Hanging With the Wrong Crowd: Of Gangs, Terrorists, and the Right of Association

Part I will sketch the current contours of the right of association, a right limited to expressive and intimate association, and will describe the government\u27s attempts to extend this categorical approach by limiting associational protection still further to membership per se. Part II will argue that the Court\u27s limitation of associational rights to expressive and intimate associations and the government\u27s attempt to distinguish association from conduct are unworkable, inconsistent with the Court\u27s own precedents, and fail to reflect the normative reasons for protecting the right of association. Part III will offer an alternative framework for addressing the right of association, borrowing from the Court\u27s jurisprudence with respect to another potentially limitless but critical constitutional right, the right of symbolic speech. I will argue that the focus of a jurisprudence of association ought to be on association, not expression or intimacy, and that it should protect association in its physical manifestations as well as its abstract essence. The critical inquiry should not be whether an association is expressive or intimate, nor whether the individual affected is engaged in conduct or pure association, but rather whether the government\u27s regulation arises from or is targeted at the associational character of the conduct. Where government seeks to regulate conduct without regard to its associational character, its actions should be subject to relaxed review, but where government seeks to regulate conduct because of its associational character, its actions must satisfy heightened scrutiny. Only that approach, which mirrors the Court\u27s jurisprudence of symbolic expression, does justice to the freedom of association

Technology and politics: The regional airport experience

The findings of a comparative study of the following six regional airports were presented: Dallas/Fort Worth, Kansas City, Washington, D.C., Montreal, Tampa, and St. Louis. Each case was approached as a unique historical entity, in order to investigate common elements such as: the use of predictive models in planning, the role of symbolism to heighten dramatic effects, the roles of community and professional elites, and design flexibility. Some of the factors considered were: site selection, consolidation of airline service, accessibility, land availability and cost, safety, nuisance, and pollution constraints, economic growth, expectation of regional growth, the demand forecasting conundrum, and design decisions. The hypotheses developed include the following: the effect of political, social, and economic conflicts, the stress on large capacity and dramatic, high-technology design, projections of rapid growth to explain the need for large capital outlays

Personnel/Human Resources Management: A Political Influence Perspective

It was suggested over ten years ago that new and different perspectives needed to be applied to the Personnel/Human Resources Management field in an effort to (P /HRM) promote theory and research and expand our understanding of the dynamics underlying P/HRM processes. Both theory and research are emerging which characterize important P/HRM decisions and activities substantially influenced by opportunistic behavior of both subordinates and supervisors. The purpose of the present review is to systematically examine the P/HRM field from a political influence perspective, reviewing existing theory and research and discussing future directions

Arquetipos urbanos aplicados al estudio de ciudades en ficciones históricas contemporáneas. Estructuras urbanas simbólicas en Age of Empires

In “The Idea of a Town: Anthropology of Urban Form” (1976), architecture historian Joseph Rykwert defined six archetypes used in Etruscan rites for the foundation of urban settlements, which continued to be used in Classical Greece and Ancient Rome. He proposed to use these same categories for the study of cities in different eras, as a methodology to develop a global urban history. This paper projects Rykwert’s concepts to cities created during the XXI century, specifically those designed for video games with historical themes, and provides the reader with an experimental methodology for assessing digital architectures and environments. Spatial and narrative archetypes will be identified in two different video games, as well as their connections to imaginaries born in the Classic period. In Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios, 1996-2005) urban foundation corresponds to the idea of the town as a place for dominating territory. Their variable structure is grounded on a systemic set of rules that benefits tactic configurations designed by players. In contrast, Bioshock Infinite (Irrational Games, 2013) proposes an immobile storyline built around the city as its leading narrative voice. Its urban spaces direct the action through archetypes such as the “center”, the “labyrinth”, and the “door”.En “La idea de ciudad: Antropología de la forma urbana” (1976), el historiador de la arquitectura Joseph Rykwert definió seis arquetipos utilizados en el rito Etrusco para la fundación de ciudades, cuyo uso fue continuado durante la Grecia clásica y la antigua Roma. Este autor propuso su uso como categorías para el estudio de otras ciudades y periodos, para así construir una historia urbana global. El presente artículo proyecta los conceptos de Rykwert al estudio de ciudades diseñadas para videojuegos del siglo XXI con temáticas históricas, y presenta al lector una metodología experimental para el análisis de entornos y arquitecturas digitales. Se han identificado arquetipos espaciales y narrativos aplicados a dos videojuegos, así como sus conexiones con el imaginario clásico. En Age of Empires (Ensemble Studios, 1996-2005) la fundación responde a la idea de ciudad como espacio para la dominación del territorio. Sus urbes se basan en un set de reglas sistémicas que favorecen disposiciones tácticas diseñadas por los jugadores. En contraste, Bioshock Infinite (Irrational Games, 2013) propone una narrativa unidireccional construida alrededor de la ciudad como su principal voz. Sus espacios urbanos, responsables de dirigir la acción, están basados en arquetipos como el centro, el laberinto o la puerta

Jane Roe Gone Rogue: Norma McCorvey’s Transformation as a Symbol of the U.S. Abortion Debate

This thesis explores the evolution of Norma McCorvey (1947-2017), better known as “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, as a symbol of the United States abortion debate. I trace her life from her childhood through her death, examining her decision to become the Roe plaintiff, rise to fame as a symbol of the pro-choice movement, defection to the pro-life movement, subsequent attempts to reverse the Roe decision, and memorializations by various political figures and media outlets. I examine the role that her poverty, education, non-normative sexuality, and whiteness played in the public construction of her as an unreliable figurehead. To make sense of her unconventional political trajectory as well as the spetacularizing media attention she drew over the course of her life, I engage with journalistic and scholarly writing about her, her two co-authored memoirs, and audiovisual representations of her life and activist work. Ultimately, I contest the caricaturization of McCorvey as “the ultimate victim,” a financial opportunist, and “white trash” by contextualizing the challenges she faced due to her class, sexuality, and the shifting rhetoric on abortion between 1970-2017

Becoming the Change Witnessed: Strategic Use of Empathy in Morgan Spurlock’s “Straight Man in a Gay World”

This essay examines the strategic use of empathic communication that fosters a loving struggle for Existenz in “Straight Man in a Gay World” (2005), an episode of Morgan Spurlock’s documentary-styled television program 30 Days. The show functions as a persuasive discourse designed to influence the heterosexual participant and, by extension, the implied audience. This essay offers an overview of key terms in the study of empathy and analyzes key moments of empathic communication in the episode