Counteracting Challenges to Gender Equality in the Era of Anti-Gender Campaigns: Competing Gender Knowledges and Affective Solidarity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elżbieta Korolczuk
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Gender Equality ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
The Core ◽  
Epistemic Strategies ◽  
Gender Knowledge ◽  
Legal Expertise

Abstract This article focuses on the epistemic strategies employed by ultraconservative movements to oppose women’s reproductive rights and the ways in which the women’s movement counteracts these efforts. The core argument is that nowadays the opponents of gender equality and sexual democracy are seeking not only political but also epistemic power, producing a new body of gender knowledge. A detailed analysis of the struggles around the 2016 Stop Abortion bill in Poland shows, however, that the women’s movement can counteract these challenges by mobilizing not only medical and legal expertise, but also tacit knowledge and affects.

scholarly journals The Core of Resistance: Recognising Intersectional Struggle in the Kurdish Women’s Movement

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 479-500
Author(s):  
Bruna Ferreira ◽  
Vinícius Santiago
Keyword(s):  
Armed Conflict ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Political Community ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Core ◽  
Political Project ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Modern Imaginary ◽  
Modern Nation State

Abstract The paper addresses the women’s movement in the Northern Syrian region known by Kurds as Rojava, a movement whose central role in building an autonomous political project has its roots in the Kurdish nationalist struggle, specifically that organised by the Kurdish Worker’s Party, also known as the PKK, in Turkey. This study brings to the fore reflections on the power relations that cross the struggle carried out by these women, who, for their part, are crossed by the intersection of gender, ethnicity and class, which feeds and composes the critical praxis of this organised struggle. The Kurdish women’s political path is approached through the contradictions and ambiguities they encounter when they face the challenge of becoming aware of their own place in a political project, which at first had a nationalist character and is now beginning to gain new contours. The presence of the female figure in a political context of armed conflict endows these women with the role of challenging the boundaries on which the foundational elements of international politics rely, namely, the boundary between public and private spheres and gender roles played socially and politically. The Kurdish women’s movement in Rojava disturbs the foundational boundaries of the modern nation-state alongside the hegemonic constructions of masculinity and femininity, and the militarised character of politics, which are constitutive of the modern imaginary of political community.

Graph analytics and visualization for cyber situational understanding

2021 ◽  
pp. 154851292110513
Author(s):  
Steven Noel ◽  
Stephen Purdy ◽  
Annie O’Rourke ◽  
Edward Overly ◽  
Brianna Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Query Language ◽  
Software Components ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Graph Analytics ◽  
The Core ◽  
Interactive Visualizations ◽  
Graph Queries

This paper describes the Cyber Situational Understanding (Cyber SU) Proof of Concept (CySUP) software system for exploring advanced Cyber SU capabilities. CySUP distills complex interrelationships among cyberspace entities to provide the “so what” of cyber events for tactical operations. It combines a variety of software components to build an end-to-end pipeline for live data ingest that populates a graph knowledge base, with query-driven exploratory analysis and interactive visualizations. CySUP integrates with the core infrastructure environment supporting command posts to provide a cyber overlay onto a common operating picture oriented to tactical commanders. It also supports detailed analysis of cyberspace entities and relationships driven by ad hoc graph queries, including the conversion of natural language inquiries to formal query language. To help assess its Cyber SU capabilities, CySUP leverages automated cyber adversary emulation to carry out controlled cyberattack campaigns that impact elements of tactical missions.

The Long-Term Struggle for Violence against Women Legislation: The Guatemalan Women's Movement and the Politics of Patience

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-34
Author(s):  
Erin Beck
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Violence Against Women ◽  
Women's Movement ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Women's Movements ◽  
Social Mobilization ◽  
History Of ◽  
Term Analysis ◽  
Over Time

Abstract A scholarly consensus depicts strong, autonomous domestic women's movements as critical for the passage of gender equality reforms, alongside openings in domestic and international political contexts. What, then, is a nascent women's movement seeking gender equality reforms to do if it lacks strength or a history of autonomous organizing? A long-term analysis of the Guatemalan women's movement's push for reforms to address violence against women demonstrates that one potential road forward is through a “politics of patience,” rooted in the pursuit of cumulative, incremental victories. Adopting a politics of patience allows nascent domestic movements in developing and post-transition contexts to achieve incremental victories that create future political openings while simultaneously building movement strength and autonomy over time. This finding highlights the temporal and strategic power of women's movements, as well as the iterative and potentially reinforcing nature of social mobilization and political reform.

Engaging with Śrīvaiṣṇavas

2021 ◽  
pp. 117-173
Author(s):  
Jonathan Duquette
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The Core

This chapter pursues the analysis of Appaya’s Śivādvaita works with a special focus on his engagement with the Śrīvaiṣṇava tradition of Viśiṣṭādvaita Vedānta. It examines a number of arguments and strategies Appaya employs to criticize Rāmānuja’s theology and his reading of the Brahmasūtras, and thereby establish Śrīkaṇṭha’s theology as the superior system. It sums up the content of two key works of Śivādvaita Vedānta—the Ānandalaharī and the Śivādvaitanirṇaya—and also pays attention to a little-studied work of Śivādvaita Vedānta, the Ratnatrayaparīkṣā, a short devotional hymn with self-authored commentary in which Appaya encapsulates his original vision of Śrīkaṇṭha’s ‘esoteric’ theology. It features a detailed analysis of Appaya’s response to the doctrine of aikaśāstrya, one of the core doctrines developed by Sudarśanasūri, a late thirteenth-century scholar who may well have been Appaya’s nemesis. The chapter concludes with an examination of Appaya’s critical take on Pāñcarātra, a key source of Śrīvaiṣṇava theology.

scholarly journals Tourism and Trust: Theoretical Reflections

2020 ◽  
pp. 004728752096117
Author(s):  
Allan M. Williams ◽  
Vladimír Baláž
Keyword(s):  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Core ◽  
Future Research Agenda ◽  
The Relationship

Tourism researchers have increasingly, but selectively and uncritically, engaged with the notion of trust. This study therefore aims to provide a stronger theoretical foundation for understanding tourism-related trust, starting from consideration of uncertainty and the nature of tacit knowledge. The relationship between displacement and uncertainty is at the core of the distinctiveness of trust in tourism, highlighting the importance of institutions, but also recognizing the diversity of tourism contexts. Three disciplinary perspectives on trust are considered: economics, psychology, and sociology. After outlining their general characteristics in relation to McKnight and Chervany’s typology of trust, we review their application in tourism, and conclude by identifying a future research agenda to address the distinctive characteristics of trust in tourism.

The Fuel of Scientific Progress

Black Boxes ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 215-249
Author(s):  
Marco J. Nathan
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of Science ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Scientific Progress ◽  
Main Stage ◽  
General Characterization ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cumulative Model ◽  
New Millennium

This chapter addresses a classic topic: the advancement of science. In the wake of Kuhn’s groundbreaking work, positivist philosophy of science was replaced by a more realistic and historically informed depiction of science. However, over half a century has now passed since the publication of Structure. Despite valiant attempts, we still lack a fully developed, viable replacement for the cumulative model presupposed by positivism. At the dawn of the new millennium, mainstream philosophy eventually abandoned the project of developing a grand, overarching account of science. The quest for generality was traded in for a more detailed analysis of particular disciplines and practices. The goal of this chapter is to show how the black-boxing strategy can offer a revamped formulation of scientific progress, an important topic that lies at the core of any general characterization of science, and bring it back on the philosophical main stage, where it legitimately belongs.

Politics, Religion and Gender Equality in Contemporary Mexico: women's sexuality and reproductive rights in a contested secular state

2010 ◽  
Vol 31 (6) ◽  
pp. 989-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Amuchástegui ◽  
Guadalupe Cruz ◽  
Evelyn Aldaz ◽  
María Consuelo Mejía
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Reproductive Rights ◽  
Women's Sexuality ◽  
Women’S Sexuality ◽  
Religion And Gender ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Secular State
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