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Adria L. Imada • Aloha America: Hula Circuits through the U.S. Empire
Brandom’s complex alternative is that our descriptions constitute a system of socially constituted rational commitments, and that only linguistic rules, socially articulated and enforced, are capable of giving our words any meaning at all. Saying something meaningful requires making explicit what is already implicit in our use of concepts, rather t
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moral blow—a kind of character assassination. Having received this blow, I must defend my character, and that is where all my energy will go—to deflecting the charge, rather than reflecting on my behavior. In this way, the good/bad binary makes it nearly impossible to talk to white people about racism, what it is, how it shapes all of us, and the i
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“The boundary between public and private is part of the conflict between public spheres. For example, until recently, only feminists though domestic violence was a public concern, rather than a private matter. Democratic publicity therefore requires positive guarantees of opportunities for minorities to convince others of what qualifies as common i
... See moreKeller was extremely effective as a minister and public theologian in the neutral world. At the beginning of his time in New York, he spent years conducting sociological research by not only reading the best literature of the day, but also surveying residents in the city and hosting Q&A sessions after his sermons. The insights he gleaned from t
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identify value-based resistance to managerial work,
Stephen Drotter • The Leadership Pipeline: How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company (Jossey-Bass Leadership Series Book 254)
radical-reform space identifies social injustice as a product of exclusionary representation and inadequate redistribution—which then translates into questions about not only what we do in modern institutions (i.e., methodological concerns), but also how and why we do it (i.e., epistemological concerns). This