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Volume
2, Issue 1, 2011
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Abstract
The author relates his
experiences teaching sociology after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in the
fall of 2005 at a Louisiana college. He assisted Katrina-displaced
students from New Orleans who enrolled at his school, and then became an
evacuee himself as Rita forced a 37 day closure of his university.
During the hiatus, he pondered the pedagogical writings of Stephen
Brookfield and decided to thrive upon the chaotic situation he was in
and to use it to reorganize his teaching. To finish the unusual
semester, he adopted a flexible, humane and democratic approach to
teaching that was largely influenced by Brookfield’s writings. Older,
nontraditional students were more engaged than their younger and more
traditional counterparts in negotiating a fair ending to the semester.
Full Article
Victims of circumstances:
A case study of people living on the streets of a red-light area in
Mumbai, India. Sharvari Karandikar.
Abstract
This article is a case
study of people living on the streets of Kamathipura, Asia’s largest
red-light area located in Mumbai, India. It includes narratives of two
female sex workers and two male intimate partners of sex workers from
Kamathipura. In-depth interviews were
conducted with each of these respondents for a period of two months.
Each interview was written as a detailed narrative. The narratives were
analyzed through a gendered lens, and comparisons between females and
males were drawn on the basis of the social, economic, political, and
legal context of Kamathipura. Analyses of the four narratives indicated
economic, social, political and legal vulnerabilities of females and
males in Kamathipura. In the broader societal context, both males and
females were identified as victims in their own
right. However, analysis of their interpersonal relations from a
gendered lens indicated additional victimization of females. The article
also provides recommendations for practice, policy and future research
in the
Abstract
Most published studies on
HIV/AIDS rely on descriptive, odds ratios without examining the causal
linkages between prior and proximate determinants of AIDS-related
mortality. This study uses the CDC’s surveillance 2000 data set to
examine the mediating effect of modes of exposure, multiple-risk
factors, and having sex with persons known to be HIV+ on mortality. The
results reveal that modes of exposure, having had sex with persons known
to be HIV+, and engaging in high-risk behaviors are important mediating
factors in understanding AIDS mortality among AIDS patients in the
United States. Findings from this study point out the effects of having
sex with persons known to be HIV+ patients with multiple-risk factors
for mortality.
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