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81. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Edmund F. Byrne The Post-9/11 State Of Emergency: Reality versus Rhetoric
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After the 9/11 attacks the U.S. administration went beyond emergency response towards imperialism, but cloaked its agenda in the rhetoric of fighting ‘terrorists’ and ‘terrorism.’ After distinguishing between emergency thinking and emergency planning, I question the administration’s “war on terrorism” rhetoric in three stages. First, upon examining the post-9/11 antiterrorism discourse I find that it splits into two agendas: domestic, protect our infrastructure; and foreign, select military targets. Second, I review (legitimate) approaches to emergency planning already in place. Third, after reviewing what philosophers have said aboutemergencies, I recommend they turn their attention to the biases inherent in and misleading uses of antiterrorist terminology.
82. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Ovadia Ezra Human Rights: The Inapplicable Concept
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This paper seeks to ascertain the reasons for the regrettable gap between the extent to which human rights are acknowledged in many countries, and the extent to which residents of those countries in fact are able to enjoy these rights. However, when we seek to assess to what extent residents of those countries in fact enjoy these rights, the findings are somewhat depressing. In this paper I suggest an explanation for this phenomenon and argue that its cause is built into the very structure of Human Rights as these have hitherto been understood. I maintain that because the addressees of such rights are the states’ governments, there is no external body that functions as the guarantor of such rights that has the authority and power to force the governments when they renege on their correlative duties as the addressees of Human Rights.
83. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Catriona Sandilands Eco Homo: Queering the Ecological Body Politic
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This paper raises the issue of governmentality in popular environmental understandings of the (human) body. Understood as object-subjects of environmental management, “ecological bodies politic” are increasingly produced and organized by disciplinary discourses that have the (ironic) effect of reifying, enclosing and surveilling corporeal experiences in the world, especially for bodies deemed unruly. This paper thus deploys queer theories of corporeal materialization (Butler), and queer histories of corporeal-ecological abjection, toward a political account of embodiment oriented to creative opening and transgression, rather than the increasingly hysterical bodily managerialism of pollution discourses. This paper also performs, through the transgressive presence of body narratives from dance experiences generated as part of a workshop on Japanese Butoh traditions, the kind of practiced body awareness suggested in the political account.
84. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Edmund F. Byrne Commentary on Lawrence Blum's "I'm Not a Racist, But…": The Moral Quandary of Race
85. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 19
Matthew R. Silliman Racism As Personal Vice and Structural Problem: A Comment on Lawrence Blum
86. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
William Hawk Pacifism and SociaI Responsibility
87. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Martin Gunderson Protecting Commerical Speech: Advertising and Advocating Illegal Activities
88. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
John Deigh Human Rights and Population Control
89. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
L. Hugh Cox The Uses of Analogy in Land Ethics
90. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
David Ward Human Rights and National Self-Detennination
91. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Peter French It’s a Damn Shame
92. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Howard McGary The Concept of Resistance: Black Resistance During Slavery
93. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Mary Briody Mahowald Possibilities for Moral Agency in Children
94. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Jonathan F. Galloway The Logics Meta-Logic and Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
95. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Louis G. Lombardi The Justification of Rights
96. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
William E. Murnion Nuclear Energy: The Limits of Practicality
97. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Patricia H. Werhane The Compatibiliry of Freedom and Equality
98. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Karen Warren Reconceiving Feminism
99. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Alex D. Steuer Freedom and Dignity as Acquired Traits
100. Social Philosophy Today: Volume > 2
Ludwig Nagl Rationalization of Society and Discourse: Jurgen Habermas’s Social Philosophy