Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions at Ten Years: Reflections on a Movement on the Rise

2015 ◽  
Vol 67 (2) ◽  
pp. 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Max Ajl
Keyword(s):  
Index Volume ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
The Real ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Real Target

<div class="bookreview">Rich Wiles, editor, <em>Generation Palestine</em> (London: Pluto Press, 2013), 256 pages, $24, paperback.</div>When in March 2012, Barack Obama paused briefly from approving orders for drone killings of Pakistani and Yemeni villagers, in order to reassure the attendees at the annual gala of the AIPAC (American-Israel Public Affairs Committee) that, "when there are efforts to boycott or divest from Israel, we will stand against them," the real target of his declaration was elsewhere: the myriad grassroots organizers across the world who have made the global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns unignorable. Their mounting influence has provoked efforts to declare them anti-Semitic or illegal from London to Long Beach. In fact, the series of victories across the University of California system has so annoyed its managers that they have hauled in the Caesar of domestic repression, Janet Napolitano, to deal with campus activists. Obama's declaration of support for Israeli colonialism had a simple message to those many activists: back down, because Washington will not.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-2" title="Vol. 67, No. 2: June 2015" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

scholarly journals Complete Proceedings - Single PDF Download

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (8) ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
J. W. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Research ◽  
Coastal Engineering ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Professional Experience ◽  
Long Beach ◽  
Late Professor ◽  
Technical Work ◽  
Wave Research ◽  
The University

For the information of those attending their first Congress on Coastal Engineering, I should explain briefly the functions and organization of the Council on Wave Research. The first of these Congresses was held in Long Beach, California, in 1950 under the auspices of the University of California. There was at that time no permanent organization with the responsibility for focusing attention on this area of scientific and technical work or for arranging subsequent meetings. At the suggestion of the late Professor Boris A. Bakhmeteff, the Engineering Foundation, an agency of the American engineering societies, formed the Council on Wave Research to promote research in the sciences related to coastal engineering and to hold occasional congresses and conferences for the purpose of making the results of both scientific research and professional experience available to practicing engineers .

Shirley Winifred Jeffrey 1930–2014

2016 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon W. Wright ◽  
Gustaaf M. Hallegraeff ◽  
R. Fauzi C. Mantoura
Keyword(s):  
Medical School ◽  
Food Supply ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Hospital Medical School ◽  
Master's Degrees ◽  
King's College ◽  
Research Organisation ◽  
The World ◽  
Oceanographic Research ◽  
The University

Australian scientist Shirley Jeffrey was a pioneer in oceanographic research, identifying the thentheoretical chlorophyll c, and was a worldwide leader in the application of pigment methods in quantifying phytoplankton as the foundation of the oceanic food supply. Her research paved the way for the successful application of microalgae in aquaculture around the world. Jeffrey earned bachelor's and master's degrees at University of Sydney, majoring in microbiology and biochemistry, followed by a PhD from the King's College London Hospital Medical School. Returning to Sydney, she was hired by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) to research chlorophyll c. Following this successful effort, she became a research fellow at the University of California, Berkeley from 1962 to 1964. She then became affiliated with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research. After a 1973 sabbatical at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego, she returned to CSIRO, where she spent the rest of her career.

Using Stanislavsky's Toolkit for Shakespeare's Richard III, Part II: Research on the Self in the Play

2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Author(s):  
Bella Merlin
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Female Characters ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Professional Career ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The World ◽  
The University ◽  
Shakespeare And Company ◽  
Consequences Of Violence

An actor's training continues throughout his/her professional career, yet they rarely have the time or inclination to write in detail about their processes, when building a character, to provide documents for inquisitive peers. In this two-part article, Bella Merlin articulates the discoveries made playing Margaret in Richard III at the Colorado Shakespeare Festival in Summer 2012, directed by internationally acclaimed actor-director Tina Packer (co-founder of Shakespeare and Company with Kristin Linklater in 1978). Merlin highlights how the shift from teacher to actor reactivates the ‘willing vulnerability’ that she demands of her own students. She focuses on Stanislavsky's three avenues of research: on the playtext; on the world of the play and playwright; and on the self. There can be resistance by some theatre practitioners to the application of Stanislavsky's tools to Shakespeare's texts, often due to a perceived over-psychologizing. In these articles Merlin challenges some of these resistances. She demonstrates that Packer's insistence on connecting voice with thought to release the imagination implicitly harnesses Shakespeare's structure with Stanislavsky's underpinnings. Packer also lays emphasis on contemporary resonance, freeing the natural voice, and the significance of Shakespeare's female characters in Richard III for awakening an audience to the consequences of violence. The journey is unsettlingly personal and startlingly global. In Part I, in NTQ 113, Merlin addressed research on the text and research on the play, drawing upon history, biography, accounts of grief, and chilling footage of the Rwandan genocide. In Part II, which follows, she uses the immediacy of a rehearsal journal to address research on the self. Bella Merlin is an actor, writer, and actor-trainer. Acting includes seasons at the National Theatre with Max Stafford-Clark's Out of Joint Company. Publications include The Complete Stanislavsky Toolkit (2007) and Acting: the Basics (2010). She is currently Professor of Acting at the University of California, Davis.

scholarly journals Pedagogy Is a Messy Affair: A Performative Narrative of Being New

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-98
Author(s):  
Marguerite Müller ◽  
Frans Kruger ◽  
Nthabiseng Lekoala ◽  
Nthabiseng Mokoena
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Free State ◽  
Performative Writing ◽  
Narrative Space ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World ◽  
Human World ◽  
The University

This article uses performative writing to explore the pedagogical entanglement of staff, students, and matter at the University of the Free State, South Africa. It is a collaborative narrative in which different voices share the textual stage. Each author contributes to one of the voices to create a performative narrative of how our experiences occur and emerge in this messy, complex, and volatile context. Our story sketches the backgrounds, in-between spaces, and “negative spaces” that pedagogy produces as relational encounters between human and the more-than-human world. We abandon the world of the real and move into a creative collaborative performative narrative space to explore the entanglements that pedagogies produce.

scholarly journals Foreign Policy in the Real World: The Obama Years

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (55) ◽  
pp. 100-103
Author(s):  
Joseph Marques
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Real World ◽  
Barack Obama ◽  
White House ◽  
The Real ◽  
The World

O texto apresenta a análise de livros escritos por três ex-assessores do governo Barack Obama - Tough Love: My Story of the Things Worth Fighting For, de Susan Rice, The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir , de Samantha Power e The World as It Is: A Memoir of the Obama White House, de Ben Rhodes -, e busca demonstrar como todos eles conseguem apresentar muitos dos debates internos daquela administração, bem como revelar as limitações de sua política externa. 

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 195-197
Keyword(s):  
Free Market ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
State Level ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Inequality Measures ◽  
World Crisis ◽  
The World ◽  
American Elections ◽  
The University

Branko Milanovic of World Bank reviews, “Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis” by James K. Galbraith. The EconLit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the relationship between the rise of inequality and the performance of the U.S. stock market and the rise of finance and of free-market policies elsewhere. Discusses the physics and ethics of inequality; the need for new inequality measures; pay inequality and world development; estimating the inequality of household incomes; economic inequality and political regimes; the geography of inequality in America, 1969-2007; state-level income inequality and American elections; inequality and unemployment in Europe—a question of levels; European wages and the flexibility thesis; globalization and inequality in China; finance and power in Argentina and Brazil; inequality in Cuba after the Soviet collapse; and economic inequality and the world crisis. Galbraith is Professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs and Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations at the University of Texas, Austin. Index.”

Converting to a Synchronous Virtual Nursing Research Conference Amidst a Pandemic: A Case Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 118-124
Author(s):  
Lilian J. Canamo ◽  
Jessica P. Bejar ◽  
Judy E. Davidson
Keyword(s):  
World Health Organization ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
University Of California ◽  
World Health ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Research Conference ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
The University

University of California San Diego Health was set to launch its 13th annual Nursing and Inquiry Innovation Conference event in June 2020. However, the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed a barrier to large gatherings throughout the world. Because the World Health Organization designated 2020 as the Year of the Nurse and Midwife, the University committed to continuing the large-scale conference, converting to a virtual event. This article reviews the methodologies behind the delivery of the virtual event and implications for user engagement and learning on the blended electronic platform.

Capitalist Efficiency and Socialist Efficiency

1976 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 19 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M Gordon
Keyword(s):  
Index Volume ◽  
Marxian Theory ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
The World ◽  
Central Elements ◽  
Socialist Practice

Marxism has been blooming around the world. Paul Sweezy and Harry Magdoff call it "a veritable renaissance." Samir Amin celebrates an "extraordinary rebirth." Just as socialist practice has deepened and spread its roots internationally, so has Marxian theory borne increasingly rich and bounteous fruit.… The Marxian renaissance has involved some theoretical tussles with the earlier Marxist orthodoxy. These theoretical reformulations have necessarily focused on the central problematic of the materialist perspective…. With <em>Labor and Monopoly Capital</em>, Harry Braverman has provided some central elements lor this clarified focus, helping arm us with many critical arguments for our assault on traditional views.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-28-number-3" title="Vol. 28, No. 3: July-August 1976" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

Living the Eleventh Thesis

2016 ◽  
Vol 67 (11) ◽  
pp. 47
Author(s):  
Richard Levins
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Index Volume ◽  
Bible Study ◽  
Academic Life ◽  
Monthly Review ◽  
Friday Evening ◽  
Racial Science ◽  
Difficult Time ◽  
Male Supremacy ◽  
The University

When I was a boy I always assumed that I would grow up to be both a scientist and a Red. Rather than face a problem of combining activism and scholarship, I would have had a very difficult time trying to separate them.&hellip; Before I could read, my grandfather read to me from Bad Bishop Brown's <em>Science and History for Girls and Boys</em>. My grandfather believed that at a minimum every socialist worker should be familiar with cosmology, evolution, and history. I never separated history, in which we are active participants, from science, the finding out how things are. My family had broken with organized religion five generations back, but my father sat me down for Bible study every Friday evening because it was an important part of the surrounding culture and important to many people, a fascinating account of how ideas develop in changing conditions, and because every atheist should know it as well as believers do.&hellip; On my first day of primary school, my grandmother urged me to learn everything they could teach me&mdash;but not to believe it all. She was all too aware of the "racial science" of 1930s Germany and the justifications for eugenics and male supremacy that were popular in our own country. Her attitude came from her knowledge of the uses of science for power and profit and from a worker's generic distrust of the rulers. Her advice formed my stance in academic life: consciously in, but not of, the university.<p class="mrlink"><p class="mrpurchaselink"><a href="http://monthlyreview.org/index/volume-67-number-11" title="Vol. 67, No. 11: April 2016" target="_self">Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the <em>Monthly Review</em> website.</a></p>

China as great power: from red menace to green giant?

2001 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory D. Foster
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
Environmental Stresses ◽  
Great Powers ◽  
University Of California ◽  
Great Power ◽  
The World ◽  
The University

China's standing in the world—whether it is, or is seen to be, a great power—is a question of signal importance because of what great powers are capable of doing, what effects their actions and words have on others, and what is expected of them. By most conventional measures, China is at least on the verge of being a great power. Yet the country also occupies a pivotal global position in terms of its present and expected future impact on the environment. In the final analysis, because greatness is so much a function of a willingness to shoulder responsibility and demonstrate leadership, China's standing as a great power may well be determined by the country's response to the acute environmental stresses it faces. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd on behalf of The Regents of the University of California.

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