One Small Step to Protect Human Heritage in Space Act as One Small Step Towards U.S. Space Dominance? The Case for a Multilateral Treaty Protection Regime

Patterns of linguistic and interactional behavior by people at the very end of their lives are not well described, partly because data is difficult to obtain. This paper analyzes descriptions of 486 deaths gathered from 1900 to 1904 in the first-ever clinical study of dying by noted Canadian physician, Sir William Osler. Only 16 patients were noted speaking, and only four canonical last words were reported. The most frequent observation by medical staff was that the deaths were quiet ( n = 30), though range of other behaviors were noted (e.g., moaning, delirium, seeming intention to speak). Osler's problematic study left behind data whose analysis is a small step toward empirically characterizing the linguistic and interactional details of a previously under-described phenomena as well as the importance of the social context in which they occur.

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The Backlash Against Neoliberal Globalization from Above: Elite Origins of the Crisis of the New Constitutionalism

Theory Culture & Society ◽

10.1177/0263276421999440 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 026327642199944

Author(s):

Quinn Slobodian

Keyword(s):

Free Trade ◽

Steel Industry ◽

Status Quo ◽

Current Crisis ◽

Neoliberal Globalization ◽

Corporate Elite ◽

The Us ◽

The Status ◽

Trade War ◽

Multilateral Treaty

This article recounts the backlash against the neoliberal constitutionalism that locked in free trade and capital rights through the multilateral treaty organizations of the 1990s. It argues that we can find important forces in the disruption of the status quo among the elite losers of the 1990s settlement. Undercut by competition from China, the US steel industry, in particular, became a vocal opponent of unconditional free trade and a red thread linking all of Trump’s primary advisers on matters of trade. Steel lobbyists themselves helped frame a critique of actually existing neoliberal globalism, which Trump both adopted and acted on as part of his trade war. By searching for the contemporary attack on neoliberal constitutionalism among the disgruntled corporate elite, we find that our current crisis must be framed as a backlash from above as well as one from below.

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