Design for Ecological Democracy is indispensable as both field guide and handbook for creating ecological democracy through the design of the buildings, cities, and landscapes of the future. As a field guide, Hester enables the reader to recognize the social and ecological beauty of places when it is encountered with his rich hand-drawn illustrations and watercolor paintings. As a handbook, Hester gives the reader the intellectual tools to apply these ideas in one's own work in planning and design with his thoughtful analysis and clear design principles.

The current foreclosure crisis has led to large-scale displacement of former homeowners and their families. From 2005-2010, this crisis has produced a wave of displacement, which still shows little sign of slowing, and is predicted to continue until 2012. Research shows that those who have been the most heavily impacted by foreclosure are people of color, homeowners with low educational attainment, the elderly, and women homeowners. This paper engages the foreclosure and displacement literatures and discusses five pilot interviews to examine the ways in which households have been impacted, at the level of the individual and the household. While the popular press and academic literature have focused on the impacts of foreclosures on the financial and mortgage industries, the impacts of foreclosure and displacement on families and neighborhoods continue to be profound and are silently undermining stability and producing deep social uncertainty. The literature on displacement due to natural disaster, urban renewal, and gentrification foregrounds the ways the current foreclosure crisis may operate differently from past large-scale displacements, and provides insight into the social and equity implications of the foreclosure crisis. Interviews with individuals who have been foreclosed upon, and church pastors from communities with high rates of foreclosure, show how displacement contributes to uncertainty and hardship for many families. This paper examines the variety of realms affected by foreclosure, from the social to the spatial, and analyzes the ways in which the foreclosure crisis is becoming a displacement crisis that may be reproducing social inequalities.

Take Care: Making and Re-Making Dis/ability in Contemporary Science Fiction examines the genre of science fiction through the lens of disability studies to answer the question: “What does it mean to care and be cared for?” By deconstructing the term care, I show how science fiction as a genre articulates the complexities of care and how the language of care obfuscates and validates systemic injustices and violences. I examine a wide range of science fiction works across North America, South Korea, and Japan, including novels, short stories, and manga from the 1980s onward by authors such as James Tiptree Jr., Samuel Delany, Octavia Butler, Margaret Atwood, Han Kang, and Hiromu Arakawa. Through the systems of care depicted in these texts—ranging from cultural, governmental, and alien to technological—I dispute the validity of care, care language, and caretaking when used to disable rather than enable subjects. Science fiction presents futures that makes visible bodies erased by the intersections of disability, race, gender, and sexuality. I show how science fiction utilizes and explores the possibilities and potential of advanced technologies while simultaneously challenging and criticizing ableist systems. I show how the effects of ableist systems that force disabled bodies to pass as worthy of care disproportionately affect bodies further minoritized by race, gender, sexuality, and invisible or visible disability. Through this project, I communicate the simple idea that disabled people have a right to be cared for on their own terms rather than for the convenience of others; criticize systems of care that exploit, further disable, or destabilize disabled bodies; and establish conversations of disability and care as desired by disabled bodies.

Apnea of prematurity (AOP) is found in >50% of premature infants and is almost universal in infants who are 20 seconds or for >10 seconds if associated with bradycardia or oxygen desaturation), but there is no consensus about the duration of apnea, the degree of change in oxygen saturation, or severity of bradycardia that should be considered pathologic. Although caregivers are able to respond successfully to apnea events with drugs (as well as physical and mechanical interventions) in the NICU, it remains unproven whether such interventions have any long-term effects. One of the most effective drugs, caffeine citrate, is currently labeled for short-term use only and within a limited gestational-age population. Clinicians often use off-label drugs that have been approved for gastroesophageal reflux disease, which is common in premature infants, with the belief that such treatments also have an impact on AOP, although this link has never been demonstrated. Key treatment issues include (1) lack of standardization for definition, diagnosis, and treatment of AOP, (2) unproven benefit of intervention, (3) lack of real-time data documenting AOP events, (4) unevaluated sustained treatment improvement at 7 days or later, (5) failure to address confounding conditions, (6) unsubstantiated AOP-gastroesophageal reflux disease relationship, and (7) undetermined role of AOP affecting long-term neurodevelopmental outcomes. In addressing study-design issues, the pulmonary group identified (1) key questions about neonatal apnea, (2) methodologic requirements for study, (3) appropriate outcome measures, and (4) ethical considerations for future studies. This article describes a sample framework for the study of apnea in neonates and identifies future research needs. Plenary-session discussion points are also listed.