The focus on “active citizenship” in income assistance policy reform has increasingly attempted to cleave the “able” from the “not able” through multiple regulatory axes. One of the potential implications is an increasingly fragmented milieu [...]
Recent years have seen new threats to public safety, including buildings and infrastructure. Increasingly, modern technology (e.g., surveillance cameras) is used to contain these risks. This session includes presentations that discuss various contemporary and alternative [...]
bell hooks (2000) writes, “to experience solidarity, we must have a community of interests, shared beliefs and goals around which to unite…solidarity requires sustained, ongoing commitment” (63).This session asks: What ethical and political commitments are [...]
In 1960, Daniel Bell pronounced the end of ideology. With the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1989, Western pundits pronounced the triumph of capitalism and the end of history. But capitalism continues to produce [...]
What is care and how do we investigate it? This panel starts with the assumption that care is more than the performance of tasks, more than an expression of concern, more than duty, an ethic [...]