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US History, Short not Sweet

August 31, 2014 by William Eaton

[print_link] [email_link]   From Peter Irons, A People’s History of the Supreme Court: No country on earth grew faster than the United States during the last four decades of the nineteenth century. Between 1860 and 1900 the nation’s population swelled from 31 to 75 million, . . . The number of farms grew from two million to six million, and the development of machines like combines, reapers, and harvesters turned barren land into “amber waves of grain”. . . . It […]

Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: American history, class warfare, farmers, law, slavery

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From economy to emotion: The changing value of children

May 12, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Jennifer A. Reich’s Fixing Families: Parents, Power, and the Child Welfare System is best know for its robust and compassionate analysis of child protection as a system. Yet in many ways, her book is also about the (ever-changing) value of parenting, families, childhood and childrearing. In just a few lines Reich, introduces the possibility that children’s value, once strictly economic, is now tied to emotional markers. She deconstructs current assumptions about family relationships to explain that: In the last one hundred years, children […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: childhood, children, families, family court, law, parenting

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The “P” Word: Final Reflections (V)

February 24, 2014 by Alexia Raynal

Mediated Pornography: Final Reflections (V) You don’t get to read much about Margaret Grebowicz’s personal stand on pornography in her book Why Internet Porn Matters. A committed philosopher herself, Grebowicz prefers to sit at the margins of the discussion and bring different perspectives into conflict. Her last chapter, “Pornography, Norms, and Sex Education,” is perhaps the only one to feature a strong personal and political view. In it, Grebowicz asks whether Internet pornography might, in fact, have a didactic impact: One significant […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: education, gender, law, philosophy, pornography, sexuality, technology

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Reading: 21-27 July 2013

July 24, 2013 by Jennifer Dean

Jennifer Dean, Zeteo Contributor [One in an ongoing series of posts. For the full series see Zeteo is Reading.] 23 July 2013 After reading numerous perspectives on the Florida v. George Zimmerman trial – thanks to a friend on Facebook who also happens to be an attorney – I read an article from The New Yorker which poses the question “What Should Trayvon Martin Have Done?” Of course the answer to the question reveals what side of the conflict you […]

Categories: ZiR • Tags: documentaries, Florida, law, New Yorker, Supreme Court, torture

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Memory Stor(i)es

October 9, 2012 by sjzeteo2015

Memory Stor(i)es By Stuart Johnson Stories of actual real-world controversies over the nature of memory, with actual real-world consequences, sometimes life and death. But by the end, memory remains remarkably elusive—as elusive as le temps perdu. A review of Alison Winter, Memory: Fragments of a Modern History (University of Chicago Press, 2012) Image is of “Cairn” by the ceramicist Eric Knoche. Used with the permission of the artist.   One might expect that a book entitled Memory: Fragments of a Modern […]

Categories: Review • Tags: Eric Knoche, law, memory

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Mobility: 16-22 Sept 2012 (ZiR)

September 17, 2012 by Alexia Raynal

From Alexia Raynal, Zeteo Assistant Editor 16 September 2012 I would like to begin this week of reading by calling attention to one of Kitty Calavita’s most recent books: Invitation to Law and Society (University of Chicago Press, 2010.) There, Calavita argues that legal constructions shape human behavior, and, in turn, human behavior shapes legal constructions. As I was reading her friendly “invitation,” I came to wonder if non-legal citizens can also shape the way that a country creates legal constructions. […]

Categories: Alexia Raynal, ZiR • Tags: beliefs, Hispanic, immigration, journalism, law, objectivity, sociology, war

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Zeteo is for people who are readers, lookers, listeners, thinkers. Increasingly we are interested in short texts that call attention to other texts, works of art or music that deserve more attention than they are getting. And we are interested similarly in historical phenomena, ignored aspects of contemporary life, . . . We look forward to hearing about your ideas, your reading, what you’ve seen . . .

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