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Sensible Politics

Visualizing International Relations

By: William A. Callahan

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Sensible Politics

Visualizing International Relations

By: William A. Callahan

Visual images are everywhere in international politics. But how are we to understand them? In Sensible Politics, William A. Callahan uses his expertise in theory and filmmaking to explore not only what visuals mean, but also how visuals can viscerally move and connect us in "affective communities of sense." The book's rich analysis of visual images (photographs, film, art) and visual artifacts (maps, veils, walls, gardens, cyberspace) shows how critical scholarship needs to push beyond issues of identity and security to appreciate the creative politics of social-ordering and world-ordering. Here "sensible politics" isn't just sensory, but looks beyond icons and ideology to the affective politics of everyday life. It challenges our Eurocentric understanding of international politics by exploring the meaning and impact of visuals from Asia and the Middle East. Sensible Politics offers a unique approach to politics that allows us to not only think visually, but also feel visually-and creatively act visually for a multisensory appreciation of politics.

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0190071737

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China

The Pessoptimist Nation

By: William A. Callahan

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China

The Pessoptimist Nation

By: William A. Callahan

China is fast becoming the next superpower - a rise that presents a challenge to the world economically, politically and culturally. Drawing on extensive new Chinese sources, Professor Callahan sheds fascinating light on how Chinese people understand their changing place, and what that might mean for the world.

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Oxford University Press

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0199604398

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China Dreams

20 Visions of the Future

By: William A. Callahan

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China Dreams

20 Visions of the Future

By: William A. Callahan

To understand how China is shaping the twenty-first century, William Callahan's China Dreams eavesdrops on conversations between officials, scholars, bloggers, novelists, film-makers and artists. Rather than pitting Confucian China against the democratic west, Callahan weaves Chinese and American ideals together to describe a new "Chimerican dream".

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Oxford University Press

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0190235233

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Writing the Voice of Pleasure

Heterosexuality without Women

By: A. Callahan

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Writing the Voice of Pleasure

Heterosexuality without Women

By: A. Callahan

The Voice of Pleasure makes a persuasive and fascinating argument that the romantic couple of Western representation is not heterosexual. Nor is it homosexual. With insightful new readings of landmarks of Western culture from Tristan and Yseut to Seinfeld , Callahan demonstrates that the illusion of heterosexuality is created by a male artist's assumption of a feminine voice to express desire. Named the 'troubadour effect' for the first time here, this tradition of male femininity in romantic writing results in a cultural model of desire best described as 'heterosexuality without women.' The most compelling aspect of the book is its attention to the effect of this paradox on women writers. Illuminating her argument with striking examples from the 'troubairitz' to Toni Morrison, the author shows how women writers inscribe their 'vagabondage,' a term she coins to name the consequences of the 'troubadour effect' for women's agency, as both writers and lovers.

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Springer

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0312299141

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9780312299149

Cumulative Risk Assessment

Mini-Monograph: A Reprint from Environmental Health Perspectives

By: Michael A. Callahan Ken Sexton

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Cumulative Risk Assessment

Mini-Monograph: A Reprint from Environmental Health Perspectives

By: Michael A. Callahan Ken Sexton

Cumulative risk refers to the combined threats from exposure via all relevant routes to multiple stressors incl. biological, chemical, physical, & psycho-social entities. Cumulative risk assessment (CRA) is a tool for organizing & analyzing info. to examine, characterize, & quantify the combined adverse effects on human health or ecologic resources from multiple environ. stressors. Essays in this vol. include: (1) If CRA Is the Answer, What Is the Question?; (2) A Phased Approach for Assessing Combined Effects from Multiple Stressors; (3) Vulnerability as a Function of Individual & Group Resources in CRA; (4) Assessing Cumulative Health Risks from Exposure to Environmental Mixtures -- Three Fundamental Questions; & (5) Using Biomarkers to Inform CRA.

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DIANE Publishing

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1422309355

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9781422309353

Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia

By: William A. Callahan

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Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia

By: William A. Callahan

This text examines the politics of culture and the culture of politics in Pacific Asia through case studies on the South Pacific, China, South Korea, Thailand and Southeast Asia. The contexts and cultures of the chapters are wide-ranging and Callahan skilfully ties them together with the objective of analyzing the relation between the state’s cultural governance and resistance to it. The themes covered include: governmentality and cultural production popular culture and resistance East/West relations gender, identity and democracy civil society, social movements and democracy national and transnational identity production. Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia addresses the dynamics between Asian studies and cultural studies, and the overlap between comparative politics and international relations, and as such will appeal to students and scholars of Asian studies, cultural studies, comparative politics, sociology and anthropology alike.

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Routledge

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1134203667

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Fifty Years of Findings from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education

By: Joseph S. Gonnella,Clara A. Callahan,J. Jon Veloski,Jennifer DeSantis,Mohammadreza Hojat

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Fifty Years of Findings from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education

By: Joseph S. Gonnella,Clara A. Callahan,J. Jon Veloski,Jennifer DeSantis,Mohammadreza Hojat

This book assembles research findings accumulated over the span of half a century from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study (JLS). This study, initiated in 1970, is the most comprehensive, extensive, and uninterrupted longitudinal study of medical students and graduates maintained in a single medical school. The study was based on the conviction that medical schools have a social responsibility and ethical obligation to monitor the quality of their educational programs, to assess their educational outcomes, and to ensure that their educational goals have been achieved for the purposes of public safety. The JLS has resulted in a large number of publications in professional peer-reviewed journals and presentations in national and international meetings. Some medical schools have expressed interest in learning more about the JLS, requesting copies of the instruments we used in the study, information about how to set up a longitudinal study of medical education, and other needed resources. In response to a request from Academic Medicine [2011, 86(3), p. 404], we prepared and published in that journal a schematic snapshot of the JLS for those interested in a model for the development of a longitudinal study of medical students and graduates. The JLS is well-known to the medical education research communities. A recent Google search using keywords “Jefferson Longitudinal Study” resulted in 1,550,000 hits, an indication of its broad popularity among researchers. At the present time, the JLS database contains academic information, assessments, and educational and career outcomes for 13,343 medical students and graduates of Sidney Kimmel (formerly Jefferson) Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University. There are presently 502 variables in the JLS analytic database. This book presents a collection of 207 abstracts of major publications from peerreviewed journals, books, and book chapters in which data and information from the JLS were used. In this book, we classified the abstracts, based on their primary contents, into the following categories: Admissions of the Applicants to Medical School (e.g., standardized tests, academic preparation, other admission variables). Demographic Composition (e.g., gender, age, race/ethnicity). Performance Evaluations in Medical School (e.g., preclinical and clinical phases). Postgraduate and Career (e.g., assessment of clinical competence in residency training, career choice, specialization, professional activities). Psychosocial Attributes (e.g., personal qualities, indicators of physical and mental well-being). Professionalism (e.g., assessment of elements of professionalism in medicine, such as clinical empathy, attitudes toward interprofesssional collaboration, and orientation.

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3030853799

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Advancing Effective Obesity Communications

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Food and Nutrition Board,Roundtable on Obesity Solutions

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Advancing Effective Obesity Communications

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Health and Medicine Division,Food and Nutrition Board,Roundtable on Obesity Solutions

On September 16, 2019, the Roundtable on Obesity Solutions of the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, held a public workshop, Advancing Effective Obesity Communications, in Washington, DC. The workshop explored effective communication of obesity-related issues by providing an overview of the current communications environment and addressing the complexity of identifying key audiences and developing targeted messages. Speakers discussed communications strategies to reach specific intermediary audiences, such as the public, decision makers, and policy makers. The workshop also explored challenges in communicating about obesity issues, which include aligning the intended meaning of messages with an individual's perception of and response to those messages, addressing obesity bias and stigma through communications, and addressing misinformation. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions that occurred at the workshop.

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0309495520

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9780309495523

Imagining Democracy

Reading "the Events of May" in Thailand

By: William A. Callahan

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Imagining Democracy

Reading "the Events of May" in Thailand

By: William A. Callahan

This book is a collection of stories about the events of May 1992, which were told as part of a wide discussion and debate about "democracy" in Thailand. It was not written as a search for the essential truth about the May massacre as to see how these discourses shape our understanding of the workings of politics -- and thus produce truths about Thai politics. The author argues that much of the meaning of the stories comes not from the facts themselves, but from the discursive economies of the text, how the text was produced and exchanged as a social activity. This narrative approach to Thai politics is timely because the events of May 1992 were the first popular movement to follow the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which in turn constituted a crisis for social science that relied so heavily on the bipolar methodology that attended the bipolar world-view of the Cold War.

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Institute of Southeast Asian Studies

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9813055642

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9789813055643

Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia

By: William A. Callahan

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Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia

By: William A. Callahan

This title was first published in 2000: Corruption has become a major issue in East and Southeast Asia since the financial crisis of 1997, leading to widespread political change across the region. But political corruption is not a new issue in Southeast Asia. As Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia shows through in-depth studies of Thailand and the Philippines, political corruption has been a major point of contention within South East Asian countries for decades.

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1351783092

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Contingent States

Greater China and Transnational Relations

By: William A. Callahan

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Contingent States

Greater China and Transnational Relations

By: William A. Callahan

In the 1990s, Greater China became the subject of debate as the site of either the danger of the “China threat” or the promise of Confucian capitalism. William A. Callahan argues that Greater China presents challenges not only to economic and political order but also to international relations theory. In fact, Greater China, though absent from geopolitical maps and international law, is very much present in economic and cultural exchange and exemplifies the contingent state of international politics. Callahan deconstructs the mainstream geopolitical and political-economic understandings of Greater China, tracing its emergence through an ethnographic analysis of four political “problems” in East Asia: the South China Sea disputes, Sino-Korean relations, the return of Hong Kong, and cross-straits relations. Callahan shows how bureaucrats, outlaws, tycoons, academics, workers, politicians, and hooligans alike produce Greater China through networks of relations in local, national, regional, global, and transnational space. Finally, Contingent States reveals how each of the “problems” provoked theoretical innovations that depart from standard conceptions of sovereignty, democracy, and the nation-state.William A. Callahan is senior lecturer of international politics and deputy director of the Center for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Durham, England, and the author of Imagining Democracy: Reading “The Events of May” in Thailand and Pollwatching, Elections, and Civil Society in Southeast Asia.

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U of Minnesota Press

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0816644004

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Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: Engineering National Academies of Sciences (and Medicine)

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Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: Engineering National Academies of Sciences (and Medicine)

The increasing prevalence and burden of obesity transcends borders, straining populations worldwide. Data shows that 50 million girls, 74 million boys, 390 million women, and 281 million men were estimated to have obesity in 2016 (NCD-RisC, 2017). The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a workshop on October 9, 2018 to address the status of the global obesity pandemic and discuss diverse approaches to manage this problem. Speakers examined the collective prevalence, costs, and drivers of obesity around the world using cross-cultural comparisons. Panels and group discussions emphasized the need to reduce disparities in prevention and treatment efforts and to generate new policy and system initiatives related to nutrition and physical activity worldwide. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description.

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0309485061

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A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: Engineering National Academies of Sciences (and Medicine)

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A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts

Proceedings of a Workshop

By: Engineering National Academies of Sciences (and Medicine)

The obesity crisis in the United States disproportionately affects some demographic groups more than others. Contextual influences on obesity are complex and include an individual's weight-related behaviors and outcomes, the intermediate variables that influence these behaviors and outcomes, and broader, upstream historical, social, economic, physical, and policy contexts. The National Academies convened a workshop on April 1, 2019 to explore the history of health equity issues in demographic groups that have above-average obesity risk and to consider principles and approaches to address these issues as part of obesity prevention and treatment efforts. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--Publisher's description

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030949107X

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Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Health And Medicine Division,Food And Nutrition Board,Food Forum

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Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop

By: National Academies Of Sciences Engineeri,National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine,Health And Medicine Division,Food And Nutrition Board,Food Forum

The Food Forum of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convened a virtual workshop, Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition, on August 10-12, 2021. The workshop explored potential challenges and opportunities in the application of precision and personalized nutrition approaches to optimize dietary guidance and improve nutritional status. Workshops presenters discussed current precision and personalized nutrition research methodologies, limitations in data and design, adapting technologies for utilization, and policy and regulatory challenges. This Proceedings of a Workshop summarizes the presentations and discussions of the workshop.

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Book's by A. Callahan

Sensible Politics

Sensible Politics

China

China

China Dreams

China Dreams

Writing the Voice of Pleasure

Writing the Voice of Pleasure

Cumulative Risk Assessment

Cumulative Risk Assessment

Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia

Cultural Governance and Resistance in Pacific Asia

Fifty Years of Findings from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education

Fifty Years of Findings from the Jefferson Longitudinal Study of Medical Education

Advancing Effective Obesity Communications

Advancing Effective Obesity Communications

Imagining Democracy

Imagining Democracy

Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia

Pollwatching, Elections and Civil Society in Southeast Asia

Contingent States

Contingent States

Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic

Current Status and Response to the Global Obesity Pandemic

A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts

A Health Equity Approach to Obesity Efforts

Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop

Challenges and Opportunities for Precision and Personalized Nutrition: Proceedings of a Workshop

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