Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The political realm, even the democratic one that is based on the equality of free citizens, easily lapses into an exclusive space if its existence depends upon the boundaries that distinguish its own members from others. The history of democracy might be said to be the history of exclusion since the ancient Greek city-states. This paper examines the crucial insight of Arendt that lies in her idiosyncratic quotation from Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus in the end of On Revolution, which has been widely believed to be reliable evidence of her strong affection for the Greek city-state, and argues that what Arendt means by the word 'polis' is not the Athenian city-state which maintains the public realm by the strict discrimination of its members from others but the space of appearance which comes into being wherever men are together in the manner of speech and action even if they are strangers. In fact, Arendt regards Sophocles' tragic drama on the dying Oedipus as the s tory of Athenians and foreigners in exile acting together to found a new relationship between them after their chance encounter outside the walls of Athens. These arguments will clarify the meaning of 'natality', which is the key concept of Arendt's political theory, sharply distinguished from the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, who draws the essence of human being as 'being toward death' out of Sophocles' Antigone, and will illuminate its great potentialities for those who grapple with the problem of freedom and exclusion in contemporary democratic societies.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: We utilized qualitative and quantitative approaches to examine how appearance-related communications within one’s family relate to eating pathology and internalization of cultural appearance norms. College women completed standardized measures of these factors and responded to open-ended questions regarding appearance-related communication within the family. Findings are examined within a feminist framework.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Abstract: The national space policy of the United States differs from the space policies of other nations because of its explicit goal that the US remain ?the leader? in humanity?s exploration of the cosmos.  The analysis that follows seeks to explain this emphasis and contends that it is a product of American political ideology.  Although US space policy gained momentum and matured during the ?space race? of the Cold War, the US response to the more visible Soviet accomplishments in space were defined more by American political culture and ideology than by other factors.  Indeed, the end of the Cold War space race did not lead to the adoption of a more modest objective.  Rather, this ambitious goal remains the focal point of US space policy because of a need to sustain a particular collective ?self-image?.The analysis that follows will first illustrate how US space policy is unique by comparing its goals with those of other space-faring nations.  The analysis will then relate the emphasis on being ?the leader? in US space policy in American political ideology and can be traced to the rise of the US as a world power in the early twentieth century. The paper will then illustrate how the need to sustain this American self-image has determined both the rhetoric and the substance of US space policy.  Finally, the analysis will consider how an alternative perspective would account for this goal of being ?the leader? and substantive outcomes in US space policy, specifically the perspective of structural realist theory.  This theoretical perspective does not consider factors such as political ideology to be significant in determining the policies of a state.   While structural realism can explain some aspects of US space policy, several significant and substantive elements of the US space program cannot be explained without acknowledging the influence of American political ideology and the country?s collective self-image.

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The paper examines the portrayal of ethnic minorities in Chinese official news media People's Daily, and we identify variations in both the level of annual coverage devoted to minority communities as well as the themes emphasized in these news reports.

Publication Type: Abstract
Abstract: I will offer a few introductory comments and then use my presentation time to engage in dialogue with those in attendance about carbon mitigation options, technology, policy actors, environmental politics, etc.. with the aim being collective identification of research questions.

I am sick in bed with the flu, Courtney. I understand I can edit this online in coming days/weeks. Please regard this as a kind of placeholder. Based on last year's experience, I do not want a roundtable, but rather a standard slot in a paper session.