims, Ben-zvi inventively applies these theoretical histories to the petitions and appeals for freedom and land made by indigenous and African American peoples in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries (roughly 1760-1840). The author closely analyzes aspects of settler rights claims and indigenous and African American histories of resistance (or, as she terms them, “unsettlement projects”) that have received little scholarly attention, aligning the resistance of the latter communities with settler dehumanization and violence
Older and Happier? Associations Among Age, Affective Symptomatology, and Quality of Life in Persons With Multiple Sclerosis
No full textAbstract
Date Presented 3/31/2017
This study identifies a relationship between age and quality of life in persons with multiple sclerosis. It highlights the role of promoting coping in younger adults to prevent or decrease symptoms of depression or anxiety as a means of increasing quality of life.
Primary Author and Speaker: Brocha Stern
Contributing Authors: John DeLuca, Yael Goverover</jats:p
Historia i obrazy. Niedokończony film Yael Hersonski
No full textThe complex relations of the cinematic image with history and memory are the context for the analysis of A Film Unfinished. The author refers to other documentary evidence of the Holocaust Night and Fog by Alain Resnais and Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, to the concept of postmemory Marianne Hirsch and image epistemology Georges Didi-Huberman. This film presents the found footage — a Nazi propaganda document Das Ghetto subjected to the strategy of representation, which consists of a complex network of viewpoints, including various formal procedures. The au­thor reflects on the status of images combined with the testimony of the survivors, the diaries of the ghetto inhabitants, the statements of the Nazi cameraman.History and images: Yael Hersonski’s A Film Unfinished The complex relations of the cinematic image with history and memory are the context for the analysis of A Film Unfinished. The author refers to other documentary evidence of the Holocaust Night and Fog by Alain Resnais and Shoah by Claude Lanzmann, to the concept of postmemory Marianne Hirsch and image epistemology Georges Didi-Huberman. This film presents the found footage — a Nazi propaganda document Das Ghetto subjected to the strategy of representation, which consists of a complex network of viewpoints, including various formal procedures. The au­thor reflects on the status of images combined with the testimony of the survivors, the diaries of the ghetto inhabitants, the statements of the Nazi cameraman
Optimality and sub-optimality in a bacterial growth law.
No full textOrganisms adjust their gene expression to improve fitness in diverse environments. But finding the optimal expression in each environment presents a challenge. We ask how good cells are at finding such optima by studying the control of carbon catabolism genes in Escherichia coli. Bacteria show a growth law: growth rate on different carbon sources declines linearly with the steady-state expression of carbon catabolic genes. We experimentally modulate gene expression to ask if this growth law always maximizes growth rate, as has been suggested by theory. We find that the growth law is optimal in many conditions, including a range of perturbations to lactose uptake, but provides sub-optimal growth on several other carbon sources. Combining theory and experiment, we genetically re-engineer E. coli to make sub-optimal conditions into optimal ones and vice versa. We conclude that the carbon growth law is not always optimal, but represents a practical heuristic that often works but sometimes fails
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No full textThe author is grateful to the organizers and participants of the ‘Reward and decision making in cortico-basal-ganglia networks ’ meeting for much stimulating discussion and feedback, and to Rui Costa, Nathaniel Daw, Peter Dayan, Daphna Joel and Geoffrey Schoenbaum for helpful comments on the manuscript
Leftover:Affect in/as Methodology
No full textLeftover: the residual, the adjunct, the tenacious, dismissed from the ‘Whole’, a demarcation, a rejection, an excess, a stain, a trace, to be re-decorated, re-moved, re-cycled, re-turned to a primordial condition. Only it won’t. Unwanted as they might be, leftovers linger, escape, insist, and demand our attention; they are a constant distraction, intensity, and transgression. As objects, environments, actions, and intentions, leftovers incite affects. Although not essentially antagonistic or the product of agential action and intention, leftovers are helpful in mapping the political, not only by drawing the coordinates of the respectable, responsible, reasonable, essential, and the aesthetic, but concurrently as the rejected yet lingering remnant of knowledge production. Using ‘Leftover’ as an invitation for theorization across disciplines and research paradigms, this event reflected on what we might mean when we use affective vocabularies in order to position ourselves in theoretical and methodological terms, and what is being left-over in theory, action, and passion. Eirini Avramopoulou is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently, she is working on her first monograph on affect, performativity, and queer/gender activism in Istanbul, Turkey. Heather Love is the R. Jean Brownlee Term Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the author of Feeling Backward: Loss and the Politics of Queer History (2007), the editor of a special issue of GLQ on Gayle Rubin (‘Rethinking Sex’), and the co-editor of a special issue of New Literary History (‘Is There Life after Identity Politics?’). Nahal Naficy is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Her most recent work, Our Tale Was True, Our Tale Was A Lie, co-authored with Alice Gavin, is forthcoming with Punctum Books. Ruth Preser is a fellow at the ICI Berlin. Currently she is working on a monograph on queer Israeli diaspora in Berlin. Yael Navaro-Yashin is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of Faces of the State: Secularism and Public Life in Turkey (2002) and The Make-Believe Space: Affective Geography in a Postwar Polity (2012). Focusing on two pre-circulated texts by Heather Love and Yael Navaro-Yashin, the workshop offered a space for conversation with the authors around affect and methodology and affect as methodology
Indomitable chronicle: The genericity of non-fiction in two essays by María Sonia Cristoff
No full textEl presente trabajo se propone analizar dos ensayos de la escritora argentina María Sonia Cristoff (Trelew, 1965): “La no ficción hoy: una alternativa” (2014) y “Literatura y crónica. Gato por liebre” (Anfibia, s/d). Constatamos que las nociones normativas y ontológicas de género que subyacen a las definiciones más comunes de la crónica no se adecúan a la estética que la autora propone para el género. La noción de genericidad (Schaeffer, “Del texto al género”; Montes) supone una aproximación más fiel a su propuesta, afín a la noción de palimpsesto (Genette). Finalmente, la autora distingue entre la crónica periodística y la literatura de no ficción y toma posición en la tradición latinoamericana frente a la norteamericana, lo que supone también una adscripción a una estética de mayor experimentación frente al modelo del realismo decimonónico.This paper aims to analyze two essays by the Argentine writer María Sonia Cristoff (Trelew, 1965): “La no ficción hoy: una alternativa” (2014) and “Literatura y crónica. Gato por liebre” (Anfibia, s/d). We find that the normative and ontological notions of genre that underlie the most common definitions of the chronicle do not conform to the aesthetics that the author proposes for genre. The notion of genericity (Schaeffer, “Del texto al género”; Montes) is a more faithful approach to her proposal, akin to the notion of palimpsest (Genette). Finally, the author distinguishes between the journalistic chronicle and nonfiction literature and takes a position in the Latin American tradition compared to the North American one, which also supposes an ascription to an aesthetic of greater experimentation compared to the nineteenthcentury realism model.Fil: Tejero Yosovitch, Yael Natalia. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Argentina. Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras; Argentina. Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche. Instituto de Estudios Inciales; Argentin
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