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Abstract: This paper examines struggles over development through an engagement with competing conceptions of emancipation and their underlying epistemological premises. I adopt this approach to illustrate the extent to which “routinized” conceptions of development

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Abstract: Explore the many ways that idioms can be used to bring Spanish to life for teenagers. Examine the similarities and differences in Spanish and English languages and how idioms are used in both cultures. Participants will engage in hands-on as well as group activities to make connections and become better communicators using idioms.

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Abstract: Research has suggested communication will change as romantic partners move from stages of escalation to deescalation stages, however this has not been examined quantitatively. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between idiomatic communication and Knapp�s stages of escalation and deescalation. The results of the study (N = 245) found that couples in deescalation stages utilize fewer idioms than couples in the escalation stages, and escalating and deescalating couples differ in the frequency at which they use idioms. Couples in deescalating stages use confrontational idioms that have more negative effects more often than escalating couples, and men and women differ on their perceptions of two functions: confrontations and requests. Finally, the use of idiomatic communication is significantly related to solidarity, relational satisfaction, and affective orientation.

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Abstract: Religion has come to increasingly challenge the categories and relations we associate with the march of progress and development. In the 1950s, religiously defined states, characterized by an ideology of backwardness, were confronted by the demands of a development project that sought to displace this regulatory regime with the values associated with an ethics premised on individualism and competition. Interventions that promoted these values were organized around what Rogers? would refer to as the diffusion of innovation, mass communications, and achievement motivation. These ideals and programs sought to mediate the place of religion in the body politic. In some ways, this was accomplished within a modernist logic of separate spheres ? public and private ? that contributed to reorganizing critical aspects of social life. However, rather than subvert or displace religion as a key organizing principle, these interventions led instead to its articulation as challenges posed by nationalism and the umma coupled with new relations of local governance. The emergent idioms of mobilization and rule that followed have challenged the regulatory regimes of the current global development project premised on the principles of liberal democracy, particularly its bases in universalism and, more recently, its abrogation of the value of state sovereignty. These transformations and relations of social regulation will be interrogated historically building on selected contributions on governmentality and those offered by feminist IR and feminist readings of the development/ globalization project.

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Abstract: In this paper I present a framework for approaching "emotional state behavior." I apply this framework to the post-September 11th behavior of Russia and China.