The Education of Migrant Children: An NGO Guide to EU Policies and Actions

Provides an overview of the European Union's policies and practices in promoting migrants' rights and equality, integration, social inclusion and cohesion, and education and training. Recommends ways for NGOs to address challenges and fill gaps

Aesthetic Elisions: The Ruins of Palmyra and the “Good Life” of Liberal Multiculturalism

AbstractPalmyra's capture and destruction by ISIS resonated widely with an international audience. Drawing on Lefebvre's theory of the production of space and affect theory's key insights on object attachment, this article argues that the attachment to Palmyra manifests desire for a particular “good life” of an idealized liberal multiculturalism: a virtuous cycle of trade and tolerance represented by aesthetic flourishing. This widely circulated representation is grounded on excisions of power and inequality. I analyze the political stakes of such excision through the invisibility of Tadmor, positioned as a neighboring town rather than an afterlife of Palmyra in this representation. Through Tadmor, we see Palmyra as entangled in economic inequality and consolidation of power and complicit in their elision through its aesthetic representation as a multicultural haven. At stake is the question of what it means to attach the desire for coexistence to this representation of Palmyra at the detriment of places like Tadmor. While this paper makes its key intervention into the affective terrain and limits of a current global political moment, my argument also contributes to discussions of the global production and circulation of affect, bringing into view its attachment to sites and spaces.</jats:p

Possibilities Of Global Governance: World Heritage And The Politics Of Universal Value And Expertise

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2019. Major: Political Science. Advisor: Raymond Duvall. 1 computer file (PDF); viii, 306 pages.This dissertation turns to UNESCO’s world heritage regime to analyze the possibilities of global governance in a pluralizing world order. By pluralizing world order, I mean the contemporary global political context in which a greater number of actors take part in making and the remaking of the order, based on a range of substantive visions and demand recognition for these visions. Within this context, culture has emerged as an axis of plurality and demand-making. Established in 1972, UNESCO’s world heritage regime, has governed cultural heritage, based on a conception of culture as universalizable, through a universal value adjudicated by international experts, and towards a convergent heritage of humanity. The challenges it has faced to these foundations since the mid-1990s, and the resulting renegotiation of the regime provide a critical vantage point onto my analytical question. Towards this analysis, I develop a theoretical framework that foregrounds the relation between the world order and global governance. In a context of plurality, this link is negotiated through contentious participation: actors engage in piecemeal renegotiations of the ideational-institutional contours of existing regimes. I trace the emergence and early implementation of the world heritage regime in a permissive political context and ideational hegemony. This stands in contrast to the contestation and renegotiation of the regime’s universalist conception of culture since the mid-1990s, connected to the changing global politics of culture. I analyze the challenges to the actors and relations of authority, grounded in similar dynamics and consequential for how the regime can act in the world. Lastly, I focus on a recent trend of nominating contentious sites, which conflict with the world order’s historiography of maintaining peace and with the regime’s congruently progressive universal historiography. In a pluralizing world order, these nominations bring Other histories of the order onto the regime’s stage. It is, not a putative universal, but an engagement with plurality that can foster the renegotiation of these contested histories, and point the way to not only the possibility but also the desirability of the world heritage regime

World heritage and inter/national cultural prestige

Open Access ArticleWorld heritage has become UNESCO’s flagship programme, and it is a site of active state engagement. At the crux of that engagement is the prestigious World Heritage List. This engagement is regularly analysed as pursuits of national prestige. In this article, I advance a Bourdieusian analysis of world heritage as a field that generates international cultural prestige. I identify humanity as the field’s doxa that allows for a vertical separation and the generation of more-than-national cultural value. I show how states’ desire for this prestige jeopardised the field’s autonomy at a critical juncture in 2010 and analyse the field’s aftermath as involving fraught attempts by states to discursively reconstruct the field’s vertical and functional separations in the quest for international cultural prestige. This reconstruction involves nothing less than reinterpreting humanity as the community-of-states, pointing at once to humanity’s indispensability for more-than-national value and undermining its ability to generate that value

: An NGO Guide to EU Policies and Actions

Rising migration into Europe is now the largest factor of population growth among most EU member states. This trend is manifested in the area of education, where pupils of migrant origin comprise up to half or more of the total number of students in some schools. In these very diverse student bodies, there are higher-than-average rates of academic underachievement and early dropout, which are directly linked to problems of social marginalization, failure to integrate, and future unemployment. The education of migrant children and youth is, therefore, now viewed not only as an economic issue, but also most importantly as a political and human rights issue. As a result, education has become a key instrument in long-term integration and social inclusion strategies, and consequently a key policy area for the EU. This guide is intended as a tool for better understanding EU policies, responsibilities, and funding mechanisms related to the education of migrant children and youth within existing EU agendas on human rights, equal treatment, antidiscrimination, integration, social inclusion, and education and training

The effect of prophylactic knee bracing on performance: balance, proprioception, coordination, and muscular power

Prophylactic knee braces are largely used in the prevention of ligament injuries, but their effectiveness on performance are still controversial. The aim of this study was to determine which brace was the most effective on functional performance