A Critical Examination of the History of Communication in Kingston: Technology’s role in Social Justice in the Kingston Community

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nate Preston
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Personal Accounts

Information & Communications technology is developing at an astounding rate. Recent developments in Information & Communications technology have given consumers the power to communicate with others from almost anywhere, and with greater reliability. Mainstream media and the engineering community often applaud these technologies for helping to create a more transparent, pluralistic, global, and just society. However, many of these new technological developments are inaccessible and alienating to many members of the community. This paper examines the role that Information & Communications technology has played in the Kingston community. Published historical and personal accounts made by members of the Kingston community are compared and contrasted with those from the Queen’s University Control and Communications Degree program.

Multifunctional Enzymes as Targets for the Treatment of Tuberculosis: Paving the Way for New Anti-TB Drugs

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Sílvia Silva Teixeira ◽  
Nuno M. F. S. A. Cerqueira ◽  
Sérgio Filipe Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Metabolic Pathways ◽  
Tryptophan Synthase ◽  
Drug Resistant ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Multifunctional Enzymes ◽  
History Of ◽  
Gtp Cyclohydrolase Ii ◽  
Catalytic Mechanisms ◽  
Nad Synthetase

In spite of the medical and technological developments of the last centuries, Tuberculosis (TB) has remained a challenging disease, with a limited number of therapeutic options, particularly in light of the increase in drug-resistant cases. The search for new molecules continues, with several candidates currently in clinical testing and ongoing efforts to identify novel targets. This work summarizes recent developments on anti-TB therapy, starting by discussing the current epidemiologic status and presenting an overview of the history of anti-tuberculosis drug discovery. Special attention is dedicated to five multifunctional enzymes that are regarded as promising targets for new anti-TB drugs: 5-aminoimidazole4-carboxamide ribonucleotide transformylase/IMP cyclohydrolase (ATIC); 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase (DHBPS)/GTP cyclohydrolase II (GCHII); glutamine dependent NAD+ Synthetase (NadE); chorismate synthase (CS); and Tryptophan synthase (TS). These enzymes are involved in metabolic pathways critical for the M. tuberculosis survival, growth or replication, but that are not expressed in humans or have significant differences in terms of functionality, which makes them appealing targets. Their function, structure, possible catalytic mechanisms and current inhibition strategies and inhibitors are reviewed and discussed.

Leadership Effect in Social Justice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kadir Beycioğlu
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
School Leaders ◽  
Just World ◽  
Roles And Responsibilities ◽  
Anthropology And Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Just Society ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Almost All

Social justice (SJ) is not a “newly discussed” issue. It has made a mark on the history of humanity. It was one of the most frequently discussed concerns of earlier religious and philosophical traditions for both their own context and other contexts around the world. Almost all disciplines, including philosophy, politics, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and education, have been in search of a just world for people and have tried to find an answer to the question of what a socially just society is. Social justice has been a debated issue on the agendas of educational researchers, too. Similar to other fields, research on social justice in education has been attempting to describe and analyze its meaning and nature in educational settings. Educational researchers have made significant efforts to provide a definition of social justice in schools and to open the black box of social justice delivered to schools. In education, social justice, in short, may be seen as a fact directly related to providing equal opportunities for everyone in schools regardless of race, ethnicity, culture, social class, wealth, gender, family structure, sexual orientation, disability, and so on. This urges school leaders to be aware of their central roles and responsibilities in terms of justice issues in their schools, and this makes it very clear that a just school depends on leaders believing in social justice. In other words, school leaders and their efforts to create a just school have explicit effects on justice issues in schools.

scholarly journals Social Justice and Multiculturalism: Persistent Tensions in the History of US Social Welfare and Social Work

2007 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Reisch
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Social Work ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Welfare Benefits ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Just Society ◽  
The Relationship

Social justice has been a central normative component of U.S. social welfare and social work for over a century, although the meaning and implications of the term have often been ambiguous. A major source of this ambiguity lies in the conflict between universalist views of social justice and those which focus on achieving justice for specific groups. This conflict has been masked by several long-standing assumptions about the relationship between social justice and multiculturalism – assumptions which have been challenged by recent developments. The assumption that the pursuit of social justice requires the creation of a more egalitarian society has been challenged by the new political-economic realities of globalization. The assumption that the maintenance of individual rights complements the pursuit of social equality has been challenged by racially-based attacks on social welfare benefits and civil rights. Most significantly, the assumption that a socially just society is one in which different groups share a compatible vision of social justice has been challenged by the realities of multiculturalism. This paper explores the evolution of four themes regarding the relationship between social justice and multiculturalism during the past century and discusses their implications for the contemporary demographic and cultural context of the U.S. These themes are: the relationship of cultural diversity to the nation’s values and goals; the contradiction between coerced cultural assimilation and coerced physical and social segregation; the relationship between individual and group identity and rights; and the linkage between “Americanization” and the equal application of justice.

Migration and Modernities

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Americans ◽  
Literary History ◽  
Historical Study ◽  
Racial Categories ◽  
Geographic Boundaries ◽  
The Us ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries

Migration and Modernities recovers a comparative literary history of migration by bringing together scholars from the US and Europe to explore the connections between migrant experiences and the uneven emergence of modernity. The collection initiates transnational, transcultural and interdisciplinary conversations about migration in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, demonstrating how mobility unsettles the geographic boundaries, temporal periodization, and racial categories we often use to organize literary and historical study. Migrants are by definition liminal, and many have existed historically in the spaces between nations, regions or ethnicities. In exploring these spaces, Migration and Modernities also investigates the origins of current debates about belonging, rights, and citizenship. Its chapters traverse the globe, revealing the experiences — real or imagined — of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century migrants, from dispossessed Native Americans to soldiers in South America, Turkish refugees to Scottish settlers. They explore the aesthetic and rhetorical frameworks used to represent migrant experiences during a time when imperial expansion and technological developments made the fortunes of some migrants and made exiles out of others. These frameworks continue to influence the narratives we tell ourselves about migration today and were crucial in producing a distinctively modern subjectivity in which mobility and rootlessness have become normative.

Utopophobia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Estlund
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Political Thought ◽  
Political Action ◽  
Ideal Theory ◽  
Theory Of Justice ◽  
Sound Theory ◽  
Theory Versus ◽  
History Of ◽  
Practical Guidance

Throughout the history of political philosophy and politics, there has been continual debate about the roles of idealism versus realism. For contemporary political philosophy, this debate manifests in notions of ideal theory versus nonideal theory. Nonideal thinkers shift their focus from theorizing about full social justice, asking instead which feasible institutional and political changes would make a society more just. Ideal thinkers, on the other hand, question whether full justice is a standard that any society is likely ever to satisfy. And, if social justice is unrealistic, are attempts to understand it without value or importance, and merely utopian? This book argues against thinking that justice must be realistic, or that understanding justice is only valuable if it can be realized. The book does not offer a particular theory of justice, nor does it assert that justice is indeed unrealizable—only that it could be, and this possibility upsets common ways of proceeding in political thought. The book's author engages critically with important strands in traditional and contemporary political philosophy that assume a sound theory of justice has the overriding, defining task of contributing practical guidance toward greater social justice. Along the way, it counters several tempting perspectives, including the view that inquiry in political philosophy could have significant value only as a guide to practical political action, and that understanding true justice would necessarily have practical value, at least as an ideal arrangement to be approximated. Demonstrating that unrealistic standards of justice can be both sound and valuable to understand, the book stands as a trenchant defense of ideal theory in political philosophy.

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