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- Barriers against Democracy: Rethinking the Nations Founding: An Interview with Dana NelsonPetkova, Yanka; Reed, Taylor; Butera, Mike (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- Between Schmitt and Foucault: Interview with Michael HardtMorris, Edwin Kent; Georgakis, Stefanie; Hill, Jordan; Kirsch, Robert (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- A Contextual Approach to Political PhilosophyDaskal, Stephen (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)My aims in this paper are to describe and motivate the adoption of what I call a contextual approach to political philosophy. I will first provide a brief characterization of contextualism. I will then contrast contextualism against more common approaches to political philosophy, which I call idealist or schematic, and indicate the problems I see with those approaches and the relative advantages of contextualism. By doing this, I hope to demonstrate the need for further work exploring the possibilities of contextualism.
- Cultural Studies and the Challenges of the ContemporaryGrossberg, Lawrence (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-02)
- Editor’s Introduction: Crisis, Context, Modernity, MythJordan, Holly; Lawrence, Jennifer; Matheis, Christian (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- The Egyptian Peasant – The Hero of the Past, the Hope for the FutureEl-Shazli, Heba F. (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- Executive Privilege: The Sovereign Exception in ActionMorris, Edwin Kent (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- Global Configurations of Violence and the (Im)possibility of their Mitigation. An Interview with Harry Gould and Brent SteeleDe Paula, Francine Rossone; Lawrence, Jennifer; Morris, Kent; Szczurek, Anthony (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2014-04-01)
- Global Configurations of Violence and the (Im)possibility of their Mitigation. An Interview with Harry Gould and Brent SteeleRossone de Paula, Francine; Lawrence, Jennifer; Morris, Kent; Szczurek, Anthony (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2014-04-01)
- Governing Nature, Sustaining Degradation: An Eco-Governmental Critique of the Deepwater Horizon DisasterLawrence, Jennifer (Virginia Tech, 2015-10-15)This dissertation explores the discursive production of, and response to, environmental disaster. The project is contextualized through the case of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. By interrupting traditional perceptions of environmental disaster, this project frames socio-environmental disasters as a normal and increasingly experienced part of global hydrocarbon capitalism. The project purports that disaster is embedded within the current global economy and the high-]modernist ideologies that underlie it. As such, the strategies and techniques employed to respond to environmental disaster are intimately bound up within the same systemic processes that have created them in the first place. Moreover, because instrumentalist responses are quickly employed to mitigate disaster, the systemic factors productive of disaster remain concealed. Environmental disaster is thus a process of hydrocarbon capitalism rather than a product of it; as such it can, among other categories, be understood as manageable, profitable, and litigable. This research also highlights the normalization of chronic socio-environmental disaster though sensationalistic perspectives on acute disaster. This project explores the potential for resistance through artistic endeavors, highlighting how the discursive processes that construct traditional power/knowledge formations of environmental disaster might be subverted through non-traditional means. While the framework of eco-governmentality is especially useful in highlighting the problematic social relationships to nature, the project nonetheless acknowledges that counter-discourses for are likely to be appropriated by industry for the purpose of new enterprise and profit.
- Intersections: ResilienceFranze, Simone; Hester, Rebecca; Meitner, Erika S.; Lawrence, Jennifer (Virginia Tech. University Libraries, 2018-11-07)This discussion panel unpacks the political, economic, and social impacts of resilience. Panelists speak to resilience in the trade industry, climate change, the human body, and the commonalities between the three.
- Leadership Untangled Podcast Episode 15: The Willingness to Interrogate with Dr. Jennifer LawrenceCouncil, Austin; Lawrence, Jennifer (Spreaker, 2020-11-08)Leadership Untangled is a podcast series established by Dr. Austin Council for the classes he teaches at Virginia Tech. The podcast series explores different topics related to leadership, social change as they intersect with college student life. In this episode I explore one of the group values of the Social Change Model, controversy with civility, with Dr. Jennifer Lawrence. Dr. Lawrence is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Politics & Policy in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. She provides some fascinating insights into what "controversy" actually means, how civility can sometimes be dangerous, and how we can use our willingness to interrogate to have difficult conversations.
- Mythopoiesis and the Constitution of the Mytho-State in Plato and HeideggerBarder, Alexander (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)Is the state, by that we may loosely take as the ensemble of social practices that pertain to the management and authority of the polity, ever solely a rational construction? Liberal social contract theory, roughly speaking, posits the possibility that rational self-interested beings develop a consensus as to the need and constitution of the state. The state through its various forms and modalities as it evolved from its original constitution-making event is thus taken as inherently legitimate because of its intrinsic reflection of the original consent of the people. In this essay I seek to problematize this notion of the rational state by returning to the ways in which Plato, and more implicitly, Heidegger justifies, legitimizes and operationalizes the state as such. To do so is to first recognize the importance of the role of mythical thought in both Plato and Heidegger. Following the work of Leo Strauss, Ernst Cassirer and Hans Blumenberg, I argue that the theorization of the state also involves myth. In particular, following some of Strauss’ insights, rather than reading Plato’s Republic as a repudiation of myth as such, the Platonic “state” may be seen as an instance of, what may be called, mythopoiesis as reflected, for example, in the discussion of noble lie or the myth of Er. While Plato’s Republic provides the ground for the elaboration of the concept of mythopoiesis, Heidegger’s arguments against modern society, technology, and in fact art as aesthetics may perhaps be read as an attack against the very liberal idea of the state as a mechanical entity (as in Hobbes). In which case, the turn towards poetic language implicitly prompts the need for (re)establishing what I would call the mytho-state.
- Open Access Graduate Student Panel 2013Georgakis, Stephanie; Lawrence, Jennifer; Nicholson, Josh (2014-02-18)For Open Access Week 2013, a panel of graduate students featuring Stephanie Georgakis, Jennifer Lawrence, and Josh Nicholson discussed issues of openness and publishing. Moderated by Purdom Lindblad, University Libraries.
- Securing Change? Securing the Environment?Lawrence, Jennifer (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- Spectra Volume 2 Issue 1 Full Issue(Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)
- U. S. Power After 9/11: The Metaphor of ExileKlagge, James (Virginia Tech Publishing, 2012-04-01)