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International Law and the Problem of Change: A Tale of Two Conventions
Get PDFExtensive efforts have been made in the modern period to suppress the possession and use of both chemical and nuclear weapons. However, progress towards the abolition of these two types of weapons presents a rather sharp contrast, as this case study shows. In this article the conventional prohibitions on the possession and use of these weapons are outlined, including the recent Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons of 2017. This Treaty prohibits the possession and use of nuclear weapons but it has not been (and likely will not be) ratified by any of the States that possess nuclear weapons. There is a further, and consequent, contrast between the two kinds of weapons in terms of whether a customary prohibition on the possession and use of chemical and/or nuclear weapons exists; this is also examined. Ultimately, there are lessons to be learned in terms of whether international law can change unless those most concerned, in this case the States that possess chemical or nuclear weapons, want it to change. 
Don’t they really represent us? Being both activists and researchers at the time of the ‘Spanish Revolution’
Get PDFIn this article we position ourselves as socially and politically committed anthropologists, thinking about the possible ways research and activism come together in contemporary anthropology. We emphasize how critical social sciences have contributed to this debate mainly around two key ideas: the democratization of knowledge production and the politicization of that knowledge. We examine our experiences in the Spanish 15M movement and share four examples -two ‘failed’ and two ‘successful’ experiences- in which we discuss two key aspects of being activist academics. First, the difficulties and advantages of doing activism and research as a combined anthropological engagement; and, secondly, the usefulness of combining a long-term commitment to social justice as an effort to democratize mechanisms of knowledge production
Fahim Afarinasadi interviews Mohammadrez Arbabi
No full text"As an interdisciplinary field, translation bridges people and cultures all over the world. Translation is a pair of glasses to look at the mysterious, unknown worlds. Thus, we need translation to cross the borders and have a world without any borders. When you make a translation, you open a new window before eyes of people on the other side of the world. Translation connects lips to ears, hands to eyes, words to worlds, etc.
Brexit and the Future of English Law
Get PDFSir David Lloyd Jones was the 2017 Victoria University Law Dean's Fellow. The following is a revised version of the lecture given at Victoria University of Wellington on 23 August 2017 on the likely impact of Brexit on English law. It is based on the information available at that date
Litigating Climate Change – Of Politics and Political Questions: A Comparative Analysis of Justiciability of Climate Change in the United States and Canada
Get PDFThis article seeks to highlight the differences in the jurisprudence on the justiciability of climate change in Canada and the United States. Underpinning this article are questions about the appropriate role of the judiciary in addressing polycentric policy issues. This article will first outline the policy context in which legal issues of climate change are framed. Second, this article will explore the general doctrines of justiciability in Canada and the United States, and how these interrelate with specific doctrines on the justiciability of climate change. The author argues that, with respect to the justiciability of climate change, the approach of the courts in the United States is more principled than that of the Canadian courts, the Canadian approach being more broadly framed. This is because the United States approach encompasses the classic strand of the political questions doctrine. Conversely, though the courts in Canada deny the existence of an American-style political questions doctrine, they unwittingly follow its prudential strand. This has negative implications for legal reasoning. This means that despite contrary appearances from the United States executive, the courts in the United States provide a stronger framework for the protection of the climate. 
Findlay & Co's Illustrated Catalogue 1874-75
Get PDFDunedin mill owner George Findlay published New Zealand's first cottage plans for sale to the public in March 1874. His extensive steam-powered factory bounded by Cumberland, Castle and Stuart Streets supplied all requisites for "cottages, doors, sashes, mouldings, architraves and every description of furnishings for building purposes." The only surviving copy has 30 pages of elevations and floor plans for seven cottages of three to seven rooms. At 1/8 inch to the foot, according to the Otago Witness (9 May 1874) they were "prepared so as to be fit to be put into a builder's hands" and "contain[ed] not fancy sketches but drawings which are practical and to scale." It was boom time in Dunedin, the wealthiest city in the colony, with immigrant demands for housing and for furnishing. Renegade printer Samuel Lister produced another catalogue in July 1875 but this time for George Street cabinetmakers Craig and Gillies, yet both catalogues shared some designs in common. This paper examines what prompted New Zealand's first completely illustrated architectural plans, woodware and furnishing publications to be made, what they contained and most interestingly how they were made
Canterbury Provincial gaols in the 1870s
Get PDFIn 1874 Charles H Curtin, in a letter to the New Zealand Herald, noted the disparity between the availability of free prison labour and the building materials and the poor state of the Auckland Prison as a public building. He wrote "your wooden gaol, with a string stone wall around it, is something that I cannot make out, - so much material for making a stone gaol and free labour all at a hand." He suggests a certain illogical approach to the structures of incarceration. A patchwork nature to the prison system is also apparent in the smattering of its evidence in government reports such as the Appendix to the Journal of the House of Representatives. Rather than an image of the comprehensive or the systematic, the impression gained is one of ad hoc commissions and piecemeal reports. These were the days during which the Gaols Committee formed and Māori prisoners from Parihaka were detained without trial, but prior to the appointment of Arthur Hume, the first Inspector of Prisons (1880-1909). The abolition of the provinces also shifted the burden of responsibility back to central government, transferring the administrative paper trail. This paper examines the architecture of the New Zealand penal system early in this decade through a particular examination of gaols built by the Canterbury Provincial government
Book Review: Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope
Get PDFBook review of Elisabeth McDonald, Rhonda Powell, Māmari Stephens and Rosemary Hunter (eds) Feminist Judgments of Aotearoa New Zealand – Te Rino: A Two-Stranded Rope (Hart Publishing, Portland, 2017)
Poetics in the Ethnographic
Get PDFARTIST’S BIO: Nomi Stone is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University. She has recently published articles in Cultural Anthropology and American Ethnologist, and her poetry appears in The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, POETRY Magazine, American Poetry Review, Tin House, and widely elsewhere. Nomi Stone has won a Pushcart Prize and was a Fulbright scholar in creative writing in Tunisia. She has recently served as a judge for the Society of Humanistic Anthropology’s Ethnographic Poetry Competition. Her first poetry collection, entitled Stranger’s Notebook (TriQuarterly Books), was published in 2008, and her forthcoming collection, Kill Class, will be published in 2019 by Tupelo Press.
 
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