Friendship as a Political Concept: A Groundwork for Analysis

What kind of a concept is friendship, and what is its connection to politics? Critics sometimes claim that friendship does not have a role to play in the study of politics. Such objections misconstrue the nature of the concept of friendship and its relation to politics. In response, this article proposes three approaches to understanding the concept of friendship: (1) as a ‘family resemblance’ concept, (2) as an instance of an ‘essentially contested’ concept, and (3) as a concept indicating a problématique. The article thus responds to the dismissal of friendship by undertaking the groundwork for understanding what kind of a concept friendship might be, and how it might serve different purposes. In doing so, it opens the way for understanding friendship’s relation to politics

Religious Pluralism

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The editorial policy of the Indiana press towards Indiana Indians, 1804-1838

This thesis involves the study of editorials published in Indiana newspapers from 1804 – 1838 concerning the subject of Indiana Indians. Approximately 120 newspapers were examined in order to determine the general editorial policy of the Indiana frontier press toward Indians who occupied the state at that time. The research covered the time period beginning in 1804, when the first newspaper originated in Indiana Territory, until 1838, when the last significant Indian emigration out of the state occurred. It was discovered these editorials about Indiana Indians were published infrequently, usually regarded the Indians in their relationship to white settlers and followed the general government policies toward the Indians.Department of JournalismThesis (M.A.

Panel: Collaborative Practices in DH; Panel Session 1: Collaborative Practices in Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Forum 2015: Peripheries, Barriers & Hierarchies, University of Kansas, September 26th, 2015: https://idrh.ku.edu/dhforum2015 "Up in Arms: The Collision of Intellectual Property and Collaborative Practices." Rachel Mann is at the University of South Carolina. "The More the Merrier: Tapping into the Power of Librarians to Collaborate on Undergraduate Digital Humanities Assignments." Stewart Varner is at the University of North Carolina. "Overlapping Hierarchies: Academic Libraries and Digital Humanities." Andrew Rouner is at Washington University in St. Louis