23 research outputs found
Brief Amicus Curiae of the Attorney General of the State of New York
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/sumitomo_briefs/1002/thumbnail.jp
Field, capital and the policing habitus: nderstanding Bourdieu through The NYPDâs post-9/11 counterterrorism practices
This article extends existing Bourdieusian theory in criminology and
security literature through examining the practices of the New York City
Police Department in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. This article
makes several original contributions. First, it explores the resilient nature
of the policing habitus, extending Bourdieusian criminological findings
that habitus are entrenched and difficult to change. Second, this article
examines the way the resilient habitus drives subordinate factions to
displace dominant factions in a fieldâs established social hierarchy
through boundary-pushing practices, a concept previously unexamined in
Bourdieusian criminology. Drawing on original documentary analysis, this
article uses the illustrative example of the NYPDâs post-9/11
counterterrorism practices, exploring how it sought to displace the
existing social structure by using its aggressive policing habitus and an
infusion of âWar on Terrorâ capital to challenge the dominant position of
the FBI in the post-9/11 counterterrorism field. The NYPDâs habitus
driven counterterrorism practices were novel and unprecedented,
creating strain with both the FBI and local communities
Getting farming on the agenda: Planning, policymaking, and governance practices of urban agriculture in New York City
How and why is urban agriculture taken up into local food policies and sustainability plans? This paper uses a case study of urban agriculture policymaking in New York City from 2007 to 2011 to examine the power-laden operation of urban environmental governance. It explores several âfaces of power,â including overt authority, institutionalized ârules of the game,â and hegemony. It also investigates how multiple actors interact in policymaking processes, including through the construction and use of broad discursive concepts. Findings draw upon analysis of policy documents and semi-structured interviews with 43 subjects engaged in food systems policymaking. Some municipal decision-makers questioned the significance of urban agriculture, due to the challenges of quantifying its benefits and the relative scarcity of open space in the developed city. Yet, these challenges proved insufficient to prevent a coalition of civic activists working in collaboration with public officials to envision plans on food policy that included urban agriculture. Actors created the âlocal/regional food systemâ as a narrative concept in order to build broad coalitions and gain entry to the municipal policy sphere. Tracing the roll-out of plans reveals the way in which both the food systems concept and specific policy proposals were repeated and legitimized.Unpacking the dynamics of this iterative policymaking contributes to an understanding of how urban environmental governance happens in this case
Towards an Economy of Higher Education
This paper draws a distinction between ways thinking and acting, and hence of policy and practice in higher education, in terms of different kinds of economy: economies of exchange and economies of excess. Crucial features of economies of exchange are outlined and their presence in prevailing conceptions of teaching and learning is illustrated. These are contrasted with other possible forms of practice, which in turn bring to light the nature of an economy of excess. In more philosophical terms, and to expand on the picture, economies of excess are elaborated with reference, first, to the understanding of alterity in the work of Emmanuel Levinas and, second, to the idea of Dionysian intensity that is to be found in Nietzsche. In the light of critical comment on some current directions in policy and practice, the implications of these ways of thinking for the administrator, the teacher and the student in higher education are explored
Where should Momma go? Current nursing home performance measurement strategies and a less ambitious approach
Brief Amicus Curiae of the Attorney General of the State of New York
https://digitalcommons.nyls.edu/sumitomo_briefs/1002/thumbnail.jp