Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16359777893946
S. J. Cohen
The article discusses the strong and enduring connection between male circumcision and the Jewishness of men. However, paradoxically, Jewish women are Jews in spite of the absence of circumcision or any other bodily marker. The article also discusses the parity between male and female circumcision, and its implications.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16330991487067
Steffen Bo Jensen, Nanna Schneidermann
What can surviving in Overcome Heights teach us about the concept of crisis? In the multiethnicinformal settlement in Cape Town, residents faced multiple and continuously unfoldingemergencies during our ethnographic, participatory fieldwork in 2018 and 2019. By taking aninductive approach to crisis, we explore the layered nature of crisis and foreground a sensitivitytowards how differently positioned actors have distinct modes of being the protagonists of,confronting or engaging with crisis. By examining how intersecting inequalities on themargins of the city place people sometimes within and sometimes alongside crisis, we sketchout three different scales and temporalities of crisis: individual, communal and crisis as largescalehistorical structures. Understanding survival in Overcome Heights as lives lived in andalongside crisis means resisting neat theorical definitions of crisis. Rather, we suggest that itmay be an analytical heuristic to pose new questions as to how phenomena that may politically,institutionally and temporally be considered as separate intersect, compounding their negativeeffects, and how actors within these intersections are positioned differently along spatial linesand the temporal rhythms of urban life.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16431423735159
Ulrich J. Frey, Jazmin Burgess
Climate change is perhaps the biggest challenge of our times. In order to cope with it, we have to organise action collectively. The most important way to cooperate globally is through United Nations negotiations, known as ‘conferences of the parties’. However, progress has been very slow, and disillusionment with the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change process has set in. From a scientific point of view, several obstacles surfacing in these negotiations have been well researched. Institutional analysis may provide suggestions or even solutions to some of these problems. Hence, we think that the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change negotiations could profit from scientific support. We provide scientific background for three prominent problems: how to reconcile different interests in a global public goods situation; how to ameliorate the consensus decision-making process; and how to design institutions to implement resolutions. Enhancing communication, trust and fairness, and enforcing sanctions, are suggested as key elements for that. Finally, we point to similar processes that have been brought to a successful end.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16320620457738
Ipek Türeli
Focusing on the architecture of three co-ops in Montreal established to support women in the 1978–88 period, this article examines the relationship between empowerment and design in the context of gender-conscious cooperative housing. Deindustrialisation from the 1960s was coupled with downtown renewal, which effectively meant many lowincome, working-class neighbourhoods were wholesale cleared for new projects. The housing cooperative emerged as a viable model to protect access to housing. Against this backdrop, women in various government and non-profit positions helped each other and other women in precarious housing situations to establish housing co-ops for women. Feminist proponents of permanent and affordable women’s housing argued that housing was central to women’s emancipation, that is, to the designing of ‘non-sexist’ cities. The article treats the built environment of the co-ops as evidence to study if and how residents transformed their surroundings, and complements this with qualitative interviews with former and current residents to understand how the physical environment has, in turn, shaped their lives. While the co-op movement characterises itself as a type of solidarity network with open membership, the quality of architecture, or the deficiency thereof, in a social environment with already scarce resources can lead to tensions among memberresidents. However, the historical housing co-ops, as well as ongoing initiatives to establish new women’s co-ops, demonstrate the need and desire to pursue intersectional housing justice via the cooperative model, and the article’s findings point to the need for increased attention to and investment in architectural design.Key messagesIn the 1970s and 1980s, feminist scholars of the built environment argued that affordable and supportive housing was central to women’s emancipation, that is, to the designing of ‘nonsexist’ cities. To date, a systematic study of gender-conscious affordable housing projects is missing from the literature.While in the US, it was the community development corporations through which early experiments in housing for women were realised, in Canada, it was the shared-ownership, member-resident cooperative model to which women turned to.Earlier, large-scale cases of housing co-ops in Montreal were outcomes of resident mobilisation against developers and state-led gentrification; however, the members of women’s co-ops were typically recruited via women’s networks, and building sites were selected following co-op formation. The latter co-ops were built with low budgets, eschewing a participatory design process, construction quality and communal spaces that could have fostered mutual aid networks.While the co-op movement characterises itself as a type of solidarity network with open membership, the quality of architecture, or the deficiency thereof, in a social environment with already scarce resources can lead to tensions among member-residents. Case studies show that th
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16334660756430
A. Padela
Professor Richard Shweder’s target article, ‘The prosecution of Dawoodi Bohra women: some reasonable doubts’, lays bare the ways in which political motivations influence moral, ethical and legal deliberations over female genital cutting/circumcision in society. He argues that activist stakeholders deploy a provocative lexicon and biased clinical data in order to silence dissenting views about, and legally restrict the practice of, female genital cutting/ circumcision. He suggests that a more balanced approach to discourse and more nuanced data analysis would open up avenues for tolerating religiously motivated female genital procedures carried out among Dawoodi Bohra communities residing in liberal democracies. Building upon his sociocultural analysis, this reply will explore the confluence of biomedical, theological and political considerations influencing contemporary Islamic bioethical discussion over the practice. I use my participation in the 2017–19 Fiqh Council of North America’s deliberations over female genital cutting to explore how (1) biomedical understandings and health outcomes data, (2) theological concerns over scriptural evidence and juridical best practices, and (3) political and social considerations influenced religious evaluation of the practice. I contend that Islamic juridical academies pursuing bioethical deliberation are not (and should not consider themselves to be) engaging in the routine application of scriptural reasoning in order to furnish guidance to a Muslim polity; rather, bioethics questions are necessarily layered with social and political considerations that require focused examination. This added dimensionality underscores the need for Islamic bioethics deliberation to move beyond the dyad of clinicians and jurists, and to include social scientists, public policy experts and other relevant scholars in order to properly conceive of and address the ethical problem space. Moreover, in the case of female genital cutting/circumcision, the bioethics veers towards biopolitics, making multidisciplinary deliberation all the more important in both religious and secular spaces.Key messagesFemale genital cutting/circumcision is a practice that has biomedical, social and religious dimensions.Moral, ethical, legal and political deliberation over female genital cutting/circumcision should account for the contentions and ambiguities over each of these dimensions of female genital cutting/circumcision.Islamic bioethical deliberation is more than just scriptural hermeneutics and searching for legal precedent; rather, it involves characterising the problem space along its biomedical, theological, social and political dimensions.Multidisciplinary approaches must therefore be used to accurately describe and address the ethical problem space that female genital cutting/circumcision occupies in both religious and secular contexts.
Richard Shweder教授的目标文章，“对Dawoodi Bohra妇女的起诉:一些合理的怀疑”，揭示了政治动机如何影响社会中对女性生殖器切割/割礼的道德，伦理和法律审议。他认为，激进的利益相关者利用煽动性的词汇和有偏见的临床数据，以压制对女性生殖器切割/割礼的不同意见，并在法律上限制这种做法。他建议，一种更平衡的话语方式和更细致的数据分析，将为容忍居住在自由民主国家的Dawoodi Bohra社区中出于宗教动机的女性生殖器手术开辟道路。以他的社会文化分析为基础，本文将探讨影响当代伊斯兰生物伦理讨论的生物医学、神学和政治因素的汇合。我利用我参与的2017-19年北美Fiqh理事会关于女性生殖器切割的审议来探索(1)生物医学理解和健康结果数据，(2)对圣经证据和司法最佳实践的神学关注，以及(3)政治和社会考虑如何影响对实践的宗教评估。我认为，追求生物伦理思考的伊斯兰司法学院并没有(也不应该认为自己是)为了给穆斯林政体提供指导而从事圣经推理的常规应用;相反，生物伦理学问题必然包含社会和政治方面的考虑，需要重点研究。这一增加的维度强调了伊斯兰生物伦理审议需要超越临床医生和法学家的二元对立，而包括社会科学家、公共政策专家和其他相关学者，以便正确地设想和解决伦理问题空间。此外，在女性生殖器切割/割礼的情况下，生命伦理学转向了生命政治，使得多学科的审议在宗教和世俗空间中都更加重要。女性生殖器切割/包皮环切是一种具有生物医学、社会和宗教层面的做法。关于女性生殖器切割/包皮环切的道德、伦理、法律和政治审议应该考虑到女性生殖器切割/包皮环切的每个这些方面的争论和含糊不清。伊斯兰的生命伦理审议不仅仅是圣经解释学和寻找法律先例;相反，它涉及到沿着生物医学、神学、社会和政治维度描述问题空间。因此，必须使用多学科方法来准确描述和解决女性生殖器切割/割礼在宗教和世俗背景下所占据的伦理问题空间。
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16367189753945
Jenny Morris
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16322867806753
S. Marella, K. Priya, Pooja Vincia D’Souza
Paying guest accommodations are an informal, yet organically organised, segment of the rental housing market in India. Offering inexpensive housing, paying guest accommodations mainly cater to young adults who migrate to cities, primarily for education or employment. However, this affordability and viability often comes at the cost of decent living conditions. The COVID-19-induced lockdown has exacerbated the precariousness of such accommodation at a time when adequate housing can play a pivotal role in mitigating the spread of infection. Based on qualitative research conducted in Bengaluru, India, this article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on tenant well-being and the shifting relationship between tenants and operators in paying guest accommodations. The analysis of narratives collected from the tenants and operators of paying guest accommodations reveals the following: first, in addition to the closures of paying guest accommodations and evictions of tenants, the lockdown led to a deterioration in the overall living conditions in these accommodations; second, in many cases, tenants had to compromise on adequacy and safety for affordability and viability, which exacerbated the negative effects on their well-being; third, the operators of paying guest accommodations faced severe economic and psychological stress during the lockdown, partly as a result of being invisible to policy; and, fourth, the relationships between the tenants operators of paying guest accommodations – a key factor shaping the overall experience of living in a paying guest accommodation – took a largely negative turn during the pandemic. This article brings to light an under-studied but important form of affordable rental housing, and serves as a much-needed starting point for future research.Key messagesThe article brings to light an under-studied but important form of affordable rental housing in India.The article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the paying guest accommodation sector and its actors.The article brings to the forefront the role of the operators of paying guest accommodations, who are often invisible to policy.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16334429502843
J. Hearn
This article derives from considering the interrelations of two sets of long-term international work: that on interdisciplinary crisis studies and that on critical studies on men and masculinities. More specifically, it interrogates the place and potential of crisis and crises in the politics and problematics of men and masculinities, including how crisis can be a driver of critical studies on men and masculinities. Further to this, four main forms of deployment of crisis within critical studies on men and masculinities are interrogated. There is a wellelaborated debate on what has come to be called ‘the crisis of masculinity’. Interestingly, this takes very different shapes, sometimes even opposite constructions, in different parts of the world and within different discourses. Even with this diversity, crisis is often presented as ‘fact’, identity and a result of ‘role confusion’ for boys, young men and men around what it might mean to be a boy and man in contemporary times. This approach contrasts with those foregrounding more endogenous crisis tendencies, first, within patriarchal relations and then of gender itself, with associated deconstructions of men and masculinity. Meanwhile, within critical studies on men and masculinities, there has been a relative neglect, at least until recently, of large-scale global crises. Key examples include financial crisis, political crisis, ecological crisis and pandemic crisis. In short, there appears to have been over-recognition of the ‘crisis of masculinity’, some recognition of crisis tendencies of patriarchal relations and of gender, and under-recognition of crises created or reinforced largely by certain men and masculinities globally and transnationally.
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16361544537306
J. Bjarnesen
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Pub Date : 2022-01-01DOI: 10.1332/204378921x16255844555932
Carlos David Londoño Sulkin
People do the kinds of things with vulvas and penes that they do with other meaningful forms: they include them directly or indirectly in meaningful gestures—by showing, hiding, touching, or altering their appearance, or by speaking about them—to establish and negotiate and sometimes end relationships, to express or live up to a certain picture of the kinds of persons they are or ought or desire to be, and to make claims about the world. The meanings of semiotic deployments involving genitals are tied to people’s lives among other people, in particular personal and historical circumstances. They are multiple, varied, social, intensely personal, and contingent—in a word, they are relative—as are the moral, aesthetic, and epistemic criteria with which we and others gauge them.
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