bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
From Denial to Disproportionality
Authors: Selleck Kristen L. , Toland Ashley M. , Blakey Joan M. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Can a system rooted in White supremacy that has harmed predominantly Black and Indigenous children and families be reformed, or does it need to be abolished? It is essential to understand the history of racism and White supremacy within the child welfare system, identify the ways that racism and White supremacy continue to be embedded in policy and practice, and critically evaluate efforts made by the child welfare system to address racial disproportionality to answer this question. The purpose of this chapter is to examine the institution of child welfare by highlighting the racist beginnings of child welfare history and critically analyzing “promising practices” within the child welfare system that were intended to eliminate inequities in practice and policy. The chapter also briefly explores current movements to reform and abolish the child welfare system and lay the groundwork for next steps.
Fifteen Years of Critical Race Theory in Social Work Education
Authors: Aldana Adriana , Nakaoka Susan Lares , Vazquez Nicole , Ortiz Larry 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Critical race theory (CRT) has gained traction in social work over the past decade. Its tenets expose color-evasive rhetoric embedded in social work education, moving beyond a “multicultural” education approach by delving into the barriers of institutional racism and other systems of oppression. This chapter illustrates how social work education can address racism by applying critical race pedagogy (CRP), offering lessons learned from the authors’ experiences teaching and running a Master of Social Work (MSW) program rooted in CRT. Since its founding in 2006, the California State University at Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) MSW program has explicitly and intentionally integrated CRP throughout its curriculum. A campus born out of the 1960s Watts rebellion, with 89% Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) students, CSUDH remains an auspicious location for CRP. CRP is an innovative approach that not only enhances social work content but also provides a “how to” for integrating CRT into all aspects of competency-based education.
Examining the Antiracism Contributions of Black Male Social Work Educators Across Generations
Authors: Schiele Jerome H. , Kirven Joshua , Joe Sean , Teasley Martell L. , Sales Brian 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Grounded in America’s original sin of slavery, anti-Black racism has caused African Americans to disproportionately endure the racial harm, hardships, and humiliation associated with White supremacy. Many have sought to combat and resist anti-Black racism, including African American social work educators. Although Black male social work educators made significant contributions to the contestation of anti-Black racism, the social work literature has not sufficiently acknowledged the professional leadership, service, and scholarship of Black male social work educators in combating anti-Black racism in social work and beyond. This chapter identifies Black male social work educators—past and present—who have significantly contributed to the contestation of racism. Recommendations for contemporary antiracist practice are provided by examining the shared anti-Black racism activities of Black male social work educators. Acknowledging and documenting the antiracism contributions of Black male social work educators can assist social work in its efforts to contest racism.
Envisioning Antiracist Social Work Organizational Change
Authors: Martinez Colleen Daly , Williams Jeena 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Social work organizations must become antiracist in order to move away from historically White supremacist practices. There is a dearth of academic literature about antiracist organizational change in social work agencies. To fill this void, grey literature enables us to learn from leaders in the work, through their lived experience and wisdom. This chapter amplifies the previously marginalized body of work on antiracist organizational change to develop an integrated framework for social service leaders in redesigning their organizations. Processes identified include establishing organizational readiness and commitment, prioritizing communication, engaging in ongoing learning, conducting an organizational assessment, developing inclusive and equitable goals, facilitating meaningful change on multiple levels, centering interpersonal relationships, preparing for conflict, shifting institutional leadership and power, adopting equitable human resources practices, ensuring accountability, and committing to a lifelong process.
Imagining the End of Racism Through Ending White Supremacy
Authors: Teasley Martell L. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Forging new ground in the development of an antiracist society makes ending the romanticized notion of Whiteness a long-term goal with many changes needed in our personal lives and society. This chapter identifies some necessary elements needed to eliminate White supremacy, specifically within social work education and practice. The chapter contends that any road to ending racism must be paved by a critical examination of methods and practices to end White privilege and White supremacy thinking and practices. A host of related social welfare topics and social issues are discussed. The challenge of teaching and learning on the centrality of racism and antiracism within social work education is examined from micro, mezzo, and macro perspectives. The chapter concludes that the Grand Challenge to eliminate racism cannot flourish within the profession until it first engages in internal introspection and professional reform, as a demonstration project for the greater society to emulate.
Remote Combat Exposure and Moral Injury from Drone Operations
Authors: Atkins Elliot , Seamone Evan R. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
After decades of sustained combat operations, public officials and military leaders have promoted the value of preserving the lives of troops by implementing armed Unmanned Ariel Vehicles (UAVs) in supporting combat operations. Despite a decrease in physical injury and death to ground troops, drone warfare is not without U.S. casualties. Rather, psychologists have begun to realize that this different form of warfare uniquely traumatizes the members of the UAV crews who may be piloting or supporting these craft from the confines of a building or trailer only miles from their homes. This form of combat opens up new avenues for moral injury. Although the full extent of this remote trauma has yet to be thoroughly examined, preliminary studies have revealed the potential for devastating consequences.
Awakening: An Introduction
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
The introduction provides an argument for the book’s integrative approach. It summarizes the book’s evidence from film, literature, new religions, politics, social media, and other sources in order to develop a fuller understanding not only of the recent and contemporary significances of neo-gnosticism and gnosis, and discusses how neo-gnosticism fits within and reflects larger religious history, context, and current in all of the Americas, and, necessarily, global context as well. It discusses the author’s inductive approach as well as the subject of political religion. Other topics include political gnosis and antignosticism, with exemplary references to the film They Live and to the perspective of a contemporary lightworker.
The Neo-Gnosticism of Samael Aun Weor
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Victor Manuel Gómez Rodríguez (Samael Aun Weor, 1917–1977) was an influential occultist influential in the founding of multiple global neo-gnostic sects widely dispersed in Latin America. He participated in the Fraternitas Rosicruciana Antiqua, a Latin American Rosicrucian group founded by the German Arnoldo Krumm-Heller and influenced by Paschal Beverly Randolph, who taught a form of sexual magic in a Rosicrucian context. During Weor’s relationship with Arnolda Garro Mora, whose spiritual name was “Litelantes,” he was able to practice what he termed the great mystery, which is to say, at its center, sexual relations without ejaculation. Some of his work is framed in a context of demon-inspired challenges by “dark Tantrists” and various new religious sectarian efforts to claim Tibetan Buddhist origins or elements and Latin American neo-gnostic sects. The works of Samael Aun Weor can be explored from the perspective of new religions, sexual abstinence, ejaculation avoidance, cosmological gnosis, neo-gnosticism and occultism, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophical Society.
The Enigmatic Dr. Musès
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Charles Musès (1919–2000) was born in New Jersey and had a relatively impoverished childhood. He went on to study mathematics and chemistry, thereafter doing graduate work at Columbia University, where he received a PhD for his doctoral dissertation on the mysticism of Dionysius Andreas Freher (1649–1728). He published a wide range of books, including in the area of consciousness. From 1968 to 1973, he edited The Journal for the Study of Consciousness. Selected articles from this journal were later published in the book Consciousness and Reality (1972), coedited by Arthur M. Young, one of whose achievements was inventing the Bell helicopter. Then, he published a series of books and audio files on what he termed The Lion Path, which entailed unique elements related to time windows and harmonics. Elements from Gnosticism play a role in his thought and writings.
American Archontic Neo-Gnosticism
Authors: Versluis Arthur 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Contemporary archontic neo-gnosticism is discussed based on the publications of John Lamb Lash. Lash’s work includes themes of Marcionitic Gnosticism, featuring ideas of archons and a deluded demiurge. Lash has an extensive online presence, and is involved in multiple projects including the Kalika War Party. Contemporary author David Icke is also influential online and visible in American social media, and the ideas in his work invoke shape-shifting reptilianism related to critiques of centralized power in technology, government, and academia. Discussed in the context of contemporary conspirituality theory is also the antignostic work of Eric Voegelin. Gab, a social media platform, hosts neo-gnostic memes on the right.
Deciding how to decide
Authors: Adlington Robert 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This introductory chapter establishes the key premises of the book. A differentiation is drawn between music’s capacity to serve democracy in various ways, and its potential to model democracy itself. In modelling democracy, musicians are faced with choices about which aspects of their music-making they wish to democratise, and what idea of democracy will shape their endeavours. Such choices alert us to a truism of democratic theory: that democracy is a heterogeneous concept, any one definition of which will reflect a certain positionality or set of interests. Familiar readings of orchestral performance and jazz are assessed to show the difficulty of regarding either as straightforwardly democratic or undemocratic. From these observations a core goal of the book is established: to temper the idealisations of democracy found in discourse around music, and to focus instead upon the different ways in which music contributes to contestation over democracy’s meaning and emancipatory potential.
Empowering others
Authors: Adlington Robert 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Audience participation has been a significant field of experiment within twentieth and twenty-first-century art music. A survey of the various approaches taken by composers demonstrates the difficulty of distinguishing cleanly between liberatory and subjugatory effects, a point that has been extensively rehearsed by critics of participatory theatre, including Jacques Rancière in his widely read essay ‘The emancipated spectator’. This chapter argues that the inevitable involvement of the interests of the organiser is not in itself reason to discount the empowering potential of a participatory opportunity: agency is always the outcome of ‘patiency’, or being acted upon. Ideas from the field of community organising are used to elaborate upon ways in which musical attempts to involve an audience may afford productive new distributions of power. In conclusion, a study of Luc Ferrari’s Société V (1967–69) demonstrates the intimate entanglement of composers’ instincts to liberate and to dominate.
To Make Democracy Consistent
Authors: Butler Leslie 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter traces how, in the 1840s and 1850s, the anomalous position of women in American democracy provoked a bold movement for change. Building on earlier political, legal, and religious efforts ventured in print, organized women’s rights activists emerged and met in conventions throughout the 1850s. The 1848 meeting at Seneca Falls called for the circulation of texts, highly attuned to the importance of published opinion. By the end of decade, discussion of women’s rights had spread across the culture. A pithy and potent phrase summed up the campaign: America must become a “consistent democracy” by ending slavery, modifying the common-law disabilities of free married women, and enabling all adults to participate in the educative process of democratic governance.
A Queer Sexuality Education
Authors: Rudoe Naomi 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines queer theoretical ideas in relation to English school policy and practice in relationships and sex education. It first analyzes the policy context for teaching about sexuality, with the statutory Relationships and Sex Education guidance of 2019 replacing previous guidance dating from 2000. It then uses queer theoretical, sociological, and psychological work to explore and unsettle the notion of childhood innocence and examines uncertainties around knowledge being “age appropriate.” It goes on to discuss the broad shift from a sole focus on antihomophobic education to an approach that seeks to challenge heteronormativity in schools. Finally, it offers up the potential of a queer sexuality education as one that embraces diversity, recognizes uncertainty and complexity, and enables wider possibilities for children.
Norm-Critical Pedagogy as Femo- and Homonationalism
Authors: Reimers Eva 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter presents the emergence of norm-critique and norm-critical pedagogy in the Nordic countries. Like queer theory, the interest of norm-critique is to deconstruct and subvert taken-for-granted and naturalized conceptions and practices. As an expansion of queer theory, it opens up opportunities for intersectional investigations of all norms possible. The chapter presents Nordic studies informed by norm-critique. It recounts the development and normalization of norm-critical pedagogy as a tool to work against bullying and discrimination. Here, the concepts of femo- and homonationalism are used to explore effects of this legitimation of norm-critique in relation to nationalism and possibilities for recognition of different subject positions. By “queering” norm-critique research and pedagogic strategies, the chapter argues for the necessity of an awareness of how exposure and subversion of norms produces new normalities with dire effects for those who thus are made abject others.
Queer Love and Education
Authors: Rodriguez Nelson M. , Pinar William F. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter takes up recent work generated within the North American academic context on the concept of queer love and situates this work within a set of discussions on sexuality studies and curriculum studies. The general goal of the chapter is to contribute to ongoing knowledge production on the topic of queer love through a set of reflections on its meanings and practices within education. Knowledge production across two narratives is presented: In the first, Halberstam’s notion of queer failure is used to argue that queer love can be formulated as a productive example of queer failure; in this way, the concept of queer love offers ways of teaching and learning about “subjugated knowledges,” or what Halberstam referred to as “low theory,” which can highlight and potentially disrupt how love and desire are oriented and configured temporally in heteronormative ways. The second narrative critically engages with Halperin’s formulation of queer love, that is, with the repetitions of normative thought it potentially induces, by locating a set of reflections in relation to different moments in time related to (queer) knowledge production, queer history, as well as to queer biography. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the generative possibilities of the concept of queer love.
Quaestor, tribune, and guardian of Italy
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter discusses the circumstances of Antony’s marriage to his first cousin, Antonia, then turns to Antony’s military service in Gaul under Julius Caesar, including his rise to become Caesar’s quaestor. Topics include: Antony’s protracted canvass for the quaestorship, during which time Clodius Pulcher was murdered by Annius Milo and urban violence led to Pompey’s elevation as sole consul; the politics of Milo’s trial, at which Antony spoke for the prosecution; Antony’s campaign for the office of tribune of plebs and his election as augur; the events leading to the outbreak of civil war between Caesar and Pompey, including their competing claims over dignitas and libertas; Antony’s pivotal role as a tribune defending Caesar’s claims in the senate; Antony’s actions during Caesar’s invasion of Italy while serving anomalously as tribune and legate; Antony’s tenure, after Caesar departed for Spain, as tribunus plebis pro praetore responsible for Italy’s security; Antony’s management of public affairs during this period; his conspicuous affair with the courtesan Cytheris.
Caesar’s master of the horse
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Antony’s role in the campaign against Pompey, including his part in the battle of Pharsalus, is reviewed. Close attention is given to his appointment as magister equituum and the unusual circumstances under which he governed Rome and Italy. Further topics include: Caesar’s conduct of the Alexandrian War and his liaison with Cleopatra, which extended his absence from Italy and reposed greater responsibility on Antony’s administration; confiscation of the properties of Caesar’s enemies; the debt and credit crisis afflicting Rome and Italy; the tribunate of Cornelius Dolabella and his reforms aimed at correcting the debt crisis; the political clash between Antony and Dolabella; Antony’s response to the mutiny of Caesar’s veterans in central Italy; Dolabella’s alleged adultery with Antonia; Antony’s divorce of Antonia and his marriage to Fulvia; Antony’s extensive debts and his exertions in restructuring his finances; the possibility (here rejected) that Antony fell out of favour with Caesar; Antony’s appointment as consul-designate for 44.
Athens to Alexandria
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter reviews the details of Antony’s reorganization of Rome’s eastern empire and his extraction of taxes and tribute in order to compensate the veterans in Italy. Topics include: Antony’s reception in Athens, including honours underlining his descent from Heracles; Antony’s sacred honours in eastern cities, with an emphasis on Ephesus and its invocation of Antony as Dionysus; the role of divine honours and ceremonies as expressions of power and esteem in Hellenistic-style politics and diplomacy; Antony’s financial exactions in the east and the role of the publicani in furnishing immediate funds for Italy; the new political arrangements imposed by Antony on the cities and principalities of the eastern Mediterranean; Antony’s alleged affair with Glaphyra; Antony’s philhellenism; Antony’s involvement in the politics of Judea, including his support of Herod; Antony’s interview with Cleopatra at Tarsus; Antony’s invasion of Palmyra; Antony’s winter in Alexandria with Cleopatra.
Ending
Authors: Tatum W. Jeffrey 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter reviews events in the aftermath of Antony’s death. Topics include: Octavian’s capture of Alexandria; Octavian’s negotiations with Cleopatra; Cleopatra’s suicide; Octavian’s execution of Caesarion and Antyllus; Octavian’s personal domination of Egypt; the acceptance of Antony’s surviving children into Octavia’s household; the importance of Antony’s descendants, including Caligula, Claudius, and Nero, in the imperial household; Antony’s reputation in imperial Rome; speculations regarding Antony’s designs for Rome; Antony’s legacy.
Farm Workers in Mexico
Authors: Martin Philip 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
Who works on Mexican farms? This question is difficult to answer due to incomplete data and an agricultural system that includes both modern farms that export most of what they produce and subsistence farms that barely feed farm families. Up 25,000 Mexican farms employ about 750,000 workers to produce fruits and vegetables that are exported mostly to the United States. These export farms resemble modern farms in Canada and the United States, with college-educated and English-speaking managers who are attuned to food safety requirements in foreign markets. Export farms hire local residents with little education as well as internal migrants, many of whom are from Mexico’s poorer southern states. As periods of employment lengthen in export agriculture, more southern Mexicans are settling near their places of employment in northern Mexico.
Introduction to the Strategic Skills Framework
Authors: Fraser Michael R. , Castrucci Brian C. 
Published: October 2023

Abstract
This chapter introduces the strategic skills framework and the book. Strategic skills are implemented for the successful leadership and management of public health agencies, which combine the academic, strategic, political, and on-the-ground experiential knowledge. While many of the skills are not unique to public health, they are critical to the sustainability of governmental public health organizations at all levels. The book defines nine strategic skills, and the book’s contributors, key leaders from public health practice and academia, provide greater detail on each of the skills and why they are essential for public health practice. Ensuring the adoption of strategic skills and the training necessary to support their development throughout the public health workforce will require a collective effort across the entire training enterprise and governmental public health workforce.
What PH WINS Tells Us about the Interests, Needs, and Satisfaction of the Public Health Workforce
Authors: Sellers Katie , Robins Moriah , Bogaert Kyle 
Published: October 2023

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This chapter provides an overview of the Public Health Workforce Interests and Needs Survey (PH WINS), and what it tells us about the governmental public health workforce, training needs, morale, emerging concepts and priorities, and general workforce data. The first and only nationally representative survey of individual workers in state and local governmental public health agencies, PH WINS provides an unprecedented, vital window into the workforce’s concerns. It aims to help agencies understand strengths, gaps, and opportunities to improve; to inform and guide future workforce research and development, such as recruitment and retention; to identify demographic trends and their workforce implications; to meet the evolving needs of the public, and more. To be effective leaders and managers, public health professionals need to discover what drives their staff, to identify employees’ needs and strengths, and to make those factors align with, or contribute to, the agency’s vision by fostering and developing a positive organizational climate.