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The Ursula Franklin reader, pacifism as a map, Ursula Franklin ; with an introduction by Michelle Swenarchuk

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The Ursula Franklin reader

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Ursula Franklin ; with an introduction by Michelle Swenarchuk

pacifism as a map

Pacifism -- Women and feminism -- Technology -- Nature and ecology -- Citizens and government -- Education -- The signposts on Ursula Franklin's pacifist map of the world -- A brief overview of pacifist and quaker belief and action -- pt. 1. The pursuit of peace: Pacifism as a map -- The nature of conscience and the nature of war -- Reflections on theology and peace -- The indivisibility of peace -- Quaker witness in a technological society -- What of the citizen -- Women and militarism -- Nuclear peace -- Peace as an ongoing issue -- Peace, technology and the role of ordinary people -- Global justice chez nous -- How the world has changed -- On the first anniversary of September 11 -- pt. 2. Here and now: the technological world -- Environments versus nature -- Earth without a creation myth: the view from China -- Silence and the notion of the commons -- Liberty technology and hope -- New issues of access to justice raised by modern technology -- New threats to human rights through science and technology : the need for standards -- pt. 3. Coping with the changing the technological world -- New approaches to understanding technology -- All is not well in the house of technology -- Every tool shapes the task; communities and the information highway -- Beyond the hype: thinking about the information highway -- Will women change technology or will technology change women -- Stormy weather: reflections on violence as an environment -- Commemoration for the Montreal massacre victims -- Legitimate expectations -- What is a green energy policy, and what would we have if we had one -- Citizen politics new dimensions to old problems: reflections for Jane Jacobs -- Citizen politics: advocacy in the urban habitat -- Planning and the religious mind: "Der mensch denkt gott lenkt"-- On speaking truth to planning -- pt. 4. Teaching and learning -- Reflections on science and the citizen -- The second scientist -- The sandbox and the tools -- The real world of mathematics, science,and technology education -- Letter to a graduate student, from Ursula Franklin -- Looking forward, looking back -- Personally happy and publicly useful -- Teaching as activism; equity meets environmentalism