Analyzing rhetoric : a frame analysis of the pro-life movement in the United States.

The purpose of this study is to consider the significance of rhetoric used by pro-life social movement organizations to frame the experience of abortion and to label those women who have participated in that experience. The study explores how frames are devised and how these frames are applied so that reality is organized in such a manner as to appear aligned with the religious, moral, and/or philosophical position of the pro-life movement. The study uses pro-life web pages to obtain data; then, analyzes the data for emerging themes and content. The general tasks of framing such as agenda setting are analyzed through the frames discovered in the data. These tasks and frames are constructed as a typology that shows the interactions between the tasks and the ideologies

The Role of Elementary Counselors as Perceived by Elementary Counselors and Principals in the State of Iowa

108 leaves. Advisor: Stuart TiedemanAmong educators there is a diversity of opinion regarding the elementary counselor's role. Consequently job descriptions, where they exist, are inconsistent and arbitrary. Some educators feel that the classroom teacher should be responsible for counseling responsibilities, while others recommend that a professionally trained counselor be on every elementary school staff. The disparity of views led the writer to initiate this investigation. Consequently, the goal is to examine the role of practicing elementary school counselors in Iowa as perceived by elementary school principals and the counselors themselves. A mail survey was used to gather information related to the elementary counselor's role. Ninety-eight elementary counselors and 97 elementary principals in Iowa were surveyed. The survey instrument consisted of an Information Sheet as well as an Opinionnaire. The data were tabulated to show how principals and counselors compare in their perceptions of elementary counselors' roles. The data yielded few differences in perception between principals and counselors. Often, where differences did occur, they were within groups. However, there were areas of principal-counselor disagreement community involvement, the importance of testing programs, the counselor's role in dealing with individual problems

Projects of devotion : energy exploration and moral ambition in the cosmoeconomy of oil and gas in the Western United States

This project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 715146. The authors also acknowledge the funding received to carry out this research from the Leverhulme Trust (ECF‐2013‐177) and the British Academy (EN150010).This article considers how people working in the oil and gas industry in Colorado perceive their involvement in energy exploration in relation to broader understandings of devotion, compassion, and outreach. I argue that although their energy projects may appear to merely echo companies’ formal promotional pitches, the oil field and corporate actors’ own moral ambitions reveal more-than-human cosmoeconomic visions of oil’s potentiality. This article thus demonstrates how multiple and diverging ethical registers intersect and inform the valuation of oil.Publisher PDFPeer reviewe

The anthropology of extraction: critical perspectives on the resource curse

Attempts to address the resource curse remain focussed on revenue management, seeking technical solutions to political problems over examinations of relations of power. In this paper, we provide a review of the contribution anthropological research has made over the past decade to understanding the dynamic interplay of social relations, economic interests and struggles over power at stake in the political economy of extraction. In doing so, we show how the constellation of subaltern and elite agency at work within processes of resource extraction is vital in order to confront the complexities, incompatibilities, and inequities in the exploitation of mineral resources