Peace Education: Imagination and the Pedagogy of the Oppressed

1987 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marguerite Rivage-Seul
Keyword(s):  
Peace Education ◽  
Moral Imagination ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Human Welfare ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nuclear Arms Race

Arguing that peace education in the United States is constrained by its tenacious adherence to technical reason, Marguerite K. Rivage-Seul underscores the need for peace educators and their students to cultivate "moral imagination." The author first examines concepts of moral imagination recently advanced by educational theorists and peace educators, and demonstrates that these concepts also fail to transcend the limits of technical thought regarding the nuclear arms race. She then carefully develops a view of moral imagination around the ideas of Paulo Freire and Franz Hinkelammert; one that is grounded in an understanding of human intersubjectivity, and in the ways in which the poor "read" the world and perceive possibilities for human welfare beyond the status quo.

Moral and Political Consequences

Super Bomb ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 71-86
Author(s):  
Ken Young ◽  
Warner R. Schilling
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Advisory Committee ◽  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
The United States ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
Moral Significance ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Impact

This chapter examines the controversy's real or assumed moral and political aspects. Moral repugnance inflected the scientific judgments of Oppenheimer's General Advisory Committee, triggering discussion of the relative moral significance of thermonuclear bombing, the use of the atomic bomb, and the mass urban bombing campaigns of 1942–1945. More immediate concerns centered on the impact a decision to develop thermonuclear weapons might have on the pattern of international relations. Given a paucity of intelligence, the effects on the Soviet Union's own weapons program, and thereby on the United States' vulnerability, could only be guessed at. The chapter thus considers if the development of the Super would restore the status quo ante-1949 or lead to a thermonuclear arms race and ultimate stalemate—or even the end of the world.

‘I thought it was a very punk rock thing to say’: NOFX’s (sort-of) public apology and (in)civility in defining contemporary punk rock in online spaces

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen M. Bernhard
Keyword(s):  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Punk Rock ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
United States Today ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Online Spaces ◽  
Mass Shooting ◽  
History Of

As a music genre built on the foundations of questioning the status quo, punk rock has a long history of generating controversy. While many of punk rock’s offensive moments have been accepted and applauded by fans around the world, NOFX’s comments at the 2018 Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival about the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting were met with immediate consequences for the band, who lost several sponsorships and the ability to play their own Camp Punk in Drublic music festival one week following the incident. After footage of the band’s comments circulated, they were met with a mixed, yet heated, response from fans, with much of the conversation arguing whether or not what was said could be considered ‘punk’. Some argued these comments further solidified the band’s reputation as a punk band and are therefore imbued with an inherent right to offend, while others believed these comments were unethical, poorly timed, and pushed the boundaries of appropriateness. Through the analysis of 381 comments in response to the band’s 31 May 2018 post on their official Facebook page, this article investigates the uncivil and civil discussions of the incident and the subsequent aftermath, while also addressing the broader conversation surrounding the current ethos of punk rock within the scene in the United States today.

The Realists and Their Critics

Worldview ◽  
1973 ◽  
Vol 16 (6) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Ronald Stone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Major Power ◽  
South Vietnam ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Domestic Reform ◽  
As If

It seems as if we are entering an era similar to the period after die Congress of Vienna. The cold winds of reaction have prevailed. The fires of domestic reform have gone out, extinguished by the excesses of some reformers and by the tactics of the forces of the status quo. The nation that gave birth to the A-bomb has succeeded in shocking the numbed consciences of the world by carrying out on a peasant nation die most destructive aerial bombardment ever unleashed. As Russia, England, Austria and Prussia conspired in Vienna to put out the danger of revolution, so now Russia, China and the United States are cooperating to save South Vietnam, the United States's ally, to halt the rain of bombs on die troublesome, sometime ally of the Chinese and the Soviets, to put out die fire mat threatened for so long to lead to a major power conflagration.

WOBBLY VITALISM: BERGSON, SOREL, AND THE INTERPRETATION OF REVOLUTIONARY SYNDICALISM IN THE UNITED STATES, 1905–1915

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 345-372 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Scott Brown
Keyword(s):  
Progressive Era ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Social Phenomena ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
American Thought

The vogue for the philosophy of Henri Bergson, and the popularity of vitalist ideas more generally, periodically claims the attention of historians of early twentieth-century American thought and culture. There is little appreciation, however, for either the broad epistemic significance of these ideas or for their profound ethical and political implications. This essay explores the activity of Bergsonian vitalism, particularly as applied by Bergson's radical compatriot, Georges Sorel, within the fractious conversation that attended the emergence of revolutionary syndicalism as a significant force in the pre-war 1910s. Understanding the ways in which this seemingly unprecedented menace to the status quo was understood facilitates a rethinking of the relationship between ideas and experience in the rise of the Industrial Workers of the World, and illuminates the attraction of radically empiricist approaches to interpreting social phenomena in the Progressive Era. Here, as elsewhere, Bergsonism challenged dominant materialistic and mechanistic explanations in the name of “life,” a seductive alternative for those alienated by, or suffering under, the juggernaut of urban-industrial modernization.

Unrest Assured: Why Unipolarity Is Not Peaceful

2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nuno P. Monteiro
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Strategic Choices ◽  
Regional Conflicts ◽  
Self Help ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Global Status ◽  
The Cold War

The United States has been at war for thirteen of the twenty-two years since the Cold War ended and the world became unipolar. Still, the consensual view among international relations theorists is that unipolarity is peaceful. They base this view on two assumptions: first, the unipole will guarantee the global status quo and, second, no state will balance against it. Both assumptions are problematic. First, the unipole may disengage from a particular region, thus removing constraints on regional conflicts. Second, if the unipole remains engaged in the world, those minor powers that decide not to accommodate it will be unable to find a great power sponsor. Placed in this situation of extreme self-help, they will try to revise the status quo in their favor, a dynamic that is likely to trigger conflict with the unipole. Therefore, neither the structure of a unipolar world nor U.S. strategic choices clearly benefit the overall prospects for peace. For the world as a whole, unipolarity makes conflict likely. For the unipole, it presents a difficult choice between disengagement and frequent conflict. In neither case will the unipole be able to easily convert its power into favorable outcomes peacefully.

Imagery, Ego Development, and Nuclear Attitudes

1988 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 105-120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frances Fisher Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Ego Development ◽  
Demographic Data ◽  
Industrial Research ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Arms Race ◽  
The Other ◽  
Research Facility ◽  
Nuclear War ◽  
The Status ◽  
Nuclear Arms Race

Variables that differentiate those who oppose the nuclear arms race were investigated. Thirty-eight employees of an industrial research facility were asked to respond to: 1) a demographic data form; 2) a measure of ego development; 3) a nuclear attitudes and information questionnaire; and 4) two imagery questions – one about the consequences of nuclear war and one about images of anger. Data were analyzed by dividing participants into three nuclear attitude groups – supporters of the status quo, fence sitters, and antinuclear protesters – and statistically comparing group responses. Results showed that protesters were better educated and more likely to be female. With fence sitters, they shared a tendency to be better informed about nuclear issues and with supporters, a belief that nuclear war is imminent. They displayed a trend toward greater production of concrete images of nuclear war – a finding that provides tentative validation for previous research. Finally, protesters did not obtain ego-development scores that differed significantly from the scores of the other two groups; they did, however, produce more vivid images of anger.

scholarly journals L’URSS et ses conceptions de sa sécurité : De brejnev à Andropov

2005 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-491
Author(s):  
Adriano Guerra
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
The Political ◽  
Soviet Power ◽  
Soviet Government ◽  
Soviet Policy ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Scene

The international developments of the last few years have once more brought forth the traditional questions on the foreign policy of the USSR. The strong coming hack of the Soviet military on the political scène has revived the debate on the nature of the Soviet power and on the role played by the Army and its representatives. Since 1975, Soviet policy has been what can be considered as a "policy of response", aimed at protecting the recently acquired "new frontiers" and at preventing the United States from availing themselves of the internal problems existing in the USSR to change the status quo to their advantage. Increasingly, the Soviet government, in his multiple interventions in various regions of the world - and particularly in Afghanistan - is resorting to the militarization of her ancient and new frontiers. This line of action makes the Soviet policy more and more unpredictable and intensifies the risks of confrontation around the globe.

The Powers Metaphysic

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil E. Williams
Keyword(s):  
Potential Interaction ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Repeated Application ◽  
Fundamental Ontology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Foundational Ontology ◽  
Interaction Types

Systematic metaphysics is defined by its task of solving metaphysical problems through the repeated application of a single, fundamental ontology. The dominant contemporary metaphysic is that of neo-Humeanism, built on a static ontology typified by its rejection of basic causal and modal features. This book offers and develops a radically distinct metaphysic, one that turns the status quo on its head. Starting with a foundational ontology of inherently causal properties known as ‘powers’, a metaphysic is developed that appeals to powers in explanations of causation, persistence, laws, and modality. Powers are properties that have their causal natures internal to them: they are responsible for the effects in the world. A unique account of powers is developed that understands this internal nature in terms of a blueprint of potential interaction types. After the presentation of the powers ontology, it is put to work in offering solutions to broad metaphysical puzzles, some of which take on different forms in light of the new tools that are available. The defence of the ontology comes from the virtues of metaphysic it can be used to develop. Particular attention is paid to the problems of causation and persistence, simultaneously solving them as it casts them in a new light. The resultant powers metaphysic is offered as a systematic alternative to neo-Humeanism.

The Current Status of Hearing Care: Can We Change the Status Quo?

2005 ◽  
Vol 16 (07) ◽  
pp. 410-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dennis Van Vliet
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Hearing Impaired ◽  
Current Status ◽  
High Quality ◽  
Scientific Database ◽  
The Status

The members of the profession of audiology often express concern that the services and products that have been developed to provide benefit to the hearing impaired are not sought after or delivered to the majority of those diagnosed with hearing loss. A critical look at the status quo of hearing care delivery in the United States is needed to verify this assumption and to develop strategies to improve the situation. A key concern is the lack of a comprehensive high-quality scientific database upon which to build continuous improvements in the effectiveness of the services and products that are provided to the hearing impaired.

THE INNOVATIVE TOURIST PRODUCT IN THE FUNCTION OF THE HOTEL INDUSTRY

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-95
Author(s):  
Slobodan Ivanović
Keyword(s):  
World Economy ◽  
Hotel Industry ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Strategic Thinking ◽  
Tourism Product ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Way Of Thinking

Very often, there are more imitators than innovators in the hotel industry. There are very few hotel enterprises engaged in continually innovating their services. Creative imitators help to diffuse innovations and to meet the needs of certain segments o f the tourist market. They realise the improvement possibilities of the tourism product or service, which requires innovation. Changes to certain features o f the product or service can help to increase their value for both domestic and foreign tourists. Hence, it is maintained that creative imitation is sooner to take hold on the tourist market than on the tourism product or service. The globalisation process of the world economy, as well as the hotel industries, has imposed a certain way of thinking referred to in journalism as "change as a constant necessity" or putting it harshly "innovate or disappear from the business scene”. Anything that is different represents change. Innovation means accepting ideas for services which are new to hotel enterprise. Because innovations disturb the status quo of the hotel enterprise, they are met with resistance by some members of the organisation. Strategic thinking is what every hotel enterprise needs to prevent it being caught off guard by the affects of changes in its micro and macro environment. Namely, troubles begin for the hotel enterprise when it fails to adapt in an adequate and acceptable way to the changes occuring within the hotel industry. Adverse changes in the environment and the inability of the hotel enterprise to respond to these changes are the cause of incongruity between the hotel’s potential (accommodation and other facilities) and the demands of the hotel industry i.e. the tourist markets on which it is present.

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