Illustrating the rising trend across education systems, article examines socio-historical constitution of politics pupil self-evaluation in case Finnish compulsory assessment policy discourse. By studying as a ‘politics’, which, drawing on studies governmentality, engages governing and shaping educational practices, conduct teachers pupils but also forming pupils’ selves, challenges mainstream ...

Frank Fischer, amplía el estudio sobre las políticas de Posverdad, propuesto en su ensayo 2019 “Knowledge Politics and Post-Truth in Climate Denial: On the Social Construction of Alternative Facts”, este libro la Serie Cambridge Elements. Serie, que, para área Política Pública, tiene por objeto “Desarrollar una colección concisa pero autorizada evaluaciones del estado arte y dar futuras direcci...

I investigate the complex relationship between politics and philosophy by focusing on notion of testimony. argue that there is a necessary fruitful tension sapiential political life. Testimony characterized here as free value-response in an intersubjective relation requires empathy both sides communication. This act affirming truth or value goes beyond limits prudent self-realization self-prese...

Robert LaFollette, the great progressive Senator and presidential candidate, famously argued that, ‘‘The cure for what ails democracy is more democracy.’’ One might aptly characterize Bruce Cain’s book, Democracy More or Less, as an extended rebuttal to LaFollette’s populist prescription for healing the body politic. Cain mounts a sustained assault on what he sees as the naı̈vely Whiggish optimi...

Global health research is essentially a normative undertaking: we use it to propose policies that ought to be implemented. To arrive at a normative conclusion in a logical way requires at least one normative premise, one that cannot be derived from empirical evidence alone. But there is no widely accepted normative premise for global health, and the actors with the power to set policies may use...

In a call for greater anthropological study of the body, Scheper-Hughes and Lock (1987) argue for examination of three, interrelated bodily forms: the body-self, the social body, and the body politic. Anthropologists of aging can most easily identify our work in the body-self when we study aging as a bodily and social experience that varies across cultural contexts (e.g. Sokolovsky 2009). The s...

All sovereign societies on earth can be put roughly into two categories: developed and under-developed countries. The developed countries, including the United States, Canada, most of west Europe countries, Japan and Australia, are all free capitalist society with a well functioned democratic government and a free market economic system. The under-developed countries, including Russia and east ...

How can we assess the reciprocal impacts of politics and medicine in the contemporary period? Using the example of rickets in twentieth century Britain, I will explore the ways in which a preventable, curable non-infectious disease came to have enormous political significance, first as a symbol of socioeconomic inequality, then as evidence of racial and ethnic health disparities. Between the 19...

Abstracto: Este ensayo discute la relacion de instruir sobre la expresion politic& especialmente el papel de la critica feminista en el desarrollo de la arqueologiao: Este ensayo discute la relacion de instruir sobre la expresion politic& especialmente el papel de la critica feminista en el desarrollo de la arqueologia y el lugar de esta critica en la clase. R6sum6:Ce papier aborde la relation ...