 | | | | International Express: New Yorkers on the 7 Train Nicknamed the International Express, the New York City Transit Authority 7 subway line runs through a highly diverse series of ethnic and immigrant neighborhoods in Queens. People from Andean South America, Central America, China, India, Italy, Korea, Mexico, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, and Vietnam, as well as residents of a number of gentrifying blue-collar and industrial neighborhoods, fill the busy streets around the stations. The 7 train is a microcosm of a specifically urban, New York experience, in which individuals from a variety of cultures and social classes are forced to interact... |
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| Kashmir: The Forgotten Cause The image of Farooq Ahmad Dar, a Kashmiri shawl weaver, bound as a human shield on the bumper of an Indian military jeep is an atrocious display of an army that has become well-accustomed to human rights violations. On April 9, Mr. Dar was detained for no cause whatsoever while on his way to a relative's funeral, beaten by the Indian troops on hand, then tied to a military jeep and driven through at least 9 different Kashmiri villages. The Indian army use of Dar as a human shield was intended to stop protesting youth from throwing stones at soldiers, and constitutes a grave violation of... |
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| 'A Praise of Pain. Thomas More's Anti-Utopianism', in Han van Ruler & Giulia Sissa (eds.), Utopia 1516-2016. More's Eccentric Essay, and its Activist Aftermath, Amsterdam University Press, 2017, pp. 25-69. In his incarnation as 'Morus' in Utopia, Thomas More asserts his profound disagreement with his fictional character, Raphael Hythlodaeus. Whereas Hythlodaeus extols the merits of commonality and the moral value of pleasure, Morus dismisses the whole project as absurdity, or hopeless wishful thinking. This divergence has been variously interpreted, but mostly played down. This paper argues that the civilized, amicable, and yet genuine discord between Raphael Hythlodaeus and Morus is the key to Utopia. We can appreciate its importance only if we understand who Hythlodaeus is, and what the... |
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| Building a Postwork Utopia: Technological Unemployment, Life Extension and the Future of Human Flourishing Populations in developed societies are rapidly aging: fertility rates are at all-time lows while life expectancy creeps ever higher. This is triggering a social crisis in which shrinking youth populations are required to pay for the care and retirements of an aging majority. Some people argue that by investing in the right kinds of lifespan extension technology – the kind that extends the healthy and productive phases of life – we can avoid this crisis (thereby securing a 'longevity dividend'). This chapter argues that this longevity dividend is unlikely to be paid if lifespan extension... |
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| FileLife: Constant, Kurenniemi, and the Question of Living Archives As archival documents have become new media, the routines and standards subtending them have become techno-logical. Digital files are no longer simply "files" documenting the commands and protocols of a political system; they are themselves carriers of algorithms, the new commands and protocols of the information society. This article explores this transformation through the examples of the life-log of the artist-engineer Erkki Kurenniemi and Constant's re-implementation of his life in software. Theoretically, the articles reloads Michel Foucault's notions of the archive in view of German... |
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| Fabrication of Gold Nanoparticles from Prosopis juliflora Leaves Extract by Green Method for Potential Antibacterial Application Incorporation of green chemistry principles to nanotechnology is one of the key concerns in nanoscience research. There is growing need to develop environmentally benign metal nanoparticle fabrication progression that does not use toxic chemicals in the synthetic conventions to avoid antagonistic effects in medical applications. In this process using rapid, convenient and environment-friendly method for the fabrication of gold nanoparticles (Prosopis juliflora [PJ]-GNPs) by reducing aurum chloride with the aqueous extract of PJ leaves. To elevate the process parameters involved in the... |
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| Critical social psychology of politics In this chapter we develop a critical social psychological perspective for the study of politics with a focus on the particular topic of citizenship and immigration. The chapter is divided in two main parts. We start by making a distinction between politics as an object of study for social psychology and politics as part of academic social psychological work (i.e. the politics of social psychology as a discipline). We argue that critical social psychology is concerned with both types of politics, that is, both with exploring the political aspects of social psychological issues and with... |
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| The Political Economy of Primary Education: Lessons from Rwanda When it comes to the state's ability to deliver services to the poor, politics matter. This paper applies a political settlements framework to examine primary education quality in Rwanda. Formal education features prominently into the post-genocide government's social and economic development project. Rwanda's political elite have staked their claim in the development of the country, one which is relatively free from rent-seeking. But education quality remains surprisingly low. Enrollment has surged, but primary school dropout and repetition are high. Most children have not acquired... |
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