Identity Politics - substantive revision Wed Mar 23, 2016
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
EXCERPT: The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestos, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination....
The unsettled status of conscientious objection in the UK
http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/the-uns...e-uk/11802
EXCERPT: What are the rights of doctors who have a conscientious objection to certain procedures in the United Kingdom? The slightly confusing status quo is the subject of an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics by a Cambridge University academic, John Adenitire. Dr Adenitire sketches a gradation of hostility towards conscientious objection....
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/identity-politics/
EXCERPT: The laden phrase “identity politics” has come to signify a wide range of political activity and theorizing founded in the shared experiences of injustice of members of certain social groups. Rather than organizing solely around belief systems, programmatic manifestos, or party affiliation, identity political formations typically aim to secure the political freedom of a specific constituency marginalized within its larger context. Members of that constituency assert or reclaim ways of understanding their distinctiveness that challenge dominant oppressive characterizations, with the goal of greater self-determination....
The unsettled status of conscientious objection in the UK
http://www.bioedge.org/bioethics/the-uns...e-uk/11802
EXCERPT: What are the rights of doctors who have a conscientious objection to certain procedures in the United Kingdom? The slightly confusing status quo is the subject of an article in the Journal of Medical Ethics by a Cambridge University academic, John Adenitire. Dr Adenitire sketches a gradation of hostility towards conscientious objection....