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Theological reflection that employs themes including the dignity of the person, solidarity with the vulnerable, participation in the common good, and the principle of subsidiarity, all through an antiracist and anti-misogynist lens, yields a framework for reproductive justice that better captures lived experiences of reproductive oppression and points toward the kinds of practices and policies that actually support women and children. This essay focuses on the shameful rates of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality for Black woman and children in the United States. Any adequate ethic of reproductive justice from a Catholic perspective must take its lead from the experiences and advocacy of women of color. Working for intersectional reproductive justice must take the form of lending support and solidarity to the innovative grassroots work of Black women.

In this theo-ethical roundtable, scholars from the Philippines, USA, and Nigeria describe threats to women’s flourishing in their contexts and highlight how a framework of reproductive justice can provide meaningful categories for social action.

This article examines a specific case study —the issues arising from Spanish colonialism and later U.S. imperialism— on Cuba at the turn of the nineteenth century through the lens of the working-class movement of anarchism. Anarchists in Cuba, many of whom were Spanish émigrés, argued that true emancipation came not from patriotism, nationalism and the political form of the state, but through self-organization and the transformation of “the social”. Tensions arose, however, within anarchist newspapers, upon which this article draws extensively, as to whether the pursuance of nationhood was an interim stage in this development or a trap offered by the bourgeois classes to domesticate workers’ demands. The state, nevertheless, was consistently rejected as a desirable medium or end destination.

In this work, we present a record of the life history of Mónica Medina, a member of the Weenhayek Quebracho community located 5 kilometers from Tartagal (Salta Province). In this memoir about her ancestors from three previous generations to the present, Mónica recounts memories of how her family lived through the War of Paraguay that forced them to move; epidemics; the transhumance process and the different expulsions they were subjected to; the ways in which life was transformed as they approached urban centers; the approach to partisan politics and the formation of leaders; the process of forming demands for recognition of ethnic identity and expectations for the future. We understand that this life story, while individual, is inscribed in the collective memory of her family, her community, and her people, as it results from experiencing certain common memories from her trajectory. This record acquires a double epistemic sense here: on the one hand, it allows us to know nodal data about the trajectories and current demands of the Weenhayek People regarding their rights to identity in Argentina, and particularly about the dispute they are fighting for state and social recognition of their pre-existing people’s character; but at the same time, it introduces us to the memory work that is central to the ethnicity process that these Weenhayek communities lead in their demand and exercise of current rights

A review of Christine Firer Hinze, _Radical Sufficiency: Work, Livelihood, and a US Catholic Economic Ethic.

In 2019 a team of multi-disciplinary researchers undertook a research project entitled Identifying Successful STARTS Methodologies (ISSM) (2019-2021) in order to analyze the innovative and collaborative strategies utilized by the global Science, Technology and Arts (STARTS) Prize Winners and nominees. The aim was to identify and articulate successful STARTS Methodologies through a series of interviews and in-depth case studies of the recognized projects. The project culminated in a series of case studies and an exhibition at the Made in Wolves Gallery at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and further presented at the UK Garden of Earthly Delights at Ars Electronica in 2020. The project identified three emerging themes: the significance of building a new language of art and science through a third space, the process of anti-disciplinarity as an emergent form of practice, and the importance of different ways of knowing through art and science. A number of the case studies and themes are presented here alongside images from the exhibition.

Objetivo: Relatar a experiência do projeto de extensão “Leitura reflexiva para igualdade de gênero” desenvolvido entre maio e agosto de 2022. Método: O projeto se fundamenta teoricamente nas teorias feministas, no conceito de bem-viver, de injustiça epistêmica, de competência crítica em informação e de mediação da leitura e usa o método da educadora Bell Hooks de prática educativa baseada em aceitação, afetos e diálogo como meio de se atingir uma formação emancipadora. Ele foi idealizado, colaborativamente, por uma docente e seis discentes e consistiu em seis encontros de leitura, aos sábados, no Skate Parque. Resultado: Os resultados incluem dificuldades e acertos. Por um lado, não houve participantes de fora do grupo, apesar da divulgação, indicando que ele não conseguiu envolver o público externo; por outro, as discentes relatam desenvolvimento de leitura e de interpretação de texto, além de aumento da segurança para se expressar. Para elas, o projeto proporcionou acesso diferenciado à leitura e promoveu diversas reflexões sobre o tema da igualdade de gênero, além de estimular sua auto-estima. Conclusões: Conclui que o desenvolvimento da capacidade de leitura crítica a partir de práticas pedagógicas feministas funciona. Além disso, o fortalecimento de nossas estudantes é bom para elas, para nós, para nossa profissão e ajuda a sociedade em geral a dar um pequeno passo em direção à igualdade de gênero.

In light of the June 2022 decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, _Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health_, the _Journal of Moral Theology_ invited a number of leading Catholic scholars to address the following question: what needs to change to foster “reasoned reflection and constructive civil dialogue” within Catholic contexts around the issue of abortion? Representing a range of positions on both the _Dobbs_ decision and the question of abortion, each scholar focuses on one or two key changes or clarifications she or he thinks would help shift the discourse in a constructive direction. This introduction provides important contextualizing information for the symposium as well as a summary of the scholarly contributions.

After eighteen months of online art education during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authors consider Form and Time, a required first-year studio art course at OCAD University in Toronto, as a case study within global practices of reconfiguration and experimentalism in art and design pedagogy during the crisis. Form and Time was scheduled to launch as a required first-year course on campus at OCADU in Fall 2020, but quarantine prompted the pivot to fully remote. Critiques of the traditional art school’s situated format were launched before COVID-19 by anti-ableist, Indigenous and feminist scholars, addressing access barriers and stressing resilience in the face of crisis and oppression. The pandemic disrupted the centrality of in-person studios and critique methods in post-secondary art education; this accelerated and took unexpected turns during the online pedagogical experiments of the early pandemic. In this context, Form and Time foreshadows new modes of art school studio delivery, decentering and critically intersecting with studio precedents suddenly disrupted by remote learning during COVID-19. Form and Time’s weekly asynchronous video lectures and online meetings probed themes of Space, Form and Time. Students posted weekly studio experiments on discussion boards, using materials close at hand. As with other art and design courses, everyday objects and materials provided a platform for discussing material conditions and encounters during the pandemic. Students depicted their unique surroundings using strategies of observation and walking. They accessed faculty-made online micro-workshops recorded by the various course instructors on home studio material techniques. These comprise a growing online archive shared by faculty teaching the multi-section course. Looking forward, we anticipate further crises. Greater interplay between online, blended and hands-on art studio education will prioritize flexibility that can better adapt to life pressures and emergencies, opening access for a diverse range of learners in decentered locations.

El artículo analiza el lugar de los medios en la construcción de experiencias y sentidos sobre inseguridad, dando cuenta de hallazgos y claves teórico-metodológicas que aportan al abordaje del difuso poder de los medios en ese fenómeno. Es parte de una investigación realizada en la ciudad de Córdoba entre 2016 y 2018, en la que indagamos sobre las relaciones entre el sistema mediático, las transformaciones del espacio público y el vínculo del género periodístico policial con los modos en que los sujetos experimentan la inseguridad. En términos metodológicos, implicó la realización de un estudio multisituado que, desde una perspectiva socioantropológica, indagó sobre la producción, los textos y la recepción de noticias televisivas sobre inseguridad emitidas por tres canales de televisión de aire de esta ciudad. De este modo, recorrimos las distintas instancias de articulación en las lógicas de producción de sentido en torno a la inseguridad en sociedades mediatizadas.

En este artículo se muestra cómo, según Hugo Grocio, el derecho natural (ius naturale), también en su dimensión subjetiva, depende de una relación primaria con la justicia entendida en un sentido moral amplio. La tesis que sugiero es que la reconstrucción crítica que hace Grocio de las categorías aristotélicas de la justicia (correctiva-distributiva en términos de expletiva-atributiva respectivamente) determina, en buena medida, la forma en que se concibe el ius. Es decir, el contenido del derecho natural en Grocio no se reduce a un ámbito articulado por meros derechos subjetivos, como con frecuencia se tiende a pensar, sino que se extiende a un ámbito genuinamente moral en el que se abre un espacio donde la ley natural puede y debe ser entendida a la luz de las exigencias de la virtud, y no viceversa.

This EDIS publication is the fifth of the Talking Local series, a six-part EDIS publication series about Florida consumers and their perceptions of local food. This series focuses on ways Extension agents can assist Florida farmers and ranchers in the labeling, sale, and promotion of locally produced products. This series provides information about Florida consumers’ perceptions of local food to Extension faculty who are interested in local food programming or who work with local food clientele. This 4-page publication focuses on Florida consumer flexibility with the term “local.” Originally written by Caroline G. Roper and Joy N. Rumble, September 2014, this revision by Lauri M. Baker, Caroline R. Warwick, Meredith M. Oglesby, Olivia K. Doyle, Valentina Castano, and Joy N. Rumble AEC515/WC180: Talking Local: Florida Consumers’ Flexibility with the Term "Local" (ufl.edu)

Lexicographers and paremiologists have been struggling with the American proverbial phrase “to see the elephant” since the 1840s, attempting to establish its history and elucidate its meanings. Often those attempts have resulted in erroneous information and fanciful conclusions. At least two instances of the expression can be identified from early-modern England.

This is the fourth supplement to The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs (New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2012), edited by Charles Clay Doyle, Wolfgang Mieder, and Fred R. Shapiro. It registers 43 additional modern Anglo-American proverbs with historical dates and contextualized references.

Compared to traditional (pre-industrial) forest-based agricultural systems, traditional agriculture as practiced in grasslands and heathlands has been neglected, both by agronomists and by ethnoecologists. Examining the diversity of soil-preparation techniques used to cultivate grasslands and heathlands, and the farming systems, both past and present, in which they are enmeshed, opens up unexplored vistas in comparative agriculture. Techniques and systems that have long been studied independently—soil burning in grassland and heathland agriculture throughout the world, historical plaggen cultivation in northern European heathlands, and raised-field agriculture in present-day Africa and New Guinea and pre-Columbian South America—appear on closer inspection to be variants on a common theme. Two syntheses by Roland Portères and François Sigaut in the 1970’s, published in French and little cited by authors writing in English, furnish the foundation for a conceptual framework that links these systems and suggests new research questions. This paper updates and extends these syntheses. I show the unity and the diversity of soil-preparation techniques in grassland and heathland agriculture and propose tentative hypotheses about the ecological and social factors explaining the patterns of variation. Finally, I address the pertinence of studying these old systems for agriculture in the 21st century.