Bøker utgitt av Amamah Alkhadrawi

This dissertation explores how younger generations of Black feminists interpret,collaborate with, and engage with the ideas and ideals of their so-called "Second Wave"Black feminist fore-sisters. Many of these women, including Alice Walker, BarbaraSmith, Michele Wallace, bell hooks, Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Angela Davis, and JohnnettaCole, remain enormously influential and continue to organize, write, teach, and produceart and scholarship. The late Audre Lorde, the "black, lesbian, warrior, poet, mother"who integrally claimed and celebrated all of her differences is arguably one of theworld's most revered and cited Black feminist theorists in this the 86th anniversary of herbirth. Intergenerational Black feminists-and people of all colors throughout the world-study, celebrate, and teach her words and ideas. Throughout this study, I consider howLorde's ideas are a touchstone for intergenerational Black feminist activism and culturalproduction in the new millennium. My research lies at the intersection of AfricanAmerican feminism, cultural studies, Women of Color feminisms, and Black QueerStudies. I engage with scholarship in the arenas of literary criticism, history, cinema,visual culture, political science, philosophy, sociology, as well as legal scholars of theCritical Race Movement. I also consider my own location within this debate.

As political crises and social unrest proliferate worldwide, the appeal of populism growssteadily in various fora, including academic fora. In this respect, an abundance of scholarlypublications has sought, through the study of populism, to unravel important aspects ofcontemporary political and social dynamics. Discourse theory scholars, in particular, haveplayed an important role in pushing the boundaries of populism studies forward. They havechallenged objectivist perspectives in the (social) sciences by foregrounding the role ofmeaning-making and by treating populism as a discursive logic that better characterises thepolitical (dis)articulation of social reality. In situating its analytical focus at the frontier ofpopulism studies, this paper-based dissertation contributes to this literature from both anempirical and a theoretical point of view.Through the four papers which make up this thesis, I contribute to discourse theory bypresenting three main lines of analysis in the study of populism in Brazil, a case that isfrequently referenced but which remains under-explored. Firstly, by exploring Brazil's fourthrepublican period (1946-1964), this thesis shows how populism is best understood as both aconcept and a signifier, revealing the way the dynamic interplay of populism discourses shapeour sense of social reality. Secondly, by studying a leading magazine with an upmarketreadership in Brazil (Veja), I explore the affective force running through anti-populistdiscursive articulations, affirming the value of the category of fantasy from an empirical andanalytical point of view. Thirdly, by focusing on the collective candidacy of the BancadaAtivista in the Sao Paulo State elections, I explore the potential of the concept of populism,conceived as a logic, to shed light on aspects of political life beyond populist phenomena

Free will skepticism denies that humans possess the type of freedom required for moralresponsibility (FMR). While not the most popular position in scientific, philosophical, ormainstream communities, I contend that this lack of acceptance is due not to flaws inherent inthe position, but to misconceptions concerning its ethical and practical implications. In mydissertation, I endorse free will skepticism, beginning with a refutation of contrary positions,followed by a response to objections, and ending with a defense of social reforms necessitated bythe denial of free will. Ultimately, I support Derk Pereboom's optimism that a global acceptanceof free will skepticism would result in societies that are more moral, beneficial, and just thanthose which perpetuate the illusion of free will.Because of flaws in the alternative positions, I argue that free will skepticism is the mostfeasible view to hold regarding free will. Libertarianism, which denies causal determinism andpurports that humans possess FMR, is not compatible with our current scientific understandingof the universe. On the other hand, while compatibilism accepts causal determinism, it retainsfree will only by relaxing the requirements for it. I explain why accepting a position contrary toscience, or accepting weakened definitions of freedom, is both untenable and unnecessary.

A novel interpretation of Heidegger's project in thelate twenties and of its breakdown and transformation around the turn of thedecade. I argue that Heidegger develops a unified project in the late Marburgperiod that is constructed around the question of the unity of the concept ofbeing in light of its regional multiplicity. Furthermore, I argue that Heidegger'sconception of the framework of this project is highly influenced by his receptionof Kant in this same period. Specifically, I identify the elements of the Kantianframework that Heidegger retains and appropriates for his project, as well asthose elements that he rejects. In the former case, Heidegger takes up primarilyKant's framework of a priori transcendental conditions that are to makeempirical experience possible, which Heidegger reformulates in terms of the preunderstandingof being that makes possible the apprehension of entities. In thelatter case, I isolate two primary criticisms that will serve as desiderata for theexecution of Heidegger's project, namely: that the categories have an excessivelysubjectivistic status, and that they are based solely on logical functions ofjudgement. The former constitutes a problem because the location of thecategories on the subject side makes difficult their applicability to the objectiverealm, and lead Heidegger to reject both the quid juris form of posing thequestion as well as the results of the transcendental deduction in general.

The purpose of this dissertation is to discover how the myth of gender differences in STEM inform the lived experiences of male and female 12th graders in one high school in Northwest Ohio. Over the years, the observed gender gap favoring males over females in STEM ability has closed, and female students have even surpassed males in some measures. The fact that girls have met and exceeded boys in many measures of STEM ability over time suggests that the historical disparity was the result of social or psychological, and not biological, differences. Even though schools have changed throughout the years to accommodate and encourage female students in STEM, there is still a persistent disparity in participation at the highest levels of STEM in education and in careers. Males still outnumber females in the more mathematical and technical sciences, such as computer science and engineering. This study applied feminist socialization theory and phenomenology as its theoretical framework. The biggest themes that informed student's choices and preferences were as follows: intended choices follow family influence, myth persists in subtle ways, teenagers have a limited future view, and the chicken and the egg issues of personal interests versus social influence. There are