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Theory Informing Practices
Authors: Searcy Yan Dominic , Harden Troy
Published: October 2023

Theory predicts and explains behavior. From the natural sciences to the social sciences, theory provides a framework for understanding. Chapter 2 presents the theoretical underpinnings of the authors’ approaches to urban youth programmatic interventions. Attention is placed on the social work person-in-environment (PIE) theoretical approach. The chapter also engages the theoretical perspective that frames the use of circles. The authors cover the concept of flourishing that is fostered by environmental factors and link youth leadership opportunities to increasing the possibility of program participation. The chapter concludes with a brief discussion of the importance of the presence of affirming adult leadership and its overall impact on program outcomes.
True-Life Stories
Authors: Timmons Jill
Published: October 2023

Chapter 12 presents twelve real-life stories from the rank and file of the music industry. They represent highly diverse music professionals who in many ways exemplify the best in inventive career strategies. These thriving artists represent east- and west-coast perspectives, communities as different as New York City and small-town America, a range in diversity, varied musical interests, different educational backgrounds, and divergent artistic visions. They range in age from college students to wise elders. Most of these artists remain anonymous. In crafting their own unique vision–plan continuum, they embarked on their own musician’s journey. The details of their fascinating stories can serve as models to others.
Introduction
Authors: Gray David B.
Published: October 2023

This introduction to this volume briefly overviews its topic, the literature produced by the tantric Buddhist traditions in Asia. It is oriented toward readers interested in this topic but who lack the training to read this literature in the original Asian languages. It does not presume prior knowledge of technical terms. It introduces the volume’s five chapters, the first of which introduces what is meant by the terms “tantra” and “tantric traditions” in Buddhist contexts. It then segues to the historical development of Buddhist tantric traditions in India. The second chapter introduces the Buddhist tantras, with a focus on their structure and use of language. It also summarizes the contents of the Buddhist tantras, overviewing the major topics covered within them. The third chapter explores the dissemination of tantric texts and practice traditions throughout Asia, while the fourth chapter discusses the different genres of tantric Buddhist literature and how they were organized into canons. Lastly, the fifth chapter discusses the transgressive rhetoric found in many of the Buddhist tantras, how this constituted an obstacle to the dissemination of this literature and affected how they were translated, and also how Buddhists creatively used commentary to explain these passages.
Restoration, Revolution, and Retirement
Authors: Troyansky David G.
Published: October 2023

The chapter focuses on the ending of careers throughout the first half of the nineteenth century. It looks at rewards and the normalization of careers in constitutional and bureaucratic regimes. Revolutions begin to resemble restorations, and the chapter teases out continuities and change in the magistracy, looking closely at the retirement dossiers in six departments of France, seeing the impact of printed forms, and charting large numbers of careers. Examination of a famously turbulent period reveals characteristics of remarkable continuity, considering holdovers from the Old Regime, old revolutionaries, and others contributing to the development of careerism. Bureaucracy and autobiography intersected. Within a new civic order, issues of entitlement, citizenship, and bureaucracy arose, as magistrates justified lives and pioneered new territory. They were acutely aware of changes in political regime, but they could build on long experience, and in late life they constructed their worlds out of elements of diverse regimes.
Gender, Widowhood, and the Limits of Entitlement
Authors: Troyansky David G.
Published: October 2023

The chapter concerns the gendered aspect of retirement. It does so by looking closely at widows’ letters. A comparison of male and female writing about work, family, and public life reveals gendered themes and rhetoric and different modes of complaint. Men had spoken more of politics and honor; women spoke of the needs of their children and themselves, and appealed to the paternal solicitude of the king. The chapter also raises questions of degrees of entitlement, considering questions of right, culture, and material need. The gendered comparison permits reflection on men’s mastery of a rhetoric of complaint and women’s more matter-of-fact self-presentation and different temporalities over the life course. Men had appealed to the state in more advanced age as they approached retirement; widows, having married earlier, made their appeals at a younger age, often calling for support for their young children.
Conclusion
Authors: Troyansky David G.
Published: October 2023

The conclusion discusses the political and cultural origins of retirement and looks ahead to its democratization. It considers the importance of the state and its servants, how rights to retire derive from particular relations to the state. Magistrates had access to a language of honor, service, victimization, and heroism, and they knew how to make that language work for them. The conclusion situates the book in the contexts of the social history of the life course, old age, and retirement, the cultural history of representations of the self, the political history of changing regimes and anticipations of welfare-state formulas, and the institutional history of bureaucracy. It places the book beside recent works on the French Revolution and on social and professional networks, and it describes the challenges of living in revolution’s shadow and through decades of administrative reform that contributed to a new logic of the life course.
Tracing Absent Critiques
Authors: Park Yoosun
Published: October 2023

The histories of immigration and social work are inextricably entangled. Immigrant enclaves in urban slums were living laboratories for the development of scientific philanthropy. Social work’s attention, however, did not encompass all immigrants. The focus of its developmental years was limited to White immigrants. Social work’s complicity in the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II was the culmination of a long history of the field’s complicity in the racist exclusion of Asian Americans. Identification of the profession’s silences and inactions is as necessary as the study of what it did and what it said. The aporias and elusions in the discourse were never random but defined by White supremacist ideology. Racism was a central rather than an accidental factor in the development of social work.
From “Problem” to Mass Repatriation
Authors: Roth Benjamin J.
Published: October 2023

This chapter draws on original source material to explore how the social work profession reinforced negative stereotypes about the “worthiness” of Mexican-origin immigrants in the early decades of the twentieth century. Historical analyses suggest the profession did little to challenge the racialized social construction of Mexican-origin residents as “undeserving” and was complicit in the state-sponsored campaign to forcibly repatriate hundreds of thousands back to Mexico—regardless of whether they were U.S. citizens or not. This is a historical case of social injustice, racialization, and immigrant exclusion that the social work profession needs to recognize. It provides insight into the development of the social work profession as well as a warning for contemporary practice and scholarship.
Institutional Racism in the Child Welfare System
Authors: Jones Jenny , Haynes Christin D.
Published: October 2023

Federal policies that perpetuate inequities among African American families have led to the overrepresentation of Black children in the child welfare system. This chapter provides a historical overview of the antecedents that led to the development of the child welfare state that formalized racist policies that shaped the U.S. child welfare system. Embodied in this discussion is a historical account of the Black self-help/mutual aid movement that provided key aspects of Black club women’s child welfare vision that should be incorporated into contemporary child welfare policy and practice. Next, the chapter examines the impediments that African American children face within the context of racial injustice framed by Du Bois’s philosophical perspective. The chapter also provides examples of both Washington’s and Du Bois’s philosophical ideals as they relate to African Americans and the American child welfare system.
The Black Woman’s Tax
Authors: Chaisson Rebecca , Stevenson Rae , Lewis Marva L. , Blakey Joan M.
Published: October 2023

This chapter discusses the academic experience of four Black women in schools of social work in the Deep South and the representation of those experiences as the Black women’s tax. The narratives are from different career levels: (a) a doctoral student seeking liberatory scholarship; (b) a midcareer academician and administrator at a predominately White institution facing the controlling images of Black women and tokenism; (c) an administrator facing the challenges of structural racism and sexism at a Historically Black University; and (d) the challenges and coping strategies of a tenured, senior-level faculty member with a research agenda centered on Black women and children at a Carnegie 1 Research Institution. The chapter concludes with a call for a redefinition of Black feminism to address the intersectional challenges of White supremacy and cisgendered patriarchy to move toward equitable and fair contributions of Black women in the academy, without taxation.
Better Late Than Never
Authors: Brown Brittany Ribeiro , Nussinov Tariro
Published: October 2023

The history of social work has major implications for the present day field. The recognized founders of social work, Mary Richmond and Jane Addams, are two White women who had good intentions to address issues of poverty, crime, and disabilities; however, their good intentions were flawed, and this chapter identifies them as oppositional legs of social work. The chapter seeks to rectify social work’s role in the perpetuation of oppression by centering historical Black feminist thinkers and social workers of the Progressive Era as the blueprint of social work. This chapter covers four topics: the dominant historical narrative of White female social workers, historical Black women social workers, the transformative power of Black feminist thought, and the pedagogical implications of including Black feminist thought and Black female social work pioneers in social work education.
Social Work’s Blame Game
Authors: Champagne Lukas , Fisher Robert
Published: October 2023

Professional histories of social work have tended to emphasize White contributions and elide or minimize Black-led efforts at community social provision and self-determination. In particular, despite consonance between the politics and goals of settlement workers during the Progressive Era and the Black Power leaders during the late 1960s, these latter efforts are framed in social work histories as disruptive and even responsible for the rightward turn of politics in the United States during the 1970s and 1980s. This chapter asks social work educators to consider the relationship between the Black Power movement and social work, and to weigh the goals of the Black Power movement on their merits.
Making Policing Obsolete
Authors: Toraif Noor , Mueller Justin C.
Published: October 2023

This chapter identifies the harms of relying on policing as a response to social problems, conceptualizes abolitionism as a political movement, and argues that a distinctly abolitionist form of social work can and should help displace policing. The chapter further argues that this abolitionist social work has six defining tenets and demonstrates how these tenets reflect the components of abolitionist politics and are reflected in successful nonpolicing methods of responding to several social problems, including homelessness, substance use and addiction, and mental health crises. The chapter argues that abolitionist social work can contribute substantially to policing’s displacement and the prefiguration of a world in which police and policing are obsolete. This is especially urgent, given the expansion of policing to many social domains in the United States over the last half century, and the disproportionate harms policing has imposed on Black, Indigenous, and communities of color and the poor.
Toward a Historically Accountable Critical Whiteness Curriculum for Social Work
Authors: Gregory Joshua R.
Published: October 2023

Whiteness is a social construct. Social constructs, by definition, can be disassembled. Whiteness is also wholly constituted by and inseparable from White supremacy, and thus exists purely as racial injustice. Consequently, racial justice demands that Whiteness be dismantled and abolished. Social work is directly implicated in this imperative; yet, the above facts register with most social workers as exaggerated, baseless, or ideological. Social work requires a historically accountable critical Whiteness curriculum to correct this misunderstanding and facilitate informed participation in the pursuit of racial justice. This curriculum explores the history of Whiteness in global, U.S., and social work contexts; examines the role of education in deploying and maintaining Whiteness; and considers reconstruction and abolition as alternative modes of responding to Whiteness. The curriculum ultimately shows abolition to be the only historically and theoretically consistent response to Whiteness, leading to a call for abolition as praxis and for further curricular development.
Advancing Culturally Disruptive Pedagogies to Dismantle Anti-Black Racism in the Generalist Social Work Curriculum
Authors: Gharbi Vannessa , Baffour Tiffany D.
Published: October 2023

Social workers play dual roles as agents of social control and social change; therefore, the social work curriculum must prepare students to disrupt anti-Black racism that is embedded within systems. Strategies and content that effectively prepare faculty to engage in conversations about antiracist practice and advocate for the human rights of Black clients are critical to the training of social workers. There is a dearth of literature focused on using culturally disruptive pedagogies to dismantle racism in the generalist curriculum. This praxis model contends that the experiences and worldviews of people of color should be centered and normalized. This contribution provides actionable strategies and resources in developing antiracist curriculum and faculty development strategies that cut across program size and resource level. A synthesis of theories will offer a novel way to conceptualize teaching, learning, supervision, and field education to foster environments rich with transformative, antioppressive, and antiracist pathways to learning.
Envisioning an Antiracist Profession
Authors: Perez Ebony , Nelson Anna
Published: October 2023

As a social justice profession, social work is uniquely positioned to contribute to racial reckoning and antiracism. Yet, social work literature remains colorblind. Two social work critical race scholars of color engaged in a qualitative content analysis of four peer-reviewed social work journals’ articles published from 2015 to 2020 to inquire, “How is social work research addressing race and racism after twenty-five years of marginalization in the literature?” Critical race theory tenets were analytical constructs for this content analysis. Findings suggest that while social work journals with missions to address social justice and innovation show an increase in publishing on race and racism, the prominent journal advising social work education lagged in its number of published articles addressing critical social issues affecting Black, Indigenous, and people of color. These findings suggest the time is now for social work to embody its charge of promoting social justice by beginning its transformation from within.
LatCrit and Social Work Epistemology
Authors: Nakaoka Susan Lares , Aldana Adriana , Ortiz Larry
Published: October 2023

Social work has relied on epistemology that privileges Whiteness over racialized groups. As the population of Latinx individuals in the United States continues to grow, new paradigmatic frames that are more responsive to the complex and urgent needs of Latinx populations are required. LatCrit, originating in legal and education scholarship, provides a culturally resonant lens that addresses systemic oppression and the racialization of issues such as immigration, bilingualism, low-wage labor, and perceived reliance on social support systems. LatCrit social work scholars have integrated the theory into social work praxis but have yet to apply it to epistemology. The authors provide examples of LatCrit as illustrations of how critical theory can be used to deconstruct social work epistemology. Implications for LatCrit in social work education are provided, which include an emphasis on the collective, experiential learning, oral history, and intergenerational knowledge.
Beyond Combat
Authors: Callaghan Walter , Eichler Maya , Tait Victoria
Published: October 2023

Psychological injuries such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have long been problematic in hyper-masculinized military contexts as a result of social stigma. Much of this stigma is associated with perceptions of acceptable gender-normative behaviour, with the expression of emotion and distress being viewed as signs of weakness and therefore not befitting the masculinized gendered identity of the soldier. The historic focus on combat exposure has in itself created a situation where the acceptability and acknowledgement of psychological distress has been tied to the nature of the traumatogenic event. In effect, the dominant focus on psychobiological responses to combat exposure, including in programs meant to develop resiliency, has had the unintended consequence of gendering the traumatogenic event, and in turn gendering the diagnosis itself. This is evident in the difficulty veterans encounter when seeking treatment and benefits, particularly in cases of PTSD related to military sexual trauma (MST) and in the context of “moral injury.” Norms of masculinity inform the construction of injury in military contexts and contribute to a “hierarchy of injuries”: combat-related PTSD, non-combat PTSD, MST-related PTSD, and moral injury. This hierarchy reinforces normative understandings of who is a “real” soldier. We illustrate our argument regarding the importance of recognizing and acknowledging injury beyond combat by drawing on the voices and stories of veterans who are PTSD and MST survivors.
Moral Injury, Moral Suffering, and Moral Health
Authors: Talbert Matthew , Wolfendale Jessica
Published: October 2023

In this chapter, the authors argue that the concept of “moral injury” needs regimentation: Current definitions are both too broad and too narrow. They are too broad because they ignore or conflate important differences between the kinds of moral conflicts discussed in the literature. They are too narrow because they exclude the possibility of moral injury in the absence of internal moral conflict. The authors argue that it is necessary to first develop a conception of moral health, and they propose a Strawsonian conception of moral health as the ability to participate in the moral community. The account offered in this chapter thus includes some cases that are not recognized as moral injuries in the literature and rejects some cases that are commonly described as moral injuries.
Around the Tree of Awakening
Authors: Lewis Todd , Kim Jinah
Published: October 2023

This chapter uses texts and imagery to focus on accounts of the ascetic Shakyamuni seated under the Bodhi tree, his Awakening to become a Buddha, and the first seven weeks afterward when he remained close to this sacred tree. After following various narratives recounting this period from Theravāda, Mahāyāna, and Vajrayāna traditions, it surveys the actions of illustrious beings (divine, demonic, serpent, human) as they interact with the newly realized sage. After underlining how the appearance of a Buddha alters the universe, leading to a series of supernatural revelations (earthquakes, rains of celestial flowers, healing, etc.), the chapter surveys the actions of the Buddha’s antagonist Māra, as well as actions of the gods, serpent deities, and devout men who are central to this great event. The chapter also delineates how these figures remain pivotal and paradigmatic through the subsequent history of Buddhism, including its successful trans-Asian diaspora.
The Buddha’s Story Continues
Authors: Berkwitz Stephen C.
Published: October 2023

This chapter picks up on the Buddha’s life story from the cremation of his body and focuses on narratives associated with the relics that survive his final nirvana. It describes what Buddha relics are understood to be according to Buddhist traditions. Next it outlines and examines how Buddha relics were collected and distributed among his followers, focusing on the key roles played by King Ajātasattu and King Asoka in ancient India. Stories about the spread and worship of relics beyond India are discussed, including accounts of relics and Buddha images that were brought and enshrined in Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and China. Finally, it discusses how the relics have been predicted to come to an end, and why this end is important for framing the Buddha’s life story.
Political Religion and the End of Modernity
Authors: Versluis Arthur
Published: October 2023

The history of ideas concerning the concept of the end of modernity is a prevalent focus on the contemporary right. Millenarian thought, theories of history in relation to the end of modernity, are discussed by a series of authors, including Gianni Vattimo, Romano Guardini, René Guénon, and John Lukacs. They discuss contemporary spirituality in terms of new age categories like lightworkers, especially as they intersect with theories of the end of modernity and a new age. These authors have in common the perspective that the contemporary era is decadent, or an era of decline if not apocalyptic. But some look for a future restoration or transformation.
Conclusion
Authors: Versluis Arthur
Published: October 2023

This chapter summarizes and provides conclusions regarding the book as a whole and its major chapters and discusses conclusions regarding all major themes and authors. It also draws larger conclusions regarding literature, film, major neo-gnostic authors, and social media including Gab and Telegram. Authors including Oswald Spengler, John Michael Greer, Nicholas Berdyaev, and Wilhelm Röpke are discussed with an eye to historical cyclicity. Possible futures of related groups, memes, and movements associated with the various neo-gnostic currents are summarized based on what was discussed earlier in the book. It highlights the opposition visible throughout the book between centralized power and individual liberty with relation to religious freedom and mysticism.
Interlude
Authors: Butler Leslie
Published: October 2023

This interlude shifts the narrative to 1863, in the middle of the Civil War that made the very survival of self-government an open question. Loyal union women—white and Black—insisted that democratic principles were at stake in the conflict and that emancipation was the most important step the Union must take to make American democracy consistent. By 1863, the war’s transformative, revolutionary potential was clear. It became a catalyst for recasting the categories of person, citizen, voter, and spouse. Grappling with self-government in general and women’s self-governance in particular would be crucial aspects of the democratic republic’s second founding.
Rupturing the “Cul-de-Sac”
Authors: Burford James , Hook Genine
Published: October 2023

This chapter seeks to identify new directions for queer research in higher education studies via a focus on two graduate education projects emerging from the Antipodes. One author’s research on the contemporary affective-politics of doctoral education in Aotearoa New Zealand deployed queer concepts in order to unsettle habits of thinking about the political value of affect. In order to destabilize conventional ways of thinking about the agentive capacities of feelings, he draws on queer and feminist debates that have interrogated so-called positive feelings and repositioned “negative” states of being as potential sites for agency and understanding. The other author’s research examined the agency of sole-parent postgraduates in Australia and also employed a methodology of queer destabilization. The second author queers parental care work to unsettle gendered assumptions about sole-parent graduate students. In linking together these two projects, the hope is to demonstrate the disruptive possibilities of queer concepts in the area of postgraduate research studies.
Timely Interventions
Authors: Gunn Alexandra C.
Published: October 2023

Queer theory is increasingly used in New Zealand studies of early childhood education to understand persistent issues of gender and sexuality inequality. Replete with normative expectations about gender, sexuality, and the family form, early childhood provides a multitude of entry points for understanding the repetitive impositions of heterosexual hegemony and associated heteronormative thinking and practice. Furthermore, children sometimes say and do the queerest things, asserting different possibilities for who and how individuals might claim or know themselves to be. This chapter examines how the astute educator can engage with queer theory to inform thinking and practice in early childhood education and beyond.
The Possibilities and Futurities of LGBTQ Youth
Authors: Vasquez Andrea , Cruz Cindy
Published: October 2023

LGBTQ scholarship has maintained the focus and analysis of LGBTQ youth as the other and has failed to critically examine what it might mean in theory and in practice to encompass a nonvictimized intersectional identity with the possibilities of its disruption. This review is a critical analysis of the potentiality and limitations of “queerness,” with an emphasis on queer of color critique within educational research. Rooted in the work of critical scholars of color and situated within the U.S. context, this chapter explores the way “queer” has been taken up and problematized by educational scholars. Starting with the premise that queer theory would be able to make sexuality and desire central rather than peripheral to radical politics, this critique of queer and nonbinary youth scholarship pays special attention to the shift from LGBTQ studies in education to a queer and of color framework whose efforts to unveil liberatory possibilities are blocked by the given state of affairs—including a critical understanding of race, class, gender, and capitalism—and imagining what alternatives and futurities are possible for LGBTQ youth.
“The Only Orange Park Bench”
Authors: Fenaughty John , Cowie Lucy , Allen Louisa
Published: October 2023

Photo methods have been recognized as a queer research method with the capacity to uncover the mundane and ignored experiences of daily life. This study uncovered experiences of contradiction for LGBTIQA+ students at a university in Aotearoa New Zealand. The image of a lone orange bench (when other benches are brown) on the outskirts of campus captured one of these contradictions from a participant who declared campus was “welcoming” as a cisgender gay man. However, when later talking about what the bench represented, he explained it was like “queer students”: “It should be celebrated for its uniqueness, but actually, it was really isolated and alone.” Photos, and associated narratives, draw attention to cisheteronormativity’s more nuanced forms, including an absence of nonbinary bathrooms and queer spaces for LGBTIQA+ students and a cisheteronormative process for addressing discrimination. It is argued that a broader definition of, and response to, LGBTIQA+ discrimination is required.
A Hidden Past
Authors: Lincoln Bruce
Published: October 2023

Eliade came to see the Legion as a messianic movement antithetic to all conventional politics, and in 1937 he began publishing articles of full-throated support. In these, he voiced admiration for the movement’s mystical spirituality and spirit of sacrifice, while largely ignoring its anti-Semitism and thuggish violence. A year later, when the Legion was suppressed, Eliade was arrested and sent to a concentration camp, but won release through the intervention of powerful friends, conditional on his renouncing the Legion. In subsequent years, he maintained a delicate balance that kept most people from knowing about his past, while leading legionaries to believe he remained faithful to the movement. In 1972, however, Theodor Lavi published a scathing “dossier,” charging him with legionary commitments and profound anti-Semitism, while quoting evidence from the then-unpublished journals of Mihail Sebastian. Gershom Scholem was drawn into the controversy and asked Eliade to explain himself, which he did so in evasionary fashion. A heated, but inconclusive debate followed, as other scholars picked up on the controversy.
A Hidden Past
Authors: Lincoln Bruce
Published: October 2023

For the most part, Eliade refused to answer his critics directly, claiming he would not dignify their slanders. It thus fell to others, above all Ioan Culianu, to speak in his defense. Culianu fled Romania in 1972 and apprenticed himself to Eliade, whose works he read in adolescence and whom he adopted as mentor and patron. From his first book, a celebration of Eliade’s work, with particular attention to its Romanian origins, Culianu insisted that Eliade was neither an anti-Semite, nor Nazi sympathizer, nor member of the Legion. At the time of his first publications, Culianu knew relatively little about the Legion, and he experienced a crisis of conscience upon learning more about it and about Eliade’s involvement. Maintaining Eliade’s support was crucial to his career opportunities, however, and Culianu managed to quell his doubts sufficiently to continue defending the master against critics who were increasingly well informed.
An Unsolved Murder
Authors: Lincoln Bruce
Published: October 2023

After Eliade’s death in 1986, Culianu became his successor at the University of Chicago and his literary executor. In those positions, he continued his defense of Eliade, working closely with Mac Linscott Ricketts, Eliade’s chief translator as criticism spread from Israel and Europe to the United States. Having previously insisted that Eliade never wrote on behalf of the Legion, Culianu’s position became more difficult when he saw Ricketts’s translation of the relevant articles, prompting him to adjust—but not abandon—his defense. The two agreed to keep Christinel Eliade, the professor’s widow, in the dark as the debate developed, fearing the emerging evidence and heightened attacks would disturb her.
A consul and an Antony
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey
Published: October 2023

The events of Antony’s consulship in the months following Caesar’s assassination are the central focus of this chapter. Topics include: senatorial business after the amnesty of 17 March; Antony’s speech at Caesar’s funeral; Antony’s coinage advertising his relationship with Caesar; Lepidus’ friendship with Antony and his elevation to pontifex maximus; Gaius Amatius Herophilus and the popular movement to divinize Caesar, including aristocratic backlash and harsh reactions by Antony and Dolabella; conventions and legislation regulating the execution of Caesar’s acta and Antony’s dominant role in their promulgation and subsequent implementation; accusations of corruption levelled against Antony and Fulvia; problems associated with settling Caesar’s veterans in Italy, including the role of Antony and his brother Lucius Antonius; Antony’s ambitious legislative programme, especially his controversial lex de provinciis consularibus; the advent of Octavian and the legal reality of his so-called testamentary adoption; Antony’s strained or adversarial relationship with other devotees of Caesar; Antony’s difficult relationship with Octavian; games celebrated by Marcus Brutus and games celebrated by Octavian; the appearance of the sidus Iulium; the deterioration of Antony’s relationship with the Liberators and consequently with Cicero.
Enforce no further the griefs between ye
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey
Published: October 2023

This chapter addresses events taking place between the fall of Perusia and the pact of Tarentum. Topics include: the Parthians’ invasion of Rome’s eastern dominions; Antony’s return to Italy and his conflict with Octavian; the death of Fulvia; the pact at Brundisium and Antony’s marriage to Octavia; Antony’s designation as governor of Rome’s eastern empire and his mission to punish Parthia; Virgil’s Fourth Eclogue; perturbation in Rome owing to scarcity and famine caused by Sextus Pompey’s blockade of the city; negotiations with Sextus Pompey leading to the pact of Misenum; Antony’s return to Athens with Octavia, where both receive divine honours; Antony’s policy of identifying himself as New Dionysus; Antony’s coinage depicting Octavia; the military successes of Publius Ventidius, which eliminate the Parthian threat; Antony’s administrative reorganization of Rome’s eastern empire; Antony’s initial preparations for a Parthian campaign; the recurrence of conflict between Sextus Pompey and Octavian; Antony’s decision to side with Octavian; their mysterious standoff at Tarentum and its resolution in the pact of Tarentum; Antony’s departure for the east and his decision to leave Octavia behind.
Change Leadership
Authors: Welter Christina R. , Risley Kris , Lamberth Cynthia D. , Herrick Jeannine , Orton Steve
Published: October 2023

This chapter describes the increasingly urgent need for change leadership in public health. It explores the complex challenges public health currently faces and the expectations to respond and transform to meet them with fewer resources and at an unprecedented pace. It outlines the foundational resources required, emphasizing that the resources are necessary but not sufficient to make needed changes. To highlight this, it describes motivators to bring about change in an organization, whether that change is adaptive or technical. When public health faces an adaptive approach to change, what the authors describe as an adaptive leadership model, it presents unique challenges that need to be addressed accordingly. The chapter explains the processes for addressing change from a leadership level and where to begin on an individual level. The chapter describes the specific individual leadership practices and interpersonal skills necessary to support effective change within an organization.
Strategic Resource Management
Authors: Cahill Edward M.
Published: October 2023

One of the largest challenges for public health organizations is obtaining sufficient and consistent funding, and the demands for resources are growing and becoming more unpredictable. This chapter identifies two ways of addressing the resource issue: improved utilization of existing resources and the acquisition of new resources. Both are activities that organizations already identify as key for success; however, there are ways in which public health professionals can be more skillful and effective in how they approach obtaining those resources. This chapter outlines specific tactics to help public health organizations and staff leverage every tool at their disposal to best utilize the resources they have, along with specific skills to help acquire additional resources.
Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Public Health
Authors: Fraser Michael R.
Published: October 2023

This chapter covers the importance of leveraging and prioritizing diversity among public health teams, workforce agencies, and organizational development. To build trust and legitimacy in its work, governmental public health must ensure that the teams of practitioners serving the communities reflect the diversity of their populations. This chapter summarizes the benefits and opportunities of an intentional focus on recruiting and retaining diverse teams for governmental public health agencies. Employing a diverse workforce does not guarantee, however, that agency programs and services will become more effective. Managers and leaders need to create the conditions that allow diverse teams to thrive in their organizations and, by extension, improve their communities’ health. Managing diverse public health teams effectively to tap their collective expertise and maximize their contribution to the organization is a crucial role for leaders who desire to optimize agency performance and to generate optimal health in their communities.
An Advocacy Primer for Public Health Practice
Authors: Mullen Carolyn , Hanen Laura
Published: October 2023

This chapter outlines the importance of advocacy skills and the art of implementation in public health practice. Public health practitioners are ideal messengers to policymakers in providing science- and evidence-based data to inform health policy and funding decisions. Cultivating public- and private-sector partners to carry common messages and to advocate on your behalf is crucial in tackling current and future challenges. In particular, federal advocacy is not accomplished by one voice shouting into the void hoping that Congress and/or the administration will listen. Rather, it is undertaken with a chorus of dedicated advocates singing loudly with one clear message. By definition, advocacy is a process by which an individual or group aims to influence decisions in political, economic, and social systems and institutions. This chapter defines effective advocacy, which includes collaboration with diverse partners and requires long-term strategy and engagement that can take years of education and relationship-building.
Food Ethics and the Philosophy of Race
Authors: Thompson Paul B.
Published: October 2023

Environmental philosophies emphasizing food and the problems associated with industrial agriculture are brought into dialog with recent philosophical work stressing feminism and identity, but laying primary emphasis on the philosophy of race. Building on Chapter 7’s discussion of the agrarian commitments of 18th- and 19th-century natural history, Charles Mills’s notion of a racial contract is the chapter’s primary orientation to the philosophy of race and notions of white supremacy. Two points of linkage are developed. Oppression within food systems occurs when any form of gender or racial violence or stereotyping is deployed to consign groups to lower-status positions or exploit their contribution for white males. Plantation slavery is a key example. Work in the philosophy of race should lay more emphasis on the role of plantation agriculture in perpetuating the institution of racist slaveholding. The second form is displacement of food systems, or the annihilation of an oppressed group’s ability to practice their foodways and agricultural methods. Displacement of indigenous populations is a key example, but recent calls for food sovereignty also reflect this concern. A detailed discussion of Thomas Jefferson’s views on race, slavery, and key elements of his presidency as well as his management of his Monticello plantation are examined to exemplify both types of racism in the early American republic. The chapter concludes with some speculation on alternative agrarianisms that might help counter the thrusts and implications of Jeffersonian agrarianism.
To Brandish or Not to Brandish
Authors: Spitzer Robert J.
Published: October 2023

The contemporary rise in the practice of public gun carrying, seen in recent years at demonstrations and other public gatherings, is touted by advocates as a proper, beneficial, and even constitutional expression of gun rights. Yet the history of weapons carrying contradicts that narrative. Weapons carrying and display has been widely restricted, barred, and regulated for hundreds of years, for the obvious reason that it threatens public safety, spreads fear, undercuts order, and challenges freedom. The stated good intentions of those promoting weapons carrying is contradicted by the fear and intimidation attendant to such actions. Firearms, by their nature, pose an inherent risk regardless of the intentions of the carriers. That risk becomes manifest in a public setting.
Historical Militia Law, Fire Prevention Law, and the Modern Second Amendment
Authors: Frassetto Mark Anthony
Published: October 2023

This chapter begins by explaining the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in New York State Rifle and Pistol Association v. Bruen and the primacy that it accords to historical analysis—above and beyond the attention to history that was already part of the preexisting two-part framework in the federal courts of appeal. The chapter shows that historical analysis of gun laws before and in the immediate aftermath of Bruen has tended to focus on laws designed to reduce the risk of violent crime. But some historical laws regarding militia service and fire prevention imposed burdens on gun owners that were even more stringent than those crime-focused laws. How, then, do these militia-related and fire-prevention laws fit into Bruen’s analysis of the burdens and justifications of historical gun laws? Drawing on existing case law, the chapter argues that these laws, too, are an essential part of the history of gun regulation and should factor into the calculus of governments’ modern regulatory authority.
Abolition, Armed Self-Defense, and Firearms Regulation in Antebellum America
Authors: Cornell Saul
Published: October 2023

This chapter offers a nuanced historical account of Boston’s abolitionists who advocated armed resistance to the slave power and aggressive principles of self-defense. It counterposes this view with mainstream legal thought that sought a well-regulated society. The maintenance of the public peace required prohibitions on carrying concealed firearms in public without adequate cause. The chapter questions the contemporary gun debate’s focus on Southern gun culture as representative of the national tradition, and instead argues how surety laws were adopted in many states and this “Free States Model” became the dominant approach to firearms regulation in antebellum America. Legal change, not stasis, marked this period of American law. The chapter examines changes in the law of self-defense, the enforcement of surety bonds to keep the peace and good behavior, and the abolitionist movement’s sometimes fraught relationship with armed violence in service of their cause.
Microwave resonators for superconducting devices
Authors: Manenti Riccardo , Motta Mario
Published: October 2023

In this chapter, we present microwave resonators, one of the two main elements composing a quantum computer based on superconducting devices. We describe planar microwave resonators and introduce their classical modeling as RLC circuits. We introduce transmission lines coupled to microwave resonators and explore the dependence of the transmission coefficient on temperature and power. We then describe how to drive a microwave resonator with an electromagnetic pulse. In the last part of the chapter, we model a microwave resonator as a quantum harmonic oscillation and discuss photon losses with a master equation
Statistical Mechanics: Theory and Molecular Simulation
Authors: Tuckerman Mark E.
Published: October 2023

Complex problems that cross traditional disciplinary lines between physics, chemistry, biology, and materials science can be studied at an unprecedented level of detail using increasingly sophisticated theoretical methodology and high-speed computing platforms. The tools of statistical mechanics provide the bridge between the atomistic descriptions of these complex systems and the macroscopic observables accessible to experimental investigations and predictable in computer simulations. The aim of this book is to prepare burgeoning users and developers to become active researchers in the theoretical and computational molecular sciences by uniting, in one monograph, the theoretical underpinnings of equilibrium and time-dependent classical and quantum statistical mechanics with modern computational techniques used to put these concepts into practice to address real-world applications. The book contains detailed reviews of classical and quantum mechanics and in-depth discussions of the most commonly used statistical ensembles side by side with modern computational methods such as molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, advanced configurational and trajectory sampling approaches, free-energy based rare-event sampling approaches, Feynman path integral techniques, linear response theory and time correlation functions, stochastic methods, critical phenomena, and an introduction to machine learning and its uses in statistical mechanics. Readers of this book will be provided, in a pedagogical manner, with a firm foundation in both the theory and practical implementation of statistical mechanical concepts, thus allowing them to approach application technology with an understanding of the underlying algorithms and to become, themselves, creators of new and powerful approaches for solving challenging research problems.
Psychedelic Experience
Authors: Lyon Aidan
Published: October 2023

Psychedelic Experience presents a philosophical account of psychedelic experience. A central premise of the book is that such experiences are mind-revealing experiences and that they can be induced by means other than psychedelics. In particular, the book argues that psychedelic experiences can also be had as the result of meditation. The book then presents a unified conceptual framework for thinking about the different kinds of psychedelic experiences one may have as a result of psychedelics, meditation, and their combination. This framework is then used to shed new light on various commonalities between psychedelics and meditation, such as the ability to promote long-lasting increases in mindfulness and their reputation for inducing mystical experiences. Finally, the book uses these new philosophical resources to flip things around and shine the light back on philosophy itself, arguing that psychedelic experiences can be used as tools for doing philosophy. The result is a new approach to philosophy (or the revival of an ancient one), which integrates traditional analytic methods with a range of psychedelic techniques.