Enabling Pain, Enabling Insight: Opening up Possibilities for Chronic Pain in Disability Rhetoric and Rhetoric and Composition

In the dissertation “Enabling Pain, Enabling Insight: Opening up Possibilities for Chronic Pain in Disability Rhetoric and Rhetoric and Composition,” Hilary Selznick argues that pain is rhetorical, accessible, and communicable to those without the lived experience of chronic pain. Additionally, she argues for the necessity of considering chronic pain as a disability and not merely as a symptom of a disability. In order to make these arguments possible, Selznick crafts a political-relational-rhetorical methodology that challenges restrictive models of disability and theoretical and commonplace assumptions that pain is resistant to language. Specifically, Selznick’s methodology, which combines disability scholar and activist Alison Kafer’s political-relational model of disability with research in disability and feminist rhetorics, makes visible the socio-political, cultural, economic, and material realties of living with chronic pain and the generative power of rhetoric to transform commonplace understandings of disability. In so doing, this dissertation reveals disability as positive difference. In this way, Selznick’s dissertation not only disrupts and intervenes in problematic rhetorics of chronic pain, but also introduces alternative and productive rhetorics of pain that account for pain as a necessary and privileged position. By doing this work, this dissertation provides a presence for chronic pain and persons with chronic pain in disability rhetoric, rhetoric and composition, disability studies, feminist rhetorics, and medical rhetorics, while also forging critical alliances between these diverse yet intersecting fields

A proposed model for the continued professionalisation of student affairs in Africa

This article presents a model that can inform the continued professionalisation ofstudent affairs as both a field and a practice in Africa. After providing a brief overviewof the African post-secondary educational climate and establishing student affairs as aninternationally recognised profession, I analyse three pieces authored or co-authored byMirko Noordegraaf (2003; 2007; 2011) that develop the concepts of socially constructedprofessionalism, management of practices-in-transition and hybrid professionalism. Ithen employ these concepts to create a professionalisation model that incorporates anawareness of the complex and diverse nature of African student affairs work. I next examinetwo key areas present across the modern African post-secondary environment – careereducation and distance learning – and discuss how the model can guide student affairsprofessionalisation and practice when working in these important educational spaces. Iconclude by briefly commenting on the potential for practitioners in the African contextto develop new pathways forward for the international student affairs community

American Society And The Rule Of Law

I am here to bring some thoughts about my own country\u27s experience in trying to understand the meaning of the rule of law and to make good on its promise. I will have to take up some issues in jurisprudence, and also some aspects of American legal history. I do not apologize for combining jurisprudence and sociology of law, for that combination faithfully reflects what we are trying to achieve in the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program (JSP) in the Boalt School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. I begin with some comments on the meaning of the rule of law, then go on to consider some important lessons of American history, including problems we face today. The first thing we must say is that the phrase rule of law refers to an ideal, something that we look to as a criterion or standard of good conduct, especially but not exclusively official conduct. Rule of law is a way of saying that the rules and procedures of a legal system must meet-or at least strive to meet-tests or standards, which are drawn from fairness and justice. Therefore we must say that the rule of law is law plus standards

A proposed model for the continued professionalisation of student affairs in Africa

This article presents a model that can inform the continued professionalisation of student affairs as both a field and a practice in Africa. After providing a brief overview of the African post-secondary educational climate and establishing student affairs as an internationally recognised profession, I analyse three pieces authored or co-authored by Mirko Noordegraaf (2003; 2007; 2011) that develop the concepts of socially constructed professionalism, management of practices-in-transition and hybrid professionalism. I then employ these concepts to create a professionalisation model that incorporates an awareness of the complex and diverse nature of African student affairs work. I next examine two key areas present across the modern African post-secondary environment – career education and distance learning – and discuss how the model can guide student affairs professionalisation and practice when working in these important educational spaces. I conclude by briefly commenting on the potential for practitioners in the African context to develop new pathways forward for the international student affairs community.Keywords: student affairs, career education, distance learning, professionalisatio

Legal Institutions and Social Controls

When the architects of this program asked me to discuss non-legal social controls, I assume they had in mind the need for greater humility within the legal profession. So proud an occasion as this calls for sober reflection on the limits of the distinctively legal-on the contingent, derivative, and partial place of formal adjudication and control within the larger ordering of human society. I have no objection to communicating such a perspective, there by adding an appropriate note of piety to these proceedings. Nevertheless, I think it may be more important for us to consider some of the great social changes that are occurring in modem society, how they affect the balance between legal and non-legal controls, and what problems this changing balance poses for the legal order. The humility we ask of lawyers may be all too welcome to them. The real message may be a summons to responsibility and joint effort, not a suggestion that lawyers retreat to what they know best. My assigned topic covers a very large part of what sociology (or more broadly, behavioral science) is about. For we are interested in all the ways social order is created and sustained. We study control in small groups and large ones; we study gross mechanisms of control and subtle ones; we see in every human setting the forces that encourage and enforce responsible conduct. Of course, we also give much attention to the breakdown of social control and to the emergence of what is, from the standpoint of the group or situation, irresponsible or deviant behavior

Mangers and Turbans: Nonverbal Religious Expression in a Diverse Workplace

With the current emphasis on workplace diversity, researchers have noted an increase in religious expression on the job and, consequently, in religious friction. Most of the literature focuses on speech, but other forms of expression, such as religious posters, symbols, and music, can cause dissension as well. Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, employers are required to accommodate the religious practices of employees in the workplace, unless doing so will cause undue hardship. Protected activity includes religious expression when employees sincerely believe their religion requires it. This Article explores the accommodation of religious expression other than speech, when it may impose hardship, and how such hardship can be avoided. Religious displays are most commonly associated with four kinds of hardship to employers: customer alienation, coworker distraction, religious harassment of coworkers, and mistaken attribution to employers or coworkers. Title VII law requires the employer and the religious employee to try to reach a compromise. Each form of hardship needs a different approach