{"id":54,"date":"2004-09-25T10:06:28","date_gmt":"2004-09-25T14:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=54"},"modified":"2004-09-28T09:47:15","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T13:47:15","slug":"hood-v-lawrence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/hood-v-lawrence\/","title":{"rendered":"Hood v Lawrence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it happened on university campii, people with very different passions and backgrounds cross paths and a spirited discussion ensues. Thus it was, dear readers, on Thursday as I walked with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolinajournal.com\/jhdailyjournal\/index.html\">John Hood<\/a> who was coming to talk to <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/jomc191\">my class<\/a> about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlocke.org\/\">The John Locke Foundation<\/a> and virtual community.<\/p>\n<p>Our paths crossed with that of scholars of Islam, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unc.edu\/~cernst\/\">Carl Ernst of UNC<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/religion\/home\/lawrence\/lawrence.html\">Bruce Lawrence of Duke<\/a>. Bruce was visiting with Carl.<\/p>\n<p>After introductions, talk quickly turned to Iraq. I wish I could capture the phrasings here, but as  the rhetoric esculated I was as Sufis and others might say &#8220;in the moment.&#8221; What we ended on. Or rather what Bruce and John ended on was a debate, however brief and informal, over the use of the word, &#8220;insurgent.&#8221; Each told the other to &#8220;look it up!&#8221; I don&#8217;t know that either did, but I have and both are right. Isn&#8217;t English wonderful?<\/p>\n<p>John Hood used insurgent to mean:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But he left out the part that Bruce was trying to be sure were also included:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. insurgent, insurrectionist, freedom fighter, rebel &#8212; (a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions))<br \/>\n2. guerrilla, guerilla, irregular, insurgent &#8212; (a member of an irregular armed force that fights a stronger force by sabotage and harassment)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Definition source <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cogsci.princeton.edu\/cgi-bin\/webwn?stage=1&#038;word=insurgent\">WordNet 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In saying this, I don&#8217;t mean to say that Lawrence triumphed over Hood, but to point out how not just words but how restrictive the definitions can be or how expansive. This harkens back to  <a href=\"http:\/\/rantingprofs.typepad.com\/\">Cori Dauber&#8217;s<\/a> readings\/writings about the way the Iraq War is reported and the use of &#8220;terrorists.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For the record, my mental picture of  &#8220;insurgents&#8221; had the fighters surging in from somewhere else; that is, insurgents as invaders. Wrong by definition but powerful by the imaginative power of words and sound.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Addition:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnlocke.org\/lockerroom\/lockerroom.html?id=2445\">John Hood&#8217;s take on the discussion from his blog.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it happened on university campii, people with very different passions and backgrounds cross paths and a spirited discussion ensues. Thus it was, dear readers, on Thursday as I walked with John Hood who was coming to talk to my class about The John Locke Foundation and virtual community. Our paths crossed with that of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}