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Major economic policy shifts owing mainly to political considerations, 1945-89.

How the Politics of the Welfare State Shapes our Health -- The Canadian Welfare State and Public Policy -- The Canadian Welfare State and the Health of Canadians -- Promoting the Health of Canadians within the Liberal Welfare State -- Moving Toward the Future.

The impossible of the sovereign : governmentality and liberalism -- Body factories : Foucault, Marx -- The politics of the governed : governmentality, forms of life, subjectivation -- Koinonikon zôon : stoics and the other modernity -- "Phantasiebildern"/"histoire fiction" : Weber, Foucault -- The courage of truth : parrhesia and critique.

"This book focuses on elite disability sport in China in the context of history, politics, policies and practice from 1979 to 2012. It examines the relationship between athletes with disabilities and the three major disability games: the Paralympic Games, the Special Olympic Games and the Deaflympic Games. Three key questions are asked: What policies have ensured the success of elite disability sport? How do the elite sport system and management of elite disability sport work in China? In what way has elite disability sport empowered athletes with disabilities in China? The book includes a comprehensive literature review on the historical development of disability sport in China and beyond. Functionalism and empowerment are the major theoretical backgrounds for the research. The former analyses the function of elite sport policies, systems and other factors occurring during the process, whilst the latter examines the relationship of empowerment between elite disability sport and athletes in China. The three major disability competitions are used as case studies. The book concludes by indicating some potential future directions for further research"--

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Preface to the Paperback Edition (1973) -- Preface (1971) -- Acknowledgements -- The Price of Being Americanized -- INTRODUCTION: ETHNIC ASSERTION IN THE SEVENTIES -- 1. The Seventies: Decade of the Ethnics -- PART I: YOU CAN'T GO HOME AGAIN -- 2. Confessions of a White Ethnic -- 3. The Nordic Jungle: Inferiority in America -- 4. Spiro T. Anagnostopoulos: Remembrance of Humiliations Past -- PART II: THE INTELLECTUALS AND THE PEOPLE -- 5. The Intellectuals of the Northeast -- 6. The Concept of the Avant-Garde -- 7. Jewish and Catholic -- 8. Authentic? Authoritarian? -- PART III: THE NEW ETHNIC POLITICS -- 9. Political Dreams for Every Finger of My Hand -- 10. The Ethnic Democratic Party -- PART IV: ETHNICITY IN THE SEVENTIES AND BEYOND -- 11. The New Ethnicity -- 12. Pluralism: A Humanistic Perspective -- 13. Ethnicity and Cultural Diversity -- 14. How American Are You If Your Grandparents Came From Slovakia in 1888? -- 15. One Species, Many Cultures -- 16. The Social World of Individuals -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Although the technical and psychological accuracy of the polygraph has been contested almost since the device's inception, it continues to enjoy substantial popularity within law enforcement and federal agencies throughout North America. This paper excavates the sexual politics of the polygraph focused on two key arenas where the polygraph has been a popular and powerful tool: identifying LGBTQ applicants and employees within federal agencies and determining parole for convicted sex offenders. Key questions guiding this analysis include the following: What are the relationships between the polygraph and disciplining sexual deviance? How does the polygraph fit within a larger history of surveilling and controlling sexual alterity? Drawing on theories of affect and spectacle, the paper unravels the polygraph's role as an accomplice to state-sanctioned projects of heteronormativity. Through analysis of training materials, practitioner memoirs, and policy guidelines, the polygraph is situated as an early precursor to surveillance infrastructure that attempts to identify, manage, and predict deviant sexuality.

The Anthropocene thesis makes it necessary for the social sciences to engage with temporality in novel ways. The Anthropocene highlights interconnections between 'natural' and 'social' non-linear temporal processes. However, accounts of humanity's Anthropocene history often reproduce linear, progressive narratives of human development. This forecloses the possibilities that thinking with non-linear temporalities would offer to the political sciences. Engaging with the temporal complexity of the Anthropocene as a moment of rupture that highlights non-linearity allows to acknowledge more fully the affective impact of living on a disrupted planet. As a discourse about temporal rupture, the Anthropocene is a stocktaking of the already vast insecurities and losses brought about by exploitative relationships with earth and its inhabitants. In this form, the Anthropocene thesis highlights how material and social legacies of inequality and exploitation shape our present and delimit our imaginaries of the future. By including a reckoning of violent pasts into future practices, a productive politics of mourning could take shape.

This paper examines the writings of one of the most influential political philosophers of our time Hannah Arendt. It focuses especially on her views regarding "The Crisis in Education", where she asserts that "education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it and by the same token save it from that ruin which, except for renewal, except for the coming of the new and young, would be inevitable. Hannah Arendt's work points towards how we can fall short in our responsibility for, and love of, the world, and for that, education can become complicit in the erosion of a vibrant and robust public realm, the realm of politics. So education should aim at preparing the child for this challenge. In this regard, Arendt's work takes on a prophetic character, because it denounces a process of alienation in respect to a world that is still ongoing in the field of education.

We start from the premise that the content of political competition is regularly remade by shifting contexts and by the strategic activity of political actors including parties. But while there are naturally thousands of potential issues on which politics can be contested, there are in practice and for good reasons ways in which structure and limits come to reduce the competition to more cognitively manageable and regularized divisions – in short, to issue dimensions. It is highly timely to return to these questions since, we argue, the social, political and economic turbulence of recent years raises the possibility that the ideological structure to how parties present themselves to voters may be radically shifting. The papers in this special issue, therefore, each tackle an important aspect of the shifting character of the issues that underlie party competition in various European settings. In this article, we provide an overview of the relevant 'state-of-the-art' on issue dimensionality and how the subject is situated within the broad framework of understanding party competition.

Language, for its fictitious narrative as original and superior, works with a series of mechanisms that regulate its use. Its implementation is the result of a whole series of colonial violences, designating places and corners to specific bodies within the social field, a matrix of phonetic, visual and somatic order. What means do we have to create disorder within language? How can we mutate and twist it? Let's look at two strategies. The first will be to look at queer politics, a body generating political tension within majority systems, demonstrating what minority groups are capable of. The second will be to demonstrate how cyborg feminism can enable us to imagine and express new and alternative stories, creating resistance against the medical narrative and the disease as a stigma, specifically homosexuals infected with HIV/AIDS. Finally, artist and writer Pedro Lemebel will be the combining component for both strategies, we will look at his book Chronicles of the Sidario (1996), where he exposes how sexual minorities in Chile have formed resistances.

The last decade has witnessed a global explosion of immigrant protests, political mobilizations by irregular migrants and pro-migrant activists. This volume considers the implications of these struggles for critical understandings of citizenship and borders. Scholars, visual and performance artists, and activists explore the ways in which political activism, art, and popular culture can work to challenge the multiple forms of discrimination and injustice faced by "illegal" and displaced peoples. They focus on a wide range of topics, including desire and neo-colonial violence in film, visibility and representation, pedagogical function of protest, and the role of the arts and artists in the explosion of political protests that challenge the precarious nature of migrant life in the Global North. They also examine shifting practices of boundary making and boundary taking, changing meanings and lived experiences of citizenship, arguing for a noborder politics enacted through a "noborder scholarship. " ; Open Access version supported by Knowledge Unlatched. ; VoR ; SUNY Press ; N/A

The work of Max Weber (1947) on "traditional authority" forms the basis for a theoretical analysis of resource allocation decisions in radical-product innovative organizations. Decisions to support particular projects must be made on arational criteria, because radical product innovation destroys existing competencies and is not subject to economic calculation. The limitations of both bureaucratic and charismatic models of the political processes governing this kind of innovation in large organizations are described. This is followed by a discussion of the traditional practices of selling offices, favoritism toward fellow kinsmen, and nonmerit evaluation criteria in the allocation of resources to innovative projects. The politics of innovative units is better characterized by reference to medieval structures of palace favorites, liege lordship, and fiefdoms, rather than to more familiar bureaucratic concepts. The argument concludes with a discussion of both the theoretical implications and the advantages and disadvantages of traditional approaches to the allocation of resources for radical product innovation. © 1990.