Boundaries under Construction: Linking Body Politics to Space

Sexing the Body Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality

In Sexing the Body. Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality FaustoSterling attempts to answer two questions: How is knowledge about the body gendered? And, how gender and sexuality become somatic facts? In other words, she passionately and with impressive intellectual clarity demonstrates how in regards to human sexuality the social becomes material. She takes a broad, interdisciplina...

Linking National Politics to Europe - an opposing argument

Linking Sound Economics with Global Politics

Stabilizing the world’s climate entails a massive, global policy push. That, in turn, implies coordination at an unprecedented scale. Progress on such a coordinated, global, ‘top-down’ solution has been slow, to put it mildly. It’s no wonder then that emphasis has shifted toward a more ‘bottom-up’ solution. Policies, after all, are enacted at the national, regional, or local level. And each cou...

Very young children’s body image: Bodies and minds under construction

In recent years research has recognised that notions of body image, body image ideals and body dissatisfaction develop much earlier than was once thought. Forty-seven children (25 male; 22 female) aged between 5 and 6 years were interviewed on three occasions over 12 months regarding their perceptions of body image. The interviews revealed strong negative perceptions of fatness. However, being ...

A Deterministic Polynomial Space Construction for -nets under any Norm

We give a deterministic polynomial space construction for nearly optimal -nets with respect to any input n-dimensional convex body K and norm ‖ · ‖. More precisely, our algorithm can build and iterate over an -net of K with respect to ‖ · ‖ in time 2 × ( size of the optimal net ) using only poly(n)space. This improves on previous constructions of [ASL13] which achieve either a 2 approximation o...