Dangerous Discourses Research Articles

The City

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Les sommets mondiaux du microcrédit : où en est-on cinq ans après ?

Isabelle Guérin — Global Micro-Credit Summits : What state of affairs five years on ? The self-assigned mission of global micro-credit summits was to « sell » the tool to funding agencies. It is in such respect that the promoters do not hesitate to praise its virtues and to make increasingly exaggerated promises. They thus run the risk of indulging in a simplistic and dangerous discourse, with regard to engagements that are difficult to respect. Educating funding agencies towards a more realistic approach would obviously be a better means of ensuring the development of healthy and sustainable micro-finance.

American Conversations: Puerto Ricans, White Ethnics, and Multicultural Education

Acknowledgments Introduction: Talking American 1. The Making of Arnhem, the Friendly City 2. Marginality, Mobility, and the Melting Pot 3. Puerto Ricans Enter a Racialized Social Order 4. Telling Stories 5. Dangerous Discourses 6. Inclusion and Exclusion in the Classroom 7. After/Words Notes Bibliography Index

Securitizing Russia: Discursive Practices of the Baltic States

The author argues that the security situation of the Baltic countries cannot be separated from the way the Balts themselves speak of security. This is a discourse of danger producing insecurity in pursuit of security. Moreover, this article is a study of identity by demonstrating how Baltic security issues are constituted by discourses of danger revolving around Russian Otherness and European Sameness. In conclusion, the following aspects are addressed: the prospects for the coming together of East and West in the Baltic Sea Region – and NATO’s role in this process – and whether this process will come to ease with a parallel between sovereignty and regionality as organising principles for political space, or whether the one will succumb to the other in the course of a prolonged contest.

Guest Editorial: Science education in the developing world: Issues and considerations

Guest Editorial: Science education in the developing world: Issues and considerations

Ecological Metaphors of Security: World Politics in the Biosphere

For security, the genealogist would insist, is not a fact of nature but a fact of civilization. It is not a noun that names something, it is a principle of formation that does things. It is neither an ontological predicate of being, nor an objective need, but the progenitor instead of a proliferating array of discourses of danger within whose brutal and brutalizing networks of power-knowledge modern human being is increasingly ensnared and, ironically, radically endangered. Michael Dillon2

Gendered Discourses and the Making of Protective Labor Legislation in England, 1830–1914

The crowding together of numbers of the young in both sexes in factories, is a prolific source of moral delinquency. The stimulus of the heated atmosphere, the contact of the opposite sexes, the example of the lasciviousness upon the animal passion—all have conspired to produce a very early development of sexual appetencies. (Peter Gaskell,The Manufacturing Population of England, 1833)The prolonged absence from home of the wife and mother caused an enormous amount of infant mortality and it must cause the elder children to be more or less neglected. It deadened the sense of parental responsibility. (Thomas Maudsley, secretary of the Committee Promoting the Nine Hours Movement, 1872)From a purely physical point of view the nation's strength is measured by its reproductive power and the high percentage of the fitness of its children …. Women's work becomes the cause of physical degeneracy and of inability on the part of women to rise to the dignity of the completed act of motherhood. (Dr. Thomas Oliver, lecture before the Eugenics Education Society, 1911)Each of these statements was made as part of the public debate about enacting protective labor legislation in England. They were diverse manifestations of a single idea—the idea that women's work outside the home was dangerous to society and required state intervention. Between 1830 and 1914, a discourse of danger dominated the public discussion of female labor. Yet, as the opening quotations suggest, different types of danger were emphasized at various times.

Discourses of Danger and the Computer Hacker

This article argues that the hacker is constructed as an information deviant and that this image is helpful in providing rules for appropriate behavior in an information society. The hacker accounts in this article are designed to give the reader an understanding of the types of things being said about hackers. What is more important, however, is how these narratives are used to support a specific notion of property ownership and government secrecy. In making this argument, this article traces the development of the narrative about the hacker from harmless computer nerd to terrorist.

The dangerous discourse of invisibility: A critique of the National Research Council's national science education standards

In this critical review essay, I argue that the National Research Council's (NRC) 1996 National science education standards uses a discourse of invisibility to lay out its massive reform for science education in the United States. This invisibility discourse dangerously compromises the well-intended goals of the NRC by not directly addressing the ethnic, socioeconomic, gender, and theoretical issues which influence the teaching and learning of science in today's schools. Herein I propose that the Standards ought to provide strong arguments and evidence in support of the reasons why equity should be a guiding principle in science education reform. In the same manner, the Standards must articulate the theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence on which the numerous recommendations for change are based. Only then would the Standards provide the conceptual guidance necessary to encourage teachers, administrators, parents, and politicians to spring into action and take the necessary risks associated with radically transforming schools. © 1997 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 34: 19–37, 1997.

Dangerous Discourses: Theorizing Sexuality, Friendship and Gender

Dangerous Discourses: Theorizing Sexuality, Friendship and Gender

Present at the (Dis)integration: Deterritorialization and Reterritorialization in the New Wor(l)d Order

Abstract Since the end of the Cold War, the political geography of world order has been the subject of much confusion, uncertainty and speculation. Strange new tendencies are emerging in the new world (dis)order. Old geopolitical blocs are disintegrating, previously coherent unities are fracturing, and once stable identities are unraveling. Simultaneously, new geoeconomic blocs are defining themselves, emergent geographies of uneven global connectedness are taking shape, and new discourses of danger are rewriting identity and meaning in global affairs. Old Cold War word orders are giving way to new post-Cold War word orders. This paper explores this double dynamic of deterritorialization and reterritorialization in the new world order through an analysis of US. foreign policy discourse. Beginning with observations on deterritorialization from the 1992 presidential election, we examine how fresh geopolitical, geoeconomic and geoecological readings of global politics after the Cold War are reterritorializin...

Discourses of Danger and Dangerous Discourses: Patrolling the Borders of Science, Nature and Society

Two broad themes are covered in this paper. Firstly, the mutual delimitation in discourse of `science', `lay society' and `nature' is explored in relation to people's talk about ionizing radiation. The discursive configurations into which these fall are linked to the perception of danger. For example, in some discourses danger is located in a `bad science' that injudiciously exploits an otherwise amenable nature. Secondly, the analysis of these discourses is conducted with the aid of Weber's ideal type technique. Through this, some of the epistemological and methodological issues that cohere around the contingency of interpretation in discourse analysis are addressed.

Discourse of Danger: Gender and the History of Elementary Schooling in Australia, 1850-1880

Discourse of Danger: Gender and the History of Elementary Schooling in Australia, 1850-1880