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... Lecture 6, “Empiricism and Hume,” explores the assumptions and history of empiricism, followed by a closer look at the work of David Hume’s epistemology. psychological empiricism experimental science of the human skepticism ...

... A very brief chapter describing Rosemarie’s attempt to go to nursing school; she failed the entrance exam the first time. On her second try, she passed with flying colors but was accused of cheating and refused admittance. nursing exam racist assumptions Rosemarie Freeney Harding ...

... The preface begins by calling into question the widespread assumption that we are living in a world characterized by increased global unification, unrelenting technological progress, and an unprecedented political consensus regarding the value of democracy. In countering this understanding...

... In chapter two, Shankar positions the brown savior within the historical caste-colonial rise of the savarnas. Shankar shows the way that racialized assumptions regarding dominant castes as inherently nonviolent, spiritual, and tecnologically savvy allow for this class of peoples to take...

... and emergency escape emerged in the context of garment workers seeking redress from inadequate urban infrastructures that condemned them to high-rise fire disasters like the Triangle Shirtwaist fire of 1902. The chapter argues that assumptions about who is evacuating and who is deserving of evacuation have...

..., and the broader discourse on empowerment, may reinscibe some Malthusian assumptions regarding the poor. Malthus poverty alleviation neocolonialism empowerment literacy ...

... fondness for his male students. Scholars have frequently assumed that these two encrypted matters must be related to one another, i.e., that Wigglesworth’s dreams must have been homoerotic in nature. This assumption is reasonable, but it is an assumption; Wigglesworth does not record the actual content...

... these reports as a way to sketch a trans feminist historiographic method that combines care, creativity, and methods sensitive to eighteenth-century realities (colonialism, multiple understandings of gender diversity, racialization, enslavement). Central to the chapter is the assumption that erasing...

..., preferring the values they associated with the dignity of women: duty and sacrifice. Others were disturbed by the way feminist ideas might interrupt earlier assumptions about their future life course. Still others registered losses as well as gains in their fast-changing situation. Snitow’s pedagogy changed...

... through legal or ethical transgressions. It considers other possible avenues of future scholarship using the accomplice paradigm and offers remarks on the stakes of such studies that challenge assumptions concerning the invariability of the law and the known subject positions of those involved with a work...

... NGO is imagined as a site for economic mobility. However, racialized assumptions regarding those who come from traditional agricultural occupations follow and constrain fieldworkers as they seek to negotiate their positions within the NGO. land dispossession racialization of agricultural castes...

... The conclusion reflects on the enduring impact of “Ne me quitte pas” through various interpretations, covers, translations, and adaptations. It discusses the significance of the song’s racial and cultural dimensions, how it challenges assumptions, and the power of music to evoke memories...

... of institutionalized civil society participation in health governance. Told in three installments, this chapter traces the biography of a participatory health council through different periods of membership, leadership, and local government administrations. In doing so, it juxtaposes the normative assumptions...

... This chapter takes the post-9/11 resurfacing and overdetermination of “imperialism” as a moment to identify and question the assumptions that inform comparisons and commensurabilities of imperial practices. What counts as imperial in these evocations of empire, and how are they to be compared...

..., the analysis of this text pays careful attention to questions of performativity and passing. The misrecognition of identities—the assumption of the character Haruo’s Japaneseness, for example—leads to a confrontation with the breakdown of binaries, the impossibility of seeing difference that informs...