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On Taking Offence
Authors: McTernan Emily 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This book aims to rehabilitate taking offence. In an era of public criticism of those deemed too easily offended, it is easy to overlook the significance and social value of this emotion. Offence, the book argues, is better understood as a way to defend one’s standing than as a mere expression of hurt feelings. The book defends the significance of offence as one way to resist everyday social inequalities: those details of interactions that, together, pattern social hierarchies. As a result, the defence of offence is of that taken at apparently trivial and small-scale details of social interactions, and so the very form that its opponents find most objectionable. Within societies marred by hierarchies of unequal social standing, and when taken by those who face systematic attributions of lower social standing, an inclination to take offence is a civic virtue. First, this book offers an analysis of offence that depicts a distinctive emotion ripe for moral reappraisal. To take offence resists an affront to one’s social standing and is one way to negotiate the social norms and practices that structure social interactions, often in socially unequal ways. Second, the book defends the significance of our social standing, the cumulative importance of apparently small details of interactions, and offence as an act of insubordination against a social hierarchy. Third, it turns to the limits on when taking offence is justified, addressing jokes, unintentional affronts, disagreement over what counts as offensive, and what we should think of offence that is taken online.
Introduction
Authors: McTernan Emily 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter introduces the book and its defence of offence. These introductory remarks first describe the book’s topic: the distinctive emotion of taking offence. Second, this chapter discusses the background of the book. There is widespread popular criticism of those deemed to take offence too easily. Meanwhile, philosophers are paying increasing attention to the moral emotions, such as anger and resentment, but far less has been said about the social emotions. To take offence over the details of social interactions appears, on the face of it, to be an especially poor candidate for any moral or political defence: why should we care about the small-scale slights and affronts that others offer us? But this book will offer a defence of the significance of details of our social interactions, and the moral and social value of resisting social hierarchies through taking offence, as the introduction explains. An overview of the following chapters is provided.
A corrective civic virtue
Authors: McTernan Emily 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter considers whether people might be not only morally justified in taking offence but also obligated to do so. A disposition to take offence is defended as a civic virtue, against a background of social hierarchies and at least for those who are subjected to systemic social inequality. First, the chapter presents two arguments for offence being a civic virtue: on the grounds of equality and as a derivative virtue of civility. Second, this chapter answers a central challenge to any defence of offence: namely, that the costs imposed on the offending parties are excessive or otherwise indefensible. Third, the case is made that the disposition to take offence would not be too burdensome for the individual who cultivates it.
The Potential of Pain
Authors: Lodewyck Laura A. 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Investigating the work of contemporary American theater that engages military veterans and their families, this chapter addresses specific ways in which theater and performance studies contributes to well-being and may advance (or hinder) human flourishing. It compares how the performance modalities of The Telling Project and Theater of War serve to form understanding and communication with civilian audiences in the process of educating nonmilitary communities and give agency to performers to tell their stories with the support of their peers. Looking at performance-specific contexts, it examines how the interplay between feeling and community reveals the tension between the individual and the collective.
Community Musical Theater as a Human Flourishing Project
Authors: Wolf Stacy 
Published: April 2023

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This chapter analyzes how local community musical theater contributes to well-being. Amateur theater-makers volunteer to participate during their leisure time outside of work and school and homemaking, so they’re intrinsically motivated. Local community theater enables self-efficacy, social integration, and positive life outlook. Using the human flourishing framework constructed by positive psychologists and methods of participant observation and in-depth interviews, the chapter presents the entire theater-making process—from season selection to auditions to early and later rehearsals to performance and beyond—to examine why people, including the director, actors, and technicians, elect to participate in community musical theater and why it matters to them.
Teaching Theater and Detroit History for Undergraduates to Flourish
Authors: Biggs Lisa L. 
Published: April 2023

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This chapter recounts the process of developing and the impact of a community-engaged art project at Michigan State University called After/Life. The theater piece dramatized the experiences of women and girls during the 1967 Detroit rebellion, and was performed in July 2017 in conjunction with citywide efforts to mark and commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the rebellion. The chapter addresses human flourishing by offering the play as an example of a successful effort to build an arts project that was beautiful, moving, respectful, and healing in and with a community that still bore the scars of a traumatic event (the rebellion).
Changing States
Authors: Hurley Erin 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter contends that English-language theater in Quebec has had to innovate other models of community well-being, articulated around mutuality and parallelism, that are specific to their minority-language context. It offers an overview of community vitality frameworks, highlighting their theoretical and concrete intersections with the eudaimonic turn, then focuses on the English-language theater scene in Quebec in the 1970s, a decade bookended by historical events that significantly affect the sector and one that sees a shift in the model of community vitality as the Anglophone population of Quebec comes to experience and organizes itself as a minority.
Refusing to Flourish
Authors: Shanks Gwyneth 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines recent performance artworks by Jennifer Moon and Anat Shinar, arguing that their pieces render the descriptors used to categorize human flourishing legible as dependent upon capitalist logics of self-worth, happiness, pleasure, and labor. Moon and Shinar refuse to flourish, drawing upon the pervasive tropes of the self-help industry to forward their challenge. Moon and Shinar mine the vague, utopic language of self-improvement to radical ends, challenging narratives of individualism and self-advancement. Their performances reveal the ideological and biopolitical imperatives ghosting self-help by rejecting the pervasive tenets of self-actualization and improvement. By translating the “self” discussed within self-help into and onto their bodies, Moon and Shinar reveal how the logics of self-help aim to control the subject as a means of regulating the broader social body.
Cervical Cancer Prevention
Authors: Sundstrom Beth , Delay Cara 
Published: April 2023

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Chapter 1 analyzes the cervical cancer prevention scandals of the early 2000s. In 2015, Ireland saw a misinformation campaign about the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that led to a sharp decline in Irish vaccination levels. Just three years later, Ireland’s CervicalCheck screening program came under scrutiny once it was revealed that it gave hundreds of women incorrect negative screening results, leading to several preventable cancer deaths. However, women and public health advocates publicized and problematized these scandals, forcing a government response and demonstrating the power of truth-telling and ethical communication. They exposed systemic and endemic problems involved in women’s healthcare in Ireland, including overinflating the authority of male doctors and the medical establishment’s history of ignoring women’s experiences and voices.
Contraception
Authors: Sundstrom Beth , Delay Cara 
Published: April 2023

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Chapter 2 examines contraception. It argues that birth control access is one of the most essential issues facing people in Ireland today. Following the lead of activists and social media contributors, this chapter places contraception in conversation with other healthcare issues, notably abortion. It explores how and why those who have advocated for abortion rights in recent years also have prioritized access to contraception by adopting a reproductive justice framework. By dispelling harmful myths, confronting contraceptive ignorance and opposition, and sharing everyday embodied realities, activists and advocates ultimately helped convince the government to budget for free contraception, which is due to be implemented in 2022.
Abortion
Authors: Sundstrom Beth , Delay Cara 
Published: April 2023

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Chapter 3’s analysis of abortion highlights the importance of the Repeal campaign, which in 2018 helped lead to a successful vote overturing the anti-abortion Eighth Amendment to the Irish Constitution. In late 2018, the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Act legalized abortion up to twelve weeks in a pregnancy. The chapter analyzes both the methods and the content of the Repeal movement, demonstrating its global meanings and links as well as how and why it resonated with so many Irish people. It also interrogates the efficacy of social media activism, asking what voices such campaigns featured—and what voices they sometimes obscured. Moving beyond legality to engage with reproductive justice, the chapter also underscores the importance of abortion access, which has remained limited since the 2018 Act, and especially during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Obstetric Violence
Authors: Sundstrom Beth , Delay Cara 
Published: April 2023

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Chapter 6 interrogates two case studies: the forced hysterectomy scandal at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital during the 1990s and the symphysiotomy scandal that became public in the early 2000s. In the second half of the twentieth century, thousands of Irish women endured these harmful procedures at the hands of physicians empowered to abuse women’s bodies. This chapter examines these incidents as examples of obstetric violence. These practices testify to the pervasiveness of religious, national, and biomedical power in Ireland, past and present. The chapter argues that to achieve reproductive justice in Ireland, we must confront obstetric violence, following the lead of survivors who have spoken out and told truths about their embodied realities and the harms they have suffered in Ireland’s medicalized reproductive healthcare system.
The Beginning
Authors: Jaffe Harold W. 
Published: April 2023

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This chapter describes the first cases of what is now known as AIDS, which were reported by Dr. Michael Gottlieb, an immunologist at UCLA Hospital, and published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) on June 5, 1981. Five previously healthy homosexual men from Los Angeles had developed a life-threatening infection, Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP), typically seen only in persons receiving immunosuppressive therapy. A month later, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a second MMWR describing additional homosexual men from California and New York City diagnosed with PCP, other opportunistic infections (OIs), and a rare malignancy, Kaposi’s sarcoma (KS). To respond to this apparent outbreak, CDC formed a multidisciplinary task force and placed it under the direction of Dr. James (Jim) Curran. The KS/OI Task Force was asked to solve this medical mystery.
Working Internationally
Authors: De Cock Kevin M. 
Published: April 2023

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This chapter provides a historical overview of CDC’s increasing involvement in global health. Key developments were ongoing requests for international assistance for public health emergencies and especially CDC’s leading role in the successful eradication of smallpox. An important strategy for CDC was seconding senior staff to WHO and other multilateral organizations, giving the agency increased visibility and influence. Some CDC groups established long-term overseas field collaborations, such as for Lassa fever in Sierra Leone. With recognition of AIDS in the 1980s and its international spread, CDC set up research sites in Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of Congo), Cote d’Ivoire, and Thailand to study the epidemiology, natural history, and prevention of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in different environments and populations. These experiences laid the foundations for subsequent expansion of CDC’s global work, including through the US President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
Jonathan Mann
Authors: De Cock Kevin M. 
Published: April 2023

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This chapter discusses the revolutionary impact of Jonathan Mann on the global response to AIDS. The World Health Organization (WHO) was initially skeptical about the relevance of AIDS to global health. With the growing epidemic, attitudes changed and in 1986 WHO Director General Halfdan Mahler selected Jonathan Mann, director of CDC’s Projet SIDA in Zaire, to lead the organization’s AIDS efforts. Mann’s Global Programme on AIDS (GPA) grew rapidly, and he came to personify the global fight against AIDS. With Mahler’s support Mann bypassed many of WHO’s traditional operating procedures, developing a focus on human rights and health and an emphasis on human solidarity and dignity. Mann clashed with Mahler’s successor Hiroshi Nakajima and resigned in 1990. He moved to Harvard University and founded the François-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center for Health and Human Rights, later pursuing other endeavors. Mann and his wife died in a plane crash in 1998.
Building Better Bailouts
Authors: Schleicher David 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Chapter 8 discusses how the federal government could design bailouts in ways that would encourage greater future fiscal discipline, spread harms across overlapping governments, and balance the downsides of moral hazard, austerity, and harms to the future lending to state and local governments. Suggestions include conditioning the income tax exemption for interest on municipal bonds on states agreeing to adopt generally accepted accounting principles when budgeting; passing changes in securities laws alongside distributions of federal aid; and providing emergency federal fiscal aid to states and cities both, rather than just to states.
Judicial Review and Constitutional Dialogue
Authors: Kim Sungmoon 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter argues that Confucian democratic constitutionalism promotes active constitutional dialogue between the branches of the government, especially between the legislature and the court. Even though the equal right to political participation and the equal right to constitutional protection of rights combine to constitute the normative foundation of Confucian democratic constitutionalism, the latter is derived from the former, giving the dignity of legislation more normative weight than the authority of the court. The equal right to constitutional protection of rights gives the court the power of judicial review, but this power is not absolute. Confucian democratic constitutionalism understands the court as a constitutional institution devoted to a cooperative search for the culturally relevant conception of rights through dialogue with the legislature. Confucian democratic constitutionalism promotes a weak-form judicial review by actively promoting inter-institutional interactions between the legislature and the court toward a cooperative search for “Confucian democratic rights.”
Body, Mind, and Spirit in the Guodian Manuscripts
Authors: Raphals Lisa 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter considers the relation between body and heart–mind as described in the Guodian corpus, especially the text titled “Human Nature Comes from the Mandate” (Xingzi mingchu 性自命出), with particular interest in problems of mind–body dualism and holism. It argues that the Xingzi mingchu presents a weak mind–body dualism, in contrast to such Guodian texts as “Five Kings of Action” (Wuxing 五行) and “Black Robes” (Ziyi 緇衣). The first section of the chapter examines several passages from the Guodian manuscripts that describe relations between body, mind, and emotions as constituents of both humans and animals. These manuscripts make it clear that animals, as well as human beings, have qi, affective dispositions (qing 情), and intentions, but the ability of the heart–mind to interact with qing and intentions is unique to humans. The next section of the chapter takes up Guodian accounts of the constitution of a (human) person, including body or physical person and its relationship to the heart–mind, virtue, and self-cultivation. The last three sections include an extensive discussion of the relation between body and mind in the Xingzi mingchu and Wuxing; a discussion of the strong dualism of ruler–ruled metaphors in the Wuxing and Ziyi; and an examination of a strongly holist view of sound and music in the Xingzi mingchu and elsewhere.
On Marilyn Monroe
Authors: Barrios Richard 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Employing meticulous research and in-depth analysis, this book is an evaluation and celebration of Marilyn Monroe’s most permanent legacy: her work. From her beginnings as a movie bit player to stardom and then legend, she worked harder at her craft than most people were ever aware. Monroe was, in fact, the complete opposite of a “dumb blonde”; instead, she was an intelligent and curious woman who always sought to find truth and validity in her roles. She constantly fought for better material and, despite her well-documented personal demons, strove to be a consummate professional. In films such as Some Like It Hot and The Seven Year Itch, she triumphed over both her detractors and her own massive insecurities. Moving past all the sensation and speculation, this Opinionated Guide takes an informed and lively look at the enduring achievements of this extraordinary artist.
A Fox Blonde
Authors: Barrios Richard 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Monroe began to rise through the cinematic ranks with small film roles and considerable publicity. She appeared in small but flashy roles in three Fox comedies: As Young as You Feel, Love Nest, and Let’s Make It Legal. Although she did not have much screen time, she quickly became a favorite subject for the studio’s publicity department and began appearing in such high-profile magazines as Life and Collier’s. When studio head Darryl Zanuck was slow to provide her with professional opportunities, she became so expert at attracting attention that roles were tailored for her. Her acting in As Young as You Feel, in particular, showed that she was developing increasing skill as a comic performer.
Mining, Maybe
Authors: Spalding Rose J. 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
This chapter examines the mixed conditions that favored stop-and-go mining, wherein permissive policies are followed by moratoria and suspensions before the cycle begins again. This chapter focuses on Guatemala, where gold mining advanced episodically and in the face of repeated protests and legal challenges. Developed by a cohesive pro-mining elite, supported by the business association CACIF, and operating in indigenous territories in violation of the ILO169 requirement of “free, prior, and informed” consultation, mining operations in Guatemala triggered decentralized mobilization, grassroots community referenda, and strategic litigation that intermittently stalled but did not derail the industry. This chapter tackles the complexities of anti-mining organizing in indigenous communities and investigates the circumstances under which consultations and strategic litigation lead to partial victory. While it traces the way an indigenous rights movements fueled a broader movement for community rights, it also demonstrates the tenacious hold of pro-mining elite networks in the context of movement fragmentation and weak institutions.
Mining Skeptics
Authors: Spalding Rose J. 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Chapter 5 takes up the case of Costa Rica, where national-level mobilizing in support of environmental protection led to multisectoral networking in support of mining prohibition. Unlike Nicaragua and Guatemala, where elites were cohesive boosters of mining investment, Costa Rican elites split into opposing camps. This chapter allows us to trace how organized citizens can exert pressures for change when elites fail to form a united front and resisters coordinate effectively. This framework highlights the role of the courts and whistleblowers to show how a mining license granted in violation of environmental regulations may be declared invalid. In the context of deepening elite division, cohesive anti-mining networking, and responsive institutions, the Costa Rican mining debate concluded in 2010 with the unanimous legislative approval of a law prohibiting open pit mining. Adopting the world’s first national mining ban, Costa Rica became a global leader in post-extractivist innovation.
Mining Free
Authors: Spalding Rose J. 
Published: April 2023

Abstract
Chapter 6 turns to El Salvador, a country where democratic institutions routinely fall short and violence levels run high. In spite of its striking differences from Costa Rica, El Salvador also banned mining at the national level. The Salvadoran government maintained a mining moratorium across three administrations, as questions mounted about environmental consequences of gold extraction and state capacity to address them. Following the formation of a national anti-mining network and the direct intervention of El Salvador’s Catholic Church leaders, the legislature unanimously approved a metallic mining ban in 2017. Introducing concepts of water rights, tipping points, punctuated equilibrium, and legislative social cascades, this chapter shows how a cohesive opposition network, in the absence of elite unity, may calibrate strategic openings in electoral contests and legislative debate, and secure a policy outcome that aligns with post-extractivist objectives.
Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists
Authors: Mironova Vera 
Published: April 2023

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Criminals, Nazis, and Islamists: Competition for Powers in Former Soviet Union Prisons examines conflicts and cooperation among inmates in male prisons in the former Soviet Union. It looks at how Vory criminal organization, that began in the 1930s was able to develop rules, norms, and unique criminal ideology to ensure their monopoly in prison internal governance. In particular this book discusses the organization of inmates life inside prisons and how vory criminal organization governs it. Being not only able to establish control over inmates, vory criminal organization also successfully stood up against prison authorities to make inmates life behind bars as comfortable as possible and as a consequence ensure its own survival in power. So this book also discusses how vory criminal organization in prison uses different methods, from strikes to bloody riots, to put pressure on prison leadership. With the fall of Soviet Union in 1990s and a following commercialization of criminal organization, vory started loosing their grip on prisons. So this book also reviews how Islamists and neo-Nazis, other major organizations behind bars across the former Soviet Union, are currently challenging vory criminal organization and what happens when they take power inside particular prisons and have to govern themselves.