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This book provides an interpretation of the late nineteenth-century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche as holding a distinct and original metaethical position, which is to say a theory about our practice of ethics. Rowe uses this interpretation to provide some interesting and thought-provoking criticisms of themes in contemporary metaethics.

The democratization process in Rwanda has long been characterized by ethnic politics, punctuated by the 1993 genocide. The country's perennial efforts to venture into democratic governance via electoral practice appear to be pre-empted by the exclusionist and zero-sum nature of ethnic politics, especially in deeply divided societies. This paper sets out to analyse the nature of the 2003 presidential and parliamentary elections. While doing so, the article attempts to address two crucial concerns: 1) what was the impact of ethnic politics on the electoral process and results and 2) did these elections contribute to the democratization process in Rwanda? The article will argue that these elections did little to overcome ethnic political dynamics and only modestly advanced the democratization ethos. While the process and outcome were deemed 'acceptable' and a 'first step in the right direction', the exercise highlighted a number of challenges which the article attempts to analyse. (Ethnopolitics)

Intro -- Title Page -- Foreword -- Preface -- One: Born of Mary -- Two: Miracle Worker -- Three: Teacher of Love for God and Neighbor -- Four: Proclaimer of the Kingdom of God -- Five: Jesus, Word and Spirit of God -- Six: Jesus Son of Mary, Son of Man -- Seven: Son of God -- Eight: Jesus Messiah and Redeemer -- Nine: Raised from Death -- Ten: Returning in Power -- Bibliography.

AbstractThis article explores the promise of an archipelagic analytic for transgender studies through an interpretive investigation of a beauty pageant in the Philippines. Drawing on transgender studies scholarship and the emergent field of archipelagic studies, this article traces how the pageant underwent a series of archipelagic turns when the slate of candidates shifted from representing nations to representing islands, provinces, and regions across the Philippine archipelago. This turn, the author argues, displaced the centrality of the nation and put forward a translocal and translingual focus that centered islandness and island-island relations as the primary categories of embodiment and performance. In the conclusion, this article argues more broadly that transgender studies, with its discontiguous and decentered character, can also be characterized in archipelagic terms. Taken together, this article adds a new heuristic to transgender studies scholarship, while also including transgender in the growing corpus of work in archipelagic American studies that challenges "continental exceptionalism."

Emmanuel David on contemporary artist Cassils's embodied struggle and trans politics.

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This article examines the production of new regimes of transgender value and visibility. First, it explores the cultural commodification of transgender by exploring the rise of transgender-specific products and consumer markets. Second, it examines the counterpart of trans consumption—trans production—and investigates the emergence of trans-specific labor power and all-trans groups of workers. Third, it offers a critique of trans economic empowerment strategies that have drawn on freelance economies, independent contractors, trans class aspirations, and the global restructuring of work, in efforts to address issues of trans un/der/employment. The article argues that such strategies bolster precarious work conditions and economic insecurities and unwittingly contribute to economic imperialism. Taken together, this article examines links between transgender issues and flows of capital within neoliberal markets.

This article examines state and corporate discourses that portray outsourced call center workers as bagong bayani, or "new national heroes" of the Philippines. Through a queer reading of state narratives and corporate advertisements that deploy these rhetorical devices, I argue that the new national heroes trope functions ideologically to praise, cultivate, and broker flexible Filipino labor while seeking to quell a host of moral anxieties about gender, sexuality, and globalization. I argue that the naming of outsourced laborers as new national heroes extends the logic of the labor brokerage process that, to date, has been theorized in the context of global migration. The essay charts this shift by looking at the manufacturing of idealized outsourced laborers as well as the neoliberal incorporation of queer and transgender subjects, and others on the margins of the global South, into the logics of capital. At the same time, it examines how call center work has become one site for the articulation of, and struggle over, respectable queer and transgender subjectivities.

Existing research on gender and disaster has examined how women with limited socio-economic resources organize to manage risk and to engage in disaster-related response and recovery activities. However, as Enarson, Fothergill, and Peek (2007) have argued, "in-depth class analysis is still relatively rare in gender-focused disaster research." Drawing on an ethnographic case study of a women's group that self-organized following Hurricane Katrina, the author examines how affluent, philanthropic women mobilized social, economic, and cultural resources to respond to catastrophe and to engage in community-based recovery efforts. The author applies the concept of an "elite-sustained movement" (Taylor 1994) to understand how elite women mobilize socio-economic resources to respond to disaster and how resources at elite members' reach contribute to the group's continuance across phases of the disaster cycle. The author concludes with a theoretical and methodological discussion of "studying up" on relations of power in disaster.