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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.
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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.
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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.
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Edmund F. Byrne
Commentary on Lawrence Blum's "I'm Not a Racist, But…":
The Moral Quandary of Race
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Matthew R. Silliman
Racism As Personal Vice and Structural Problem:
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William Hawk
Pacifism and SociaI Responsibility
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Martin Gunderson
Protecting Commerical Speech:
Advertising and Advocating Illegal Activities
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John Deigh
Human Rights and Population Control
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The Uses of Analogy in Land Ethics
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Human Rights and National Self-Detennination
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It’s a Damn Shame
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Howard McGary
The Concept of Resistance:
Black Resistance During Slavery
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Mary Briody Mahowald
Possibilities for Moral Agency in Children
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Jonathan F. Galloway
The Logics Meta-Logic and Paradoxes of Nuclear Deterrence
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Louis G. Lombardi
The Justification of Rights
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William E. Murnion
Nuclear Energy:
The Limits of Practicality
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Patricia H. Werhane
The Compatibiliry of Freedom and Equality
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Karen Warren
Reconceiving Feminism
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Freedom and Dignity as Acquired Traits
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Ludwig Nagl
Rationalization of Society and Discourse:
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