In two experiments, we examined the perceived controllability and stability of the causes of 10 stigmas. Guided by attribution theory, we also ascertained the affective reactions of pity and anger, helping judgments, and the efficacy of five intervention techniques. In the first study we found that physically based stigmas were perceived as onset-uncontrollable, and elicited pity, no anger, and judgments to help. On the other hand, mental-behavioral stigmas were perceived as onset-controllable, and elicited little pity, much anger, and judgments to neglect. In addition, physically based stigmas were perceived as stable, or irreversible, whereas mental-behavioral stigmas were generally considered unstable, or reversible. The perceived efficacy of disparate interventions was guided in part by beliefs about stigma stability. In the second study we manipulated perceptions of causal controllability. Attributional shifts resulted in changes in affective responses and behavioral judgments. However, attributional alteration was not equally possible for all the stigmas.

Feminist pedagogy offers an exciting alternative to more conservative, traditional academic approaches, as it offers a site where women's lives and experiences are accorded a place of importance and are considered worthy of theorizing. Within the last decade, feminism has been increasingly challenged to broaden its perspective and include the standpoints of those who are not part of the dominant group, whose voices have been traditionally silenced within academia. Issues of race, class, sexuality and ability have subsequently become a core focus of most women's studies classrooms. Yet despite its transformative goals and sometimes radical pedagogical practices, these spaces often remain complicit in not fully acknowledging the impact of trauma on women's lives. Drawing on the journal entries of first year social work students, this inquiry explores the impact of trauma on three women, struggling to negotiate the demands of academia, while simultaneously coping with memories of past abuse. It is argued that violence against women is a collective responsibility, rather than an individual pathology, as it has been conceptualized in the past. The findings highlight the need to address women's experiences of violence as a legitimate barrier to learning.

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Situated in a context of higher education policy, this article examines the institutionalization of 'innovation' as a national neoliberal economic strategy. As neoliberal capital has become increasingly financialized, this innovation strategy has come to be woven through biotechnological innovation as an economic strategy, and oriented to the politics of permanent war. Following a 'strong-state' thesis, relations of monopoly finance capital increasingly organize knowledge production within higher education and the need for technological innovation related to national security. The author shows that the resulting academic cultures of innovation are heavily invested in subordinating research in the areas of health and environment to military strategy in order to achieve full spectrum global systems of biosurveillance.I have written this article from my location as a higher education researcher who has been studying and mapping out how neoliberal economic policy has been reshaping postsecondary education. More recently, I have turned my attention to the increasingly evident transformation of higher education systems brought about through their contact with, and irresistible pull into, the economic orbits characterizing the financialization of capital. As Bellamy Foster (e.g. 2010) points out, the financialization of capital goes hand in hand with the topics of neoliberal economics and globalization, and yet has received relatively little attention. This article aims to correct this paucity by examining how relations of monopoly finance capital have deeply penetrated knowledge production in the areas of biotechnology and communications through the institutionalization of 'innovation' policies. The resulting academic cultures of innovation, I will show, are heavily invested in subordinating research in the areas of health and environment to military strategy in order to achieve full spectrum global systems of biosurveillance.