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Nordic or Not: Examining the Future of Canada’s Prostitution Legislation

I will inquire into the future of prostitution legislation in Canada, given the recent Supreme Court decision to strike down the Criminal Code provisions restricting practices around the sale and purchase of sex. I will consider three models for Canada’s new laws: criminalization, legalization/regulation and the “Nordic model”. I will outline the features of each system, with a particular focus on the Nordic model which many have proposed as the best avenue for Canadian legislators to take. In both Canada and places where a Nordic Model has been implemented, I will account for the legal provisions regarding prostitution, associated laws related to labour, public health, zoning and public nuisance, political factors including the presence and strength of a social safety net and the sort of government that oversees the administration of said social safety net, and the sorts of people who practice prostitution. I will compare the social factors and demographic information from the Nordic states with the Canadian context, establishing similarities and differences between the situations. Ultimately, I will discuss the implications each system in the Canadian context, addressing the likelihood of each model’s implementation, its efficacy at achieving its stated aims and what sorts of conditions it creates for people engaged in prostitution.

The Australian curriculum: a critical interrogation of why, what and where to?

ᅟThis Garth Boomer Memorial Lecture contextualises in the broadest sense the creation of the Australian curriculum. As such, this sociological account will argue that the national curriculum is both a response to and articulation of globalisation, set against the intricate complexities of Australian educational federalism. The analysis will demonstrate how this emergence had a long and slow gestation and was enabled by the political contingency in 2007 of all Labor governments at the federal, state and territory levels. The Australian curriculum now has an institutional home in the Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA) and appears to have bipartisan political support, apart from ideological debates about what should be included. The lecture considers the Australian curriculum as working together what knowledge students need to know (disciplines) and what sort of people they ought to become (cross-curriculum priorities and general capabilities). The argument will situate the national curriculum against the broader national schooling policy assemblage (NAPLAN, My School, Melbourne Declaration, teacher and school leader standards) and interrogate it in terms of the limitations imposed by this contingent framing. These limiting factors include lack of an intellectual rationale, the distance of ACARA from schools, classrooms and teachers, and the restrictive legislative and compositional character of the Australian Institute for Teachers and School Leaders (AITSL), which frames standards for teachers, who are central to the productive enactment of the Australian curriculum. The overall argument is set against Garth Boomer’s innovative curriculum theorising

Facing humanness: Facial width-to-height ratio predicts ascriptions of humanity.

[Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 114(1) of Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (see record 2017-57724-002). In the article, there is a data error in the Results section of Study 1c. The fourth sentence of the fourth paragraph should read as follows: High fWHR targets (M= 74.39, SD=18.25) were rated as equivalently evolved as their low fWHR counterparts (M=79.39, SD=15.91).] The ascription of mind to others is central to social cognition. Most research on the ascription of mind has focused on motivated, top-down processes. The current work provides novel evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) serves as a bottom-up perceptual signal of humanness. Using a range of well-validated operational definitions of humanness, we provide evidence across 5 studies that target faces with relatively greater fWHR are seen as less than fully human compared with their relatively lower fWHR counterparts. We then present 2 ancillary studies exploring whether the fWHR-to-humanness link is mediated by previously established fWHR-trait links in the literature. Finally, 3 additional studies extend this fWHR-humanness link beyond measurements of humanness, demonstrating that the fWHR-humanness link has consequences for downstream social judgments including the sorts of crimes people are perceived to be guilty of and the social tasks for which they seem helpful. In short, we provide evidence for the hypothesis that individuals with relatively greater facial width-to-height ratio are routinely denied sophisticated, humanlike minds. (PsycINFO Database Record

"Facing humanness: Facial width-to-height ratio predicts ascriptions of humanity": Correction to Deska, Lloyd, and Hugenberg (2017).

Reports an error in "Facing Humanness: Facial Width-to-Height Ratio Predicts Ascriptions of Humanity" by Jason C. Deska, E. Paige Lloyd and Kurt Hugenberg (Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Advanced Online Publication, Aug 28, 2017, np). In the article, there is a data error in the Results section of Study 1c. The fourth sentence of the fourth paragraph should read as follows: High fWHR targets (M= 74.39, SD=18.25) were rated as equivalently evolved as their low fWHR counterparts (M=79.39, SD=15.91). (The following abstract of the original article appeared in record 2017-36694-001.) The ascription of mind to others is central to social cognition. Most research on the ascription of mind has focused on motivated, top-down processes. The current work provides novel evidence that facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR) serves as a bottom-up perceptual signal of humanness. Using a range of well-validated operational definitions of humanness, we provide evidence across 5 studies that target faces with relatively greater fWHR are seen as less than fully human compared with their relatively lower fWHR counterparts. We then present 2 ancillary studies exploring whether the fWHR-to-humanness link is mediated by previously established fWHR-trait links in the literature. Finally, 3 additional studies extend this fWHR-humanness link beyond measurements of humanness, demonstrating that the fWHR-humanness link has consequences for downstream social judgments including the sorts of crimes people are perceived to be guilty of and the social tasks for which they seem helpful. In short, we provide evidence for the hypothesis that individuals with relatively greater facial width-to-height ratio are routinely denied sophisticated, humanlike minds. (PsycINFO Database Record

The Redistributive Consequences of Segregation

In this paper I present a model in which an increase in inequality can lead to a decrease in voters' demand for redistribution. In my model, people sort into groups according to income and as a result they become biased about the shape of the income distribution. I demonstrate that an increase in inequality can lead to a decrease in perceived inequality in the presence of segregation, and hence to a fall in people's support for redistribution. I motivate my main assumptions with empirical evidence from a small survey that I conducted via Amazon Mechanical Turk.

Preparing for Catastrophe on the Polar Frontier

Abstract From a distance, Antarctica invokes extreme imaginaries and possibilities. In the practice of everyday human Antarctic life, however, daily tasks and risks are heavily managed, mitigated, and overseen. To analyze the spectacular and mundane natures of human life in Antarctica, I will compare the paramilitary practicalities of Antarctic research station and field camp life with the visions of the Antarctic as a place of sublime wild nature, violent death, and climate disaster. Using three signature events in Antarctic field training—predeparture, orientation, and navigation—I consider how people visiting the Antarctic are trained to order their lives and work, especially in preparation for emergencies. Notions of risk, danger, and catastrophe hinge on the broader historical and cultural contexts of Antarctica as a frontier zone, making preparedness in the Antarctic gendered, militaristic, and highly ritualized. Finally, I compare climate catastrophe at a global scale—the other sort and scale of emergency Antarctic people are occupied with—with how traditional field preparedness maps onto this potential disaster. In field training, Antarctic people counter the tropes of wild nature with extreme and exaggerated performances of bureaucracy; this analysis, then, considers the generative potential of technocratic practices in the face of the Anthropocene, an environmental expression of human triumph and disaster. Practicing risk management requires practices of embodiment as well as literal and figurative orientations to potential hazards.

柏木物語の引用的表現とその歪み : 「帝の御妻をも過つたぐひ」の像と柏木

柏木物語の引用的表現とその歪み : 「帝の御妻をも過つたぐひ」の像と柏木

Not Forgotten: First Things

Not ForgottenFirst Things Julia Ridley Smith (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution For almost thirty years, my parents ran an antique shop, Tyler Smith Antiques, in an old two-story house in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. When I was little, stuff arrived and departed by way of my mother's van, a matte-green 1970s camper, stripped of its bunk and golden burlap curtains. Illustrations by Kristen Solecki. For almost thirty years, my parents ran an antique shop in an old two-story house in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. When I was little, stuff arrived and departed by way of my mother's van, a matte-green 1970s camper, stripped of its bunk and golden burlap curtains. It had no air conditioning and smelled of cigarettes and french fries. Daddy kept the shop while Mom went out on buying trips or traveled to set up her booth at antiques shows in Raleigh or Charlotte or Asheville. This arrangement suited them, as he was sedentary and depended on routine, and she liked to be out and about. She enrolled first my brother, then me, in a morning preschool at the Episcopal church down the street, but we spent our afternoons at the shop. While Daddy, up [End Page 91] stairs in the office, read the Wall Street Journal or wrote sales in his ledger, and Mom talked to customers on the telephone or researched her latest find, my brother and I squabbled in the downstairs playroom, which smelled of the products our mother used to brighten her wares: Wright's silver polish, baby oil to clean lacquer, Old English to fill in scratches on furniture. Penned in by a baby gate, we played amid the toys and books strewn all over the floor, the radio playing the hits: "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head," and "Funkytown," and "Sexual Healing." For lunch, we ate peanut butter or bologna sandwiches and drank Coca-Cola out of Bugs Bunny glasses that had come free or cheap with a meal at a drive-thru. Sometimes customers would look all around the shop, unimpressed until my mother offered them a Coke in a glass with Superman or Yosemite Sam on it. "Oh, we're collecting these, and this is the only one of the four we don't have," a customer might say, and Mom would reply, Just go on and take it, privately disgusted that a mass-produced glass with a cartoon character on it had been the only thing in the whole shop to incite any interest. Ignorance of antiques she could pardon, even welcome, since it gave her an opportunity to teach, but lack of interest was unforgiveable. Her own curiosity was so powerful that she just couldn't fathom people who showed no desire to know things. That curiosity was what she and my father shared, and they both loved to tell what they knew. Spend more than a second looking at a particular object, and they'd start talking about it. They would explain what cultural developments in China or Japan, England or Germany had led to its being made at a particular time. They would hypothesize about how it had come to North Carolina and what sort of people might have owned it. They would show you how to tell the difference between cast glass, which has a seam, and blown glass, which has a rough place on the bottom where the pontil was broken off. They would show you how an object came apart, how it was used, how it was made. One of my mother's favorite moves was to announce that it was time to perform a "full rectal" on a table or chair. She'd then ask the stunned customer to help her flip the piece over so that together they could study the joinery and look for secondary woods, cabinetmakers' marks, or evidence of repairs. My brother and I watched these interactions with customers and learned to imitate them. We were given to understand that developing a knowledge of antiques went far beyond familiarizing yourself with current tastes and the momentary caprices of the market. Your eye had to be trained to...

Northampton Calling: A Conversation with Alan Moore

photo : joe brown 28 WLT JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017 Q&A WORLDLIT.ORG 29 A lan Moore is the most celebrated comics writer living but doesn’t write comics anymore . For the past decade, he’s been working instead on his second novel, Jerusalem, a sprawling epic covering a span of time stretching to the heat death of the universe but contained geographically within half a square mile in Moore’s hometown of Northampton, UK, in an area known as the Boroughs. Using the rapidly eroding map of his own working-class neighborhood as a canvas, Moore spins a tale of life and afterlife, using narrative tools that include stream of consciousness, verse, playwriting, and Joycean glossolalia to boot. It is both the culmination of his life’s work as a writer and a radical departure for an artist known for them. So it was with great excitement that I sat down to talk with Moore about this crowning achievement of his career. Rob Vollmar: Jerusalem builds on themes and techniques that began in your work as early as From Hell but figured heavily in your first novel, Voice of the Fire, and, more recently, in your homage to your friend and mentor Steve Moore, Unearthing . Could you talk about psychogeography and how it came to play such an important role in your work? Alan Moore: Psychogeography would be the understanding that in our experience of any place, it is the associations, the dreams, the imaginings, the history—it is all the information that is relevant to that place which is what we experience when we talk about a place. That is what we’re talking about. We’re not actually talking about the hard bricks and mortar. Yes, that is all that we can measure in the material world, but that is not the essence of what we feel when we talk about a particular place that means something to us. It is always that psychological effect the place has on us that is going to be paramount , and that is psychogeography—a way of considering the landscape around us as more than its physical components, acknowledging that there is much more to all of this than the material world. The bigger part of our experience is spent in this vague, drifting, entirely immaterial world of associations. I suppose that the first time I ever heard that term, it would have been in the context of my first discovering the extraordinary Northampton Calling A Conversation with Alan Moore by Rob Vollmar 30 WLT JANUARY–FEBRUARY 2017 work of Iain Sinclair. During the early stages of From Hell, I had been sent a copy of Lud Heat, which was one of Iain’s early super-dense poems that are on the verge of turning into prose. He was dealing with his time spent maintaining the lawns and gardens of the churches in East London when he was working for the council. A lot of these were Nicholas Hawksmoor’s churches. Iain started to notice some alignments between these churches, which were suggestive. He put all this into Lud Heat. I was fascinated because this seemed to me to be a new way of engaging with place. Place has always been immensely important in all my work, even from the earliest days of my career. Even if a thing was a fairly average superhero narrative like Captain Britain or something like that that was set in this country, then I wanted it set in a real London that contemporary people would recognize. I was also very keen to have things like V for Vendetta set in a visibly real and accurate London. It wasn’t really until I discovered Iain’s work that I saw the kind of focus Iain was capable of that I had been missing, and I quickly understood that this wasn’t something Iain had invented. There were all sorts of people who had made “walking with an agenda,” as Iain calls it, into a kind of art form. There was Arthur Machen with his illuminating strolls around London. There were the situationists, the surrealists with their walks that would be like planned experiences. There were the flâneurs. There...

Male, Pale, and Stale? Diversity in Lawyers’ Leadership

Abstract When lawyers elect the leaders of their self-regulatory organizations, what sort of people do they vote for? How do the selection processes for elite lawyer sub-groups affect the diversity and efficacy of those groups? This article quantitatively assesses the demographic and professional diversity of leadership in the Law Society of Upper Canada. After many years of underrepresentation, in 2015 visible minority members and women were elected in numbers proportionate to their shares of Ontario lawyers. Regression analysis suggests that being non-white was not a disadvantage in the 2015 election, and being female actually conferred an advantage in attracting lawyers’ votes. The diverse employment contexts of the province’s lawyers were also represented in the elected group. However, early-career lawyers were completely unrepresented. This is largely a consequence of electoral system design choices, and can be remedied through the implementation of career-stage constituencies. The Law Society’s “benchers” are more demographically diverse than other elite lawyer sub-groups, such as judges, and the open and transparent selection process may be part of the reason.

Symbolic resources and sense-making in learning and instruction

This paper presents the concept of symbolic resources for apprehending sense-making in learning and instruction. It first reminds the centrality of sense-making in learning and instruction from a sociocultural perspective, and proposes a pragmatist approach to examine what sorts of knowledge people use when they face situations that matter. The paper then presents two series of studies of symbolic resources. The first studies, led in informal situations, allow to define the concept of symbolic resources and a model of its uses. The second series is focused on school situations, and examines how school knowledge can be used as symbolic resources, and also, how symbolic resources can support learning in educational settings. This leads into a discussion on the role of institutional and social dynamics in the relations between learning in and out of school, at the heart of sense-making, as well as on the central role of imagination in learning and development. The paper ends by underlying the centrality of sense-making in learning and development, and the need to complement nomothetic studies with a more idiographic understanding of the complex dynamics involved.

Book Review: Local Worship, Global Church: Popular Religion and the Liturgy

Local Worship, Global Church: Popular Religion and Liturgy. By Mark R. Francis. Collegeville, Minn.: Liturgical Press, 2014. xii + 181 pp. $19.95 (paper).In his preface, author promises a particular perspective on relationship between liturgy and culture, offering a viewpoint from common sense of regular worshippers, rather than sorts of people who write historical treatises and theological discourses. Since he is one of those sorts of people, it is difficult to imagine his accomplishing this task. The book is written by a Roman Catholic, examining Roman Catholic liturgy, and presumably for Roman Catholics-yet when he speaks of liturgy as the principal and unchanging guarantor of unity of universal Church (p. 1), one cannot help but extrapolate to non-Catholic ecclesial bodies.He opens with a discussion of popular piety: processions, pilgrimages, rosaries, novenas, holy medals, scapulars, and special local customs and rites-something Second Vatican Council commended, provided that they harmonize with overall intent of liturgical prayer. Noting that demographic center of for Catholics, Anglicans, and Protestants is shifting from Europe and North America to Africa and South America, Francis asks how we can be sensitive to often unarticulated but nevertheless deeply held religious sensibilities of local congregations and indigenous contexts (p. 6). Asserting liturgy communicates on three levels-official, public, and personal-he discusses challenges of syncretism and hybridization, various worldviews, and interaction between popular religious impulses and official worship of institutional church.In second chapter, Francis provides a brief but compelling overview of cultural diversity among first Christians-differing nations, languages, races, and ethnic groups. This chapter emphasizes that worship of early Christians was more spontaneous and informal than it would become, and also more influenced by popular religious practices and local beliefs.The book continues with a summary of emerging Greco-Roman world and birth of classic Roman rite in fourth century. Francis notes that church gradually assumed role of moral arbiter of social order and guardian of Roman Empire, as language shifted from mostly Greek to mostly Latin. He then follows through what he calls Germanization of Christianity at dawn of scholasticism, and such oddities as ordeal of ingestion in which an accused was forced to eat specially exorcised and blessed bread and cheese; if he choked he was found guilty of theft. …

The English and their history

In The English and their History, the first full-length account to appear in one volume for many decades, Robert Tombs gives us the history of the English people, and of how the stories they have told about themselves have shaped them, from the prehistoric 'dreamtime' through to the present day. If a nation is a group of people with a sense of kinship, a political identity and representative institutions, then the English have a claim to be the oldest nation in the world. They first came into existence as an idea, before they had a common ruler and before the country they lived in even had a name. They have lasted as a recognizable entity ever since, and their defining national institutions can be traced back to the earliest years of their history. The English have come a long way from those precarious days of invasion and conquest, with many spectacular changes of fortune. Their political, economic and cultural contacts have left traces for good and ill across the world. This book describes their history and its meanings from their beginnings in the monasteries of Northumbria and the wetlands of Wessex to the cosmopolitan energy of today's England. Robert Tombs draws out important threads running through the story, including participatory government, language, law, religion, the land and the sea, and ever-changing relations with other peoples. Not the least of these connections are the ways the English have understood their own history, have argued about it, forgotten it, and yet been shaped by it. These diverse and sometimes conflicting understandings are an inherent part of their identity. Rather to their surprise, as ties within the United Kingdom loosen, the English are suddenly beginning a new period in their long history. Especially at times of change, history can help us to think about the sort of people we are and wish to be. This book, the first single-volume work on this scale for more than half a century, and which incorporates a wealth of recent scholarship, presents a challenging modern account of this immense and continuing story, bringing out the strength and resilience of English government, the deep patterns of division, and yet also the persistent capacity to come together in the face of danger. Robert Tombs is Professor of French History at Cambridge University and a Fellow of St John's College. His book That Sweet Enemy: the French and the British from the Sun King to the Present, co-written with his wife Isabelle, was published in 2006.

What types of people sort to which public services?

AbstractWe examine the characteristics of people who say they buy their houses for environmental quality, school quality, public safety and low taxes. We find, for example, that young people and people without school‐aged children are more likely to buy their house for low taxes. We estimate a house price hedonic in a system of equations that models the public services people had in mind when they bought their house. We find a housing price elasticity of 0.53 for school spending, 0.23 for maths proficiency, –0.17 for the tax rate and –0.050 for the crime rate.

‘Gorilla exceptions’ and the ethically apathetic corporate lawyer

ABSTRACTThis paper draws on interviews with 57 corporate finance lawyers working from global law firms based in the City of London. Drawing on this data, we highlight common themes of taking deals at ‘face value’, being the lawyer-technician who uses the law to effect his client’s wishes, and not ‘pushing’ ethics. We suggest that there is an apathy – a lack of concern or interest – about ethics on the part of corporate lawyers. This apathy stems from various sources. It is linked to assumptions about the sorts of clients that large law firms are willing or not willing to act for, and assumptions about the ‘right sort of people’ the firm hires and retains; it is linked to strong notions of role morality; and it is founded on the classic legal ethics ‘standard conception’ principles of neutrality and non-accountability. Our data also highlights a lack of ethical infrastructures in large firms, and a lack of ethical leadership from law firm partners for the associates and trainees working for them.

From Digressions to Intrusions: Authorial Commentary in the Novel

Be it known, then, that human species are divided into two sorts of people, to wit, high people and low people. (146) --Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews (1742) so we need not trouble ourselves any more either about insertions or about exordiums. They both please me; second class has pleased persons much better worth pleasing than I can pretend to be. (xx) --George Saintsbury, introduction to Joseph Andrews (1910) I would like to preface this article by asserting that there are two types of people in world; those who like authorial intrusions, and those who don't. And just as these preferences tell us much about people who hold them, critical reception of authorial intrusions reveals much about our theories of novel. Authorial intrusions are typically characterized, and criticized, as interruptions to a that disrupt illusion of fictional truth to varying degrees. In this way, intrusions highlight by contrast our sense of two formative elements of genre: its structure and its referential status. Gerard Genette (1997) tells us that authorial preface is a paratextual frame in service of ensuring that text is read properly: explaining to readers why and how they should read it. I think we can profitably approach authorial commentary as intratextual continuation of this rhetorical enterprise, and this is one reason why intrusions have been condemned. As a result we can also approach them as barometers for historical shifts in concepts of novel because of various ways they both evoke and respond to critical reception. My aim is to investigate reasons why authorial commentary is considered intrusive, and whether these reasons have been constant throughout history of novel. Central to this investigation will be tracing significance of a broad terminological shift, from eighteenth to twentieth century, in which common rhetorical practice of digression, or turning away from a narrative, came to be characterized as intrusion into a narrative. Answering these questions will help address what Mary Jane Chilton Curry has called the much disputed question of relation between authorial intrusion and realism (31), and I hope to demonstrate, in particular, paradoxical role authorial commentary has played in both establishing and challenging conventions of realist fiction in relation to eighteenth-century theories of probability, nineteenth-century theories of sympathy, and twentieth-century theories of impersonality. Authorial Intrusions and Realist Novel When formalist theories of novel took shape in twentieth century, they enshrined all forms of intrusion, self-reflexive or otherwise, as interference to aesthetic ideal of genre itself: verisimilar effacement of medium of narration, described by Percy Lubbock, in The Craft of Fiction (1921), as practice of showing rather than telling. (1) This was also central tenet of modernist novelists themselves, best expressed by Ford Madox Ford's assertion that it is an obvious and unchanging fact that if author intrudes his comments into middle of his he will endanger illusion conveyed by that story (148). The influence of this belief on historical scholarship can be found in Ian Watt's seminal work, The Rise of Novel (1957), which defines formal realism as methods for providing authentic report of individual experience that were developed in eighteenth-century English novel. The prototype for authorial intrusions in this tradition is provided by Henry Fielding's essayistic musings in Tom Jones (1749), and according to Watt's theory of realism, such authorial intrusions, of course, tend to diminish authenticity of his narrative and break spell of imaginary world represented in novel, preventing readers from being fully immersed in lives of characters (285). …

On the Relatively Recent Rise of Human Dignity

Gaymon Bennett, Technicians of Human Dignity: Bodies, Souls, and Making of Intrinsic Worth. New York: Fordham University Press, 2016. 338 pp.Gaymon Bennett's new book, Technicians of Dignity, joins a wave of recent scholarship on dignity, as legal theorists, philosophers, political theorists, historians, and others have turned their attention to dignity in order to articulate more precisely what it is, to defend or critique some conception of it, or to figure out why we are talking about it so much now (see Kateb 2011, Rosen 2012, Waldron 2012, McCrudden 2013, Duwell 2014, Cornell and Friedman 2016). It does seem like dignity, or at least word, is everywhere today. Consider two noteworthy appearances in mid2015: on June 13, Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) launched Dignity I, a boat that would contribute to their search and rescue operations in Mediterranean Sea (MSF 2015). Two weeks later, on June 27, The New York Times headline read, quoting Justice Anthony Kennedy's majority opinion in Obergefell v. Hodges, 'Equal Dignity,' 5-4 Ruling Makes Same-Sex Marriage a Right Nationwide (New York Times 2015).Dignity can refer to many different things. In context of humanitarian efforts like those of MSF, term can capture what people feel when they see images of refugees living in undignified conditions or children washing up on beaches: that this is no way for a human being to live, or to die. Here, conditions for dignity are so radically threatened that what is at stake is whether people involved will even survive, whether they are in a position to live a life fit for a human being at all. As valiant and essential as humanitarian rescue efforts are, critics worry that mode of crisis in which humanitarian action operates can sometimes get extended in ways that simply preserve existence while deferring very dignity...it seeks (Redfield 2005:346).In context of same-sex marriage and other legal cases, dignity is invoked to capture what it means to have equal status in eyes of one's fellow citizens and under law. As Jim Obergefell, lead plaintiff in case, put it, referring to fact that he was not allowed to put his name on his late husband's death certificate: No American should have to suffer that indignity (Chappell 2015). Justice Kennedy agreed, but did not stop there. He not only affirmed equal dignity of all citizens seeking access to institution of marriage, but ran risk of disparaging lives of all sorts of unmarried people by expounding upon dignity of marriage itself. In his dissenting opinion, Justice Clarence Thomas hit on a classic ambiguity in concept of dignity when he insisted that it is and, therefore, the government cannot bestow dignity, and it cannot take it away.1 He was right about one thing: if dignity is an innate feature of human beings-an inner, transcendental kernel (Rosen 2012:9)-then surely nothing government does can take that away. But other meanings of dignity were at stake in case: what it means to have equal dignity under law, to be treated with dignity, or have one's dignity respected.2How did we get here, to point at which all sides of various debates in so many different contexts can appeal to same term? In his book, Bennett aims not only to give us a better sense of when appeal to dignity started to become central to political practice but also to analyze underlying logic of dignitarian politics. Instead of contributing to first-order normative projects of defining human dignity, he focuses on larger contexts for and political stakes surrounding those projects. Thus, he asks: What is at stake in of intrinsic worth? How does advancing dignity in various contexts relate to modes of power? His contribution consists in systematically analyzing relation between dignitarian politics and biopolitics, not with aim of debunking former as merely another mode of biopolitics, but, instead, by showing how dignitarian reasoning is in critical tension with biopolitical reasoning. …

Jack Death by M.L. Windsor

Reviewed by: Jack Death by M.L. Windsor April Spisak Windsor, M.L. Jack Death; illus. by Chris Ewald. Creston, 2016 165p ISBN 978-1-939547-28-6 $12.99 R Gr. 4-6 The offspring of Death and the child of Mother Earth take on a whole bunch of bad guys in this opener to a new series. Jack (Death’s kid) and his neighbor Nadine (Mother Earth’s daughter) aren’t planning to get in the middle of a brewing controversy around non-human creatures, but they’re concerned about the Fixers and their goal to divide everyone into two groups, with different treatment depending on where you fall (it seems primarily based on the creatures that exist in your family trees). When the new friends are split up, they decide this dubious ethnographic division is reprehensible, and they fight back. Windsor keeps this novel free of overt gore and adds bits of whimsical humor to leaven the darkness of the plot. Nonetheless, a sense of melancholy pervades the novel, not only because of the racist sorting of people but also because of the two kids who are growing up with only one human parent, distant from their non-human parent, and whose identities must remain a tightly locked-up secret. A snappy, quick paced conclusion puts all in the right place—with the bad guys vanquished, the neighbors now solidly aligned as friends (and both headed off to a boarding school, Magic Hallows), and everything lined up for a sequel. Copyright © 2016 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

A Career Interrupted

I t’s a great honor to receive a lifetime achievement award from the AICPA (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants) for contributions to management accounting. Thank you to Joe Fisher and his committee for nominating, and Teresa Libby for presenting this award here today. Thank you to the section president, Naomi Soderstrom, who called me from Australia to inform me that I had won this award. And thank you to the AICPA for its generous support and making this award possible. Thank you to my colleagues at the University of California, Davis; among them are Paul Griffin, Brad Barber, Don Palmer, Chih-Ling Tsai, and, especially, to Dan Weiss and Shannon Anderson. I am especially thankful to my friends in accounting, Peter Easton, Tom Stober, Bill Lanen, Jake Thomas, and John Lyon. Thank you to my wife, Kathleen Donelan-Maher, who was an incredible source of support and inspiration. I had a stroke approximately three years ago. My left brain was pretty much wiped out. I couldn’t speak, read, or write. I was blind in my right eye and my right arm curled up into a claw. But I learned many lessons from that experience. First, don’t have a stroke! If you do, or someone else has a stroke, get to the hospital immediately. For certain types of stroke, they can administer the drug called TPA (rhymes with CPA) if you get to the hospital within three hours. I didn’t make it, so I was on my own to recover. I have been recovering for three years. I had the wonderful support of my wife, Kathleen, who took a year off her career as a tax attorney. She carted me off to speech therapy, occupational therapy, behavioral therapy, and physical therapy. She helped me to negotiate the insurance stuff and university stuff. If you ever have a need to access the healthcare system, you need an advocate. Kathy was my advocate. Getting back to the lessons I learned from having a stroke, I learned to be more empathetic, particularly to people having healthcare problems or people having disabilities, like me. Going to the hospital once a week for language therapy, I saw all sorts of people in the hospital; 90 percent of them were worse than I ever was. I learned the value of forgiveness. And in particular, I forgive all those of you in the room and around who wrote harsh reviews of my work. Come to think of it, I probably deserved the harsh reviews.

Ethical and existential aspects of lifestyle changes

Background Many people change their lifestyle and such changes can be either voluntary or involuntary. Often, some sort of crisis forces people to change their lifestyles. Therefore, the difficult existential questions become relevant to those who have been forced to change their lifestyle. Methods This paper will explore different kinds of lifestyle changes within an ethical and existential context. The ethical context is constituted by the Danish ethicist K.E. Løgstrup and his thoughts on the basic conditions of life for the human being. The existential context is constituted by questions dealing with the foundations of our existence and which man cannot avoid. Results In the examples given, the patients seldom receive any help to process their existential questions and as a consequence their problems become more severe. Conclusion It is important to treat every patient as a subject and to take care of not only his or her medical problems but also of the patient´s existential questions generated by the medical problems.