Professor Jennifer Hochschild’s Genomic Politics: How the Revolution in Science Is Shaping Society is a must-read for anyone interested where our politics about genetics America has been and it going. It also an exemplar of how to do mixed-methods social science work: Hochschild combines theory with database searches coding congressional acts journal articles, open-ended interviews authors lead...

In late February 2022, the prospect of a quick and efficient decapitation Ukraine's political leadership, followed by installation puppet government in Kyiv, was greeted Western capitals with certain grim resignation. governments might protest impose limited sanctions on Russia, taking care that none would inflict an undue burden their own economies, but nothing could be done to prevent Ukraine...

Zajonc and I differ greatly in our conceptualization of emotion and its relations with cognition, as well as in our evaluation of the evidence. My reply is in two parts. First, I discuss the boundaries of emotion as a phenomenon and whether sensory preferences can be regarded as emotions; second, I make an analysis of the evidence Zajonc regards as supporting his claims for the independence of ...

Contemporary approaches to literacy embrace digital and multimodal communication, and this is increasingly recognised in the syllabi prescribed by various education authorities across the world. Insufficient attention has been given to the evaluation of multimodal texts in ways which are semiotically grounded, accessible to the teacher and scalable to larger research studies. We present an eval...

This paper examines the linked themes of identity and knowledge production embedded within the notion of insider scholarship. Insider scholarship can be simplistically defined as producing knowledge about and within a group with which one identifies as a member. However, how groups are delineated and what constitutes membership are not so simply determined. Rather, the concept of insider schola...

Zajonc and I differ greatly in our conceptualization of emotion and its relations with cognition, as well as in our evaluation of the evidence. My reply is in two parts. First, I discuss the boundaries of emotion as a phenomenon and whether sensory preferences can be regarded as emotions; second, I make an analysis of the evidence Zajonc regards as supporting his claims for the independence of ...

THISARTICLE EXAMINES THE CURRENT experience and trends in the roles, functions, and activities of today’s directors of large libraries or library systems. Directors assume an extensive range of complex responsibilities in their unique positions, foremost of which is accountability for internal organization, operations, and management. A shift in roles, functions, and activities is occurring, ho...

The new intellectual climate inaugurated by the cognitive revolution can help elicit neglected contexts for literary historical study, to pose new questions for analysis and reopen old ones. The current challenge to social constructionist accounts of subjectivity, for example, can lead to a fundamentally new reading of Jane Austen’s last novel, Persuasion (). Austen’s was a period when a do...

This article probes the contradictions and unacknowledged risks inherent in the notion of citizenship today. We explore the possible fault lines that citizenship places on the notion of universality, namely the anthropology of contexts in which citizenship and biological self-preservation are being radically decoupled as well as the policies, techniques, and media (biological, health, juridical...

In her article "Anthropological Inquiry and the Limits of Dialogue" Kathleen Gallagher analyzes the epistemological and ethical implications created by representations of Self and portrayals of Other in two apparently different ethnographic texts, R.F. Fortune's Sorcerers of Dobu and Kevin Dwyer's Moroccan Dialogues. Specific attention is paid to the authors' portrayal of themselves and the obs...