I like Sen’s explanation that the theme of freedom runs through our thinking on development, as both ends and means. Sen thereby provides us with a guide to our thinking; our approach is no longer a collection of statistics or piecemeal privileges, but a focused expansion of all freedoms which Sen argues captures all of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘yarbrough’
Seeing unfreedoms
Posted in economics and globalization, tagged development, economics, freedom, globalization, Kevane and Gray, Sen, yarbrough on November 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Rhetoric criminalizes, excludes
Posted in sexuality, tagged language, petchesky, rhetoric, rothschild, sexuality, yarbrough on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Written Out studies the rhetorical strategies used to target sexuality in situations wherein women’s and human rights are contested; these include UN committees, international treaty agreements, women’s and human rights conferences, and controversies within states. Much of Written Out discusses language which targets those whose sexualities differ even slightly from the norm, including women who’ve chosen to [...]
