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Limited Scope Representation
Authors: Mosten Forrest S.
Published: May 2024

This chapter is about limited scope representation, also known as unbundling. It has been adopted by judges, the legal profession, and divorcing parties across the United States. It is a legal access approach that allows attorneys to better and more affordably serve unrepresented divorce litigants. It assists overburdened and underfunded courts. This chapter will focus on a critical benefit of limited scope representation: the ability of divorce professionals to provide information and support to divorcing families to help reduce family conflicts, in mediation and other collaborative processes, with the goal of reducing pernicious harm to parents and children and to prepare families to repair and even improve post-divorce family relationships. This chapter discusses four unbundled peacemaking roles that lawyers can play: (1) collaborative lawyer; (2) lawyer-coach for self-represented litigants; (3) lawyer for mediation participants; and (4) preventive legal healthcare provider.
Gender and Sexual Orientation Matters
Authors: Barsky Allan Edward
Published: May 2024

This chapter provides family dispute resolution professionals with information about how to take gender and sexuality into account when engaging, assessing, and helping individual clients and families experiencing conflict related to separation and divorce. In particular, this chapter offers questions, topics, and general practice guidelines to consider when working with clients who may be LGBTQ+ or may have LGBTQ+ family members. To ensure LGBTQ+-affirmative practice, family dispute resolution professions are encouraged to use inclusive language and cultural humility, respecting clients and family members as experts in their own lives. This chapter also explores concerns that may arise in relation to discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals, power and intimate partner abuse among couples with LGBTQ+ partners, coming out processes, and working with families with LGBTQ+ children.
Before We Teach Music
Authors: Custodero Lori A.
Published: May 2024

Music is a human activity—a social phenomenon, functioning as a means of comfort, expression, and communication that serves us throughout our lifespan—and one of the few activities that can be meaningful for an eight-week-old infant as well as an octogenarian. This book examines childhood as a site where enculturation mixes with individual experience to create foundational ways of being musical. Through accessing interdisciplinary scholarship and multiple sources of data, this volume reveals how our capacities to live musically and to cultivate a musical life are derived from the legacies of childhood. Within this book, the reader will find excerpted musical autobiographies culled from over 200 music education graduate students as a way to understand the variability of “how music means” within broadly conceived developmental contexts: early childhood memories of music evoked strong associations with family members; dispositional practices and expressions of musical identities surfaced in memories of middle childhood; and strong memories of disruption, renewal, and resistance around musical trajectories occurred mainly in later adolescence and early adulthood. These stories are meant to generate the reader’s own recollections and provoke a process of self-reflection on how the past informs the present, and how our current actions help shape future experiences. The book addresses what parents, teachers, performers, and composers learn from their encounters with children; they speak with much passion of how their enthusiastic discovery of what to us seems mundane can renew a sense of wonder and curiosity that fuels creative and ethical work.
Musical Beings
Authors: Custodero Lori A.
Published: May 2024

Childhood is a critical period in which music functions to cultivate relationships, support dispositions, and encourage experiences of expression and communication. It also provides a means through which children can be agents in their own self-regulation and comfort. Reflecting on our past experiences in childhood and attending to our immediate experiences with children provide a foundation for sympathetic responsiveness to children’s needs and awareness of (previously hidden) capabilities. The chapter illuminates how and why we are musical beings; how the temporal, dynamic, social, and physical properties of music are aligned with qualities of human existence; and how they are manifested in children’s capabilities for embodiment. Given the broad expanse of music both in everyday life and in its function as a tool for intensifying as well as transcending the present moment, it is important to consider its role in shaping us and the groups to which we belong.
A Sense of Musical Self
Authors: Custodero Lori A.
Published: May 2024

Our childhood memories can tell us about the ways in which our sense of music develops vis-à-vis dispositions and identities. Dispositions involve the natural inclination toward certain behaviors, which situate us in relationship to music and to others. The concept of musician is recollected at about the age children start attending school, perhaps due to school being one of the first places we are introduced to peers, who bring a variety of often unfamiliar experiences, allowing us to begin seeing our own dispositions as distinctive. Early dispositions for music were also recollected in stories that involved embodiment, reflecting mimesis, an effort to get inside, to become the musical sounds, or emulation, involving trying on various models of music making in our environment. Young children’s identification with music often takes the form of engagement in imaginative play, reconstructing familiar scenes, taking on roles of parent, teacher, and rock star.
Encounters with Children
Authors: Custodero Lori A.
Published: May 2024

In studies of musical parenting, researchers have found parents to have a natural tendency to share musical experiences with their infants and young children. Conrad provides a comparative analysis of Darwin’s diary and his published scientific report of his own infant’s development. In his diary, there was a change from “detached observer” to “embodied participant” that involved reciprocal actions and acknowledgment. This exchange with young children produces an unmasking of the objective, distantly academic, and controlled persona, revealing a vulnerability to surprise and delight. Such a response may perhaps best be described as enchantment, which, Bennett writes, is “to be struck and shaken by the extraordinary that lives amid the familiar and every day.” A case study of the Scottish Opera’s creation for infants called BambinO draws from interviews and focus groups with the composer, director, stage manager, instrumentalists, and singers. Their experiences of mutuality and enchantment provide support for the impact of being with children.
Experimental Film and Queer Materiality
Authors: Suárez Juan A.
Published: May 2024

This book shows that experimental cinema revealed a peculiar latency of the modern everyday that can be called “queer materiality.” Queer materiality designates a sense of queer possibility in modern material culture, which often inspired queer artists and filmmakers to envision wayward bodies and behaviors; it also refers to the way in which sexual and social dissidence was embedded in the objects, technologies, substances, and spaces that make up the hardware of experience. Experimental film offers a rich archive of queer material engagements. This book studies various queer material configurations in the work of well-known filmmakers such as Andy Warhol, Barbara Hammer, Carolee Schneemann, or Jack Smith, but it also explores under-recognized figures such as Tom Chomont, Jim Hubbard, Ashley Hans Scheirl, and Teo Hernández. Combining history, formal analysis, and theoretical reflection, the book shows how plastics, glitter, mechanical ensembles, urban ruins, garbage, mood-enhancers such as amphetamine, film grain, or noise have been mobilized in the articulation of queerness for the screen. The book’s inquiry into the liveliness of matter and into the interface between sexuality and the material world directly resonates with a growing ecological consciousness and with current concerns about the definition and reach of the human in a universe of intricate post-human entanglements.
Ruins, Magical Objects, Litter, Synthetics
Authors: Suárez Juan A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter tracks the material investments of 1940s and 1950s experimental cinema in order to counter traditional assessments that emphasize its subjective and mythic registers. Postwar experimental film contained an implicit discourse on the objects and materials of modernity; it enlisted quotidian material culture in the depiction of unconventional bodies, desires, and styles of community, and unveiled a queer potential in the modern everyday. Some filmmakers (Jim Davis, Sara Kathryn Arledge or Fernand Léger) did so by engaging, often with satirical intent, new plastics and resins, mechanically produced parts, and industrial designs. Others (Kenneth Anger, Harry Smith, Marie Menken, Ken Jacobs, or Ron Rice) opposed the functionality and transparency of postwar material culture and featured in their work ruins, junk, magical objects, dated fin-de-siécle prints and illustrations, and dime-store trifles to create trans-corporeal ensembles endowed with queer animacy.
Crashing Bodies, Excrement, and Plastics
Authors: Suárez Juan A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter characterizes the queerness of Mike and George Kuchar’s 1960s films as a materializing drive that reduces sexuality, desire, and the body to excrement. The chapter traces the origins of the Kuchars’ worldview in the popular culture of the 1950s; it explores the role of excrement in the iconography and syntax of their films; and it shows how the excremental is used to subvert the hygienic aspirations of the plastic modernity of their youth. Ubiquitous by mid-century, plastics were endowed with an aura of functionality and newness. In the Kuchars’ films, they range from the ornamental to the absurd to the degraded, excremental, and trashy. Plastic gadgets, synthetic fabrics, toys, knick-knacks, and figurines supplement, replace, or alter human bodies, prompt grotesque passions, and create fantastic environments that, while poised in counterpoint to normality, are still conjured out of the most ordinary of materials.
Film Grain, Discontinuous Representation, and the Queer Corporealities of Underground Cinema
Authors: Suárez Juan A.
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores the pervasiveness of grain in underground film of the 1960s and 1970s and the way in which this textured surface contributes to defamiliarizing the representation of the body and sexuality. Grain’s pervasiveness in experimental film from the early 1960s forward was due to the widespread use of highly sensitive small-gauge film stocks. Grainy images are symptomatic of a contemporary shift from the line to the dotted field as basic means of representation. While film grain is structurally cognate to the binary coding of information formalized by Claude Shannon, artists and filmmakers used it to convey the anarchic animation of queer bodies and desires and the liveliness of the material world. The chapter explores artists’ perceptions and uses of dotted surfaces as means of representation and analyses queer experimental films that apply this texture to the representation of unorthodox corporealities and desires.
Ongoing Coordination
Authors: McClimans Leah M.
Published: May 2024

This chapter fills out the epistemic theory for patient-centered measures by addressing the second criterion of patient-centeredness: be inclusive of patient perspectives. While Chapter 3 focused on the role patients play in creating these measures through, for instance, construct development, this chapter focuses on the role they play as respondents, that is, as people who fill out questionnaires. How can we ensure that measurement outcomes reflect the varied perspectives that people have on their, for example, physical functioning and quality of life? This chapter focuses on standardized questions—why we use them, the assumptions we make when we use them, and whether these assumptions are justified. The argument is that certain practices of standardization can undermine the alignment between validity and fairness in patient-centered measures, or what I will call “fit for purpose.” The solution this chapter puts forward is ongoing coordination between a measure’s construct and its measuring instrument.
Are Patient-Centered Constructs Measurable?
Authors: McClimans Leah M.
Published: May 2024

In the well-being literature, philosophers tend to think of measurability in terms of heterogeneity. This chapter shares that interest. Heterogeneity is the idea that the goods required to make one individual’s life go well are sufficiently different from those required to make other’s lives go well. If the goods required for a good life are different for individuals, then measuring a good life is difficult. When you combine heterogeneity with a desire to create measures that are sensitive to individual perspectives, some philosophers of well-being conclude that these constructs aren’t measurable or that, if they are measurable, it’s only in a limited way. Similarly, health researchers also find heterogeneity problematic. Both philosophers and health researchers typically construe heterogeneity as an obstacle to measurement. Contrary to these approaches, this chapter argues that if patient-centered constructs are measurable at all it’s because of heterogeneity, not despite it.
Education of the Indigenous Nobility
Authors: Laird Andrew
Published: May 2024

The Imperial College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco was established in 1536 to provide a humanist education to youths from indigenous elites in the Valley of Mexico. This chapter offers clear evidence to prove that the college was never intended to train a native clergy, but rather followed the precedent of institutions that were founded by the Spaniards in Granada and Hispaniola to train a class of native governors. Nonetheless, the foundation of Santa Cruz provoked controversy in New Spain, and there was some debate among Franciscans about the desirability of training Indians for the priesthood. This chapter also throws new light on the college’s pedagogical objectives, individual instructors and students, books that were used, and on how teaching of the trivium of grammar, rhetoric, and logic was conducted. Chapter 4 consists of the following sections: I. Initial contexts and motives for the Indians’ Latin education; II. Foundation of Santa Cruz: Objectives and controversies; III. Education and the trivium at Santa Cruz, including (i) grammar and Latin expression, (ii) logic and rhetoric; and IV. Conclusions.
From the Epistolae et Evangelia to the Huehuetlahtolli
Authors: Laird Andrew
Published: May 2024

The varied corpus of literature produced by Franciscans and Mexican scholars at the College of Santa Cruz in Tlatelolco ranged from Latin compositions to translations of Christian texts and original dialogues in Nahuatl. These different kinds of writing have seldom been considered in conjunction, and manuscript copies of Epistles and Gospels in Nahuatl from the 1500s have long been overlooked. Comparison of surviving manuscripts offer fresh insights on the way in which the translations were made and transmitted. Standard interpretations of some original works in Nahuatl, including the Colloquios y Doctrina christiana and the Huehuetlahtolli, can also be questioned, prompting consideration of the extent to which Latin humanism determined the nature of the first literature in Nahuatl. Chapter 5 consists of the following sections: I. Latin manuscripts by Mexican scholars: (i) Juan Badiano, Libellus de medicinalibus Indorum herbis, 1552; (ii) A trilingual vocabulary of Spanish, Latin, and Nahuatl, c. 1545; II. Status and achievements of the native translators; III. Biblical translation; IV. Religious literature in Nahuatl: translations and new compositions: (i) Colloquios y Doctrina christiana, 1564; (ii) translations of the Contemptus mundi and Spanish devotional literature; (iii) the Colloquios de la paz, c. 1540, and Espejo divino, 1607; (iv) The Huehuetlahtolli, c. 1601; and V. Conclusions: Latin humanism and Nahuatl literature.
General Conclusions and Envoi
Authors: Laird Andrew
Published: May 2024

The early influence of Erasmus on education, the translation of Latin into Mesoamerican languages, and the involvement of indigenous scholars—leading to the development of an original literature in Nahuatl—account for the distinctive character of humanism in early colonial Mexico. Comparisons of Mexican legacies to those of classical antiquity, initiated by native authors and Spaniards alike, have long endured. Several areas of enquiry remain to be explored: the broader role of Latin in New Spain, and its interactions with Nahuatl in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; the interference of classical and Christian literature on chronicles and histories of Mexico; and the ways in which humanist learning determined European ethnography and responses to native languages in other regions of the Americas, and beyond. The iconography and lettering of the Nuremberg Map of Mexico Tenochtitlan are discussed as a closing illustration.
Pernicious Solidarities
Authors: Scholz Sally J.
Published: May 2024

Relations of solidarity might sometimes become dangerous for some participants. In addition to the potential for direct harm caused by actions undertaken collectively in solidarity, there is also the potential for indirect harm of the action or the relation itself. Using the language of ‘pernicious solidarity,’ this chapter examines instances when a relation of solidarity might have an adverse impact on the social standing of some members, when it might disempower some members more than others, or when it excludes some people or issues that ought to be included. For political solidarity, the question is whether there is a way to avoid these pernicious impacts of solidarity on actors or, if the relation appears dangerous to some, to understand the weight of that danger and seek avenues to mitigate it. The virtues of trust and equity, the author argues, are at the heart of these questions.
Solidarity
Authors: Kohn Margaret
Published: May 2024

Political solidarity is produced through shared experiences, interests, or goals. Civic solidarity is different and more puzzling. Citizens often have opposing interests and share only the limited goal of peaceful coexistence. Why should members of a polity care about the flourishing of strangers? The concept of solidarity is important because it promises to provide a way of linking obligations of justice and concrete ways of life that motivate other-regarding action. In his early work, Habermas called solidarity “the reverse-side of justice.” This chapter unpacks the complex relationship between justice and solidarity in Habermas’s thought. It also examines the main objections to civic solidarity. Critics typically treat solidarity as a form of communitarianism that threatens pluralism and freedom. The author argues that a concept of solidarity based on social property rather than ethno-nationalist identity can satisfy the main objections.
Introduction
Authors: Şahin Christine M.
Published: May 2024

Introduction Abstract: The introduction outlines the main argument and scope of the book. This multi-sited ethnography covers class-stratified belly dancing sites in Cairo as they relate to larger state politics in the aftermath of the January 25, 2011 revolution. Readers are introduced to key Dance Studies and Middle Eastern Gender Studies theory and concepts as well as the definition of belly dance, known as raqs sharqi in Arabic. The author’s positionality towards her research topic is examined as well as the general outline of the book’s chapter structures. Socio-political background context of contemporary Egyptian politics as well as belly dancing are overviewed.
Five-Star Hotels
Authors: Şahin Christine M.
Published: May 2024

Chapter 2 mines the predicament of raqs sharqi within the unstable future of five-star hotels following the 2011 revolution and ensuing economic fallout. In post-revolutionary Cairo, few five-star hotels offer extravagant raqs sharqi venues and performances. Consequently, a popular discourse is that raqs sharqi is dying. Rather than accept appearances for surface value, this chapter theorizes the “appearances vs. actualities” of bodily labor and explores how raqs sharqi remains, but differently. It explores a fieldwork case study focused on a specific dancer performing within an established hotel site—Amina, at the Marriott hotel’s Empress nightclub. In doing so, its argument is that rather than seeing empty rooms, sites, and futures, Amina’s show may sway us toward intersectionally understood actualities sweetened with abundance within both raqs sharqi as well as larger state politics.
The Web for Free
Authors: Shackelford Scott J. , Bradner Scott O.
Published: May 2024

This chapter focuses on the story of Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, and his decision not to patent his invention and its wider implications for net neutrality, social networks, and cyber sovereignty. The period from the 1980s to the early 1990s was a time of expansion for the early Internet in terms of connectivity and potential. It was important to take advantage of the growing ubiquity of the underlying technologies and to combine them in a new way to enable anyone to create and find information online. A strong case can be made that Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web can still play key roles in combining these technologies. The decision to keep the web in the public domain changed history and led to the tremendous growth it experienced in the 1990s and beyond.
Why We’re Still Living in 1995
Authors: Shackelford Scott J. , Bradner Scott O.
Published: May 2024

This chapter describes the gradual commercialization of the Internet and how things could have turned out very differently. It explores the maturing commercialized web of the 1990s, how the policy decisions made about Internet service providers (ISPs) changed the basic philosophy of the Internet during that decade, and the resulting bitter and continuing fight over net neutrality today. It focuses on the increasing competition of the U.S. ISP market in 1995, which launched a wave of mergers and consolidation that led to the so-called ISP Wars. The chapter explores how economic considerations have impacted the content and price point available to Internet users and what role government should play to ensure a level and competitive playing field. The anticompetitive behaviors of tech firms, including ISPs, are an ongoing concern, including those in the context of net neutrality.
Disciplined Sounds
Authors: Favila Cesar D.
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores disciplinary spaces and sounds implied in documents such as notarial records and, more specifically, in the music dowry-waiver process. These sources reflected institutional expectations for the brides of Christ that demanded the display of personal narratives related to their social status and family lineage. Becoming a musician nun required more than a music audition; it also included racialized discussions of origin and personality. The rhetoric of disciplined hearing was fundamental for the credibility given to notarial discussions of lineage and validation of a prospective nun’s musical competence. By scrutinizing these disciplinary spaces, this chapter also gives a sense of how musician nuns might have understood themselves and comprehended the politics of the salvation economy and its crucially sonic dimensions.
Introduction
Authors: Morse Stephen S. , Kawachi Ichiro , Duncan Dustin T.
Published: May 2024

The chapter begins with an overview of the health consequences of COVID-19, including how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted mental health consequences and sleep behaviors. This introductory chapter by the volume’s editors introduces the principal themes in the social epidemiology of COVID-19. First, the authors review the current state of knowledge about the infection dynamics of the SARS-Cov-2 virus, and how it intersects with the social world, including who is at greatest risk of exposure, and who is susceptible to severe disease and death. Two years into the pandemic, it was painstakingly obvious that the COVID-19 pandemic had exacerbated health disparities in the United States and worldwide. Globally, the pandemic has set back progress in poverty reduction, under-5 child mortality, and malnutrition. Within both poor and rich countries, the burden of COVID-19 has fallen most heavily on the most disadvantaged groups in society. The chapter provides an overview of how the pandemic intersects with nearly every social determinant of health—ranging from socioeconomic status (occupation, income, and education), race/ethnicity, gender, immigrant status, to neighborhood contexts, working conditions, social connectedness, and macroeconomic forces including income inequality. The detailed connections between each social determinant and COVID-related outcomes are elaborated in the chapters to follow.
COVID-19 across the Life Course
Authors: Kuh Diana , Blodgett Joanna M.
Published: May 2024

This chapter examines how a life course epidemiological perspective can improve understanding of the lifetime risks and long-term health consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It first introduces life course epidemiology and identifies the key life course questions to address in relation to the pandemic. The authors provide a brief historical overview of the role of infectious diseases in the development of chronic diseases, noting how the pandemic is helping to break down the traditional divide in epidemiology between these two types of diseases, and then discuss what can be learned from studying the long-term health and economic effects of previous pandemics. COVID-19 and the chronic health conditions of later life share many risk factors, such as poor lifetime living conditions, education and cognition, health behaviors, and prior physical and mental health. The authors identify the groups at highest risk in childhood and adulthood of chronic diseases and poor or accelerated functional aging and discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic may influence and exacerbate the impact of these risk factors on those outcomes. They discuss how the value of life course epidemiology may be enhanced by incorporating pandemics and other global challenges into traditional life course frameworks and models, benefiting from advances in exposure science in assessing lifelong exposures, and paying more attention to the lifetime determinants and consequences of infectious diseases. In particular, they emphasize the importance of focusing on how lifetime health inequalities are being exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and the interventions needed to address these inequalities across the life course.
Social Class, Poverty, and COVID-19
Authors: Riley Alicia R. , Maria Glymour M.
Published: May 2024

Socioeconomic status is widely acknowledged to be a “fundamental cause” of health, yet media narratives have overwhelmingly focused on racial disparities in COVID-19. As a recent New England Journal of Medicine editorial commented, racializing the national conversation about COVID-19 risks “biologizing” the problem, that is, the assumption that racial differences in risk are due to innate biological susceptibility differences . This chapter discusses the underlying reasons for this disconnect: (1) national reporting systems (hospital EMRs and vital statistics) commonly fail to record socioeconomic data; and consequently, (2) infectious disease models as well as epidemiological analyses fail to incorporate socioeconomic data in disease transmission dynamics. Similarly, existing policy analyses of the pandemic—for example, cost-benefit analysis of border closures and lockdowns—are often silent with regard to the distributional consequences of policy alternatives; namely, which groups in society will bear the risks of reopening the economy, versus which groups will be most affected by continuing restrictions on economic activity. This chapter provides comprehensive coverage of the socioeconomic dimensions of the pandemic (including societal efforts to the control the pandemic). In so doing, it seeks to provide a framework for evaluating ongoing policy decisions, such as who should receive priority for vaccine distribution.
Disability and Ableism in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Bhatt Krish J. , Swenor Bonnielin K.
Published: May 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic has uniquely impacted people with disabilities. This chapter discusses disability and ableism in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. The authors take an intersectional perspective, as disabled people are more likely to be people of color, to belong to sexual and gender minority groups, to experience socioeconomic disparities, and to be without regular and affordable healthcare. People with disabilities are also more likely to live in congregate care settings and to have been disproportionately affected by previous population-level disasters. The authors examine the pandemic’s impact on people with disabilities through the domains of medical rationing and healthcare ethics, public health response, disruptions to routine care, access to COVID-19 prevention and treatment, risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes, and magnified inequities. They also illuminate gaps in research on COVID-19 outcomes among people with disabilities and emphasize the need for disability leadership and inclusion in the pandemic response.
The Play of Postmodernity
Authors: Hirst Aggie
Published: May 2024

This chapter explores play in the era of poststructuralism and offers a new theory of play, “deconstructive play,” grounded in the thought of Jacques Derrida. It begins by tracing the role of play—understood not as directed play but rather as free play—in Derrida’s thought and his conceptualization of deconstruction. Having done so, it sets out deconstructive play as a third type that differs from both the Apollonian and Dionysian modes. This reconceptualization embraces the Dionysian tradition’s principles of festival, unreason, and groundlessness but challenges its tendency to reify and romanticize a warrior-hero play subject. The chapter finally shows how deconstructive play can help expose the politics of gaming by disentangling play from game, cultivating a deconstructive player-subject, and operationalizing deconstructive play in gameworlds.
Conclusion
Authors: Hirst Aggie
Published: May 2024

The conclusion recapitulates the argument developed in the book and sets the agenda for future research. It begins by restating the book’s status as the first in IR exploring the topic of military wargaming. From there, it makes the case for an academic field of wargaming, setting out important areas for scholarly analysis including refining its methodological assumption, detailed empirical studies, the importance of reflexivist engagements moving forward, and issues of ethics and diversity. Finally, it turns the deconstructive lens advocated in the book onto the argument itself, addressing questions of the cooptation of play, sites of resistance, the operation of deconstructive play, and the agents of such play.
Partiality in the World and in Theory
Authors: Jeske Diane
Published: May 2024

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the structure of the book, explaining its division into two parts: the first four chapters address the theoretical issues concerning the nature and grounds of our reasons to care for our intimates, while the final four chapters address the nature of intimacy, intimacy with nonhuman animals, intimacy in public policy, and partiality in an imperfect world. The second half of the chapter presents the meta-ethical framework that provides the background for the discussion, explaining different conceptions of value and reasons. Important distinctions between categories of reasons are made: subjective vs. objective, agent-neutral vs. agent-relative, and moral vs. nonmoral.
Our Projects and Our Friends
Authors: Jeske Diane
Published: May 2024

The Projects View of our reasons to care for our intimates is considered and rejected as a complete account of those reasons. The Projects View points out that our relationships with friends, family, and other intimates are among the most significant personal projects that most of us develop. Thus, the advocates of the view conclude, our reasons to care for our intimates are the same sorts of reasons a person might have to be a philosopher, promote a cherished cause, or travel the world. This view, however, cannot offer objective as opposed to subjective reasons of intimacy, and it is argued that this presents an obstacle to understanding our reasons of intimacy to be no more than project-based reasons.
A New Beginning: Founding Magnesia
Authors: Balot Ryan K.
Published: May 2024

Led by a “god,” i.e. the Athenian himself, the new colonial foundation of Magnesia is designed to transcend traditional militarism. Although the world remains inhospitable, the true legislator now holds out the hope of making decent human lives possible. Knowing what to pray for, the true legislator wishes for a “young tyrant,” whom he can rule with nous. The Athenian hints that the true legislator, ruling via the young tyrant, is the city’s best possible ruler. Though it always “stalks” and challenges the regime of law, however, the rule of nous proves on reflection to be difficult to realize in practice, because men like Kleinias will not accept it. Its mention here serves primarily to inspire Kleinias’ unconditional support for the rule of law as the best political antidote to oppressive tyranny. Instead of direct rule by nous, Magnesia will be governed by laws supported by a powerful religious ideology.
Anti-Muslim Racism and the Rise of Ethnonationalist Populism in the United States
Authors: Selod Saher
Published: May 2024

The United States has seen a rise in populism over the last few decades. The election of Donald Trump as the 45th president of the United States raised questions about the roots of this rising ethnonationalist populism. This chapter explores how racism targeting Muslims has been growing since 9/11 played a role in a rising ethnonationalist populism in the United States. An examination of how Muslims have been portrayed in the Tea Party movement, the Ground Zero mosque protests, the birther conspiracy theory, and in the mobilization around anti-sharia bills all reveal how groups have coalesced around perpetuating anti-Muslim racism, contributing to a growing anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim populism across the country.
Muslim Life in Belgium
Authors: Farmer John , Majlesi Ava
Published: May 2024

This chapter considers Belgium, its growing Muslim populations, and their estrangement from the broader community amid rising right-wing populism. Street-level approaches to building communities of trust are evaluated. Although the challenge to discover a vie ensemble (life together) is a general one that exists internationally, any attempts at potential solutions to create a more inclusive and welcoming environment for minority communities in Belgium will need to address the structural barriers inherent in Belgian government, anti-immigration and anti-Muslim rhetoric propagated from the far- and center-right parties, and discriminatory policies and ideas that prevent existing and future generations of Belgian Muslims from enjoying all that full Belgian citizenship can offer.
(Un)Made in China
Authors: Beydoun Khaled A.
Published: May 2024

The War on Terror has emboldened the subjugation of Uyghur Muslims in China. By adopting the rhetoric of counterterrorism and Islamophobic narratives peddled by the United States, the Communist regime profiled the Uyghur people as putative terrorists. This indictment has enabled new and nefarious fronts of policing and persecution. Such fronts include the quartering of Communist loyalists in Uyghur homes as well as restrictions on Islamic expression. Most ominously, it also includes the network of concentration camps in Xinjiang. This system of persecution, which rises to the level of ethnic cleansing, seeks to unmake the Uyghur people during a moment of rising Chinese global hegemony.
The Coloniality of Gender and the Other Others
Authors: Belle Kathryn Sophia
Published: May 2024

Chapter 8, “The Coloniality of Gender: ‘The category of Other is as original as consciousness itself,’ ” examines Beauvoir’s analysis of the situation and oppression of “woman” including the limits of biology, psychoanalysis, and historical materialism; her preference for an existential analysis; as well as history, facts, and myths that have contributed to woman’s situation as Other. Attention is given to Beauvoir’s grand historical narratives about the oppression of the white Western woman juxtaposed with her problematic claims about Indians, Asians, Arabs, and Muslims. It is argued that when Beauvoir explicitly takes up non-white, non-Western women in the text, this uptake is often presented through a colonial gaze and imaginary that tends to lock these other Others into a perpetual primitive past, even in her present moment. The chapter turns to insightful analyses of Beauvoir presented by Sally Markowitz (who critiques her orientalism) and Alia Al-Saji (who critiques her colonial tourist gaze and colonial dissonance). It also explores Kyoo Lee’s more generous readings as well as Stephanie Rivera Berruz’s critiques. Finally, the chapter also takes seriously the counter-narratives offered by María Lugones’ insightful account of the coloniality of gender and the importance of decolonial feminisms, as well as Oyèrónké Oyewùmí’s critical analysis of colonialism and gender impositions from the West.
Clean and Healthy Bodies
Authors: Hourigan Shannon E.
Published: May 2024

Teaching children to take care of all of the parts of their bodies is an important part of being a parent, but for many families, getting kids to brush their teeth or wash their hands regularly can be a source of conflict and aggravation. This chapter provides strategies to enhance children’s understanding about their bodies, increase internal motivation to engage in the self-care tasks that align with family values and culture, and guidance around conversations about puberty and bodily changes.
Health Behaviors
Authors: Isaksen Imari-Ashley P.
Published: May 2024

This chapter covers ways to help parents maintain their child’s health through following appropriate hygiene routines and medical adherence. Teaching your child basic hygiene routines early can prevent many problems. Medical adherence can prove difficult to keep up. Following recommendations from your child’s healthcare providers and staying mindful of national guidelines provide a pathway to promote health and well-being. Maintaining health often includes taking medication and getting shots (e.g., for current illnesses and preventive vaccinations), and children may have some difficulty with following through. One size does not fit all when thinking about what makes the most sense for your child and family with respect to health maintenance. Parents can adapt the considerations and strategies covered here to fit their child’s needs.
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer and/or Questioning, Intersex, and Asexual (LGBTQIA+) Families
Authors: Pariseau Emily M. , Kazak Anne E.
Published: May 2024

More LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) individuals are raising children than ever before. Children raised by LGBTQ+ parents are as well-adjusted as children raised by heterosexual parents; however, LGBTQ+ families often encounter personal and institutional forms of discrimination. This chapter reviews recommendations for LGBTQ+ and ally families. Experts recommend talking to children early on about diverse family structures, sharing truthful information, and revisiting these conversations in an ongoing way as children get older. Families should remain informed about the laws and policies that impact parental rights, educate children about discrimination, provide children with reassurance, and establish strong support networks.
Disasters and Other Traumas
Authors: Gurwitch Robin H. , Brymer Melissa J.
Published: May 2024

When disasters, public health emergencies like the recent pandemic, or mass violence events happen, parents’ first thoughts are about the safety and well-being of their children. Understanding common reactions that children may have after these events and factors that can impact well-being are the beginning steps in supporting positive healing. Psychological first aid (PFA) is the next action that parents can take. PFA consists of eight core action steps, which include emotional support, information and education, encouraging the practice of positive coping, and recognizing when one needs more help and getting this extra help. To best respond to the overall needs of their children, parents not only need to provide PFA, they need to attend to their own self-care. A new framework for self-care, PRN (pause, reset, and nourish), can help. Implemented together (e.g., understanding reactions, providing PFA, and practicing self-care), parents can significantly increase the whole family’s abilities to heal and to recover after traumatic events.
Learning Differences
Authors: Ofonedu Mirian E.
Published: May 2024

Children with disabilities or neurodivergent conditions, such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Tourette’s syndrome, obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), dyslexia or learning disability, or intellectual and/or developmental disabilities (I/DD), bring unique qualities, challenges, and strengths to the world, and their parents play an important role in how well they do in school and in the community. For parents, helping their child navigate their neurotypically structured world at school and in the community can be challenging. This chapter offers tips that can help parents better create a path that supports and allows their child to pursue the possible and to reach their full potential.
Difficult Student-Teacher Relationships
Authors: Moorehead-Slaughter Olivia
Published: May 2024

Arguably, one of the most important factors in setting the tone for a child’s school year is the student-teacher relationship. Teachers and students are human beings, with the full range of temperaments, communication and interaction styles, and experiences and expectations from previous years. When the match works well, the child and the teacher move into and through the school year fairly seamlessly, with minor concerns being navigated with little distress. When there is a “mismatch,” parents may find themselves in a much murkier zone as they seek to better understand their child’s distress and how to best support them during what can feel like a very long school year. This chapter offers guidance for parents who wish to keep perspective about this difficult year and gain insight about the growth opportunities for their child for the future.
Identity Development
Authors: Laser Julie Anne
Published: May 2024

Youth are on a monumental journey to create their own authentic identity. They are leaving childhood and deciding what they would like to bring with them to adulthood. This process takes time and great contemplation; thus, it is often not linear or easy. An authentic identity includes grappling with options for the future and committing to a path. It also integrates education, vocation, meaningfulness, sexual identity, gender identity, racial and cultural identity.
Feel and Think like an Adolescent
Authors: Peterson Emma L. , Rindlaub Laura A.
Published: May 2024

Adolescence brings many exciting changes. Yet it can also be challenging to understand and respond to teens’ new behaviors, emotions, and ideas. This chapter explores common behaviors that are observed in adolescents and highlights how some of the most recent research on adolescent brain development helps to explain them. The authors also share evidence-based strategies that parents and caregivers can use to maximally support this period of growth for their teenagers.
Body Image and Physical Appearance
Authors: Mackey Eleanor R. , Basch Molly C. , Exum Alexis
Published: May 2024

A potentially challenging area of development for parents is supporting their children through concerns about physical appearance and body image. Children and teens face pressures from society and their family’s own cultural standards of beauty, which can affect their self-esteem and health. Parents can best help their children by reflecting on their own standards of beauty and body image, providing a healthful environment that supports physical health and self-esteem, and communicating openly with their children about these challenges.
After Graduation—What’s Next?
Authors: Ciciolla Lucia , Mazur Anna
Published: May 2024

Young adults may struggle with the transition from childhood to adulthood. Some young adults remain dependent on their parents for longer, and struggle with developing independent life skills and leaving their parental home. Different strategies and adjusting the parent-child relationship may be helpful in promoting the independence of young adults. Effective promotion of successful independence starts from modeling and promoting life skills and may involve more meaningful communication and realigning the parent-child relationship.
Attention Problems
Authors: Fredrick Joseph W. , Becker Stephen P.
Published: May 2024

This chapter will help parents understand attention and concentration problems in children and adolescents. This will include coverage of deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The nature of attention and concentration in children are explained along with a range of problems that can affect children’s ability to focus. Parents will also learn strategies to help children who may have other problems paying attention. Many different steps parents can take are detailed, along with a discussion regarding the use of medication. Suggestions to help children with attentional issues in the classroom are also discussed.
Jam Session
Authors: Gazit Ofer
Published: May 2024

The second chapter, “Jam Session,” describes the role of jam sessions in the incorporation of migrant musicians into the New York scene. It focuses on a Monday-night jam session at the Haitian-owned bar Vodou, located in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. It describes the historical role of jam sessions as places of border crossing between White Americans and Black Americans, and how musical proficiency was crucial in this process. Viewed from a contemporary perspective, the chapter describes how various social boundaries operate within the jam session, how they are policed, and how they are ultimately crossed. It concludes with a discussion of the extent and limits to which musical proficiency or “chops” allow musicians to cross social boundaries in the New York scene.
The Scene
Authors: Gazit Ofer
Published: May 2024

This chapter connects the notion of an “migrant jazz scene” to the lived time cycles of migrant jazz musicians. Framed around recurring monthly performances, weekly jam sessions, daily house sessions, and hours of individual practice, it focuses on the network of musicians associated with Terraza 7, a “jazz and immigrant folk” venue located in Jackson Heights, Queens. Through these cycles, it explores the bar owner’s utopian vision of diversifying his clientele by programming artists who combine jazz with other musical traditions. Based on an analysis of performances and interviews with musicians, patrons, and the bar owner, Freddy Castiblanco, it examines the relationship between jazz as a cyclical improvisatory practice and the social cycles that constitute Terraza 7 as a migrant jazz scene.