Cheryl Matias University of San Diego draws from critical race theory and critical whiteness studies to investigate the ways in which whiteness and interest convengence impact modern day racial justice efforts https://faculti.net/the-pyrrhic-victory-in-racial-justice/ #criticalracetheory #racism #race
Marc Landy Boston College provides a survey of American anti-constitutionalism and a powerful argument for maintaining the constitutional order ➡️ https://faculti.net/keeping-the-republic/ #Constitution #usa #democracy #america
Over 110,000 total knee replacements were performed in the UK in 2019. The STAR care pathway is a clinically important and cost-effective treatment for patients with chronic pain three months after total #kneepain replacement for #osteoarthritis. Rachael Gooberman-Hill University of Bristol discusses research on the STAR care intervention ➡️ https://faculti.net/knee-replacement-and-the-star-care-pathway/ #health
Paul Jankowski Brandeis University explores the events of winter 1932–3, during which ‘the world finally changed, from postwar to prewar’ ➡️ https://faculti.net/all-against-all/ #history #war
How do militaries respond when they confront the dilemma of conflict between the liberal norms of respect for human rights and civilian control of the #military? Renanah Miles Joyce Georgetown University Georgetown Security Studies Program discusses the effects of norm conflict on military attitudes among the Armed Forces of #Liberia ➡️ https://faculti.net/soldiers-dilemma-foreign-military-training-and-liberal-norm-conflict/ #SecurityStudies #soldiers
Intergenerational altruism and #fertility are arguably linked, therefore immigrants might self-select on eventual fertility. Eli Berman UC San Diego work shows that Soviet Jews who migrated to Israel averaged almost one child more than members of the same birth cohorts who migrated later ➡️ https://faculti.net/fertility-migration-and-altruism/ #economics #migration
Karl Gerth UC San Diego delves into the history of consumerism and capitalism in #China 🇨🇳 challenging traditional views of the 1949-1976 period ➡️ https://faculti.net/unending-capitalism/ #chinesestudies #history #capitalism
Ingi Iusmen University of Southampton discusses the experiences of young Albanian asylum seekers in the UK, focusing on the asylum process and its mental health implications ➡️ https://faculti.net/trauma-in-the-uk-asylum-process/ #AsylumSeekers #asylum #trauma
Human beings, as self-conscious animals, evaluate themselves positively or negatively. In addition, as social animals, they also evaluate one another positively or negatively. Aiden Gregg Psychology - University of Southampton discusses how Dominance theory and hierometer theory can show how self-esteem and status might interrelate ➡️ https://faculti.net/self-esteem-and-social-status-dominance-theory-and-hierometer-theory/ #selfesteem #psychology
Richard Kearney clip
Drawing on key critical debates on the question of hospitality ranging from phenomenology, hermeneutics, Richard Kearney Richard Kearney Boston College engages with urgent moral conversations regarding the role of identity, nationality, immigration, commemoration, and justice. ➡️ https://faculti.net/radical-hospitality-from-thought-to-action/ #Hospitality #Hostility #NarrativeImagination #ExchangeofMemories #Peace #Conflict #Violence #Enmity #Empathy #DigitalStorytelling
Henry Braun clip
Henry Braun Boston College Boston College Lynch School of Education and Human Development discusses inequality of opportunity and its impact on growing numbers of Americans, future generations, and the nation as a whole ➡️ https://faculti.net/the-dynamics-of-opportunity-in-america/ #Opportunity
Shelley Clark clip
A central premise of the first demographic transition theory is that demographic change would occur more slowly in rural than urban areas. Shelley Clark McGill University examines trends among rural and urban families in Canada and the United States discussing current differences between rural and urban families. ➡️ https://faculti.net/are-rural-areas-holdouts-in-the-second-demographic-transition// #Canada #FamilyChange #RuralSociology #SecondDemographicTransition #UnitedStates