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Expanding the Borders of a Common Good
Authors: Golden Jonathan 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter discusses the importance of firsthand experience and direct encounters in helping students discern vocations that contribute to a common good. It emphasizes the value of civic engagement programs that combine coursework with cocurricular activities and experiential learning programs. The chapter explores various ways of finding fulfillment by serving others, pushing the boundaries of the language of “othering” and “us/them.” Drawing from the field of peace and conflict studies, the chapter examines examples of transformational learning experiences where conventional boundaries dissolve and vocational discernment occurs. This might be a civil dialogue, study-abroad experience, or conflict resolution training. Such practices invite students to fight for causes that are not their own and to see another’s experience as hinged to their own pursuits and purpose. Colleges and universities must engage students in ongoing processes of personal reflection, discovery, and genuine exchange with people from all worlds and walks of life.
Persons, Worlds
Authors: Robertson Matthew I. 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter introduces the subject of personhood and its significance to Indic traditions and academic discourses. The category of “person” is distinguished from the categories of “self” and “body” by virtue of its relational, permeable, and “extensional” or “expansive” character. The scholarly tendency to frame persons as “microcosms”—bodies that contain within themselves the replication of the cosmos-at-large—is problematized. Indic persons are most often conceived as outward-facing, phenomenalistic, worldwide entities. The chapter provides a brief summary of the structure and contents of the book. The significance of Indic theories of personhood to modern debates on environmental personhood and legal personhood is discussed.
The Expansion of Sovereign Personhood in the Ṛgveda
Authors: Robertson Matthew I. 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter examines the roots of Indic thinking about personhood in the Ṛgveda. These roots are discerned in linguistic patterns surrounding the Vedic gods Indra, Agni, Soma, and Viṣṇu, especially in relation to the creation myth of Indra’s perennial battle against the asura Vṛtra. Personhood here is directly related to cosmogony, sovereignty, and the dynamics of ritual cosmology. Cosmogony is expressed in terms of solar dynamics of swelling and receding. Sovereigns master these forces by their Sun-like might and manhood, and rituals both describe and compel cosmological forces toward these political and cosmic ends. The Puruṣa Sūkta, a late-Ṛgvedic hymn that first celebrates the puruṣa as a cosmogonic, sovereign, and world-sized figure, reflects an innovative and culminating reformulation of the core themes generated in the Ṛgveda’s earliest cosmogonic mythology.
Persons, Worlds
Authors: Robertson Matthew I. 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter summarizes the arguments of the preceding chapters, focusing on the emergence of a pre-Classical period paradigm of personhood. Future developments of personhood in Indic tradition—involving a rupturing of the person-to-world relationship that became predominant in Classical-era traditions—is described to highlight the historical significance of pre-Classical personhood. The subject of microcosms, and the distinctiveness of Indic approaches to personhood from microcosm-oriented thought, is reintroduced and connected to the issue of environmental personhood as introduced in chapter one. The logic in the State of Uttarakhand’s court cases regarding the legal rights of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers is compared to the logic of personhood developed across the preceding chapters.
Introduction
Authors: Piilonen Miriam 
Published: January 2024

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The introduction summarizes the main topics of book and the interdisciplinary critical framework to be applied. The primary texts are historical evolution treatises, emphasizing music-evolution texts formulated in nineteenth-century Britain. With the advent of Victorian theories of evolution in nineteenth-century Britain, theorists such as Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Edmund Gurney brought new evidence and explanation to bear on music’s presumed place in evolution. How “music” was invoked by Victorian evolutionary theorists implied a novel theoretical affordance for the concept of music, which crystallized alongside nineteenth-century evolutionary science: Music as a boundary-drawing device, used to trace or obscure the conceptual borders between human and animal. This history has gained new significance as the subfield of evolutionary musicology has been recently revived after decades of dormancy. The introduction concludes with a summary of chapter contents.
Decisions on the Ground
Authors: Snegovaya Maria 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter further supports the book’s argument by relying on an experimental survey approach to demonstrate the impact of left party centrist shifts on party alignment dynamics in Hungary. The chapter describes the results of experimental surveys conducted in Hungary, where some respondents were told that left parties embraced pro-market policies. These respondents said that they would choose the populist right in the next election, as long as these parties promised greater social protection. Those effects were more pronounced among working-class respondents. Without these economic promises, the anti-immigrant, nativist appeals from the populist right were not enough to cause these voters to shift their support to the populist right. The results of these experiments highlight the important role that economic insecurities play in promoting support for populist right parties. These findings are then interpreted through the book’s central hypothesis: that the left parties' embrace of neoliberal policies pushed the traditional left’s constituencies to the right side of the political spectrum, contributing to the successes of populist right parties.
Conclusion
Authors: Snegovaya Maria 
Published: January 2024

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The conclusion offers a summary of the book’s main findings and discusses their scholarly contribution and implications. It discusses the idiosyncratic features of postcommunist region. Higher volatility and the fluidity of postcommunist systems in addition to the large size of working-class electorates available for incorporation into populist right parties have reinforced the party realignment dynamic in the region. Center-left parties could adjust their economic policies and programs, adopt more distinctly leftist policy stances, address the demands of frustrated and economically vulnerable voters who currently find their economic needs best represented on the right side of the political spectrum, and reduce the rightward drift of party systems. The observed trends in the party systems of Eastern Europe are not a regional anomaly defined by the idiosyncrasies of postcommunist transitions, but part of a broader ongoing process that is also occurring in other European polities. This closely resembles the patterns of neoliberal dealignment in Western Europe, which also opened the door to new types of populist contenders.
Is There a Human Nature?
Authors: Nathan Marco J. 
Published: January 2024

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The book’s guiding question—can science shed light on human nature?—cannot be raised, let alone answered, without an explicit definition of what is being sought. Chapter 3 frames the object of explanation by considering three influential proposals. On a first stance, human nature coincides with the essence of being human, a set of intrinsic conditions individually necessary and jointly sufficient for belonging to our species. Despite its intuitiveness, essentialism is no longer popular, as no non-trivial intrinsic properties are satisfied by all and only humans. Second, the natural state model purports to capture the idea that human nature describes only “normal” humans. Third, “field guide” conceptions of human nature aim to capture and explain typical and characteristic human traits. Field guide conceptions are empirically and methodologically viable. Nevertheless, such “thin,” toned-down definitions are unable to play the “thick” normative role traditionally demanded of human nature.
Are We Genetically Determined?
Authors: Nathan Marco J. 
Published: January 2024

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Chapter 5 focuses on genetic determinism. It begins with a primer of genes, genomes, and their role in the production of organisms. It then provides a preliminary definition of genetic determinism according to which a trait is genetically determined if and only if it has a flattish norm of reaction. Next, it connects genetic determinism with heritability, a technical concept purporting to quantify the degree of variation in a trait due to genetic differences within a population of reference. The remainder of the chapter discusses developmentalist challenges to determinism and outlines the prospects of bolstering a true interactionist model of how genes and environment jointly produce biological organisms. It concludes that genetic determinism admittedly does not provide a suitable proxy for naturalizing the study of human nature. The pesky concepts of innateness and genetic determinism presuppose a human nature and, as such, they cannot explain it.
Medical Reproduction and Pregnant Women
Authors: Richie Cristina 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter concretizes the use of MR as a carbon-intensive procedure offered by healthcare—but not necessarily meeting a goal of medicine—by highlighting the unnecessary environmental demands of medicalized pregnancy. Medical procedures related to fetuses, such as selective reduction, miscarriage, and prematurity; medicalization of childbirth, whether vaginally or with a cesarean section; and the cosmetic procedures that may be offered to women post-partum are part of medicalized reproduction for pregnant women, which absorbs natural resources and emits carbon. While academic work on the medicalization of pregnancy has been present for nearly four decades, its environmental impact has been overlooked. Calling for environmental accountability, given the preventability and lack of clinical indication, the impact on the population and ecosystem, and the risks for infants and women, is the only logical reaction.
Heterogeneity across Districts and within-District Partisan Gap and Proclivity
Authors: Merrill III Samuel , Grofman Bernard , Brunell Thomas L. 
Published: January 2024

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Empirically, the lion’s share of growth in the partisan gap in legislative polarization has been generated by district-specific divergence between party candidates. Two other factors have also increased polarization: ideological heterogeneity among districts, and partisan proclivity in the choice between candidates ideologically equidistant from the median voter. This chapter presents two models of the relationship between these three factors and the rise in polarization, suggesting that polarization may increase with the square of the across-district variation in district ideology.
Crisis Stories
Authors: Strasser Irene , Dege Martin 
Published: January 2024

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COVID-19 and related measurements and consequences have highly influenced psychological practice and research, but also the discipline of psychology itself. This chapter starts with discussing how aspects of inequality and discourses of the “unprecedented” are related before asking how crises shatter individuals’ routines and meaning-making through being confronted with unexpected and uncommon events. Analyzing the social, political, and economic factors that have contributed to the COVID-19 pandemic seems crucial in understanding the pandemic’s psychological impacts. The chapter explores the ways in which systemic inequalities and injustices have exacerbated the effects of COVID-19 on marginalized communities as well as the role of neoliberalism and globalization in shaping public health policies.
Beyond Trauma Narratives
Authors: Lucić Luka , Fløgstad Guro Nore 
Published: January 2024

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To understand how moments of crisis shape stories told in the aftermath, the authors explore narrative thought processes through the prism of a regional crisis. Drawing on research with participants who grew up during the military siege of Sarajevo (1992–1995), the authors describe spaces within the unoccupied city shaped by military destruction and consider the range of unique activities these spaces afforded to young people. Analyzing narratives written in the aftermath of the siege, the authors focus on participants’ enactment of adverbs, a linguistic category used to qualify action in relation to place, time, circumstance, or manner. Their analyses show that, as participants reflect on activities of heightened danger across novel and precarious spaces, their narratives become more evaluative, often illustrating their feelings or impressions and qualifying the relationship between self and the context of activities. Beyond the singular focus on trauma narratives, the authors’ findings suggest a complex sociocognitive response to crisis.
Plotless Stories and Unthought Knowns
Authors: Josselson Ruthellen 
Published: January 2024

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This chapter offers reflections on the subjective experience of the pandemic and the ensuing lockdown in its early stages. The threat of actual loss of life led to loss of customary and predictable life. The disintegration of life as people knew it engendered profound and challenging psychological processes. This chapter gives voice to and conceptualizes these processes in psychological terms. Futurity, the setting of goals in time, and intentionality were compromised, if not obliterated. The usual narrative resources used to shape and understand lives were upended as stories became plotless, repetitive, and atemporal. The deprivation of social interaction and physical participation in the outside world offered an opportunity to reflect on the role of narrative in individuals’ lives. The depth of the uncertainty and vulnerability people experienced can be conceptualized as related to unconscious unthought knowns, unprocessable elements at the deepest levels of human experience.
Coping Personally and Politically with World Crises
Authors: Ferrari Michel , Munroe Melanie 
Published: January 2024

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In this chapter, the authors discuss the relation of crisis to wisdom, specifically, the idea of wisdom as an aspect of posttraumatic growth. Wisdom is a complex multidimensional capacity or competence to cope both with severe crises and with everyday nuisances. Personal posttraumatic growth interacts with wisdom through life narrative and provides a template for collective posttraumatic growth. Communal collective coping can reduce risk and create opportunities at four levels: basic services and security; community and family supports; focused, nonspecialized supports; and specialized services. These four levels frame and support both the community as a whole and the lives of every individual coping with crisis.
The Self and Its Crises
Authors: Brockmeier Jens 
Published: January 2024

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During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world was pervaded by the idea of “the virus” as an attacker and, in tandem, the concept of “the self” being attacked by it. This is puzzling, not least because the self is a philosophical and psychological construct, a concept, that rarely attracts global attention. But the virus changed this scenario, viewed as if it was assailing “the modern self, “the Western self,” or simply “our self.” As a consequence, the self in these COVID-19 discourses is understood as an entity on the same ontological level as the virus. This chapter explores the semantic, historical, metaphorical, and narratological background of this construct of “the self” challenged by the coronavirus and the resulting pandemic.
Endgame
Authors: Beres Louis René 
Published: January 2024

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Our decentralized system of international law has never actually “worked,” and its next conspicuous failures could become existential and irremediable. Here, recalling the seminal work of Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, this chapter argues that further and continuous “verticalization” of the international legal community will prove indispensable to nuclear war avoidance and genocide prevention, but still not be sufficient for long-term planetary survival. In the final analysis, an informed case is made to augment plainly needed structural remedies with certain apt transformations of the individual person. Only when jurisprudential remediation is directed simultaneously to the macrocosm (world legal institutions) and microcosm (individual human beings) could international law ever meaningfully “work.”
Deconstructing the Struggle Against Nuclearism
Authors: Falk Richard 
Published: January 2024

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The prolonged, ongoing Ukraine War has raised dormant concerns in the global public about the clear and present danger of a nuclear war than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. The damaged Ukrainian nuclear reactor complex at Zaporizhzhia additionally suggests that nuclear energy facilities should be treated dangerous alongside the weaponry. The broader conflict between Russia and the United States can be best understood as a “geopolitical war” the outcome of which will influence whether future world order will be shaped by the logic of unipolarity, bipolarity, or multipolarity. This article argues that “arms control” and “disarmament” as approaches to mitigating nuclear dangers are radically different, with the former aiming at stability and emphasizing commitments to non-proliferation and the latter seeking transformative results by eliminating nuclear weaponry altogether. The disarmament approach has a juridical appeal due to its rejection of present hegemonic and hierarchical structures controlling nuclear weaponry, anchored in the US managed non-proliferation regime.
Algunos Comentarios Al Estudio De La Comisión De Derecho Internacional, Sobre Los Principios Generales Del Derecho
Authors: López Zamora Luis A. 
Published: January 2024

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La Comisión de Derecho Internacional (CDI) inició en 2018 un estudio sobre los principios generales del derecho. Esta contribución tiene como propósito analizar los dos primeros informes del Relator Especial, en particular, la forma como los principios generales del derecho de origen doméstico habrían de incorporarse en el Derecho Internacional. Después, pasaremos a cuestionar el método construido por el Relator e indicaremos si puede considerarse el más adecuado. Tomar en cuenta el estudio del Relator Especial es importante, pues su análisis—hasta el momento—implica: (a) el establecimiento de un proceso intrincado para la identificación de los principios generales del derecho, haciendo más difícil su aplicación; y, debido (b) al efecto restrictivo que tendría en el rol que los tribunales y cortes internacionales (y la comunidad internacional) podrían desempeñar en aquella tarea. Además, analizaremos el método y la identificación de los principios generales del derecho formados directamente en el Derecho Internacional. In 2018, the International Law Commission (ILC) started a study on the general principles of law. This contribution will analyze the provisional conclusions reached by the Special Rapporteur in the matter, specifically regarding the ways the general principles of domestic law are to be incorporated in International Law and—thereon—questions the appropriateness of the methodology offered by him. The Special Rapporteur’s study in the matter is relevant, insofar as it has implied: (a) the establishment of an intricate process, which makes the applicability of the general principles of law more stringent; and (b) the reduction of the role of international tribunals and courts in that endeavour. At the same time, the article will tackle the method formulated by the Special Rapporteur with regards to the identification of the general principles of law formed within International Law.
The Court’s Role in Upholding Inter-Generational Obligations Respecting the Child’s Right to Truth: Juliana v. United States as a Case in Point
Authors: Grover Sonja C. 
Published: January 2024

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The UN Commission on Human Rights has long recognized that the right to truth regarding grievous human rights violations constituting international crimes is inalienable and non-derogable. Yet children’s right to truth is often not respected especially if they are not the contemporary proximate victims of the atrocities perpetrated. This ignores inter-generational obligations regarding the right to truth. The neglect of the right to truth belonging to children qua children may be related to a general failure to acknowledge the persecutory targeting of children as a particular identifiable collective defined by age intersecting with other characteristics. This commentary examines the denial of the child’s right to truth involving current and future child generations and the larger societal implications of that denial. The issue is discussed using the specific holding of the US Federal Court of Appeals (Ninth Circuit) in the child rights climate change case Juliana v. United States.
Information Interventions in the Twenty-First Century
Authors: Kirchmair Lando 
Published: January 2024

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The twenty-first century has seen an unprecedented rise in manipulation by disinformation, the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine being no exception to this trend. Shocked by the blatant violation of fundamental international norms, the international legal community is not as defenseless as might have seemed at first glance. Creative solutions are needed, however. This note argues that information interventions, advocated here in the form of international information campaigns, have been given little thought so far and are an underrated but important tool which might provide relief. Actively fighting manipulative disinformation across national boundaries is important for a resilient international legal order in the (digital) information age. This insight might come too late in the case of Ukraine: still, it is a lesson to be learned for future conflicts lurking behind the veil of authoritarian regimes and totalitarian states.
Non-compensatory Reparation Modalities in UN Legal Sources
Authors: Pérez-León-Acevedo Juan-Pablo 
Published: January 2024

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Compensation has been traditionally the most common reparation modality to redress harm inflicted. However, UN legal sources have increasingly evidenced that compensation is only one among other reparation modalities, especially regarding victims of gross violations of human rights. The main research question of this piece is: How have key UN legal sources addressed non-compensatory that states are obliged to provide to victims of gross violations of human rights? Non-compensatory reparation modalities are identified, systematized, and examined under four internationally recognized categories: restitution, rehabilitation, satisfaction, and guarantees of non-repetition. The selected UN legal sources are primarily treaties, resolutions, draft instruments, case law, general comments, general observations, and reports adopted by diverse UN organs. These organs are specifically: the UN General Assembly, UN human rights treaty bodies, the International Law Commission, the International Court of Justice, and the Special Rapporteur on truth, justice, reparation, and guarantees of non-recurrence.