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Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice in Prison With Men
Authors: Patricia O’Brien , Willison Judith S.
Published: September 2022

This chapter initially justifies separate chapters on people self-defined by gender within the criminal legal system. It describes the elements that channel men into prison and the inhumane conditions they face while imprisoned. The chapter outlines how the history of white supremacy has differentially shaped the mass incarceration of men related to types of offenses, interpersonal violence, masculinity, and gender. It describes the need for anti-oppressive social work advocacy and practice. It offers evidence-informed approaches to work with men in prison at the individual, group, and institutional levels to lessen incarceration’s traumatic impact and promote recovery and restoration after release.
Challenges and Possibilities of Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practice in Prison With Women
Authors: Patricia O’Brien , Willison Judith S.
Published: September 2022

This chapter begins by identifying the gendered and racialized differences in historical efforts to reform and control women and the dominant push to punish deviant women linked to their sexuality and resistance to patriarchal institutions, accelerating their incarceration. It describes women’s pathways to criminalization and incarceration, including experiences of trauma and co-occurring mental health and substance use disorders. The chapter then details conditions in women’s prisons and the need to recognize women’s needs in custody and on release. It offers promising approaches at the individual, group, institutional, and policy levels to mitigate women’s harm during incarceration and provides examples of support for women’s restoration and recovery.
Knowledge Building for Revisioning Accountability and Restoration
Authors: Patricia O’Brien , Willison Judith S.
Published: September 2022

This chapter centers on what knowledge is needed for how to transform the criminal legal system, where that knowledge should come from, and how anti-oppressive social workers can work toward building knowledge in anti-oppressive ways. This chapter outlines anti-oppressive research methods that include measures of success determined by communities that reflect strengths-based factors such as resilience, the mechanisms of desistance from crime, and community healing. It provides examples of transformative research methods to understand and work collaboratively with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated and convicted scholars toward restoration and accountability. Anti-oppressive and participatory action research methods aimed at changing policies and creating new public safety structures are discussed.
She
Authors: Jahan Rashid
Published: September 2022

At the centre of Rashid Jahan's story "She" is the idea of disgust, and the discordance between belief and affect. In the story, the narrator, a young, presumably modern school teacher encounters 'She', a prostitute who is everyone's definition of ugly. While she is universally despised by everyone, the narrator, out of her humane beliefs, tries to express sympathy. Yet, even she couldn't completely overcome her disgust that stood at odds with her beliefs. She thus becomes not only a mirror to the ugliness of society as a whole, but also those who believe themselves to be better. The story reminds us that our own emotions often belie the grand ideas that we hold dear, and that believing in one's ideals is often not the same as feeling them. Translated from Urdu by Amit Julka
Spartan Hearts
Authors: Ahmad K
Published: September 2022

Mrs. K. Ahmad's short story "Spartan Hearts" was first published in Saogat, an early twentieth-century Bengali women’s journal. In this fascinating story, she tells about the bravery and courage of the women of Sparta (ancient Greece). The references to the trans-Islamic framework of the story debunk myths about the knowledge, education, and understanding of the early Muslim women authors who, more often, are stereotyped as merely complaining of domesticity and patriarchy in Muslim societies. In “Spartan Hearts,” Ahmed describes how the women of Sparta had sturdy, adamantine hearts. When their husbands and their sons went out to war, they bade farewell to their men with these words: “You must come back victorious, or you must die fighting.” She also narrates how in the Battle of Leuctra, fought in 371 BC, the Greeks defeated the Spartans. When the news of the defeat reached the court of Sparta, the ephors conveyed the message to the families of the deceased. However, the women did not mourn the deaths of their men. The narrative ends with a question that she posits to the readers of the story.
Green Tree Stumps
Authors: Rafiq Sami
Published: September 2022

Sami Rafiq’s “Green Tree Stumps” is set against the traditional Asian Muslim mindset in which a woman has little to say or decide as far as her life or future are concerned. Pegah, the heroine of the story has a psychic connection with the world of nature specifically the trees. The perils that nature faces in the anthropocene are quite similar to what women face in patriarchy. Both Pegah and the trees are victims of mercenary propaganda symbolised by numbers and figures and in a male-ordered world, their worth is defined by those numbers. The mango trees that are ruthlessly cut down for money are a part of her psychological make up and together they attempt to oppose the tyranny and oppression of the antropocene. Every crisis in Pegah’s life is reflected in the trees that are like a mirror of her consciousness. The outcome of the story is an interpretation of reality in terms of Pegah’s vision which is neither the anthropocene nor governed by patriarchy.
Loving, Dying
Authors: Zia Ather
Published: September 2022

He raised his arm, and threw something at her. She ducked. It fell into the corner without a sound. Moving swiftly, she picked the soft sweaty ball of paper, crushed around a piece of clay. She opened it, trembling. It said—“Be laghey tche balai” “I will die for you.” … She tried to write back. Nothing seemed adequate. In the end, she repeated his dear words—“Be tih lagai tche balai” (I will also die for you).
A Lady and Her Husband
Authors: Hasan Seemin
Published: September 2022

A prediction in a game of clairvoyance during her school days takes root in Rukhsar’s mind. Reason dictates that it has no scientific basis and no future implications are likely. However, Rukhsar harbours thoughts about the power of the unknown and unexplored and the prophesy returns to trouble her again and again throughout her growing years. Rukhsar grows into a well brought up young lady with academic brilliance to her credit. After her marriage to a London-based doctor, she visits his old, historical estate in Lucknow before departing to London. Her interactions with Chuttan Baba and Tareequn Bua transport her into a world of superstition, secrets and fearful beliefs, eclipsing the visible modernity of the estate. Rukhsar’s own, dormant anxiety, regarding the prophecy resurface to torment her once more. The challenge before her is to find a solution to the situation without upsetting either the old or the new order which coexist on the estate.
There Once Was A Mouse
Authors: Amar Shaikh Malika
Published: September 2022

Though the mouse was little, it caused a lot of mischief in Raju’s house. Despite all the grumbling and complaining, the people in the house gradually got used to the mouse’s presence. Raju’s father began to leave grains of rice and scraps of fish from his plate near the mouse hole. One day, the mouse found a piece of ribbon and he quickly dragged it into his house. Until now he had never ventured beyond this house, had never felt the need to, but suddenly he felt he should take the ribbon and explore the world. His desire to get out of the house leads him to into trouble. Malika Amar Shaikh’s interesting story, "There Once Was a Mouse" demonstrates the complexity of relationships between humans and animals. It is also a story of love and desire.
Jagran Prakashan Limited: An Aspirational Awakening
Authors: Dahiya Surbhi
Published: September 2022

Literally speaking, Dainik Jagran personifies the awakening sun that adorns its masthead. With an ambition to reach out to the masses during the freedom movement and address citizen concerns, Jagran Prakashan began with a vision similar to what many of the aforementioned publications also foresaw: ‘to create a newspaper that would reflect the free voice of the people’. Spanning a history of seventy-five years, the group has remained consistent in their determination to meld into every changing atmosphere brought about by the dynamic markets in India. The brainchild of Puran Chandra Singh, Dainik Jagran was conceived in Jhansi, gradually moving to Kanpur and finding its true foundations, whereafter it launched in several state and regional markets. The editorial intent of the newspaper before India won independence largely consisted of peaceful demonstrations of nationalism against the Raj, reflected through the publication of songs, poetry, stories, and words by leading freedom fighters like Sarojini Naidu. At the same time, Jagran Prakashan continually equipped itself with the latest technologies and expansion strategies to score over its contemporaries.
DB Corp Limited: Capturing Language Loyalties
Authors: Dahiya Surbhi
Published: September 2022

With a vision to strengthen the threads of a newly independent India’s cultural variety, Dainik Bhaskar was launched in the year 1958 in Bhopal. It sought to break the monotony of the expansive stronghold of English newspapers in the country, by beginning the publication of a Hindi daily. As anticipated, readers, especially from those sections that weren’t fluent in the colonial tongue, welcomed this phenomenon with open arms. With their reader-centric policy of Kendra Mein Pathak that prioritized the audience, Dainik Bhaskar became the nucleus in the media world around which the multitude of Indian vernaculars began thriving. After testing waters on its home turf, Bhaskar moved out of its home base and spread its wings across states like Punjab, Rajasthan, Bihar, Maharashtra, and Gujarat, catering to the local public in their respective languages. The group’s main agenda of product development and expansion rested on the publication of new editions, each one unique to the place it hailed from. With the approaching age of digital mediums at the turn of the millennial, the organization made its foray onto the World Wide Web with their website. In a milestone achievement, it also created a location-specific website, which became highly popular with the audiences. Simultaneously, the organization furthered its quality and quantity output, by acquiring the latest print technology machines. The light that guided the organization was its strategic intent, which primarily focused on consumer-centric policies along with visions of achieving the number one position in every place it left a footprint in. This method of a forward-looking outlook was unique to Dainik Bhaskar, and all the effort invested in making the company grow was given its due, with the corporation rising to unimaginable heights today.
The Changing Media Landscape: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Authors: Dahiya Surbhi
Published: September 2022

The concluding chapter lays out a recap in its entirety, reviewing the Indian media industry's glorious past, prosperous present, changing media landscape and optimistic outlook for the future Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. It talks about all the media development during Pre-independence, Post - independence, Post Liberaliation, Post- millennium and Post- Digitisation. Further it talks about the future vision of kick starting a new upsurge of growth in the media industry and how owing to technological disruptions, fresh opportunities are being created for the competing players within the sector. India is steadily heading towards a multitude of opportunities with the hope that the sector's key functionaries will innovate, restructure, and transform their mass relevance to capture newer markets and demographics, with strategies that stem from sustainable business models and management perspectives. The future role of the media industry as a harbinger of content, business and product innovation rests upon the pursuance of this vision.
The Uncertain Legal Mandate of Prison Health Care
Authors: Schnittker Jason , Massoglia Michael , Uggen Christopher
Published: September 2022

Prisons are obligated to provide care to those in their custody. But the legal mandate behind medical treatment in prison is uncertain and far from an affirmative right to comprehensive care. It also creates challenges for those tasked with providing medical treatment to people in prison, sometimes setting the interests of the prison against those of the patient. This chapter lays out the legal foundations behind prison health care and discusses how it has evolved over time. The right to care was established in Estelle v. Gamble, but the parameters of the decision are increasingly out of step with the needs of people in prison, and prisons continue to struggle with the ambiguity of providing care in a setting of punishment.
The Effects of Incarceration on Health after Release
Authors: Schnittker Jason , Massoglia Michael , Uggen Christopher
Published: September 2022

Although people in prison receive treatment while they are incarcerated, the consequences of incarceration for health are very different once people are released. This chapter evaluates the long-term consequences of incarceration. There are many challenges to reintegration, and the stress of the process of reintegration can lead to long-term health problems. In addition, people released from prison face considerable stigma stemming from their criminal record. Coping with this stigma is challenging, and because of the significance of a prison record, it is very difficult to avoid altogether. Poor physical and mental health is both a long-term consequence of incarceration and an impediment to successful reintegration, and it is made possible by the environment people encounter after release.
The Effects of Incarceration on Communities
Authors: Schnittker Jason , Massoglia Michael , Uggen Christopher
Published: September 2022

The consequences of incarceration for health stretch well beyond the health of people in prison. People released from prison return to communities, families, partners, and children, and the health of others may be jeopardized as well. Even the stigma of incarceration can spread to people close to those released from prison. This chapter discusses the social spillovers of incarceration to the health of communities, tracing the social and psychological processes that make them possible. These spillovers are also made possible by the legal environment surrounding prison health care. The COVID-19 pandemic has brought some of these issues into even sharper relief.
Battling in the Bronx
Authors: Johnson Imani Kai
Published: September 2022

Opening with “Superheroes Among Us,” which recounts a community cypher in the Bronx, chapter 2 recognizes the imprint of New York City and specifically the South Bronx on breaking. Aspects of Hip Hop’s quintessential qualities that are captured in the warrior aesthetics of breaking are also wrapped up in life and living in New York City during the 1970s. The chapter deploys two key terms, “social choreography” and “outlaw culture,” to capture that imprint on breaking’s battling culture specifically, and how it gets lived by practitioners and shaped by their corporealities. Battling principles, as introduced by Trac2, are elaborated on in oral histories from Aby, Cartoon, Baby Love, and Kwikstep. I draw attention to the possibilities enabled by an outlaw sensibility, which I argue developed in the margins of society and intersect with Africanist aesthetics. Those sensibilities helped early practitioners navigate the cypher and everyday life in the Bronx.
Computing Machinery and Sexual Difference
Authors: Kind Amy
Published: September 2022

In “Computing Machinery and Intelligence,” Alan Turing proposed that we can determine whether a machine thinks by considering whether it can win at a simple imitation game, one in which a machine tries to fool a neutral questioner into thinking that it is a human. Though this imitation game, now known as the Turing test, has been much discussed by philosophers of mind, what has not been much discussed are the sexed presuppositions underlying the test. Forgotten in the philosophical discussion is the fact that Turing’s imitation game is modeled on an imitation game involving two contestants of different sexes, one in which a man tries to fool a neutral questioner into thinking that he is a woman. This chapter explores the implications of this setup and outlines three different ways in which the discussion of machine intelligence has been led astray by treating the imitation of intelligence as something akin to the imitation of sex.
The Question of Personal Identity
Authors: James Susan
Published: September 2022

How is the hierarchical and gendered opposition between mind and body at work in philosophical discussions of personal identity within the analytic tradition? This chapter focuses on the prominent tendency to center the question of what constitutes survival of a self from t1 to t2. It shows that imaginary examples of character transplant are designed to demonstrate that survival is a matter of psychological continuity, that is, continuity of psychological states like desires, intentions, beliefs, and memory, even when transplanted in another body. On these accounts, bodily continuity seems irrelevant for personhood or its survival. Drawing from feminist research on memories of bodily trauma, this chapter points out that in such cases psychological continuity can be shattered. Further, psychological continuity of personhood, especially in the case of trauma, appears to be socially constructed since a trauma victim’s sense of self can be restored only through a recognition of others.
Sexual Ideology and Phenomenological Description
Authors: Butler Judith
Published: September 2022

This chapter argues that Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological philosophy is an invaluable resource for feminism since it enables us to affirm the bodily nature of purportedly mental phenomena without turning to naturalism, a philosophical position that in practice is plagued with normative presumptions that are both harmful and mistaken. Following Merleau-Ponty, the chapter notes that naturalistic accounts of sexual difference and sexual desire partake in an obvious category mistake: they attempt to explain first-person experiential phenomena purely with reference to third-person scientific studies of the objective body. However, even Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological description is not immune to the naturalistic tendency to inadvertently entrench cultural ideas in scientific or philosophical explanations of intentionality. That he can only conceive of “normal” or nonpathological sexual desire in terms of a male subject who is necessarily aroused by a female object is indicative of the pitfalls of his method.
Norms and Neuroscience
Authors: Jacobson Anne J.
Published: September 2022

Cognitive neuroscience can offer us new explanations of episodes human behavior that, unlike many explanations traditionally available, do not draw on questionable past theories arising from cultures and traditions that are in fact patriarchal. At the same time, feminists have had a number of reasons for regarding it suspiciously as, among other things, reductive and dehumanizing. In this chapter, new work on borderline personality disorder provides an illustrative example of the first. It is also used in an extended argument against the second. Cognitive neuroscience is interested principally in explaining how creatures function well in their niches. It is replete with covert references to values and interests. The chapter draws an important distinction between cases in which culture creates new conditions for old functions to be realized and those where it creates new functions.
Against Physicalism
Authors: Scheman Naomi
Published: September 2022

This chapter argues that one of the main reasons for the prominence of physicalism in the philosophy of mind is an unquestioning faith in individualism, which is the notion that mental events, states, and processes conceived as particulars in abstraction from social context constitute the foundation of any psychological explanation. Given this faith, the reasonableness of the physicalist project—where the mental is taken to supervene on the locally physical—seems irresistible. By contrast, this chapter brings to the fore the irreducibly social nature of our mental lives by acknowledging the role of social practices and their patterns of salience in shaping not only the meaning but even the identity of our beliefs, desires, and emotions. The chapter ultimately argues that physicalism is committed to an impossible metaphysics, since thinking of beliefs, desires, and emotions as real physical particulars evacuates their meaning and their very identity, which are partially crafted by social context.
Sexual Orientations
Authors: Díaz-León E.
Published: September 2022

Talk about sexual orientations is widespread in our society and our culture, but very few analytic philosophers have paid attention to questions about the nature of sexual orientations, such as what sexual orientations are and what “sexual orientation” means. This chapter examines the main theories that are available in the recent and growing literature on this issue, including behaviorism, ideal and ordinary versions of dispositionalism, structuralism, and views according to which sexual orientations are mental states such as sexual desires. It discusses several objections to these views, and develops and defends a new version of the view that characterizes sexual orientations in terms of sexual desires.
Equanimity and the Loving Eye
Authors: McRae Emily
Published: September 2022

The subject of this chapter is loving attention, a way of paying attention to others that is motivated by care, respect, and kindness. This way of attending, integral to Mahayana Buddhist philosophy of mind and ethics, is also central to many influential feminist conceptions of moral perception. Drawing on both traditions, the chapter offers an account of loving attention and considers two challenges to that account: the accuracy problem and the cultivation problem. In response to the latter problem—how it is possible to develop loving attention and what that development might entail—the chapter argues that the Buddhist moral psychological and epistemological skills of equanimity and mindfulness help construct a more compelling account of the cultivation of loving attention. These skills, especially equanimity, are necessary components for understanding how one could change from an unloving, arrogant perceiver to someone who can lovingly attend to others.
“A Romping Girl”
Authors: Evans Christopher H.
Published: September 2022

This chapter describes the early life of Frances Willard through the age of seventeen. Emerging from a family steeped in the evangelical currents of the early-nineteenth-century Second Great Awakening, Willard largely grew up in the frontier regions of the Northwest Territory, encompassing the future states of Ohio and Wisconsin. In addition to exploring the impact of her largely rural upbringing, the chapter examines the relationships Willard formed with her parents, Josiah Willard and Mary Hill Willard, and her siblings, Oliver and Mary. It also highlights the intellectual influences that shaped her childhood and adolescence, including the religious perfectionism of Charles Finney, as well as the Transcendentalism of Ralph Waldo Emerson. These influences shaped Willard’s desire to get an education, as well as underscored her early commitments to issues of women’s equality.
“Home Protection”
Authors: Evans Christopher H.
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores Frances Willard’s career in 1876 and 1877 when she introduced to the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) her support of woman suffrage. Emphasizing the theme of “home protection,” Willard argued that women had a right to vote on measures to determine whether municipalities would grant saloon licenses. Stressing local-option suffrage, Willard forged friendships with influential women’s rights leaders like Susan B. Anthony and WCTU colleagues including Lillian Stevens, Zerelda Wallace, Hannah Whitall Smith, and J. Ellen Foster. At the same time, her desire to pursue a ministerial vocation made her accept an invitation to assist Dwight Moody in a Boston revival in 1877. The chapter discusses her relationship to Moody, as well as how Willard met during his crusade her trusted personal secretary, Anna Gordon.
“Our House Beautiful”
Authors: Evans Christopher H.
Published: September 2022

This chapter explores the expansive nature of Frances Willard’s Do Everything agenda in the early 1890s. Firmly established as president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), Willard continued to support the addition of new work areas, including a Department of World Peace led by Hannah Bailey. The chapter also highlights Willard’s continuing travels and how her exploits were covered in the popular WCTU periodical the Union Signal. While the early years of the 1890s brought her continued success, Willard’s views on racism set the stage for a major conflict later in her career. Further, her support of Matilda Carse’s efforts to finance a WCTU headquarters in Chicago, the Woman’s Temple, laid a foundation that in a few years would severely undermine Willard’s authority.
“Dearest Cossie”
Authors: Evans Christopher H.
Published: September 2022

This chapter discusses the burgeoning friendship between Willard and the British reformer Isabel Somerset. Somerset was president of the British Women’s Temperance Association and had close ties to numerous British reformers, including the Methodist minister Hugh Price Hughes. The chapter discusses the relationship between Willard and Somerset in the early 1890s, highlighting the two women’s role in hosting the first meeting of the World’s Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1891. A few months after this meeting, however, Willard faced her most devastating professional setback, marked by her failed attempt to forge a reform coalition around the People’s Party at the St. Louis Industrial Conference in 1892. That same year, Willard’s mother died—an event that led Willard to a prolonged absence from the United States, living in England with Somerset.
Biography
Authors: Ladenson Elisabeth A.
Published: September 2022

À la recherche du temps perdu is, among other things, a multifaceted meditation on the relations between art and biography. Its centrality to both Proust’s work and his legacy has often been obscured by an academic strain of antibiographical interpretation, on the one hand—the “Death of the Author” school—and, on the other, more popular approaches which tend to ignore the distinction between author and narrator. Ambiguity as to the relation between the author and what he depicts is in any case built into the novel. The blurry relation between author and narrator-protagonist of the Recherche, which left early readers perplexed, no longer perplexes, and this is both because the work’s reputation precedes it and also because it has created its own posterity in the form of what has been dubbed autofiction.
In Search of Lost Weather
Authors: Zhang Dora
Published: September 2022

Proust’s interest in the state of the skies is announced in the title of his work. The French temps derives from the Latin tempus, meaning both “time” and “season.” The close imbrication of these terms is evident in the Recherche, where the wake-up scenes that are so common throughout the novel are usually also attended by descriptions of the skies outside. Omitting the specificity of calendar dates, Proust prefers to mark the passage of time instead by the transformation of one season into another, as, for instance, the coming of autumn spells the imminent return from Balbec to Paris. The seasonal rhythms of recurrence and intermittence are also classically those of the Recherche. On the one hand, the novel is characterized by a set of regular repetitions, but on the other hand, it emphasizes discontinuity and the mutual impenetrability of any state (and each self) to a successive one.
Explorations in Analytic Ecclesiology
Authors: Cockayne Joshua
Published: September 2022

This volume proposes an account of the nature and practice of the Church that draws from work in contemporary analytic social metaphysics, social epistemology, and social ethics. In the first book-length study of ecclesiology in analytic theology, Joshua Cockayne offers a vision of the Church, according to which the Church is united as the body of Christ through the work of the Holy Spirit, despite the apparent diversity of the Church in its gathered, particular forms. This account of the oneness of the Church in and through the work of the persons of the Trinity is then applied to explore the nature of baptism, the Eucharist, and liturgy.
One Spirit
Authors: Cockayne Joshua
Published: September 2022

Chapter 2 explores how it could be that the Church is one in Christ, united by the work of the Holy Spirit, despite the overwhelming division and discord it displays. It argues that unity in the body of the Church must be located not in human organization or structure, but only in the work of the ‘one Spirit’ in whom ‘we were all are baptised’ (1 Cor. 12:13). Thus, a social ontology of the Church must emphasize the Spirit as the primary agent at work within it. By outlining recent work on the ontology of social groups, the chapter argues that functionalist accounts of group agency can help us to see how the Church as a social reality might be united by its decision-making procedures. Unlike the other social bodies discussed in this literature, however, the Church does not derive its decision-making from the group aggregation of its members, but instead, from the work of the Spirit within the community. Applying Richard Hooker’s work on Anglican Church polity, this chapter argues that one means of discerning the Spirit’s work might be through the structures of the institutional church, so long as these structures don’t seek to replace the Spirit’s work in the Church.
Acting as One
Authors: Cockayne Joshua
Published: September 2022

Chapter 6 offers an account of participation in the life of the Church through the liturgies of gathered worship. The discussion is framed around Evelyn Underhill’s three modes of liturgical participation: joint action, representative action, and corporate silence. Expanding these three accounts of liturgical action, the chapter draws from recent work in analytic philosophy. On joint action, it considers how discussions of shared agency can help explain what it is to act jointly with another person in liturgy, say, in reading a liturgical script at the same time. The chapter proposes that one limitation of such accounts is that they cannot offer inclusive accounts of Church action which explain how all the Church’s members (including those with cognitive impairments and young children) contribute to the actions of the Church as a wider body. The chapter then considers how the application of the literature on group agency can explain the notion of representative action. Finally, it considers the nature of corporate silence in liturgy. Drawing from work in the philosophy of perception, the chapter argues that liturgical silence is not the same as absolute silence, but instead stands as a contrast to the other aspects of the liturgy. In the space which silence allows, our individual actions are united by the work of the Holy Spirit to form group actions, thus emphasizing the need for both liturgical action and leaving space for the uniting work of the Spirit in worship.
Epilogue
Authors: Cockayne Joshua
Published: September 2022

This Epilogue summarizes the main arguments of the book, drawing together the arguments of each chapter to consider what it means for the Church to be one. It also reflects on where the study of ecclesiology in the analytic tradition may develop in future research
Green Light Ethics
Authors: Liberto Hallie
Published: September 2022

This book is about permissive consent—the moral tool we use to give another person permission to do what would otherwise be forbidden. For instance, consent to enter my home gives you permission to do what would otherwise be trespass. This transformation is the very thing that philosophers identify as consent—which is why we call it a normative power. It is something individuals can do, by choice, to change the moral or legal world. But what human acts or attitudes render consent? When do coercive threats, offers, or lies undermine the transformative power of consent? What intentions or conventions are necessary to render consent meaningful? This book develops a novel theory that explains the moral features of consent in some of the most central domains of human life—but that also serves as a study in how to theorize normative power. It argues that consent is a moral mechanism with exactly the set of features that, when triggered, prevents another person’s behavior from constituting a certain kind of wrongdoing. What kind of wrongdoing? It depends on what sort of permission is being granted. Sometimes consent permits others to enter, occupy, or act within some bounded domain wherein the consent-giver holds moral authority. In these cases, consent operates to prevent what I call invasive wrongdoing. By identifying the moral features that underlie this special wrongdoing, we can learn what it takes to render consent.
Introduction
Authors: Tahzib Collis
Published: September 2022

This Introduction sets up the debate between anti-perfectionist liberalism and perfectionism and explains why this debate is of practical and theoretical importance. It then goes on to explain the two main features that distinguish the author’s view from other forms of perfectionism in the contemporary literature: first, this view treats perfectionism as an integral component of justice and not merely as a legitimate complement to justice; and second, this view is developed within the sort of Rawlsian methodological framework that has traditionally been seen as inhospitable to perfectionism. The Introduction concludes by providing a preview of the chapters to follow.
Arete and the Odyssey's Poetics of Interrogation
Authors: Arft Justin
Published: September 2022

Arete and the Odyssey’s Poetics of Interrogation explores how the enigmatic Phaeacian queen, Arete, is at the heart of an epic-scale “poetics of interrogation” used throughout the Odyssey to negotiate Odysseus’ kleos (epic renown). Arete’s interrogation of Odysseus has been especially problematic in scholarship, but diachronic and synchronic analysis of similar interrogations across Indo-European, Orphic, and Greek epigrammatic corpora shows that the “stranger’s interrogation” is a formula that demands performance and negotiation of status. Within the Odyssey, this interrogation is part of an intraformular network used to generate kleos, and the queen’s question initiates the longest and most complex negotiation of Odysseus’ status in epic and memory. Arete’s role as interrogator not only explains her strange authority and resonance with both Penelope and comparative afterlife figures, but also establishes a gendered, agonistic tension between her and her husband Alkinoos that influences the structure, genre, and narratology of performances across the Phaeacian episode. This book reinterprets the Odyssey’s central episode and challenges several assumptions about Nausikaa and Alkinoos’ famed hospitality, even demonstrating how the Apologue is organized as a response to competing inquiries into Odysseus’ fundamental status in tradition. The Odyssey ultimately navigates away from Odysseus’ public reputation and roots his status in private memories, and Arete’s carefully arranged interventions signal the larger process by which the Odyssey immortalizes Odysseus in poetry as a nostos hero. The queen and her question invite new applications of oral poetics that shed light on the structure, composition, and reperformance of the Odyssey.
The Stranger’s Interrogation
Authors: Arft Justin
Published: September 2022

Chapter 1 offers a diachronic examination of the formulaic “stranger’s interrogation” and its form and use across archaic Indo-European sources, including the Mahābhārata, Gāthās, Greek funerary inscriptions, the “Orphic” lamellae (or “gold leaves”), the Iliad, and the Homeric Hymns. Conceived as an Indo-European formula, the stranger’s interrogation demands a performance of one’s fundamental status on the eve of a potentially dangerous transformation. In ritual and narrative it affects power dynamics between parties and requires a declaration of one’s worth, which in Greek context is expressed as kleos. This analysis brings together disparate scholarly conversations on Homer, Indo-European linguistics, Orphic traditions, and Greek epigrams and then challenges several assumptions about what the stranger’s interrogation means in these contexts.
Continuous linear functionals
Authors: Kantorovitz Shmuel , Viselter Ami
Published: September 2022

In this chapter we shall obtain the general form of continuous linear functionals on some of the normed spaces we have encountered, as for Hilbert spaces in the “Little” Riesz representation theorem in Chapter 1. We prove two major representation theorems. The first describes the continuous linear functionals on the Lp-spaces, and the second, called the Riesz representation theorem, describes the continuous linear functionals on C0(X), the space of continuous complex-valued functions on a locally compact Hausdorff space X that vanish at infinity. We also construct the Haar measure on a locally compact topological group G, which is the (essentially unique) left translation invariant positive measure on G. Finally, the chapter offer exercises to challenge the reader.
Constructions of C*-algebras
Authors: Kantorovitz Shmuel , Viselter Ami
Published: September 2022

In this chapter we give two examples of constructions of C*-algebras, namely, tensor products of C*-algebras and group C*-algebras. The first is the C*-algebraic analogue of the tensor product of algebras, but difficulty arises as it turns out that there is no unique way to tensor two C*-algebras. Two such ways are singled out: the minimal and the maximal tensor products. The second construction produces a C*-algebra from a locally compact topological group and is the C*-algebraic analogue of the complex group algebras of discrete groups. Both constructions are fundamental and prevalent in C*-algebra theory. Finally, the chapter offer exercises to challenge the reader.
Where Macroeconomic Theory Went Wrong
Authors: Beenstock Michael
Published: September 2022

Neo-Wicksellian macroeconomic theorists have misunderstood Wicksell’s natural rate of interest, which refers to the return on fixed assets. They have also misunderstood that the natural rate of interest is not an equilibrium phenomenon. The natural rate of interest, overlooked in canonical New Keynesian and DSGE models, is reinstated here in the influential New Keynesian model. Whereas in the New Keynesian model there is an output gap and an inflation gap, in the reinstated model there is also an interest rate gap (the difference between the natural rate of interest and the real rate of interest). Whereas according to the New Keynesian model, if output and inflation are on target (the so-called divine coincidence), the interest rate gap must be zero, matters are different in the reinstated model. This theoretical flaw has been instrumental in the widespread international adoption of the New Abnormal. Key theoretical concepts are introduced, which are used throughout this study, including liqidity trap theory, existential risk and the difference between absolute and relative interest parity theory.
Fertility Decline in the New Abnormal?
Authors: Beenstock Michael
Published: September 2022

Fertility had been decreasing in OECD countries well ahead of the New Abnormal. However, fertility decline intensified in Japan after ZIP was adopted in 1996. Could this have anything to do with the New Abnormal? Just as business investment suffered during the New Abnormal, perhaps parents, like investors, are fearful of the future, and are reluctant to have children. The “quality–quantity theory of fertility” predicts that ZIP, growing debt-to-GDP ratios, and existential risk reduce fertility. Since changes in fertility are slow to occur, Japan provides the main opportunity to study the relationship between fertility and the New Abnormal. Since fertility decline was pronounced in, for example, Italy and South Korea, it is difficult to reach clear conclusions. At the very least, it cannot be ruled out that the steep decline in fertility in Japan is related to its deep involvement in the New Abnormal.
Covid-19 and the New Abnormal
Authors: Beenstock Michael
Published: September 2022

The New Abnormal set the scene for an activist mitigation policy because its key features, cheap money and loose fiscal policy, were extended during the Covid-19 crisis. A Rawlsian case is made for justifying the deficit financing of Covid-19 mitigation policy. Pandemics cannot be insured within generations, but they may be insured between generations. Future g enerations have an interest in sharing the risk of pandemics with generations born before and after them. The economic cost of mitigation has been out of all proportion to the benefit in terms of life years saved. The cost per life year saved in Israel during the first wave of Covid-19 was $46,000, which is cheaper than a comparable estimate for the UK (£180,000). These estimates are vastly larger than health economists’ estimates of the value of life. The prospects of ending the New Abnormal after 2020 were much slimmer than they were in 2019.
The Return to Normality: Ending the New Abnormal
Authors: Beenstock Michael
Published: September 2022

The development of cryptocurrencies is inextricably intertwined with the New Abnormal. Investors hedge existential risk by holding cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency enhances macroeconomic price flexibility because its price is more flexible than the general price level. If cryptocurrency eventually replaces fiat money, macroeconomic theory will have to be reconstructed. Ending ZIP raises the cost of debt service. If the rate of interest is less than the rate of growth of nominal GDP, the debt-to-GDP ratio stabilizes at a higher level. If it exceeds the rate of growth of nominal GDP, the debt-to-GDP ratio explodes. In the explosive case, it is necessary to run fiscal surpluses to stabilize debt-to-GDP ratios. In the stable case, it is necessary to cut primary fiscal deficits to stabilize debt-to-GDP ratios at levels that are politically feasible. Japan and eurozone countries are likely to crash out of the New Abnormal. The US runs the risk of crashing out. Economies recover more rapidly from natural disasters such as Covid-19 than man-made disasters, such as the Subprime Crisis.
Designs on Democracy
Authors: Shasore Neal
Published: September 2022

Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so by providing a vivid picture of architectural culture in interwar London, the imperial metropolis, drawing on histories of design, practice, professionalism, and representation. Most accounts of this period tend to deal exclusively with the emergence of Modernism; this book takes a different approach, encompassing a much broader perspective on the liberal professional consensus that held sway, including architecture’s mainstream and its so-called avant-garde. Readers will encounter a number of unexpected narratives, episodes, and projects: from the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley to the rebuilding of Waterloo Bridge; from the impact of the Great Slump to the passing of the first Architects Registration Act (1931); from Trystan Edwards’s radical housing campaigns to the Londoners’ League’s unorthodox preservationism. Pulling in a range of evidence and sources—periodicals, exhibitions, photographs, and films, alongside architecture—it evokes architectural culture by listening carefully to the tenor of its discourse. Architecture’s public realm is thus analysed through sometimes surprising phrases: ‘manners’ to understand ideals of public propriety, ‘vigilance’ to explore public proprietorship, ‘slump’ to contextualize the emergence of public relations, ‘machine-craft’ to understand the forging of public institutions. The book spans the excitable discussions about the reconstruction of the profession for a democratic age after the First World War, to reconstruction and planning following the Second. Designs on Democracy provides an ambitious revision of how we can understand twentieth-century architecture in Britain.
Machine-Craft
Authors: Shasore Neal
Published: September 2022

This chapter provides a new reading of 66 Portland Place, the purpose-built headquarters of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) opened in 1934. It uses the building—its design, construction, and programme—to explore the forging of the RIBA as a modern, semi-public institution. Drawing together the themes of the first two chapters, it situates the building within the ‘DIA point of view’. To do so, it explores the concept of ‘machine-craft’, a term coined by the journalist and public relations expert John Gloag and a seemingly oxymoronic welding of words which captured an aspiration to marry handcraft and the artistic expression of the craftsman with a technical and economic understanding of the role of the (sometimes metaphorical) machine in manufacture, commerce, and public service. To elucidate the architecture of 66 Portland Place and the Institute that occupied it, the chapter looks at the creation of the Building Centre (in which a number of RIBA protagonists, including Grey Wornum, were engaged), and at one of the inaugural exhibitions at Portland Place—‘Everyday Things’ (1936)—which clearly expressed the RIBA’s commitment to design reform principles.
The Challenge to the Auspices
Authors: Konrad C. F.
Published: September 2022

The Challenge to the Auspices is an investigation into the interaction of Roman magistrates during the Middle Republic with the practice of auspices, with a focus on attempts to avoid, ignore, or resist this requirement, and on the consequences of such attempts. Proceeding from an examination of the Roman concepts of imperium and auspices (auspicia), especially as they relate to the realm of war, and of the constitutional position and powers of the Dictator and the Master of the Horse (magister equitum) relative to each other and to the Consuls and lower magistrates, the work presents six case studies in the fourth and third centuries bc in which Roman commanders questioned, violated, or openly rejected the need for auspices. It is argued that these instances reflect a not insignificant minority view within the Roman ruling class, the nobility, regarding the efficacy of auspices and the necessity and desirability of observing them. The catastrophic outcome in several of these events, particularly during the early years of the Second Punic War, rendered further resistance to the practice politically unsustainable, and by the second century resulted in its universal acceptance, regardless of personal belief.