The dialectic of nationalism and feminism among Palestinian women student-activists in Israeli universities

This paper explores the dialectical relationship between nationalism and feminism in the experience of a group of Palestinian women student-activists in Israeli universities. An overview of the history of Palestinian women’s involvement in the national movement leads to the conclusion that the Palestinian Intifada in 1987 was a turning point in articulating a feminist-nationalist agenda among Palestinian women activists in the West Bank and Gaza and inside Israel. Qualitative interviews with 11 Palestinian women student activists in Israeli universities reveal two intertwined themes of nationalism and feminism. Participants clearly challenge their male dominated political organisations to espouse a progressive social-political agenda focusing simultaneously on national and gender forms of oppression.peer-reviewe

Critical Pedagogy as Organizational Praxis: Challenging the Demise of Civil Society in a Time of Permanent War

The writers criticize the U.S. invasion of Iraq and the ensuing military and political occupation of the country. They suggest a link between aggressive U.S. military posture and neoliberal globalization and contend that the current situation in Iraq is a metaphor for globalized capitalism across the world. The writers then consider issues surrounding the politics of organization in the search for a socialist alternative to free market capitalism and discuss how critical educators can reinvigorate the civil societarian left at a time when elites are less accountable to civil society than ever before

Epistemologies of Ignorance With/in Curriculum Studies: The Politics of Not Knowing and Black Lives Mattering

The notion of epistemologies of ignorance is a fruitful site atwhich to probe issues of ignorance and knowledge in relation tothe production of both, particularly how blindness becomes thenecessary organizer for the insights we make and the interplay of dominant and subjugated discourses jockeying for recognition. (Malewski & Jaramillo, 2011, pg 3).“Epistemologies of ignorance ...center the ‘subject’ -woman, man, child, teacher, student-not as objects of knowledge production, but as sensuous beings who affectively live out the contradictions embedded within ignorance” (Malewski & Jaramillo, 2011, pg. 5)

Design and baseline characteristics of the finerenone in reducing cardiovascular mortality and morbidity in diabetic kidney disease trial

Background: Among people with diabetes, those with kidney disease have exceptionally high rates of cardiovascular (CV) morbidity and mortality and progression of their underlying kidney disease. Finerenone is a novel, nonsteroidal, selective mineralocorticoid receptor antagonist that has shown to reduce albuminuria in type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) while revealing only a low risk of hyperkalemia. However, the effect of finerenone on CV and renal outcomes has not yet been investigated in long-term trials. Patients and Methods: The Finerenone in Reducing CV Mortality and Morbidity in Diabetic Kidney Disease (FIGARO-DKD) trial aims to assess the efficacy and safety of finerenone compared to placebo at reducing clinically important CV and renal outcomes in T2D patients with CKD. FIGARO-DKD is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, parallel-group, event-driven trial running in 47 countries with an expected duration of approximately 6 years. FIGARO-DKD randomized 7,437 patients with an estimated glomerular filtration rate >= 25 mL/min/1.73 m(2) and albuminuria (urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio >= 30 to <= 5,000 mg/g). The study has at least 90% power to detect a 20% reduction in the risk of the primary outcome (overall two-sided significance level alpha = 0.05), the composite of time to first occurrence of CV death, nonfatal myocardial infarction, nonfatal stroke, or hospitalization for heart failure. Conclusions: FIGARO-DKD will determine whether an optimally treated cohort of T2D patients with CKD at high risk of CV and renal events will experience cardiorenal benefits with the addition of finerenone to their treatment regimen. Trial Registration: EudraCT number: 2015-000950-39; ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT02545049

Pedagogía crítica, acción dialógica y democracia participativa

Se analizan los procesos educativos dentro de los contextos de la guerra, la privatizaci&oacute;n, y la tendencia general neoliberal en la educaci&oacute;n. Espec&iacute;ficamente, la autora reflexiona sobre las experiencias de tres colegios en Medell&iacute;n, Colombia, que se encuentran en el punto de mira de un conflicto social continuo. En contraste con las ideolog&iacute;as prevalecientes y las condiciones sociales que limitan el rango pleno de las posibilidades de los j&oacute;venes para desarrollar su potencial humano y participaci&oacute;n en la vida c&iacute;vica, se plantea un argumento a favor de la democracia cr&iacute;tica basada en la noci&oacute;n Freireiana de la acci&oacute;n dial&oacute;gica. Tambi&eacute;n se analizan los modelos liberales y los modelos deliberativos de la democracia, fundamentados en las teor&iacute;as sociales occidentales. Se examinan las teorizaciones de Habermas sobre la democracia en la esfera p&uacute;blica y tambi&eacute;n aportes post-estructuralistas de la democracia radical. Subrayando la manera en que los modelos progresistas asociados con la democracia transcienden los conflictos inter-personales en un sistema basado en la desigualdad. As&iacute;, se trata el tema de la formaci&oacute;n de democracia como parte del desarrollo del aprendizaje, moldeado por la perspectiva particular y el contexto socio-econ&oacute;mico y pol&iacute;tico de los alumnos

Borderlines: bell hooks and the Pedagogy of Revolutionary Change

We invoke Frieducha to begin this chapter on bell hooks because in many ways, hooks\u27s expansive writings can be interpreted as a sequence of Kahlo paintings. Every text, essay, or critical exposé is an expression of hooks\u27s inner and outer self and of the existential realities that give shape to her thinking in and about the wider social setting. hooks joins the ranks of adelita artists, women who with the power of the pen or the paintbrush have become major pedagogical forces in the formally schooled and the unschooled, producing texts accessible to people from various backgrounds and from equally diverse life trajectories. Like Kahlo, hooks does not deny the centrality of personal experience as an objective place from which to interpret the social world. hooks also recognizes that personal experience is grounded in concrete relations that extend well beyond an individual\u27s stream of consciousness. For hooks, every reflection, analysis, persona) story, or anecdote encompasses broader relations of racial, class, and sexual exploitation; she denaturalizes the mythic status of oppression and demonstrates the ways in which oppression slices open corporeal wounds within and across communities. Like a Frida Kahlo self-portrait, hooks carries her politics inside her personal life; her writings are at once subjective and transhistorical, they reach across the divide of time to places both intensely familiar and unvisited.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_books/1076/thumbnail.jp

God’s Cowboy Warrior: Christianity, Globalization, and the False Prophets of Imperialism

At this particular historical moment democracy seems acutely perishable. Its contradictions have become as difficult to ignore as sand rubbed in the eyes. While dressed up as a promise, democracy has functioned more as a threat. Spurred on by feelings of \u27righteous victimhood\u27 and by a \u27wounded and vengeful nationalism\u27 (Lieven, 2003) that has arisen in the wake of the attacks of September 11, and pushing its war on terrorism to the far reaches of the globe, the United States is shamelessly defining its global empire as an extension of its democratic project. The US National Security Strategy of 2002 states quite dearly that the US will not hesitate to act alone and will preemptively attack against terrorists that threaten its national interests at home or abroad. And one of its national interests is to bring free market democracy to the rest of the world.https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/education_books/1091/thumbnail.jp