bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Introductory Remarks
Authors: Joas Hans 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter outlines four different types of narrative conceptualizing the historical connections between the history of Christianity (or religion in general) and the history of political freedom. It distinguishes between a narrative of continuity—as in Hegel’s philosophy and so-called cultural Protestantism; a narrative of radical discontinuity or incompatibility as in Left Hegelianism and Marxism ; a narrative of mediation according to which Christianity changes its self-understanding under conditions of political freedom and institutions change by taking ever new inspiration from Christianity; and, fourth, an eschatological perspective according to which Christianity represents a revolutionary and utopian outlook. But all four types ignore the problem of whether political freedom, once established, remains firmly anchored. Part II of the book, therefore, is particularly interested in threats to political freedom arising from within and in theoretical attempts to get beyond all forms of teleology in the philosophy of history.
Moving up the Value Chain in Mexico
Authors: Ruiz Durán Clemente , Balestro Moises 
Published: March 2024

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Focusing on the manufacturing sector, this chapter examines the progress that Mexico has made in trying to accelerate growth and build new sources of economic dynamism. While liberalization and low wages initially drove the maquila industrial clusters in Mexico, their path has not always been constrained by the need to adhere to a comparative advantage based on low cost. Many enterprises—frequently located in industrial clusters—have accumulated technical functions related to plant operation and expansion. Some evolved to attract global investment, allowing them to acquire further technical capabilities. Still, Mexican manufacturing is essentially engaged in technological diffusion, whereas it is moving slowly, or even stagnating, in technological creation. Despite its industrial achievements, Mexico requires a new transition in order to exit the middle-income trap. Systematic attempts must be made to address large swathes of the economy where productivity and innovation remain at stubbornly low levels.
Alicia Finch on Logical Fatalism
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Alicia Finch about the problem of logical fatalism. This is the problem that certain logical principles make it impossible for anyone to ever act freely. Put roughly it goes like this: Because every proposition about the future is either true or false (and not both), then no one is ever free to do otherwise than what they actually do. They then discuss various responses to the argument such as denying bivalence, denying the transfer of necessity principle, denying the truth at a time principle, and distinguishing between the hard and soft past. They conclude by discussing whether anyone should be moved by the argument for logical fatalism.
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski on Divine Foreknowledge
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Linda Zagzebski about the problem of human freedom and divine foreknowledge. If God has infallible foreknowledge, then it seems that no one can do anything other than what God foreknows will happen. After discussing this problem in more detail, Zagzebski surveys three major responses: the Boethian solution (according to which God is timeless), the Ockhamist solution (according to which God’s beliefs about future human behavior are soft facts about the past), and the Molinist solution (according to which God has middle knowledge). The discussion concludes by considering how Zagzebski’s views on this subject have changed over time.
Carolina Sartorio on Frankfurt Cases
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Carolina Sartorio about Frankfurt cases and the challenge they present to the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) and the classical or traditional view of free will. They then discuss an objection to Frankfurt cases called the dilemma defense: either the agent in the Frankfurt case is determined to act or not. Either way seems problematic for the defender of the Frankfurt case. They then discuss one of the main responses to the dilemma defense. They conclude by considering the significance of Frankfurt cases beyond the challenge they present to PAP.
Derk Pereboom on the Manipulation Argument
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer speak with Derk Pereboom about the Manipulation Argument, which is a family of arguments against compatibilism. Compatibilism says that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with causal determinism, and the Manipulation Argument attempts to show that causally determined agents are not relevantly different from manipulated agents whose freedom and responsibility are undermined. After discussing Pereboom’s “Four-Case Argument,” they go on to talk about Alfred Mele’s “Zygote Argument.” As the conversation goes on, they also discuss several different types of response to the Manipulation Argument, including both hard-line and soft-line replies to the argument.
Christopher Evan Franklin on Event-Causal Libertarianism
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer speak with Christopher Evan Franklin about the event-causal libertarian position. Libertarianism (about free will) is the view that we have free will and that free will is incompatible with determinism, and event-causal libertarians maintain that our acting freely can be understood in terms of causation by agent-involving events. After discussing this view, some motivation for accepting it, and in what sense it is minimal, the conversation turns to Franklin’s work defending the view against the problem of luck, and the chapter concludes with a discussion about a worry for the reductionism involved in event-causal views in general.
Helen Beebee on Classical Compatibilism
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer speak with Helen Beebee about compatibilism, focusing on the classical compatibilist position that we act freely when we do the things that we want to do. They discuss a variety of problems for the classical compatibilist position, including problems for the conditional analysis of ability, which was part of a popular version of classical compatibilism in the twentieth century, and then they go on to talk about David Lewis’s widely discussed “local miracle compatibilist” response to the Consequence Argument. They conclude by talking about Beebee’s worries for Lewis’s reply and her preferred alternative: Humean compatibilism.
Manuel Vargas on Revisionism
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer talk with Manuel Vargas about revisionism, the view that we need to revise our concept of free will. First, they discuss other examples of how concepts have been revised over time. Then they discuss how the revisionist sees our commonsense way of thinking about free will as incorrect and then how the revisionist says that we ought to think differently about free will. They conclude by considering how representatives of other positions in the free will debate might object to revisionism, including whether revisionism is just a slightly different form of compatibilism.
Seth Shabo on Mysterianism
Authors: Cyr Taylor W. , Flummer Matthew T. 
Published: March 2024

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In this chapter, Taylor Cyr and Matthew Flummer speak with Seth Shabo about mysterianism, the view that the best response to the problem of free will and determinism is to say that we have free will but that it is a mystery how we have free will. They go on to discuss objections that may be raised by proponents of other positions in the free will debate—free will skeptics, compatibilists, and libertarians—and consider some responses along the way.
The Islamic Secular and Liberal Citizenship
Authors: Jackson Sherman A. 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter engages with the thesis of Andrew March in his book Islam and Liberal Citizenship: The Search for an Overlapping Consensus. Unlike Hallaq and An-Na’im, March’s primary focus is on Muslims as minorities in the West, especially America. His argument is that, read as he reads it, Islamic juristic doctrine provides ways for accommodating liberal citizenship. I argue that by limiting his discourse to juristic “doctrine,” March overlooks the prudential side of Islam-cum-sharī‘ah, which is what the Islamic Secular addresses. On this omission, I argue, even if March were correct in his argument that it would be “permissible,” according to Islamic law, for Muslims to accept and fully participate in liberal citizenship, this understanding obliterates the material and practical side of Islam-cum-sharī‘ah by ignoring the question of what Muslims actually should or could do, based not on doctrine and questions of permissibility but on the basis of what they identify as their concrete interests as Muslims in the specific context of American socio-political life. I also argue that positioning liberalism as the interlocutor through which Muslims negotiate their relationship with American democracy places them at a marked disadvantage. I end the chapter with an alternative approach for Muslims to negotiate their relationship with American democracy based on the Constitution, a fuller reading of American socio-political reality, including the centrality of race, and a fuller understanding of Islam-cum-sharī‘ah, as something broader and thicker than “ideal theory” as March depicts it.
The Litigation Ban
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter explores how Buddhists in early India perceived their relationship with the state courts. Examining extant Buddhist monastic law texts (Skt. Vinaya), this chapter shows how they reflect a Buddhist panic over monks and nuns litigating in the state court in any role, either as plaintiffs or defendants. To prevent monks and nuns from appearing in the courtroom, Buddhist legal writers portrayed the state court as a dreadful place where corruptible judges could issue unjust judgments to monastic litigants. They further prohibited monks and nuns from suing others in the state court and also tried to deter laypeople from suing monks or nuns in this court.
Buddhist Killers at Large
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter shows how Buddhist legal writers presented Buddhist institutions as places where monks and nuns could be immune from punishment related to postordination convictions. In this presentation, Buddhist legal writers advocated for clerical immunity to exempt monks and nuns from facing trials and punishment in the state court even when they had committed theft, murder, or manslaughter, or had helped other die. To achieve that goal, they warned judges to avoid convicting monks and nuns in the first place, urged kings to forgive convicted monastics, and further opposed any form of physical punishment on criminals in general. To justify these demands, Buddhist legal writers showed how kings would benefit from protecting monks and nuns, as well as how even wild animals would avoid hurting anyone who was merely disguised as a Buddhist monk.
Hybrid Courts, Hybrid Laws
Authors: Liu Cuilan 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter shows how Buddhists in China engaged with ideas of clerical legal privileges in Indian Buddhism. Instead of fighting for absolute clerical immunity from punishment, Buddhists in China worked with state rulers to create a hybrid court beyond the dichotomy of the Buddhist monastic court and the state court, thus creating a tripartite legal infrastructure to seek more jurisdictional autonomy for the Buddhist establishment to govern its ordained members. This hybrid court was guided by a newly created set of hybrid laws that were established by taking into consideration rules from both the Buddhist monastic law and the state law. Chinese Buddhists began this project of forming the hybrid law and hybrid court in the fourth century ce. This chapter shows how the established tripartite legal infrastructure’s influence has continued to operate subtly within contemporary China, even through dynastic changes, including the end of the empire.
Films
Authors: Kennedy Matthew 
Published: March 2024

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The films of Elizabeth Taylor in the chapter of On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide form the bulk of the book. Beginning with her film debut in There’s One Born Every Minute (1942) and ending with The Flintstones (1994), every one of Taylor’s feature films is summarized and critiqued. Her major films, National Velvet (1944), A Place in the Sun (1951), Giant (1956), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958), Suddenly, Last Summer (1959), BUtterfield 8 (1960), Cleopatra (1963), and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), get primary attention. Some of her later films, including Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967), X Y & ZEE (1972), and The Driver’s Seat (1974), get reappraisals in light of their poor reputations.
Television, Theater, and Special Appearances
Authors: Kennedy Matthew 
Published: March 2024

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The “Television, Theater, and Special Appearances” chapter of On Elizabeth Taylor: An Opinionated Guide is comprised of Taylor’s professional work outside of feature films. Included here is the largely forgotten documentary Elizabeth Taylor in London (1963) as well as her acclaimed night of poetry reading on Broadway in 1964. All of her made-for-TV films such as Divorce His/Divorce Hers (1973), Poker Alice (1987), and Sweet Bird of Youth (1989), are included. Her stage appearances, including the triumphant Broadway production of The Little Foxes (1981), are here. And lastly, various career curiosities, including an appearance on the TV series Here’s Lucy (1970) and a brief recurring role on the daytime soap opera General Hospital (1981), are included.
“I’ll Show You a Pair of Golden Globes!”
Authors: Winkler Kevin 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter discusses Bette Midler’s television appearances. For those who didn’t see her stage shows or movies or follow her recording career, the small screen was the chief means of getting to know Midler. For more than fifty years, she has been a near-constant presence, trading earthy, informed, quote-worthy chat with everyone from Oprah Winfrey to Graham Norton. She has shaken up staid awards shows as both honoree and presenter, appeared on telethons and reality shows, packaged her stage shows as HBO specials, and even briefly starred in her own sitcom. The chapter notes how her frequent appearances on The Tonight Show mirrored her evolution as a performer, culminating with Midler being the last guest to perform for host Johnny Carson, her early champion, when he retired in 1992.
Slow Harms and Citizen Action
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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Slow-moving environmental harms are typically ignored or accepted parts of everyday life, particularly in low-resource settings in Global South cities. How do communities mobilize around habituated exposure to toxins and initiate policy change for a historically ignored policy problem? The book compares advocacy movements for river pollution remediation in the capital regions of Argentina, Colombia, and Peru. Citizen-led efforts helped create environmental governance through networks that included impacted communities (bonding mobilization) and resourced allies (bridging mobilization). The book argues that bridging mobilization was strongest when bridges had material resources, common pasts, and a resonant frame for understanding the historically ignored problem of river pollution. This occurred in settings with established human rights movements and center-left presidential administrations that were unaligned with mineral wealth extraction. Through bonding and bridging mobilization, citizen advocacy for slow harms activated the state’s regulatory capacity. Citizen action included diverse claims making strategies such as protests, marches, rallies, participatory institutions, litigation, and media campaigns. By unpacking human rights movements as throughfares for environmental activism, these cases shed new light on the struggles for environmental justice in Latin America.
Stagnated Policy Shifts in Colombia
Authors: Herrera Veronica 
Published: March 2024

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The Bogotá River in Colombia was engulfed by slow-moving environmental harms for decades as cries from impacted communities were ignored by public officials. Strong grassroots activism, or bonding mobilization, emerged but was not accompanied by equally robust bridging mobilization, resulting in pollution remediation reforms that were more fragmented and lacked transparency compared with the Matanza-Riachuelo River reforms in Argentina. This chapter examines how human rights campaigns were not connected to environmental claims for the Bogotá River. Weak bridging in slow-harms advocacy networks were enabled by conservative presidential administrations that were aligned with the military and export-oriented multinational firms, which over time shrank the resources and influence of human rights actors during the decades-long armed conflict. Unlike the slow-harms activists in Argentina, bridging activists in Colombia lacked material resources, prior collaborative experiences, and a socially resonant collective frame around which to recast an invisible policy problem.
Play Therapy to Empower Black Girls
Authors: Duncan April D. 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter explores the unique racial stressors experienced by Black girls that contribute to racial trauma. Adultification bias is used as the foundation to explore stereotypes that are the root cause of direct and systemic racial stressors in Black girls. It identifies the impact of colorism and hair discrimination in Black girls as well as the prevalence of sexual violence and domestic sex trafficking. The chapter also discusses the maladaptive coping skills used by Black girls to cope with racial stressors and offers art-based interventions to help empower Black girls and increase their self-esteem and racial pride. Suggestions for ways to engage Black girls in individual and group play therapy are included such as doll play, sand tray therapy, and hand games to build healthy therapeutic relationships.
That Something Extra, an Added Dimension
Authors: Hart Adam Charles 
Published: March 2024

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This chapter develops George A. Romero’s own “theory” of genre both through his (informal) writings on horror and in his feature films, focusing on the development of Dawn of the Dead (1978) throughout the 1970s. Horror was Romero’s primary path to funding his feature films, but his approach to genre was idiosyncratic and unique and suited his interests; genre was, simply, a short list of attributes required to satisfy fan expectations, with style, narrative, tone, and everything else being flexible and open to whatever the artist wants to do with the film. Further, Romero argues, it is important for filmmakers to go beyond the stereotypical limits of a genre; adding “something extra” attracts other audiences that might not normally watch a horror film, but it also gives all audiences a richer, more substantial appreciation of a film. After Night of the Living Dead (1968), Romero reshaped horror into a vehicle for the stories and themes that most interested him, fulfilling expectations of monsters and gory effects but embedding them in films that more closely resemble satires, action films, westerns, or talky dramas. The chapter chronicles the development of Dawn from a potential partnership with the low-budget studio American International Pictures, which expressed interest in producing Dawn if it featured an all-Black cast and a prominent athlete in the lead role. The chapter follows the project’s development from a gory action movie to a pointed satire on consumer culture, with Romero finally finding “that something extra” after several years of work on the project.
Oriental Wisdom
Authors: Hassan Waïl S. 
Published: March 2024

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Júlio César de Mello e Souza (1895–1974), who used the pseudonym Malba Tahan, was professor of mathematics who published 118 books, more than half of which were “Oriental tales” extolling so-called Oriental wisdom. He popularized mathematics through a fictional medieval Muslim scholar who traveled from place to place solving mathematical puzzles, and whose extraordinary powers of calculation become emblematic of Muslim contributions to mathematics. While also writing Oriental tales, Humberto de Campos (1886–1934) juxtaposed the notion of Oriental wisdom with undesirable Arab immigrants. In his two short story collections, Pombos de Mahomet (1925, Muhammad’s Pigeons) and À sombra das tamareiras: Contos orientais (1934, In the Shade of the Date Palms: Oriental Tales), Campos draws on nineteenth-century French Orientalist and Islamophobic texts, thus revealing an undercurrent of intolerance that would continue to haunt the discourse of mixture a century later.
Parable of Integration
Authors: Hassan Waïl S. 
Published: March 2024

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In his novel Lavoura arcaica (1975, Ancient Tillage), Raduan Nassar (b. 1935) tells a story of generational conflict and rebellion against patriarchal authority in a Christian Levantine farming family. Reworking the biblical parable of the prodigal son, the novel’s critique of authoritarianism has been interpreted by critics as an attack on Brazil’s military dictatorship (1964–85), but it is also the story of a struggle for integration on the part of Brazilian-born children against the immigrant parents’ effort to preserve ancestral traditions. Told from the perspective of a troubled son, the novel shows how Orientalism begins to shape the children of immigrants’ perceptions of those traditions.
Amazonian Orient
Authors: Hassan Waïl S. 
Published: March 2024

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In Relato de um certo Oriente (1989, Tale of a Certain Orient) and Dois irmãos (2000, The Brothers), both set in the city of Manaus, Milton Hatoum (b. 1952) depicts the disappearance of the legacy of immigrants over the course of two generations. Mixture, understood as cultural assimilation, is seen as predicated upon a necessary erasure. The customs, language, and religious practices (both Islamic and Christian) of the immigrants become burdens that children must cast off. Hatoum develops this idea while at the same time sidestepping the discursive trap of colonial Orientalism as a translator and disseminator of Edward Said’s works in Brazil.
Introduction
Authors: Brechenmacher Saskia , Mann Katherine 
Published: March 2024

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Aid programs focused on women’s political empowerment have proliferated around the world. Yet research on this critical area of democracy assistance lags behind practice. This introduction makes the case for studying these interventions more systematically and presents the book’s main arguments. International assistance for women’s political empowerment has evolved significantly over the past three decades, from a first generation of programs focused on integrating women into democratic institutions to a second generation that targets the broader sociopolitical ecosystem hindering gender equality in politics. Yet this evolution remains incomplete: discriminatory social norms, entrenched inequities between women, and democratic erosion pose lasting challenges, as do recurring shortcomings in aid modalities. The chapter concludes by describing the book’s methodology and scope and previewing its structure.