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“White man's road through Black man's home”: decolonial organizing in the metropole

ABSTRACT Between 1965 and 1973, a coalition of local Washington, D.C., activists, organized as the Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC), prevented construction of two freeways that would have destroyed neighborhoods and reshaped local communities. This essay reads their rhetorical practices as an example of decolonial delinking. To do so, I first re-tell the story of Washington, D.C., as an ongoing project of coloniality characterized by three dominant colonial habits: fostering division between local residents, articulating technocratic reasoning, and denying a local sense of place. Then I show activists overcoming those colonial logics by (1) building a multi-racial, cross-class coalition that modeled self-governance; (2) reclaiming the city as an organic being; and (3) engaging in rhetorical placemaking to imagine D.C. as home. This example of the ECTC orients our attention to de/coloniality as layered, ongoing processes, as well as the way that coloniality has facilitated our democratic imaginary symbolized by the nation's capital.

Hölderlin, Heidegger e a dimensão evocativa da palavra

This article deals with some of Martin Heidegger's interpretations of Friedrich Hölderlin's poetry. After the turning of his thought (Kehre), the philosopher stopped to interpret certain original thinkers, such as Heraclitus and Parmenides, and some poets, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, Rainer Maria Rilke, Georg Trakl and Stefan Georg. This study seeks to examine Hölderlin's appropriation, notably regarding the square problem (Geviert), as well as the very instance of language as the man's home, which enabled Heidegger to make a qualitative leap in his analyzes. In this way, it is intended to elucidate decisive elements of the examination that very delineated the displacement of Heidegger's philosophy from existential analytics, above all, to the problem of language, namely: the appropriation of Hölderlin, not just any poet, but, the “poet of poets”.

The Tūārangi Old Men's Home

The "old men" of the Ashburton Old Men's Home were relocated from their former Immigration Barracks site to a purpose-built campus on the outskirts of Ashburton in 1902. Their new home, named Tūārangi Old Men's Home, quickly came to be upheld as one of the premier institutions of its type in New Zealand. The early history of Tūārangi Home, both before and after this move, provides an insight into the changing status of both the "poor" and the difference that a modern building, designed on approved principles, might be able to make for their lives - in this case: those "destitute old men" from Ashburton and beyond.

Gender‐Equitable Parental Decision Making and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration in Bangladesh

ObjectiveThis article examines the relationship between the exposure of men as children to gender‐equitable parental decision making and the potential for subsequent later life engagement in intimate partner violence (IPV) in Bangladesh.BackgroundAlthough researchers have recently begun to explore multilevel influences on IPV perpetration, no studies have examined how decision making between parents at home and within the community relates to IPV perpetration in low‐income settings. Drawing on a theoretical framework of gendered social learning, gender‐equitable parental decision making may be an important protective factor against IPV.MethodThis study uses a random probability sample of 1,499 married men in Bangladesh. The main outcome is physical IPV perpetration in adulthood, whereas two exposure variables measure the equity of parental decision making in the man's childhood home and his current community. A series of two‐level negative binomial models, controlling for pertinent individual‐ and community‐level factors, are estimated.ResultsExposure in childhood to more equitable decision making between parents is negatively associated with a man's physical IPV perpetration in adulthood. Gender‐equitable parental decision making within one's current community is not significantly associated with IPV.ConclusionBoys who grow up exposed to more equitable decision making between parents in the home may be less likely to engage in physical IPV perpetration as an adult.

“A man's home is his castle and fortress”: Effect of age on the psychological distress associated with house damage following super typhoon Haiyan

The devastating impact of losing one's home as a consequence of a disaster is a well-known fact. Nevertheless this impact have not been examined in different age groups. The present study aimed at examining the psychological distress following the aftermath of super Typhoon Haiyan among 1001 adults in their 20's and 40's. Psychological distress was affected by house-damage among adults in their 40's only, namely, one's house remaining intact provided a buffer against experiencing high levels of psychological distress. Adults in their 20's reported the same high level of distress regardless of house-damage. Results are interpreted in light of developmental models focusing on Burden and Resources perspectives.

The Gender Revolution: A Framework for Understanding Changing Family and Demographic Behavior

This article argues that the trends normally linked with the second demographic transition (SDT) may be reversed as the gender revolution enters its second half by including men more centrally in the family. We develop a theoretical argument about the emerging consequences of this stage of the gender revolution and review research results that bear on it. The argument compares the determinants and consequences of recent family trends in industrialized societies provided by two narratives: the SDT and the gender revolution in the public and private spheres. Our argument examines differences in theoretical foundations and positive vs. negative implications for the future. We focus primarily on the growing evidence for turnarounds in the relationships between measures of women's human capital and union formation, fertility, and union dissolution, and consider evidence that men's home involvement increases union formation and fertility and decreases union instability. Although the family trends underlying the SDT and the gender revolution narratives are ongoing and a convincing view of the phenomenon has not yet emerged, the wide range of recent research results documenting changing, even reversing relationships suggests that the gender approach is increasingly the more fruitful one.

Getting over the patriarchal barriers: women's management of men's smoking in Chinese families.

Chinese family is a patriarchal power system. How the system influences young mothers' agency in managing family men's smoking is unknown. Applying a gender lens, this ethnographic study explored how mothers of young children in Chinese extended families reacted to men's smoking. The study sample included 29 participants from 22 families. Semi-structured interviews and field observations were transcribed and analysis was conducted using open coding and constant comparison. The findings indicate that young mothers' interventions to reduce family men's home smoking were mediated by gendered relationships between the mothers and the smokers. The mothers could directly confront their husbands' smoking, although they were more conservative about their men's smoking in the presence of other family smokers. They experienced difficulty in directly confronting senior family men's smoking but found ways to skirt patriarchal constraints, either by persuading seniors to stop smoking in subtle ways, or more importantly, by using other non-smoking family members as 'mediators' to influence senior men's smoking. While future smoking cessation interventions should support mothers in protecting their children from tobacco smoke, the interventions should also include other family members who are in a better power position, particularly the grandparents of the children, to reduce home smoking.

Does gender matter? Policies, norms and the gender gap in work-to-home and home-to-work conflict across Europe

This article examines gender differences in work-to-home conflict (WHC) and home-to-work conflict (HWC) in 10 European countries and considers to what extent such differences can be linked to the institutional/societal context. This study combines the conventional demand-resource approach and an institutional framework on work–family reconciliation policies and gender norms by using data from the European Social Survey. The analyses reveal that work and home demands affect men's and women's perceived conflict somewhat differently, and that the two conflict dimensions are gender asymmetrical and linked to patterns that result from men's and women's traditional home and work spheres. This cross-country comparative analysis shows greater gender gap in perceived conflict in countries with weaker policy support for work–family reconciliation and more traditional gender norms suggesting that individuals' perceptions of WHC and HWC are institutionally embedded.

Testosterone of young husbands rises with children in the home

Evolutionary theory suggests that a man's testosterone (T) decreases after his fathering of children, when his priority shifts from mating to cooperative parenting (Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Parental Behavior, 2010). A variation in this theory has T decreasing for highly educated fathers but increasing for less educated fathers (Evol Hum Behav, 33, 2012, 665). The Vietnam Experience Study of 4462 male army veterans is here used to explore related hypotheses: (i) that T decreases with the presence (or increasing number) of children in the man's home and (ii) that the T rises or falls depending on father's education. These related hypotheses are not supported. To the contrary, among young fathers, ages 30-35 years, T is higher with the presence and number of children in the home, independent of education.

Right to Private Defence in Indian Penal Code-Statutory and Judicial Attitude

Legal status of self defence In most jurisdictions, when the defence succeeds, it operates as a complete justification when the degree of violence used is comparable or proportionate to the threat faced, so deadly force would only be excused in situations of “extreme” danger. The defence would fail if a defendant deliberately killed a petty thief who did not appear to be a physical threat. Similarly, when an assailant ceases to be a threat (say, being tackled and restrained), the defence will fail if the defending party presses on to attack. A somewhat less obvious application of this rule is that admitting the use of deadly force in an attempt to disable rather than kill the assailant can be construed as evidence that the defendant wasn't yet in enough danger to justify lethal force in the first place. Sometimes there is a duty to retreat which makes the defence problematic when applied to abusive relationships and in burglary situations given the so called castle exception, which argues that one cannot be expected to retreat from one's own home, namely, “a man's house is his castle, et domus sua cuique est tutissimum refugium”, that is, Latin for “and each man's home is his safest refuge”. However, if one is “challenged” in a bar for a fight, accepting such challenge, instead of walking away, generally will not constitute a self defence. In some countries, the concept of “pre-emptive” self defence is limited by a requirement that the threat be imminent. Thus, lawful “pre-emptive” self defence is simply the act of landing the first-blow in a situation that has reached a point of no hope for de-escalation or escape. Many self-defence instructors and experts believe that if the situation is so clear-cut as to feel certain violence is unavoidable, the defender has a much better chance of surviving by landing the first blow (sucker punch) and gaining the immediate upper hand to quickly stop the risk to their person.1

Comparison of home advantage in men's and women's football leagues in Europe

Most research into home advantage is based on men's sports. This article analyses home advantage in the women's domestic football leagues of Europe and makes a comparison with the corresponding men's football leagues. A total of 47,042 games were included. From 2004 to 2010, home advantage existed in the domestic women's soccer leagues of all 26 European countries analysed, ranging from 51.0% to 58.8% and averaging 54.2%. In every country, this was less than the corresponding men's home advantage which averaged 60.0%. Crowd effects, both on players and referees, and different gender perceptions of territorial protection are plausible reasons for the differences found. Using a regression model that controlled for the competitive balance of each league, as well as for crowd size, the Gender Gap Index, which quantifies the status of women in each country, was a significant predictor of the difference between men's and women's home advantage. As the status of women becomes closer to that of men within a country, the difference in home advantage is less between the men's and women's football leagues.

SlutWalk Philadelphia

SlutWalk Philadelphia Hannah Altman I heard about SlutWalk Toronto in the days immediately following the event, in April 2011. As I watched the idea quickly gain momentum and appreciation across the United States, I began a search to see if Phila delphia, my hometown, had a walk planned. I discovered a group mobiliz ing over a thousand people on Facebook to discuss a SlutWalk Philadelphia, and I connected with them when I returned to the city in the summer from my college in Iowa. There was much excitement about making the event happen, but nothing concrete had been put in place. I soon realized that this had less to do with a lack of ideas than with logistical challenges. The original date of the walk had been postponed because of permitting and financial problems. 1 decided to try to rejuvenate the effort and met with city officials to review a proposed route and to determine permits and fees. City officials at first informed me that we had to fill out a parade permit that had an $8,000 price attached to it for space rentals, payment of city employees, policing for the event, and for blocking major streets. But at the community organizers' meeting that I hosted soon after, seasoned Philly activists alerted me that this information was completely false. I then reached out to the American Civil Liberties Union, who told me that we needed to file a demonstration permit and not a parade permit—the demonstration permit would eliminate the costs and also had a simpler approval process. For many young activists like me, the experience of organizing SlutWalk schooled us in such key tactics of struggle. My goal as an organizer was to make the SlutWalk as inclusive as possible. I had kept up with the development of other SlutWalks during this time as well; I read a lot about the criticisms and concerns. I recog nized that as a young, white, college-going woman, it was important to examine my privilege if this was to be more than just another white heterosexual movement. I emphasized the importance of reaching out to Feminist Studies38, no. 1 (Spring 2012). © 2012 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 251 252 Hannah Altman the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender community and also to people of color communities. Philadelphia has a history of being a violent city— especially toward people of color and transgendered individuals. It was vital that we have a broad representation among the speakers, and I was proud that the six phenomenal speakers at SlutWalk Philadelphia included a transsexual activist, four people of color, a Muslim woman, two lesbians, two academics, and a state senator. SlutWalk Philadelphia turned out to be more than an imitation of the Toronto event: we had our own provocations. While SlutWalk Phila delphia was in the planning stages, the editor of a local arts journal, Dan Rottenberg, wrote an article titled "Male Sex Abuse and Female Naivete." His article, for which he later issued an apology, implied that women wearing revealing clothing are asking to be sexually assaulted: For example: Don't trust your male friends. Don't go to a man's home at night unless you're prepared to have sex with him. Don't disrobe in front of a male masseur. If you take a job as a masseuse, don't be shocked if your male customers think you're a prostitute. And if you want to be taken seriously as a journalist, don't pose for pictures that emphasize your cleavage. ... Earth to liberated women: When you display legs, thighs or cleavage, some liberated men will see it as a sign that you feel good about yourself and your sexuality. But most men will see it as a sign that you want to get laid.1 Here was our very own Toronto police officer. SlutWalk Philadelphia was already in the planning stages, but Rottenberg's article increased our momentum. Rottenberg and the Toronto police officer may be only two individuals, but their sentiments are echoed across the world. Unlike many of the SlutWalks focused on reclaiming the word "slut" and freedom of expression through clothing, SlutWalk Philadephia took a different route. Because...

The Fertility and Women's Labor Force Participation puzzle in OECD Countries: The Role of Men's Home Production

One effect of Southern Europe's rapid fertility decline is the emergence of a positive cross-country correlation between women's labor force participation and fertility across developed countries, despite the continuing negative correlation between these factors within countries. This study uses individual-level data for several OECD countries to examine how men's participation in home production can explain the positive relationship between fertility and women's labor force participation at the cross-country level. It finds that women living in countries where men participate more in home production are better able to combine having children with market work, leading to greater participation in the labor force at relatively high fertility levels. Within each country however, women with higher relative wages continue to have lower fertility and to participate more in the labor force than lower-paid women due to the higher opportunity cost of remaining at home. This finding on men's home production can thus explain the positive cross-country correlation between female labor force participation and fertility.

Does home life interfere with or facilitate job performance?

The study examines whether home life influences inrole and extrarole job performance in positive or negative ways. We hypothesized that home resources would have a direct positive effect on job performance, and an indirect relationship through home–work facilitation (HWF). Home demands were predicted to negatively affect job performance through home–work interference (HWI). These hypotheses were tested on a sample of 190 male employees. In addition to employees' self-reports, wives rated their own home demands and resources (these were used as controls), and co-workers rated the men's HWI, HWF, and job performance. Results partially supported the hypotheses. Men's home demands and resources were related to self-rated HWI and HWF respectively, whereas co-worker ratings of HWI and HWF were associated with inrole and extrarole performance respectively. Men's home resources also had a direct relationship with inrole and extrarole performance. There was no convincing evidence that HWI and HWF acted as mediators in these relationships. Taken together, the positive influence of home life on job performance was stronger than the negative one.

Against my will

[Against my will] Michael McGriff [Meet the Author] Against my will I am reborn as a bird who claws its way from the throat of a lazy man, a weak man: I fly through the window of his voice and make my way to the edge of the continent where the scrub trees lean away from the shore: and I discover like the trees here it's against my nature to look out over the sea: salt-disasters rage and burn the feathers on my back: I open my mouth, but it's the man's voice calling me home.

The Book Trade in the Poort

[After a general introduction on Jews in the book trade by Dr Adri K. Offenberg, a brief history is given of the original eighteen arched shop stalls in the passageway of the Oudemanhuispoort [the Old Men's Home Gate] in the centre of Amsterdam, where luxury articles were sold from 1757 to 1831. In that year the city council took over the management of the shopping arcade from the Regents of the Old Men's Home, and other uses for the stalls were found. In 1876 the city council relocated Amsterdam's daily book market from the Botermarkt (today's Rembrandtplein) to the Poort (the local abbreviation of Oudemanhuispoort), in the neighbourhood of the premises used by the newly founded University of Amsterdam. From this period until the 1990s the history of the predominantly Jewish booksellers who leased the stalls is dealt with. Particular attention is given to the families Lobo and De Wolff, Boekman, Van Kollem and Mossel, Blok, Kokernoot, Emmering, Frank and Pfann; many of these expanded their businesses into shops elsewhere in town, only a very few surviving the deportations during the Second World War. After 1945 different times brought different names as stallholders – but though the number of stalls in the Poort may have declined over the years, trade in second-hand books, periodicals, maps and prints continues there to this day., After a general introduction on Jews in the book trade by Dr Adri K. Offenberg, a brief history is given of the original eighteen arched shop stalls in the passageway of the Oudemanhuispoort [the Old Men's Home Gate] in the centre of Amsterdam, where luxury articles were sold from 1757 to 1831. In that year the city council took over the management of the shopping arcade from the Regents of the Old Men's Home, and other uses for the stalls were found. In 1876 the city council relocated Amsterdam's daily book market from the Botermarkt (today's Rembrandtplein) to the Poort (the local abbreviation of Oudemanhuispoort), in the neighbourhood of the premises used by the newly founded University of Amsterdam. From this period until the 1990s the history of the predominantly Jewish booksellers who leased the stalls is dealt with. Particular attention is given to the families Lobo and De Wolff, Boekman, Van Kollem and Mossel, Blok, Kokernoot, Emmering, Frank and Pfann; many of these expanded their businesses into shops elsewhere in town, only a very few surviving the deportations during the Second World War. After 1945 different times brought different names as stallholders – but though the number of stalls in the Poort may have declined over the years, trade in second-hand books, periodicals, maps and prints continues there to this day.]

Universal Design of dwellings in Japan: Who are the assumed residents?

There is an old saying, man's home is his castle”. The ideal condition would be that a person's dwelling should be suitable from 'cradle to grave'. However, many people are forced to leave their homes because of the deterioration of their capabilities, commonly due to the normal aging process. Adaptability of the dwelling to aging should be taken into consideration by the homeowner (Universal Design or UD). By Japanese legislature this UD for adaptability embraces at least (i) level floors without step differences, (ii) structural supports for installation of handrails or grabbars, and (iii) adequate door openings and turning space to accommodate a wheelchair. It must be admitted that not all dwellings can be designed and built to be able to house everybody, because some type and level of disabilities require more extensive modifications than is readily available. But for most people, UD for adaptability suffices.

Working Women, Men's Home Time and Lowest Low Fertility

Contrary to the predictions of Economic Theory, Southern Europe's rapid fertility decline has resulted in a positive cross-country correlation between female labor force participation and fertility. We develop a model with heterogeneity in attitudes towards women's home time and a social externality associated to men's home production to explain (1) this positive correlation and (2) its intertemporal reversal. Implications of the theory are tested using the multi-country ISSP94 household survey. We find that, within countries, less egalitarian attitudes increase fertility, but lower female labor force participation. However, consistent with our theory, countries with less egalitarian views have lower average fertility.

Smoking and the right to expect a smoke-free environment.

A community nurse went to an elderly man's home every day to give him insulin injections and to attend to dressings for his leg ulcer. She complained that he smoked incessantly, that the house was filled with smoke and that after her visit her chest tightened up and she frequently suffered from an asthma attack. She wondered if she could refuse to visit this particular patient.

Images of Race, Class, and Markets: Rethinking the Origin of U.S. Fair Housing Policy

As the first national law to address racial discrimination in housing, the 1968 Fair Housing Act was truly a landmark piece of legislation. It prohibited homeowners, real-estate agents, lenders, and other housing professionals from engaging in a range of practices they had commonly used to keep neighborhoods racially segregated, such as refusing to sell or rent to a person because of his or her race, lying about the availability of a dwelling, or blockbusting (inducing white owners to sell by telling them that blacks were moving into the neighborhood). The last of the 1960s-era civil rights laws, the Fair Housing Act tackled the arena long felt to be the most sensitive to whites. Intense controversy, demonstrations, and violence over fair housing issues had occurred in many cities and states since at least the 1940s. Although John F. Kennedy promised during his presidential campaign to end housing discrimination “with the stroke of a pen,” once elected, he waited two years to sign a limited executive order. In 1966, a fair housing bill supported by President Johnson failed in Congress. Unlike other civil rights bills, the issue of housing evoked opposition not just from the South but also from the North. Opponents claimed that it challenged basic American values such as “a man's home is his castle”; to supporters, the symbolism of homeownership as “the American Dream” only underscored the importance of ensuring that housing was available to all Americans, regardless of race.