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Visiting Author: Brittany Perham
No full textBrittany Perham, winner of the Barnard Women Poets Prize for her book Double Portrait, will read selections from her work and answer questions. Introduced by Professor Amy LemmonSponsored by English & Communication Studies Department of the School of Liberal Art
Returning culture to peacebuilding : contesting the liberal peace in Sierra Leone
No full textThis thesis investigates the advantages and limitations of applying culture to the analysis of violent conflict and peacebuilding, with a particular focus on liberal peacebuilding in Sierra Leone. While fully aware of the critique of the concept of culture in terms of its uses for the production of difference and ‘otherness,’ it also seeks to respond to the critique of liberal peacebuilding on the account of its low sensitivity towards local culture, which allegedly undermines the peace effort. After a careful examination of the terms of discussion about culture enabled by theoretical approaches to conflict in Chapter 2, the thesis presents a theoretical framework for the analysis of cultural aspects of conflict and peace based on the processes and effects of meaning-generation (Chapter 3), developing the conceptual apparatus and vocabulary for the subsequent empirical study. Instead of bracketing out the recursive nature of cultural theorising, the developed approach embraces the recursive dynamics which arise as a result of cultural ‘embeddedness’ of the analyst and the processes which s/he seeks to elucidate, mirroring similar dynamics in the cultural production of meaning and knowledge. The framework of ‘embedded cultural enquiry’ is then used to analyse the practices of liberal peacebuilding as a particular culture, which shapes the interaction of the liberal peace with its ‘subjects’ and critics as well as framing its reception of the cultural problematic generally (Chapter 4). The application of the analytical framework to the case study investigates the interaction between the liberal peace and ‘local culture,’ offering an alternative reading of the conflict and peace process in Sierra Leone (Chapter 5). The study concludes that a greater attention to cultural meaning-making offers a largely untapped potential for peacebuilding, although any decisions with regard to its deployment will inevitably be made from within an inherently biased cultural perspective
The Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, 2007
No full textThe Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans, three fundamental parts of the U.S. food guidance system, have been revised by USDA’s Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion, with assistance from USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service, Economic Research Service, and Agricultural Research Service. The plans provide representative healthful market baskets at three different cost levels. This revision maintains the same inflation-adjusted costs as those of the previous three food plans, last revised in 2003. In line with previous food plans, an assumption used to develop these plans was that all purchased food is consumed at home. The newly revised (2007) Low-Cost, Moderate-Cost, and Liberal Food Plans differ from, and improve upon, the previous versions in a number of ways: • The Plans are based on the most current dietary standards: the 2005 Dietary Guidelines for Americans as well as the 2005 MyPyramid Food Guidance System. • The Plans use the latest data on food consumption, nutrient content, and food prices: the 2001-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and the 2001- 2002 Food Price Database. • The Plans offer a more realistic reflection of the time available for home food preparation; hence, each plan incorporates more prepared foods within the recipes and requires fewer preparations from scratch.USDA Food Plans, Low-Cost Food Plan, Moderate-Cost Food Plan, Liberal Food Plan, Diet Quality, Cost of Food, Agricultural and Food Policy, Consumer/Household Economics, Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety, Health Economics and Policy,
¿Gobernar es administrar una tormenta¿: Rodrigo Lara
No full text1 enlacePara el Senador Rodrigo Lara Restrepo, anteriormente una de las cabezas más visibles de Cambio Radical y ahora, del Nuevo Liberalismo, la reconstrucción de un proyecto liberal que reuniera elementos de muchos sectores de la política colombiana no ha sido posible. Esto no se ha logrado debido, según él, a la codicia política de la familia Galán-Pachón y su pobre proyección
Political Parties and Web 2.0: The Liberal Democrat Perspective
No full textPolitical parties have been criticised for their limited use of interactivity via their Internet presences,
largely it is suggested because they seek to control their online messages. This article will consider
interactivity from the perspective of a political party, the Liberal Democrats, using their Freedom
Bill online campaign as a case study. We suggest that the Liberal Democrats use ‘weak interactivity’
because of internal policymaking concerns, and their belief that as a political party they are
promoting their ideas, not co-creating a new product. Thus we suggest interaction should be closer
to a formal consultation than a face-to-face dialogue
Liberal theory and Islam: (re)imagining the interaction of religion, law, state and society in Muslim contexts
No full textWithin the global phenomenon of the (re)emergence of religion into issues of public debate, one of the most salient issues confronting contemporary Muslim societies is how to relate the legal and political heritage that developed in pre-modern Islamic polities to the political order of the modern states in which Muslims now live.
This study seeks to develop a framework for addressing this issue by drawing upon two sources. The first is an interpretative understanding of the history of Muslim contexts emphasising, in particular, the diversity of views about what Islam mandates that have always been a part of Muslim experience and the distinction between political and religio-legal authority that developed in practice in these environments. The second source is a variety of contemporary liberal theory which this study develops and calls ‘justice as discourse’.
The central argument is that liberal theory, and justice as discourse in particular, though it may have emerged in a different social and cultural milieu, can be normatively useful in Muslim contexts for relating, religion, law, state and society. It is argued first, that Muslim contexts are facing issues similar to those out of which liberal theory emerged. Additionally, it is argued that both Muslim contexts and liberal theory are dynamic and continually developing and that this shared dynamism means that there may be space for convergence of the two. Just as Muslim contexts have developed historically (and continue to develop today) the same is the case with the requisites of liberal theory and this may allow for liberal choices to be made in a manner that is not a renunciation of Muslim heritage
Catálogo Documentación Legaciones chilenas en el exterior-Archivo Histórico Nacional de Chile- AHNC. Embajadas_Legaciones_Consulados [DATASET]
No full textThis dataset, Catálogo Documentación Legaciones chilenas en el exterior-Archivo Histórico Nacional de Chile- AHNC. Embajadas_Legaciones_Consulados compiles and systematizes archival sources from the Chilean diplomatic legations in Spain, Peru, and Ecuador held at the Archivo Histórico Nacional de Chile (AHNC, Santiago de Chile). It was generated through a critical historiographical method, involving documentary reading, transcription, and recording, and is provided in open-access format (CC-BY). The catalogue is the result of collaborative work by Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Pablo Guerrero Oñate, Felipe Riquelme, and was funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant POST-EMPIRE (101148590). It offers a structured dataset that facilitates the study of Spain’s foreign policy and consular networks in the South American Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century, and has already been cited and used in several peer-reviewed publications and forthcoming monographs.N
Totalitarismo, democracia liberal e o “desafio de nossa época”
No full textThe article analyzes totalitarianism as a destructive response to what Arendt calls “the challenge of our time”, explaining the author\u27s critical diagnosis of whether liberal democracy represents or not an effective political organization as a constructive response to the challenge of the modern world.O artigo analisa o totalitarismo como uma resposta destrutiva ao que Arendt denomina “desafio de nossa época”, explicitando o diagnóstico crítico da autora sobre a democracia liberal representar ou não uma “nova organização política” que propicie uma resposta construtiva ao desafio do mundo moderno
Catálogo Documentación Legaciones españolas Chile-Perú-Ecuador (1833-1866) AGA- Asuntos Exteriores. Embajadas_Legaciones_Consulados [DATASET]
No full textThis dataset, Catálogo Documentación Legaciones españolas Chile-Perú-Ecuador (1833-1866) AGA- Asuntos Exteriores. Embajadas_Legaciones_Consulados, compiles and systematizes archival sources from the Spanish diplomatic legations in Chile, Peru, and Ecuador held at the Archivo General de la Administración (AGA, Alcalá
de Henares). It was generated through a critical historiographical method, involving documentary reading, transcription, and recording, and is provided in open-access format (CC-BY). The catalogue is the result of collaborative work by Rodrigo Escribano Roca, Felipe Sobrinos Bueno, Carmen Castaño Martín, and Juan Sampedro Martínez, and was funded by the EU Horizon Europe programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant POST-EMPIRE (101148590). It offers a structured dataset that facilitates the study of Spain’s foreign policy and consular networks in the South American Pacific during the mid-nineteenth century, and has already been cited and used in several peer-reviewed publications and forthcoming monographs.N
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