Political Activist + Public Servant?

Toward an Activist Political Theory

Public libraries: political vision versus public demand?

Purpose – The purpose of the paper is to review UK government policy on public libraries since 2003, and to examine its relationship to other forms of demand for public libraries Design/methodology/approach – The published literature from government and professional bodies is reviewed, alongside published statistics on library use. Findings – Since 2003 public libraries have been the subject of...

Ready Rhetorics: Political Homophobia and Activist Discourses in Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda

Since the late 1990s political leaders in several African countries have pursued legislation to expand criminal penalties for same-sex sex. Yet, much of the research on efforts to expand criminalization of same-sex sexualities in Africa has focused on individual country cases, neglecting the role of national and transnational sociopolitical contexts and economic flows. Focusing on discourses pr...

Emotion and Public Attention to Political Issues

Political violence and public health in Haiti.

In 1991, a violent military coup unseated Haiti’s first democratically elected government. An estimated 5000 people died, and hundreds of thousands more were displaced during the three years when military and paramilitary groups ruled the country. It was my privilege and responsibility to help provide basic medical services in central Haiti during those years. After constitutional rule was rest...