Ann Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ann Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ann |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6010-2816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 17 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The way I channel my anxiety is through my activism”
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism introduces contemporary forms of grassroots climate activism from around the world through the lenses of a variety of academic disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. Focusing on bottom-up case studies, it showcases innovative and creative approaches, as well as the knowledge of those working towards swift decarbonisation, just transitions, and climate justice. \n \nGrassroots climate ac…
Young people's climate activism
The year 2018 was a watershed year for young people's climate activism. In this review article, we explore the methodological trends and key themes across contemporary academic literature on young people's climate activism. In the academic literature, following an initial wave of survey-based research of young people and textual analysis of secondary data like media reportage, the field is experiencing a second wave of qualitative research and a …
Tales from the (disrupted) field
Many ethnographers had to reconceptualize or withdraw from their fieldwork due to COVID-19. While the process of exiting the field has always interested ethnographers, the pandemic has spurred further thinking about the complexity of this element of the research process. This paper adds to the conversations around leaving a field site by unpacking the different situations that can trigger departure. Using data from our experience conducting ethno…
Flipping the classroom
This article describes one approach to flipping an introductory sociology course. To encourage students to practice ‘doing’ sociology, we designed a flipped classroom that included a ‘pay to play’ model, small group work and an emphasis on active learning during class time. With this course design, we linked in-class active learning with outside prework so that students could engage with critical sociological concepts and apply those concepts in …
Integrating Community-based Research into a Senior Capstone Seminar
This article describes a senior capstone, Neighborhoods and Health, which used community-based research (CBR) as its primary pedagogy. Students in the course drew upon multiple research methods and forms of data to provide our partner, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, with an array of research products in support of the revitalization of a historic farm in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan. Based on pre- and posttest assessment and analys…
Socrates, Democracy, and the End of History
This article explores the importance of the Socratic turn to Hegel’s conception of reason in the Philosophy of History. In the “Introduction” to his work, Hegel initially argues that Socrates advanced beyond Anaxagoras, attempting to connect universal reason to concrete human particulars by means of his theory of ideas or forms. Socrates thus turns from the study of material nature to the rational human soul as it is drawn to the good. In additio…
Reconsidering Democracy
This special issue is inspired by the dramatic changes that have occurred in the West in the past quarter century. The fall of communism, the apparent victory of liberal democracy, and the rise of
Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle’s Ethics, Albany
The title of this slim volume does not do justice to its scope. Far from focusing primarily on friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Ann Ward’s book seeks to advance a general argument abou
Oedipus and Socrates on the Quest for Self-Knowledge
This article explores how Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Plato’s Apology of Socrates address the question of whether reason can ground the good human life. Sophocles’ tragedy and Plato’s dialogue both tell of the search for rational self-knowledge. Both Oedipus and Socrates are recognized for human wisdom and are presented as skeptical toward the gods. Yet, whereas Oedipus’ life ends in tragedy, Socrates’ life does not. Sophocles thus suggests t…
Theory and Akrasia in Aristotle's Ethics
In book 7 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that vice, lack of self-restraint (akrasia), and brutishness are to be avoided. While the opposite of vice is virtue, the opposite of akrasia is self-restraint, and of brutishness a form of divinity. This article explores Aristotle's analysis of self-restraint and its lack, akrasia, focusing on the phenomenon of akrasia and its causes. Self-restraint is the experience of excessive and idiosync…
Friendship and politics in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s discussion of political friendship points to perfect friendship and the possibility that the good citizen can be the good person. This conclusion is arrived at by reflection on three problems raised in Aristotle’s analysis. First, citizen friendships of utility are the cause of civil strife. Second, there is a tension between citizen friendship in timocracy and justice. Although citizen friendship in a timocracy can aspire to perfect …
Generosity and Inequality in Aristotle’s Ethics
This article explores the virtues of generosity and magnificence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Generosity involves private individuals giving moderately; magnificence is spending by individuals on a grand scale for public purposes. Inequality, it is argued, grounds and motivates these virtues. For Aristotle, generosity and magnificence are products of inherited wealth, and the generous and the magnificent person seek the noble in their actio…
Feminism in Dialogue with Science
Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science. By Karen Cordrick Haely (London: Continuum, 2008), vii + 149 pp. £65.00 cloth. In Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science, Karen Cordric
In Search of Modern Myth
A Philosophy of Political Myth. By Chiara Bottici (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), vii + 286 pp. 45.00/$80.00 cloth. The current prejudice among political philosophers is that increas
Political Emotions
Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion , Marlene K. Sokolon, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006, pp. 217. Marlene K. Sokolon has provided an intellectually stimulating and highly original work on Aristotle's understanding of the emotions, mainly as presented in his treatise the Art of Rhetoric . The central thesis of Sokolon's book manifests itself in her analysis of the emotion of anger. According to S…
"Self-reflection, Egyptian Beliefs, Scythians and "Greek Ideas
This article addresses the debate between Afrocentrists like Martin Bernal and classical scholars such as Mary Lefkowitz and Robert Palter concerning the origins of ancient Greek civilization. Focusing on the first half of Herodotus’ Histories, I argue that, although Greek cultural developments can be attributed to the Greeks themselves, Herodotus indicates that the conditions that made these developments possible were due to the prior Greek abso…
Integrating Community-based Research into a Senior Capstone Seminar
This article describes a senior capstone, Neighborhoods and Health, which used community-based research (CBR) as its primary pedagogy. Students in the course drew upon multiple research methods and forms of data to provide our partner, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, with an array of research products in support of the revitalization of a historic farm in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan. Based on pre- and posttest assessment and analys…
Generosity and Inequality in Aristotle’s Ethics
This article explores the virtues of generosity and magnificence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Generosity involves private individuals giving moderately; magnificence is spending by individuals on a grand scale for public purposes. Inequality, it is argued, grounds and motivates these virtues. For Aristotle, generosity and magnificence are products of inherited wealth, and the generous and the magnificent person seek the noble in their actio…
Political Emotions
Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion , Marlene K. Sokolon, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006, pp. 217. Marlene K. Sokolon has provided an intellectually stimulating and highly original work on Aristotle's understanding of the emotions, mainly as presented in his treatise the Art of Rhetoric . The central thesis of Sokolon's book manifests itself in her analysis of the emotion of anger. According to S…
Friendship and politics in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s discussion of political friendship points to perfect friendship and the possibility that the good citizen can be the good person. This conclusion is arrived at by reflection on three problems raised in Aristotle’s analysis. First, citizen friendships of utility are the cause of civil strife. Second, there is a tension between citizen friendship in timocracy and justice. Although citizen friendship in a timocracy can aspire to perfect …
"Self-reflection, Egyptian Beliefs, Scythians and "Greek Ideas
This article addresses the debate between Afrocentrists like Martin Bernal and classical scholars such as Mary Lefkowitz and Robert Palter concerning the origins of ancient Greek civilization. Focusing on the first half of Herodotus’ Histories, I argue that, although Greek cultural developments can be attributed to the Greeks themselves, Herodotus indicates that the conditions that made these developments possible were due to the prior Greek abso…
"Self-reflection, Egyptian Beliefs, Scythians and "Greek Ideas
This article addresses the debate between Afrocentrists like Martin Bernal and classical scholars such as Mary Lefkowitz and Robert Palter concerning the origins of ancient Greek civilization. Focusing on the first half of Herodotus’ Histories, I argue that, although Greek cultural developments can be attributed to the Greeks themselves, Herodotus indicates that the conditions that made these developments possible were due to the prior Greek abso…
Political Emotions
Political Emotions: Aristotle and the Symphony of Reason and Emotion , Marlene K. Sokolon, DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006, pp. 217. Marlene K. Sokolon has provided an intellectually stimulating and highly original work on Aristotle's understanding of the emotions, mainly as presented in his treatise the Art of Rhetoric . The central thesis of Sokolon's book manifests itself in her analysis of the emotion of anger. According to S…
Feminism in Dialogue with Science
Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science. By Karen Cordrick Haely (London: Continuum, 2008), vii + 149 pp. £65.00 cloth. In Objectivity in the Feminist Philosophy of Science, Karen Cordric
In Search of Modern Myth
A Philosophy of Political Myth. By Chiara Bottici (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), vii + 286 pp. 45.00/$80.00 cloth. The current prejudice among political philosophers is that increas
Friendship and politics in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
Aristotle’s discussion of political friendship points to perfect friendship and the possibility that the good citizen can be the good person. This conclusion is arrived at by reflection on three problems raised in Aristotle’s analysis. First, citizen friendships of utility are the cause of civil strife. Second, there is a tension between citizen friendship in timocracy and justice. Although citizen friendship in a timocracy can aspire to perfect …
Generosity and Inequality in Aristotle’s Ethics
This article explores the virtues of generosity and magnificence in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics. Generosity involves private individuals giving moderately; magnificence is spending by individuals on a grand scale for public purposes. Inequality, it is argued, grounds and motivates these virtues. For Aristotle, generosity and magnificence are products of inherited wealth, and the generous and the magnificent person seek the noble in their actio…
Theory and Akrasia in Aristotle's Ethics
In book 7 of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle argues that vice, lack of self-restraint (akrasia), and brutishness are to be avoided. While the opposite of vice is virtue, the opposite of akrasia is self-restraint, and of brutishness a form of divinity. This article explores Aristotle's analysis of self-restraint and its lack, akrasia, focusing on the phenomenon of akrasia and its causes. Self-restraint is the experience of excessive and idiosync…
Oedipus and Socrates on the Quest for Self-Knowledge
This article explores how Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and Plato’s Apology of Socrates address the question of whether reason can ground the good human life. Sophocles’ tragedy and Plato’s dialogue both tell of the search for rational self-knowledge. Both Oedipus and Socrates are recognized for human wisdom and are presented as skeptical toward the gods. Yet, whereas Oedipus’ life ends in tragedy, Socrates’ life does not. Sophocles thus suggests t…
Contemplating Friendship in Aristotle’s Ethics, Albany
The title of this slim volume does not do justice to its scope. Far from focusing primarily on friendship in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, Ann Ward’s book seeks to advance a general argument abou
Integrating Community-based Research into a Senior Capstone Seminar
This article describes a senior capstone, Neighborhoods and Health, which used community-based research (CBR) as its primary pedagogy. Students in the course drew upon multiple research methods and forms of data to provide our partner, the Urban Farming Institute of Boston, with an array of research products in support of the revitalization of a historic farm in the Boston neighborhood of Mattapan. Based on pre- and posttest assessment and analys…
Socrates, Democracy, and the End of History
This article explores the importance of the Socratic turn to Hegel’s conception of reason in the Philosophy of History. In the “Introduction” to his work, Hegel initially argues that Socrates advanced beyond Anaxagoras, attempting to connect universal reason to concrete human particulars by means of his theory of ideas or forms. Socrates thus turns from the study of material nature to the rational human soul as it is drawn to the good. In additio…
Reconsidering Democracy
This special issue is inspired by the dramatic changes that have occurred in the West in the past quarter century. The fall of communism, the apparent victory of liberal democracy, and the rise of
Flipping the classroom
This article describes one approach to flipping an introductory sociology course. To encourage students to practice ‘doing’ sociology, we designed a flipped classroom that included a ‘pay to play’ model, small group work and an emphasis on active learning during class time. With this course design, we linked in-class active learning with outside prework so that students could engage with critical sociological concepts and apply those concepts in …
Young people's climate activism
The year 2018 was a watershed year for young people's climate activism. In this review article, we explore the methodological trends and key themes across contemporary academic literature on young people's climate activism. In the academic literature, following an initial wave of survey-based research of young people and textual analysis of secondary data like media reportage, the field is experiencing a second wave of qualitative research and a …
Tales from the (disrupted) field
Many ethnographers had to reconceptualize or withdraw from their fieldwork due to COVID-19. While the process of exiting the field has always interested ethnographers, the pandemic has spurred further thinking about the complexity of this element of the research process. This paper adds to the conversations around leaving a field site by unpacking the different situations that can trigger departure. Using data from our experience conducting ethno…
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism
The Routledge Handbook of Grassroots Climate Activism introduces contemporary forms of grassroots climate activism from around the world through the lenses of a variety of academic disciplines, methodologies, and perspectives. Focusing on bottom-up case studies, it showcases innovative and creative approaches, as well as the knowledge of those working towards swift decarbonisation, just transitions, and climate justice. \n \nGrassroots climate ac…
The way I channel my anxiety is through my activism”
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