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Review Of Alice Kang, Bargaining For Women’S Rights: Activism In An Aspiring Muslim Democracy, Jaimie Bleck

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

In Alice Kang’s Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy, readers are introduced to the contentious debates about the inclusion of women’s rights policy in Niger. Based on fourteen months of fieldwork, the author provides a vivid exploration of domestic politics as the Muslim-majority state negotiates its transition to democracy. Kang shows that political actors adopt some women’s rights policy, while simultaneously rejecting comparable legislation on women’s rights.

This book offers an important step forward for research trajectories that seriously consider domestic determinants of policy outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, but also Muslim-majority democracies more broadly.

Review Of Muslim Women In Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership, Representation And Social Change By Ousseina D. Alidou, And: Bargaining For Women’S Rights: Activism In An Aspiring Muslim Democracy By Alice J. Kang.", Lisa Mueller

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

Alidou offers an important lesson for scholars who study Muslim women in contemporary Africa: gender and religion are transnational identities, but “being a Muslim in a predominantly Muslim area has different implications for Muslim women and men than being a Muslim in a predominantly non- Muslim area” (103). This is an implicit invitation to read Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya alongside literature on regions of Africa where Muslim women are in the religious majority.

Enter Bargaining for Women’s Rights: Activism in an Aspiring Muslim Democracy by Alice J. Kang, who studies women in the context of Niger, a country whose …

Review Of Bargaining For Women’S Rights: Activism In An Aspiring Muslim Democracy By Alice J. Kang, Susanna D. Wing

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

Many people consider women’s rights and Muslim democracy as antithetical to each other. Conventional wisdom would have us believe that a Muslim majority country would be an unlikely place to see the adoption of women-friendly policies. In her terrific book, Bargaining for Women’s Rights, Alice Kang dispels this idea through her thoughtful research and richly nuanced analysis of negotiation over women’s rights reforms in Niger. She explains the variation in policy-making in Niger over time and argues that Islam per se is not the fundamental constraint to the adoption of women-friendly policies. Instead, mobilisation for or against policies, and the …

Representation And Governance In International Organizations, David P. Rapkin, Jonathan R. Strand, Michael W. Trevathan

Department of Political Science: Faculty Publications

What does representation mean when applied to international organizations? While many scholars working on normative questions related to global governance often make use of the concept of representation, few have addressed specifics of applying the concept to the rules and practices by which IOs operate. This article examines representation as a fundamental, albeit often neglected, norm of governance which, if perceived to be deficient or unfair, can interfere with other components of governance, as well as with performance of an organization’s core tasks by undermining legitimacy. We argue that the concept of representation has been neglected in the ongoing debates …

Chapter 5: Health Resources, Carol L. Watwood

DLPS Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Wire Netting Reduces African Elephant (Loxodonta Africana) Impact To Selected Trees In South Africa, Kelly Derham, Michelle Henley, Bruce A. Schulte

Biology Faculty Publications

African elephants (Loxodonta africana) are ecosystem engineers in that they substantially alter the environment through their unique foraging and feeding habits. At high densities, elephants potentially have negative impacts on the environment, specifically for large trees. Because of this, recent increases of elephants in the Associated Private Nature Reserves (APNR) on the western boundary of the Kruger National Park (KNP), South Africa, have caused concern regarding the survival of several tree species. Our objective was to assess the effectiveness of wrapping protective wire netting around the trunk of the tree for preventing and reducing bark stripping, branch breaking, …

Peeling The Onion: Satire And The Complexity Of Audience Response, Jane Fife

English Faculty Publications

Satire is a popular form of comedic social critique frequently theorized in terms of Kenneth Burke’s comic frame. While its humor and unexpected combination of incongruous elements can reduce tension that surrounds controversial issues to make new perspectives more accessible, audience response to satire can vary tremendously—including the very negative as well as the very positive. Teaching satire should include exposure to rhetorical theory and audience reception analysis to better prepare students as consumers and creators of satires. With a complex, layered pedagogy, satire can be an important component of the twenty-first-century rhetor’s toolkit.

Co-Creating A Social Work Apprenticeship With Disadvantaged African-American Youth: A Best Practices After School Curriculum, Jeffrey Bulanda, Desiree Tellis, Katherine Mccrea

Katherine Tyson McCrea

Co-creating an after school program with disadvantaged African-American youth between 2006-2011 resulted in a social work apprenticeship. In a participatory action, youth-led evaluation process, youth (N=203) prioritized positively impacting their communities, especially mentoring community children and promoting alternatives to community violence. Starting from the strengths perspective and self-determination theory, topics youth valued included human rights, peace-building, trauma and stress management, and mentoring. Knowledge about human development and interviewing helped youth experience the fulfillment of being mentors. A subsample (133) described what they learned about social work, and 43% of those reported an interest in pursuing a social work career.

When Traumatic Stressors Are Not Past, But Now: Psychosocial Treatment To Develop Resilience With Children And Youth Enduring Concurrent, Complex Trauma, Katherine Mccrea, Deanna Guthrie, Jeffrey Bulanda

Katherine Tyson McCrea

While providing school-based treatment for 450 urban impoverished children and youth from 2006-2014, we found implementing specific elements of PTSD treatment models reduced engagement and aggravated clients’ symptoms. Clients’ traumas were neither past nor single-type, but were multiple (complex) and unavoidably occurring concurrently with treatment, so we speculated that many trauma treatment elements needed revision to be effective. Using a participatory action research methodology, we developed a resilience-focused treatment model for concurrently-traumatized clients. Drawing from the strengths perspective, self-determination, and hope theories, key treatment elements revised here are triggers, re-enactment, avoidance, “silencing,” and dissociation. Treatment guidelines include creating a safe …

Undergraduate Intermediate Microeconomics (Econ 301), Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

Racially Polarized Voting, Kevin Quinn, Christopher Elmendorf, Marisa Abrajano

Kevin M. Quinn

No abstract provided.

Undergraduate Labor Economics (Econ 336), Matthew Freedman

Matthew Freedman

Associations Between Parental Concerns About Preschoolers’ Weight And Eating And Parental Feeding Practices: Results From Analyses Of The Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire, The Child Feeding Questionnaire, And The Lifestyle Behavior Checklist, Anna Ek, Kimmo Sorjonen, Karin Eli, Louise Lindberg, Jonna Nyman, Claude Marcus, Paulina Nowicka

Karin Eli

Solidarity Framing At The Union Of National And Transnational Public Spheres, Ann Williams

Ann E Williams

Diminished Neural Adaptation During Implicit Learning In Autism, Sarah Schipul, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

Structural And Functional Neuroplasticity In Human Learning Of Spatial Routes, Timothy Keller, Marcel Just

Marcel Adam Just

Five Reasons To Put The G Back Into Giftedness: An Argument For Applying The Cattell–Horn–Carroll Theory Of Intelligence To Gifted Education Research And Practice, Russell Warne

Russell T Warne

Anonymized Data Analyzed In Paula R. Dempsey And Heather Jagman. 2016. “I Felt Like Such A Freshman”: First-Year Students Crossing The Library Threshold. Portal: Libraries And The Academy 16.1: 89-107., Paula Dempsey, Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman

Open, Editable Ir Permissions Spreadsheet, Sarah Wipperman

Sarah Wipperman

“I Felt Like Such A Freshman:” Reflections On Depaul University Library’S Assessment In Action Project, Heather Jagman

Heather Jagman

No abstract provided.

Glis 649 W2016 Presentation On Metadata, Eun Park

Group 6 649

Searching Organizing And Citingsocialsciencesresources, Marissa Mourer, Katia Karadjova

Katia Karadjova

Does Studio Influence Rotten Tomatoes Critical Consensus?, John Ehrett

John Ehrett

Human Rights Contestations: Sexual Orientation And Gender Identity, Anthony Chase

Anthony Chase

Pyramid Scheme Membership In Networks: The Role Of Affinity, Education And Economic Conditions., Stacie Bosley

Stacie Bosley

Self-Other Disturbance In Borderline Personality Disorder: Neural, Self-Report, And Performance-Based Evidence, Michael Hallquist, Joesph Beeney, William Ellison, Kenneth Levy

William D Ellison

Violence And Birth Outcomes: Evidence From Homicides In Brazil, Martin Koppensteiner, Marco Manacorda

Martin Foureaux Koppensteiner

The Possibilities And Perils Of Academic Social Networking Sites, Ann Williams

Ann E Williams

E-Book Tune-Up: Maintaining, Sustaining And Expanding Your Demand Driven E-Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet Nazar, Michelle Desilets, Nathan Carlson

Caroline Mills

Digital Resources For Teaching With Primary Sources, Amy Chen

Amy H. Chen