scholarly journals Blow your mind! Shards hailing, on superfluous violence to stop surviving

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-315
Author(s):  
Simon(e) Van Saarloos
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
The Difference

David Buckel set himself on fire to publicly stage the horrors of climate change, Delores “Lolita” Lebrón performed a sensational act in the US congress hall, hailing bullets while calling out: ¡Viva Puerto Rico Libre!When do we recognize violence as violence? When is the absence of a counter-attack a form of compliance? Do the desires of activists need an expression of violence to establish an ‘otherwise’ that’s carefully repressed? In “Blow your mind! Shards hailing, on superfluous violence to stop surviving” various instances of violence weave together, obscuring the difference between theatre, terrorism, assault and sensational act.The end of the world is a future for those who have been living like survivors. To explore the potential of violence as resistance, the author proposes to fight as an armless aimless army of vulnerables.‘Violence happens upon you. But that’s not really true for everyone. As a white cis-woman with passport privilege, I can say I’m interested in violence. Interested in, interested in. Violence doesn’t surround me. It may happen to me, but I would perceive it as an extraordinary event, a happening. I approach violence. I approach, I approach – there’s enough comfortable distance to repeat my sentence and imagine it echoing.’ 

scholarly journals Puerto Rico, Colonialism, and Neocolonialism

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gibran Cruz-Martinez
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
The Political ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
Political Status ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Will ◽  
The Caribbean

This essay aims to briefly collect the historical context of colonialism in Puerto Rico since the Spanish era but primarily focuses on revealing the reasons to consider Puerto Rico as a colony and non-self-governing territory of the US – rather than a neocolony of the US. Later, the article addresses the three non-colonial options recognized by the 1514 United Nations (UN) Resolution and the results of the five referendums on the political status of the Caribbean archipelago held over the last five decades. The essay concludes that Puerto Rico is undoubtedly a colony and asks for the United Nations and the sovereign countries of the world to denounce this illegal colonial relationship that subordinates residents of Puerto Rico to the will of the US Congress where they have no voting representatives.

How to Survive the End of the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 176-215
Author(s):  
Marilisa Jiménez García
Keyword(s):  
Puerto Rico ◽  
Puerto Rican ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Public Debt ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
Youth Literature

This chapter contextualizes the contemporary era of youth literature and media in Puerto Rico and its diaspora, both those in the US and those returning to Puerto Rico. Looking at the 1980s into 2010s, this chapter analyzes the role of youth literature and culture in Puerto Rico’s contemporary struggles, including its economic crisis, public debt, the devastation of Hurricane Maria, and the political uprising which led to the resignation of former Governor Ricardo Rosello. Puerto Rican storytellers continue narrating Puerto Rico’s contemporary frontline struggles, from Broadway to comics to community-organized story times and children’s books.

The Historiography of Environmental History

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. R. McNeill
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental History ◽  
Industrial Pollution ◽  
Full Scale ◽  
Environmental Concerns ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter discusses the emergence of environmental history, which developed in the context of the environmental concerns that began in the 1960s with worries about local industrial pollution, but which has since evolved into a full-scale global crisis of climate change. Environmental history is ‘the history of the relationship between human societies and the rest of nature’. It includes three chief areas of inquiry: the study of material environmental history, political and policy-related environmental history, and a form of environmental history which concerns what humans have thought, believed, written, and more rarely, painted, sculpted, sung, or danced that deals with the relationship between society and nature. Since 1980, environmental history has come to flourish in many corners of the world, and scholars everywhere have found models, approaches, and perspectives rather different from those developed for the US context.

Apocalyptic Ethics, End-Time Christians, and the Storming of the US Capitol

2021 ◽  
pp. 095394682110313
Author(s):  
Nancy J. Duff
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Divine Revelation ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
Theological Foundation ◽  
The Cross ◽  
End Of The World

This article argues that an apocalyptic interpretation of divine revelation provides the theological foundation for discerning the appropriate space for human life to thrive. This apocalyptic theological ethic is contrasted with that of end-time Christians who have supported Donald Trump as God’s chosen one and who joined the storming of the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. It contrasts five features of apocalyptic thinking for both groups: (1) expectation of the end of the world, (2) ethics, (3) Christ, nation, and the first commandment (4) Christians and Jews, and (5) the cross. While the article seeks to give a fair description of the beliefs of end-time Christians, it argues that their beliefs have taken a heretical and dangerous turn.

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Philosophy Of Technology ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Environmental Philosophy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Natural Environments ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Two Sides

Environmental philosophy and philosophy of technology have a lot in common. Both fields explore the positive and negative aspects of human modifications of the world. Both question the limits of technology in relation to natural environments, animals, plants, and food. Both examine if human making and doing is compatible with nature or wholly different from it. And both examine the difference between what is considered to be natural and artificial. Technology and the environment further intersect in a number of issues, such as climate change, sustainability, geo-engineering, and agriculture. The reason for the overlap is fundamental: Environmental issues inevitably involve technology, and technologies inevitably have environmental impacts. Technology and the environment are like two sides of the same coin: Each is fully understood only in relation to the other. Yet, despite the ample overlap of questions concerning technology and the environment, the two philosophical fields have developed in relative isolation from each other. Even when philosophers in each field address themselves to similar concerns, the research tends to be parallel rather than intersecting, and the literatures remain foreign to one another. These divergent paths are unfortunate. Philosophers from each field have a lot to contribute to the other....

The exchange between citizens and elected officials: a social psychological framework for citizen climate activists

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
DAVID K. SHERMAN ◽  
MICHELLE F. SHTEYN ◽  
HAHRIE HAN ◽  
LEAF VAN BOVEN
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Political Agenda ◽  
Elected Officials ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
Pricing Policy ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
Climate Crisis

Abstract Citizen activists play a role in translating public concern about the climate crisis to policymakers and elevating it on the political agenda. We consider the dynamic between citizen activists and the decision-makers they seek to influence and we review psychological research relevant to advocating for climate legislation. We conducted a study with citizen activists who lobby the US Congress for a carbon pricing policy to address climate change. The study assessed how activists think about four social psychological approaches: affirmation, social norms, legacy and immediacy. The findings provide a window into activists’ intuitions about which strategies to use, whom to use them with and their perceived effectiveness. A strategy of establishing shared values and common ground (affirmation) was used most frequently overall. A strategy emphasizing the long-term costs and benefits of addressing climate change (legacy) was employed less frequently than affirmation and seen as less effective by activists but it was the only strategy that was associated with perceived increases in Congressional Representatives’ support of the policy. Citizen activists and their interactions with elected officials provide an opportunity for social-behavioral scientists to understand and potentially overcome barriers to enacting climate policy.

Innovate America: The Technology Innovation Program at NIST

1969 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew S Klein ◽  
Mrunal S Chapekar
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Technology Innovation ◽  
Job Training ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Comprehensive Strategy ◽  
Scientific Education ◽  
Us Congress ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World

9 August 2007, the US Congress established the Technology Innovation Program (TIP) through the America COMPETES Act, a comprehensive strategy to keep the United States, the most innovative nation in the world, competitive by strengthening scientific education and research, improving technological enterprise, attracting the world's best and brightest workers, and providing twenty-first century job training. The new program, TIP, is located at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD (www.nist.gov\tip).

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