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River Jackson-Paton, Ph.D.

Some dissertation updates…

While my dissertation continues to be living in limbo, I have at least determined to place some of it on this site. The table of contents is up, and more will come soon. Priorities will be my ethnoautobiographical riffs (posted in ethnoautobiography) and some of my...

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Decolonize wall street!

I just had to put something out there in my world after getting forwarded an article about a Native proposal to change the name of "occupy" Oakland, California to Decolonize Oakland! Certainly, I'm behind that idea completely, and while many are, I find the responses...

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On being grounded…

So I'm working on a short piece for new friends at yogamodern.com. It's called "on being grounded" and here's a brief teaser. I'll let ya'll know when it shows up in the world. January 2012 Perhaps I shouldn’t qualify my experience with yoga, as if only having a few...

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John Casey on Greek virtues, politicalness

The study of the virtues has largely dropped out of modern philosophy, yet it was the predominant tradition in ethics from the ancient Greeks until Kant. Traditionally the study of the virtues included the study of what constituted a successful and happy life. Drawing...

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