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When finally U.S. political archives are reviewed comprehensively and definitively, one confusing point will still linger unresolved: were the artisans of politics crafting policy in response to visions of a public or a private interest? Portz and Eisinger's comparative analysis of state economic development efforts, with hopes pegged on biotechnology, grapples with that distinction at least by implication. Their instructive article needs revisiting - - and their useful findings and conclusions need follow-up research — because there is logical reason to fear that the strategic planning process is no more or less directed toward the public interest than is private interest advocacy.

Drawing on ethnographic data from the mid-2000s as well as accounts from French Jewish newspapers and magazines from the 1980s on, this paper traces the emergence of new French Jewish institutional narratives linking North African Jews to the "European" Holocaust. I argue that these new narratives emerged as a response to the social and political impasses produced by intra-Jewish disagreements over whether and how North African Jews could talk about the Holocaust, disagreements that divided French Jews and threatened the relationship between Jewishness and French national identity. These new narratives relied on a very different historicity—or way of reckoning time and causality—than those used in more divisive everyday French Jewish Holocaust narratives. And by reworking the ways that French Jews reckoned time and causality, these pedagogical narratives offered an expansive and homogenously "European" Jewishness. This argument works against a growing post-colonial sociological and anthropological literature on religious minorities in France and Europe by emphasizing the contingency, difficulty, and even ambivalence around constructing "Jewishness" as transparently either "European" or "French." In addition, it highlights the role that historicity—not just history—plays in producing what might count as group "identity."

In a discussion of the "politics of novelty," it is asserted that "new Left" critiques of political economy have adopted neoliberalism's representation of the market being guided by an "invisible hand." An overview of developments in the Left since the 1960s illustrates how the downfall of "really existing socialism" during the late 1980s contributed to the abandonment of Karl Marx's negative critique. Moreover, a review of contemporary scholarship, especially Ulrich Beck's (1992) notion of risk society, demonstrates how Marx's negative critique has been replaced by the notion of totality; such scholarship fails to scrutinize the social & historical constitution of the notion of totality. Three developments present in new left literature since the mid-1970s are identified, including the inability of Marxist thought to analyze certain phenomena. It is concluded that Marxist scholarship since the 1960s has been "fashion-driven" & has relinquished its authority to the academic industry. 6 References. J. W. Parker

Brazil has faced a health, economic, and political crisis related to the Covid 19 pandemic since mid-March 2020. From that period onwards an opposition towards governmental initiatives for closing trade, industry, churches and services broke out in several states, initiating a public debate on the effectiveness of social isolation in dealing with the pandemic. Since the beginning of the pandemic, evangelical churches, the second largest religious group in the country, have raised numerous controversies over their political alliance with the government of President Jair Bolsonaro, in opposition to the sanitary measures of social distance and closing of religious temples; calling for the recognition of religions as "essential services" by the State. Such controversies became even more acute when Bolsonaro began to openly defend the use of chloroquine in the prophylactic treatment of Covid-19, denouncing social isolation measures as part of a plot against his government. This article is an analysis of the intersections between religion, politics, and health, presenting public positions of pastors, bishops, and other Pentecostal leaders regarding the policies dealing with the epidemic. More than classifying these conducts simply as forms of denial of science, we see here the case of religious incursion into the academic field and an appropriation of the scientific vocabulary with the attempt to usurp the legitimate discourse. When thinking about how the circulation of this knowledge is entangled with political and religious debates, our final objective is to analyze how such processes reinterpret the relationship between religion and science, as well as the relationship between religion and the Nation State.

While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists? widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe?and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North?Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics. Art historian T. J. Demos, author of Return to the Postcolony: Specters of Colonialism in Contemporary Art (2013), considers the creative proposals of artists and activists for ways of life that bring together ecological sustainability, climate justice, and radical democracy, at a time when such creative proposals are urgently needed

The roles of politics & wealth as determinants of public policy have been misconceived theoretically & misspecified empirically. Politics & wealth should be regarded not as sufficient causes of policy differences, but as facilitators or inhibitors of the extent to which preferences become policy. A general model for analysis based on this approach is formulated. 3 Figures. Modified HA.

What does it mean to reckon with a contaminated world? In Unmaking the Bomb, Shannon Cram considers the complex social politics of this question and the regulatory infrastructures designed to answer it. Blending history, ethnography, and memoir, she investigates remediation efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, a former weapons complex in Washington State. Home to the majority of the nation's high-level nuclear waste and its largest environmental cleanup, Hanford is tasked with managing toxic materials that will long outlast the United States and its institutional capacities. Cram examines the embodied uncertainties and structural impossibilities integral to that endeavor. In particular, this lyrical book engages in a kind of narrative contamination, toggling back and forth between cleanup's administrative frames and the stories that overspill them. It spends time with the statistical people that inhabit cleanup's metrics and models and the nonstatistical people that live with their effects. And, in the process, it explores the uneven social relations that make toxicity a normative condition

Von Moses Mendelssohn bis Doron Rabinovici, von Henriette Herz bis Barbara Honigmann. Das Lexikon stellt 310 jüdische Autorinnen und Autoren deutscher Sprache vor von der Aufklärung bis in die Gegenwart. Bei der Einordnung der Autoren in die deutsch-jüdische Literatur gilt das Augenmerk der jeweiligen Standortbestimmung des eigenen Schreibens. Andreas B. Kilcher, Professor für Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft, ETH Zürich

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Tracing the Ethical Turn -- Chapter one Crafting a Democratic Subject? -- Chapter two Levinasian Ethics, Charity, and Democracy -- Chapter three The Democratic Ethics of Care for Worldly Things -- Chapter Four Partisanship for the World -- Epilogue Self/Other/World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index