The new Phrygian cap: Pussy hats, feminism and anti-fashion

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-62
Author(s):  
Julia Petrov
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Minorities ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Political Accountability ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
The World

The international wave of Women’s Marches in 2017 (and subsequent years) was fuelled by anger about the misogynist tone of the American election (aimed at contender Hillary Clinton) and a sense that the rights of women and sexual minorities were being threatened. In particular, protests were triggered by the newly elected president’s unearthed comments about female genitalia: ‘grab ‘em by the pussy’. Following the instigation of craftivists in California, women around the world donned pink knitted hats with points resembling cat ears, which became known as ‘pussy hats’. This chapter uses examples collected as rapid response collecting after the marches in Edmonton and Calgary (Alberta, Canada) for the Royal Alberta Museum to argue that the pussy hat is an example of anti-fashion in its embrace of anti-consumption, and its role to promote political accountability. The pussy hat, in effect, is the uniform of a feminist political ethics.

Policy Review: Dubai Health Authority’s COVID-19 Rapid Response

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (Special) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
World Health ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Services Delivery ◽  
First Case ◽  
The World

Dubai Health Authority (DHA) is the entity regulating the healthcare sector in the Emirate of Dubai, ensuring high quality and safe healthcare services delivery to the population. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020, indicating to the world that further infection spread is very likely, and alerting countries that they should be ready for possible widespread community transmission. The first case of COVID-19 in the United Arab Emirates was confirmed on 29th of January 2020; since then, the number of cases has continued to grow exponentially. As of 8th of July 2020 (end of the day), 53,045 cases of coronavirus have been confirmed with a death toll of 327 cases. The UAE has conducted over 3,720,000 COVID-19 tests among UAE citizens and residents over the past four months, in line with the government’s plans to strengthen virus screening to contain the spread of COVID-19. There were vital UAE policies, laws, regulations, and decrees that have been announced for immediate implementation to limit the spread of COVID- 19, to prevent panic and to ensure the overall food, nutrition, and well-being are provided. The UAE is amongst the World’s Top 10 for COVID-19 Treatment Efficiency and in the World’s Top 20 for the implementation of COVID-19 Safety measures. The UAE’s mission is to work towards resuming life after COVID-19 and enter into the recovery phases. This policy research paper will discuss the Dubai Health Authority’s rapid response initiatives towards combating the control and spread of COVID-19 and future policy implications and recommendations. The underlying factors and policy options will be discussed in terms of governance, finance, and delivery.

Holding Intergovernmental Institutions to Account

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ngaire Woods
Keyword(s):  
World Bank ◽  
International Institutions ◽  
Political Accountability ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The World ◽  
Internal Accountability ◽  
The Right ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Political Decisions

How can governments and peoples better hold to account international economic institutions, such as the WTO, the World Bank, and the IMF? This article proposes an approach based on public accountability, advocating improvements in four areas: constitutional, political, financial, and internal accountability.The argument for more accountability is made with two caveats: more accountability is not always good–it can be distorting and costly; and, enhancing the accountability of international institutions should not justify increasing their jurisdiction for the sake of reducing the role of national governments. Constitutional accountability poses limits on how the institutions expand their activities, requiring the active consent of all members and particularly those most affected by their activities. Political accountability requires that those who make decisions in the organizations are directly answerable to all member governments and not just to the most powerful ones. The institutions' uneven record and structure of financial accountability is addressed through a model of mutual restraint. Finally, the internal accountability should ensure that technical decisions are distinguishable from political decisions. A better matching of the right kinds of accountability to the activities of the organizations would improve both their effectiveness and legitimacy.

scholarly journals STAMPING OUT ISIS: METAPHORICAL EXPRESSIONS ABOUT TERRORISM IN DONALD TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN SPEECHES

2018 ◽  
pp. 245
Author(s):  
Ivan Stamenković
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Elections ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Campaign Speeches

The 2016 US Presidential Elections brought about one of the fiercest election campaigns so far, ending in a tight victory of Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, over Hillary Clinton, the candidate of the Democrats. The public appearances Trump made at rallies were one of the main tools he used in profiling himself as the new leader of America. In the light of the unstable situation in the world and the frequent terrorist attacks on Western states, Trump’s rhetoric regarding the issue of “Radical Islamic terrorism” was the key factor that propelled him towards victory (Azarian 2016). When he tackled the problem of terrorism, one of the discourse mechanisms that he used in abundance was a set of conceptual metaphors drawn from different spheres of human experience. The aim of this research will be to contribute to the role metaphor plays in discourse by highlighting some of the most salient and frequent metaphors in Trump’s terrorism rhetoric, including the conceptualizations involved and their conceptual implications in discourse.

Panel 2.7: First 30 Days: Organizing Rapid Responses

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 420-422 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natacha Emerson ◽  
Arturo Pesigan ◽  
Lita Sarana ◽  
Nenette Motus ◽  
Dan Buriak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
Rapid Responses ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Key Questions

AbstractThis is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.7, First 30 Days: Organizing Rapid Response of the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed inc included issues related to organizingrapid responses as pertain to the responses to the damage created by the created Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) issues; (2) key questions; and (3) recommendations.

Political Ethics & Pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Javier Luna Orosco Eduardo
Keyword(s):  
Political Behavior ◽  
Functional Relationship ◽  
Political Ethics ◽  
The World ◽  
Social Disaster

A real and functional relationship is established between political behavior and situations of social disaster such as the current pandemic that is shaking the world, with extreme variations in attitude that fluctuate between the cynicism of deceit, violence and the circumstantial advantage in attacking the adversary, up to forms of truly ethical and rational conduct to control the situation. Contradictory forces are then unleashed that disorient the citizenship, provoking various reactions that further complicate the context, with the appearance of new and collateral problems with multiple and difficult solutions, not always well faced by those who govern and have the power to decide.

An Improbable Quest

2018 ◽  
pp. 209-218
Author(s):  
William O. Walker
Keyword(s):  
Global Leadership ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Imagined Community ◽  
American Century ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of

The conclusion revisits the history of Luce’s American Century, surveying how this imagined community never lived up to either his expectations or those of the policymakers who tried but failed to bring the world under American leadership. As the American Century fell into dormancy after 1968, some former officials like Thomas L. Hughes tried to define it in terms Luce would not have recognized. The idea of an American Century largely vanished until the 1990s when neoconservatives revived it in an adulterated form, the Project for the New American Century. Then during Barack Obama’s presidency, Hillary Clinton called for a new American Century to contain China’s ambitions. Subsequently, Donald Trump’s aversion to exerting global leadership likely dashed all such hopes.

Taxonomic review of the genus Orybina Snellen, 1895 (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae), with description of two new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 4303 (4) ◽  
pp. 545
Author(s):  
MUJIE QI ◽  
YONGLING SUN ◽  
HOUHUN LI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
Distribution Map ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Taxonomic Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Two New Species ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae

The taxonomy of the eight species and one subspecies of Orybina in the world are reviewed. Among them, O. puerensis Qi & Li, sp. nov. and O. bellatulla Qi & Li, sp. nov. are described as new to science. Photographs of adults, both male and female genitalia and the distribution map of all the species are provided, along with the keys to the described species. 

scholarly journals Providing uninterrupted care during COVID-19 pandemic: experience from Beijing Tiantan Hospital

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaoyan Wang ◽  
Yu Chen ◽  
Zixiao Li ◽  
David Wang ◽  
Yongjun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Feedback System ◽  
Healthcare Services ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Infection Prevention And Control ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
System A ◽  
Specific Protocol ◽  
Number Of Patients ◽  
The World

BackgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic has already stressed the healthcare system in the world. Many hospitals have been overwhelmed by the large number of patients with COVID-19. Due to the shortage of equipment and personnel and the highly contagious nature of COVID-19, many other healthcare services are on hold. However, at Beijing Tiantan Hospital, a rapid response system has been in place so that routine care is not interrupted. We, therefore, would like to share our hospital-wide prevention and management policy during this pandemic to help other healthcare systems to function in this crisis.MethodTiantan hospital is one of the leading neuroscience institutions in the world. With 1650 beds, its annual inpatient admission exceeds 30 000 patients. Its COVID-19 rapid response policy was reviewed for its functionality.ResultsThere are nine key components of this policy: an incident management system; a comprehensive infection prevention and control, outpatient triage and flow system; a designated fever clinic; patient screening and administration; optimised surgical operations, enhanced nucleic acid testing; screening of returning employees; and a supervision and feedback system. In addition, a specific protocol was designed for treating patients with acute stroke.ConclusionA comprehensive policy is helpful to protect the employee from infection and to provide quality and uninterrupted care to all who need these, including patients with acute ischaemic stroke.

A new species of Orybina Snellen, 1895 from India (Lepidoptera, Pyralidae, Pyralinae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4392 (3) ◽  
pp. 595
Author(s):  
NAVNEET SINGH ◽  
RAHUL RANJAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Male Genitalia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Yellow Spot ◽  
Female Genitalia ◽  
North India ◽  
The World ◽  
Lepidoptera Pyralidae ◽  
A New Species

The genus Orybina Snellen, 1895, a member of tribe Pyralini of the subfamily Pyralinae and family Pyralidae, was established as the objective replacement name for Oryba Walker, 1863. The original genus Oryba was established for its type species Oryba flaviplaga Walker, 1863 (by monotypy) from North Hindostan [North India]. Recently, the genus is reviewed by Qi et al. (2017) with inclusion of eight species and one subspecies in the World: Orybina kobesi Roesler, 1984, Orybina plangonalis (Walker, 1859), Orybina regalis (Leech, 1889), Orybina bellatulla Qi & Li, 2017, Orybina puerensis Qi & Li, 2017, Orybina hoenei Caradja, 1935, Orybina flaviplaga (Walker, 1863), Orybina imperatrix Caradja, 1925 and Orybina flaviplaga kiangsualis Caradja, 1925. The genus can be diagnosed by the rosteriform labial palpi, forewings reddish-brown or saffron, with a yellow spot (except in Orybina bellatulla). In the male genitalia uncus is triangular or tongue-shaped, and valvae are enlarged apically. In the female genitalia, the anterior apophyses and posterior apophyses are short, the ductus bursae usually coiled anteriorly, and the ovate corpus bursae is without signum (Qi et al. 2017). 

Policy response for disadvantaged groups during the COVID-19 pandemic: Vietnam experiences

2021 ◽  
pp. 002087282110179
Author(s):  
Nguyen Tuan Hung ◽  
Vu Thu Trang ◽  
Dang Kim Khanh Ly ◽  
Le Hong Hanh ◽  
Nguyen Xuan Long ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Core Values ◽  
Rapid Response ◽  
Policy Response ◽  
Disadvantaged Groups ◽  
The World

This article aims to describe the Vietnamese Government’s policy response to support disadvantaged groups affected by the COVID-19 pandemic through the relief package. The Vietnamese policy response is characterized by rapid response, priority for disadvantaged groups in communities, social work core values in the policy, openness, and transparency. We hope the experiences from Vietnam could be helpful for similar settings in the world.

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