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Searching for her birth mother, 17-year-old Angela finds her way to
the remote region of the Boundary Waters between Canada and
Minnesota. Here she reunites with the woman who raised her during
her early years. But her happiness is short-lived, when she gets
involved in a conflict with developers.
The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing
triumphs. From the formal promulgation of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights in 1948 to the subsequent embrace of this
declaration by the newly independent states of Africa, human rights
have emerged as the primary discourse of global politics and as an
increasingly prominent category in the international and domestic
legal system. But throughout their history, human rights have
endured sustained attempts at disenfranchisement. In this
provocative study, Linda Hogan defends human rights language while
simultaneously reenvisioning its future. Avoiding problematic
claims about shared universal values, Hogan draws on the
constructivist strand of political philosophy to argue for a
three-pronged conception of human rights: as requirements for human
flourishing, as necessary standards of human community, and as the
basis for emancipatory politics. In the process, she shows that it
is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians
to keep faith with human rights. Indeed, the Christian tradition --
the wellspring of many of the ethical commitments considered
central to human rights -- must embrace its vital role in the
project.
Raised in a remote seaside village, Thomas Witka Just marries Ruth,
his beloved since infancy. But an ill-fated decision to fight in
Vietnam changes his life forever: cut off from his Native American
community, he fathers a child with another woman. When he returns
home a hero, he finds his tribe in conflict over the decision to
hunt a whale, both a symbol of spirituality and rebirth and a means
of survival. In the end, he reconciles his two existences, only to
see tragedy befall the son he left behind.
Poetry. Native American studies. Steeped in her Native American
heritage, Linda Hogan's latest collection of poems, THE BOOK OF
MEDICINES, brings together stunning lore-like imagery and Native
female spirituality. Histories of the earth, its natural elements
and ancient inhabitants, are revitalized and given new meaning.
Hogan offers an eco-feminist philosophy, encouraging women to
accept their role as care takers of the environment. "Linda Hogan's
vision is breathtaking; the embryonic fingers of a fetal whale, the
imperial walk of a raven, the torn-cloth dresses of her Chickasaw
ancestors, are distilled in these pages into a critique of human
survival"-Barbara Kingsolver. Hogan received an MA in English and
Creative Writing at the University of Colorado at Boulder and began
writing poetry, novels, short stories, plays, environmental works,
and academic pieces.
"Linda Hogan's remarkable gift is a language of her own, moving gracefully between ordinary conversation and the embrace of divinity. . . . Power is a haunting, beautiful testament."—Barbara Kingsolver
When sixteen-year-old Omishto, a member of the Taiga Tribe, witnesses her Aunt Ama kill a panther-an animal considered to be a sacred ancestor of the Taiga people-she is suddenly torn between her loyalties to her Westernized mother, who wants her to reject the ways of the tribe, and to Ama and her traditional people, for whom the killing of the panther takes on grave importance.
"Power is a beautifully written story, that rare book that comes along once in a while, touching the deep parts of our humanness and calling us . . . to be better than we are."-Rocky Mountain News
"[Hogan] has written a book about a crisis of belief that is dizzying in its depths, a book that is a testament to the ability of people to imagine what they cannot articulate."-Boston Book Review
"Hogan's Power is a bildungsroman. It is a lament for the animals and plants we have so heedlessly extinguished and it is also a story hopeful for the restoration of a world in balance."-Bloomsbury Review
Filled with powerful imagery, this poem relates the tragic story of
Indios, a native woman falsely accused of the death of her
children. As it echoes the plight of other women like
Indios--including Malinche, Pocahontas, La Llorona, and Medea--this
narrative conveys the truth of a history twisted to suit the needs
of a conquering power. Weaving Native American history with
contemporary situations, this evocative poem focuses on the concept
and consequences of the oppression of women.
This edited collection is intended as a primer for core concepts
and principles in research ethics and as an in-depth exploration of
the contextualization of these principles in practice across key
disciplines. The material is nested so that readers can engage with
it at different levels and depths. It is unique in that it combines
an analysis of complex ethical debates about the nature of research
and its governance with the best of case-based and
discipline-specific approaches.
It deals with the following topics in depth: in the natural
sciences, it explores the scientific integrity of the researcher
and the research process, human cloning as a test case for the
limits to research, and the emerging ethical issues in
nanotechnology; in the health sciences, it takes up the question of
consent, assent and proxies, research with vulnerable groups and
the ethics of clinical trials; in the social sciences, it explores
the issues that arise in qualitative research, interviews and
ethnography; and in the humanities, it examines contested
archaeologies and research in divided societies.
Overview of Research Ethics Principles Full text papers from
experienced researchers across many disciplines Dialogue with
ethicists
This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction,
and nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice,
and social change. Living American writers produced each piece
between 1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary
merit and the manner in which they address one or more pressing
social issues.
William Reichard has assembled some of the most respected
literary artists of our time, asking whose voices are ascendant,
whose silenced, and why. The work as a whole reveals shifting
perspectives and the changing role of writing in the social justice
arena over the last few decades.
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Christopher Felver's Tending the Fire celebrates the poets and
writers who represent the wide range of Native American voices in
literature today. In these commanding portraits, Felver's
distinctive visual signature and unobtrusive presence capture each
artist's strength, integrity, and character. Accompanying each
portrait is a handwritten poem or prose piece that helps reveal the
origin of the poet's language and legends. As the individuals share
their unique voices, Tending the Fire introduces us to the
diversity and complexity of Native culture through the authors'
generous and passionate stories. Felver's insightful epilogue
reminds us that "Native Americans today are as modern as the Space
Age, and each in their own way carries forth the cultural heritage
'from whence they came.' Their abiding legacy as the first people
of this continent has found its voice in the hard-won wisdom of
their art and activism. Let's learn from this belated opportunity
to look and listen to these Native voices."
The human rights regime is one of modernity's great civilizing
triumphs. From the formal promulgation of the Universal Declaration
of Human Rights in 1948 to the subsequent embrace of this
declaration by the newly independent states of Africa, human rights
have emerged as the primary discourse of global politics and as an
increasingly prominent category in the international and domestic
legal system. But throughout their history, human rights have
endured sustained attempts at disenfranchisement. In this
provocative study, Linda Hogan defends human rights language while
simultaneously reenvisioning its future. Avoiding problematic
claims about shared universal values, Hogan draws on the
constructivist strand of political philosophy to argue for a
three-pronged conception of human rights: as requirements for human
flourishing, as necessary standards of human community, and as the
basis for emancipatory politics. In the process, she shows that it
is theoretically possible and politically necessary for theologians
to keep faith with human rights. Indeed, the Christian tradition --
the wellspring of many of the ethical commitments considered
central to human rights -- must embrace its vital role in the
project.
SELECTED BY THE LITERARY GUILD
"Extraordinary...If you take up no other novel this year, or next,
this one will suffice to hold, to disturb, to enlighten and to
inspire you."
NEWSDAY
Early in this century, rivers of oil were found beneath Oklahoma
land belonging to Indian people, and beautiful Grace Banket became
the richest person in the Territory. But she was murdered by the
greed of white men, and the Graycloud family, who cared for her
daughter, began dying mysteriously. Letters sent to Washington,
D.C. begging for help went unanswered, until at last a Native
American government official, Stace Red Hawk, traveled west to
investigate. What he found has been documented by history: rampant
fraud, intimidation, and murder. But he also found something truly
extraordinary--his deepest self and abiding love for his people,
and their brave past.
"We want to live as if there is no other place," Hogan tells us,
"as if we will always be here. We want to live with devotion to the
world of waters and the universe of life." In offering praise to
sky, earth, water, and animals, she calls us to witness how each
living thing is alive in a conscious world with its own integrity,
grace, and dignity. In Dwellings, Hogan takes us on a spiritual
quest borne out of the deep past and offers a more hopeful future
as she seeks new visions and lights ancient fires.
Awaken your connection to Mother Earth as you journey through these
peaceful encounters with the birds, the wind, and the trees. This
collection of stories, poems, and meditations touches your soul and
refreshes your spirit with its gentle wisdom and simple beauty.
Evocative meditations will help you deepen your own connection to
the Earth and will open your heart to the glorious world we are
blessed to live in. Written by a shamanic healer and teacher who is
deeply in touch with nature, Walk Gently Upon the Earth will awaken
you to the living, vibrant beauty of this precious planet.
Description: The connections between religion and violence are
complex and multifaceted. From the conflicts in Middle East and the
Balkans to those in Southeast Asia and beyond, religion frames and
legitimates political violence. Moreover, in international
relations since 9/11, religious language and metaphors have
acquired a new significance. In this context the emerging consensus
appears to be not only that violence is intrinsic to religion, but
also that religions incite, legitimate, and intensify political
violence. However, such an unambiguous indictment of religions is
incomplete in that it fails both to appreciate significant counter
examples and to recognize the diversity that exists within
religions on the issue of violence, particularly the religious
roots of pacifism and the ethics of non-violence. This collection
explores aspects of this ambivalence between religion and violence.
It focuses on traditions of legitimation and pacifism within the
three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and
concludes with an examination of this ambivalence as it unfolds in
each tradition's engagement with the politics of gender.
Endorsements: ""The essays in this collection suggest that the
tasks of ameliorating irrational fears and encouraging the
recognition of irreducible interreligious complementarity are tasks
that can and should be shared by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam.
Moreover these traditions are replete with exemplars, both
historical and contemporary, who witness to the possibilities for
interreligious dialogue and understanding. For religious persons,
undoubtedly, these issues are particularly challenging since they
require us to confront the complexities and limitations of our own
traditions while also responding to their often-radical demands.
Yet in these complexities lie the possibilities for the religions
to develop a greater sense of mutual understanding, since it is in
these complexities that the commonalities between the religions on
the matter of political violence are found."" --from the
Introduction About the Contributor(s): Linda Hogan is Professor of
Ecumenics at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College,
Dublin. Dylan Lee Lehrke is a PhD candidate at the Irish School of
Ecumenics, Trinity College, Dublin. He also serves as Case Studies
Working Group Chief of Staff for the DC-based Project on National
Security Reform.
Though women have long felt kinship with animals, in the past, they seldom participated in the study of them. Now, as more women make animals the subject of their investigations, significant new ideas are emerging--based on the premise that animals are honored co-sharers of the earth. This unprecedented anthology features original stories, essays, meditations, and poems by a vast array of women nature writers and field scientists, including:
DIANE ACKERMAN - VIRGINIA COYLE - GRETEL EHRLICH - DIAN FOSSEY - TESS GALLAGHER - JANE GOODALL - TEMPLE GRANDIN - SUSAN GRIFFIN - JOY HARJO - BARBARA KINGSOLVER - URSULA LE GUIN - DENISE LEVERTOV - LINDA McCARRISTON - SUSAN CHERNAK McELROY - RIGOBERTA MENCHÚ - CYNTHIA MOSS - KATHERINE PAYNE - MARGE PIERCY - PATTIANN ROGERS - LINDA TELLINGTON-JONES - HAUNANI-KAY TRASK - GILLIAN VAN HOUTEN - TERRY TEMPEST WILLIAMS
What are the implications of adopting a primacy of praxis position
in feminist theology? How can we respect the diversity of women's
experience while retaining it as a useful analytic category? Do
these twin resources of women's experience and praxis together
imply that feminist theology is ultimately relativist? Through an
analysis of the work of some of today's key feminist theologians -
Christian, womanist and post-Christian - Linda Hogan considers
these and other methodological questions.
Dwellings of Enchantment: Writing and Reenchanting the Earth offers
ecocritical and ecopoetic readings that focus on multispecies
dwellings of enchantment and reenchant our rapport with the
more-than-human world. It sheds light on the marvelous
entanglements between humans and other life forms coexisting with
us-entanglements that, when fully perceived, call onto humans to
shift perspectives on both the causes and solutions to current
ecological crises. Working against the disenchantment of humans'
relationships with and perceptions of the world entailed by a
modern ontology, this book illustrates the power of ecopoetics to
attune humans to the vibrant matter both within and outside of us.
Braiding indigenous with non-indigenous worldviews, this book
tackles ecopoetics emerging from varying locations in the world. It
underscores the postmodernist, remythologizing processes going on
in many ecopoetic texts, via magical realist modes and mythopoeia.
This anthology of contemporary American poetry, short fiction, and
nonfiction, explores issues of identity, oppression, injustice, and
social change. Living American writers produced each piece between
1980 and the present; works were selected based on literary merit
and the manner in which they address one or more pressing social
issues. William Reichard has assembled some of the most respected
literary artists of our time, asking whose voices are ascendant,
whose silenced, and why. The work as a whole reveals shifting
perspectives and the changing role of writing in the social justice
arena over the last few decades.
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