 | | | | REVIEW: Ayşe Gül Altinay and Andrea Petö (eds), Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on Wars, Genocide and Political Violence, Routledge: Abingdon, 2016 in EJWS 2017. 1. One of the most significant contributions of Gendered Wars, Gendered Memories: Feminist Conversations on War, Genocide and Political Violence edited by Ayşe Gül Altinay and Andrea Petö is to shape the contours of a feminist account of war, political violence, and genocide. What does a feminist account of war, political violence and genocide do? What kinds of questions does it ask? What does it offer? The cases analyzed in this volume span the globe and an array of time periods, from the Italian and Spanish civil wars to military regimes in Turkey and Greece, from the Armenian geno-cide and... |
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| Universities should help PhD students Universities should help PhD students There was a commission report that said that there is close to 6000 students in universities for Phd in Kenya,but only 369 have graduated. Kenya has less than 10,000 PhD holders and requires 1000 PhD per year,but universities are not helping this situation in order to narrow down the student to lecturer ratio. Already several universities in the country are struggling to replace retiring lectures who hold PhDs and some have been instrumental in stalling PhD students from graduating. Tough rules introduced by CUE requiring that all university... |
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| Breaking out the Box We are all boxed in more than ever before. From Malvina Reynolds to Mary Midgley, from lain McGilchrist to Steven Mithen, the evidence for this is overwhelming. You may not yet be aware of these boxes yet but you will discover some of them in the introduction to this talk. It goes on to demonstrate the evidence that the only box which separates music from theatre is the one marked "prejudice". |
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| After American Studies: Rethinking the Legacies of Transnational Exceptionalism (Preview) After American Studies is a timely critique of national and transnational approaches to community, and their forms of belonging and trans/ patriotisms. Using reports in multicultural psychology and cultural neuroscience to interpret an array of cultural forms—including literature, art, film, advertising, search engines, urban planning, museum artifacts, visa policy, public education, and ostensibly non-state media—the argument fills a gap in contemporary criticism by a focus on what makes cultural canons symbolically effective (or not) for an individual exposed to them. The book makes... |
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| Generation Y Speaks Out: A Policy Guide (2002) Generation Y Speaks Out: A Policy Guide. Edited by Christopher Buck, David Stowe & Shanetta Martin. Lansing: Michigan Nonprofit Association & Michigan's Children, 2002. From the "Introduction": Michigan State University's Service Learning Writing Project has become a combination of both service and learning throughout the 2000–2001 academic year, in association with two non-profit advocacy organizations: Michigan Nonprofit Association and Michigan's Children. Students in Dr. David Stowe's and Dr. Christopher Buck's sections of "Writing: Public Life in America" (ATL 135) were... |
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