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Making and Treating Trans Problems: The Ontological Politics of Clinical Practices

Studies in Gender and Sexuality, 2016
ABSTRACTThis essay investigates a divergence between medical and autobiographical accounts of transexuality. By analyzing a letter to the editor in the journal Aesthetic Plastic Surgery that defends trans patients as a “special case” (Selvaggi and Giordano, 2014), I examine how medicine produces trans patients as a separate category of patients.
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Researching Disability Politics, Or, Some Problems with the Social Model in Practice

Disability & Society, 2000
This article arises from a research project involving the disabled members' group in UNISON, and problematises the social model which explicitly undergirds the discourses and practices of this group. In abstract terms, there are dangers that the social model can be interpreted in a way which privileges some impaired identities over others, sanctions a ...
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The Problem of the Noble and the Practicality of Platonic Political Philosophy

The Journal of Politics, 1994
A crucial dimension of Platonic political philosophy is the investigation of eros for to kalon, the desire for beauty or nobility that is at the core of heroic and political virtue. Socrates' "turn" to the investigation of "the human things" is due in part to his discovery that his ostensibly apolitical eros for the beauty of the ideas is based on ...
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The politics, problems, and practicalities of serving as effective user advocate in an obstinate organization

18th Annual Conference on Computer Documentation. ipcc sigdoc 2000. Technology and Teamwork. Proceedings. IEEE Professional Communication Society International Professional Communication Conference and ACM Special Interest Group on Documentation Conferenc, 2002
We are all, to some extent, political animals who continually work with definitions and categorizations, trying to determine who is inside our group, who is outside our group, who is supportive of our group, who is detrimental who is useful and productive and who is not.
A. Gaal   +3 more
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Populist politics and international business policy: problems, practices, and prescriptions for MNEs

Journal of International Business Policy
In this editorial introduction to the Special Issue on populism, we discuss different approaches to defining populism in ways relevant to multinational enterprise (MNE) strategy and organization. In addition, we demonstrate how populist host-country government policies often target MNEs in ways that give rise to distinctly new forms of discriminatory ...
Hartwell, Christopher A.   +4 more
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Problem solving in the United States, 1970–2008: research and theory, practice and politics

ZDM, 2007
Problem solving was a major focus of mathematics education research in the US from the mid-1970s though the late 1980s. By the mid-1990s research under the banner of “problem solving” was seen less frequently as the field’s attention turned to other areas.
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The Overdose Crisis in the 2024 Election—Political Fights and Practical Problems

JAMA
This Viewpoint discusses the 2024 presidential election in the context of the addiction and overdose crisis in the US, which has been a unifying challenge and a source of major ideological division in US politics.
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Articulating Social Agency in Our Mutual Friend : Problems with Performances, Practices, and Political Efficacy

ELH, 2004
The title of the first volume of Our Mutual Friend, “Between the Cup and the Lip,” draws attention to the gap between intention and outcome: there’s many a slip, so the saying goes, ’twixt the cup and the lip.1 Dickens follows up this thematic signal with three short vignettes highlighting the role of intentionality in agency.
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Knowledge and the Impasse in Left Politics: Potentials and Problems in Social Movement Practice

Studies in Political Economy, 2000
In the 1920s, in a context of historic transformations and of crisis and defeat on the left, Antonio Gramsci argued for the historically-specific character of hegemonic power and the need for the left to engage in historically-specific analysis. In the context of the rise of fascism in Italy, such analysis led Gramsci to distinguish between and ...
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Social Researching: Politics, Problems, Practice.

Contemporary Sociology, 1987
J. Sherman Williams   +2 more
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