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Israel’s Counterterrorism to the Palestinian Liberation Organization During the First Intifada
No full textThis paper delves into the multifaceted Israeli-Palestinian conflict, specifically the First Intifada, where the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) orchestrated terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and the government. The Intifada, characterized by civil disobedience, boycotts, and stone-throwing, prompted Israel to implement a strict military response. This essay scrutinizes Israel’s counterterrorism strategies during the First Intifada, evaluating their effectiveness in addressing the challenges posed by Palestinian nationalist groups. Despite the temporary containment of the First Intifada, Israel’s tactics proved inadequate in addressing long-term threats, exemplified by the emergence of the terrorist militant group Hamas. The study assesses the historical dynamics of the First Intifada and focuses on its lasting impact, notably the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. These accords marked a shift in the conflict’s trajectory, establishing the Palestinian Authority and initiating official peace talks. The essay concludes by examining the contemporary challenges posed by groups like Hamas, highlighting the imperative for Israel to adapt its counterterrorism measures to navigate the intricate landscape of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict effectively
The Lancers of Nantucket: posthuman poem
No full textDear Editors:
My name is Chris Foltz (CM Foltz), and I am submitting my poem "The Lancers of Nantucket" for publication in interconnections. This poem is about many things, but the prominent themes center on Nantucket, MA, USA, as emblematic of historical events about whaling around the world, and the text engages cross-themes from Herman Melville\u27s Moby Dick, Robert Lowell\u27s "The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket," and the history of the Spanish conquest of South America (where the whale Mocha Dick was killed off the coast). At the heart of this poem lies a retelling of Nantucket\u27s meaning in light of human conquest and search for power in the world that undermines ecological place-ness and questions anthropocentric perspectives.The poem questions historiography through the killing of the white whale, Mocha Dick, as a symbol of contemporary ecology, animal rights, and ecological moral responsibility. In addition, there are connections among the color "white": the color of Moby Dick (based on Mocha Dick), the color of the star Sirius (as a binary star--this relates the interconnected duality of all living beings, and it was used by sailors to guide their paths), the color of numerous historical artifacts, and allusions to literary pieces such as Wallace Stevens’s “The Idea of Order at Key West” and other instances. Formally, the poem includes ten sections with varying meters, including one section framed narratively. I consider the poem a posthuman critique of human materialism.
My poems have appeared in ISLE (Oxford Univ. Press), the Comstock Review, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and others, and I teach in the English department at the University of North Texas, USA.
Thank you for taking time to read my poem, and I hope to hear positively from you in the future.Regards,C.M. Folt
Who Watches and Follows Girls’ and Women’s Sport? A Gendered Life Course Analysis of U.S. Adults’ Consumption
No full textDespite high and rising consumption of women’s sport in the United States (U.S.), limited research has addressed the social factors that lead individuals to become consumers of girls’ and women’s sport. This study uses 2018-19 National Sports and Society Survey (NSASS) data to examine the frequencies and predictors of U.S. adults’ consumption of girls’ and women’s sport. We integrate social structure and life course theories to consider social structural locations, parental and own sports involvement during childhood, adult gender ideologies, and adult sport commitments as predictors of adults’ consumption of girls’ and women’s sport. The results indicate moderate consumption of female sport, with just over half of adults appearing to spend some time watching/following female sport in the last year. Also, we estimate that U.S. adults average watching/following female sport for about one hour per week, but they report that their watching/following of female sport is typically only a small fraction of their overall sport consumption. Regression findings show consistent evidence of sexuality, number of female family members, parents’ sports fandom or athleticism, childhood sports involvement, adult gender ideologies, and adult sport commitments shaping the consumption of female sport. In addition, there is some initial evidence that gender seems to encourage men to watch/follow more female sports, but women appear more prone to watch female sport as opposed to male sport. However, gender and sexuality interact with one another in predicting female sport consumption, such that gay/lesbian identities particularly heighten consumption of female sport among women. Consequently, there is evidence that lesbians are disproportionately among the most avid consumers of girls’ and women’s sport
Femmes voyageuses en Orient de la fin du dix-neuvième au début du vingtième siècles
No full textIntroduction au dossier "Femmes voyageuses en Orient de la fin du dix-neuvième au début du vingtième siècles
The Onset and Impact of Early Sport Specialization Among Hockey Players from Winnipeg
No full textEarly career sport specialization has become increasingly popular among today’s youth athletes. Despite its increasing prominence, this athletic trend has not been historicized in the Canadian context. This paper determines when and why youth athletes began to pursue a certain sport, forgoing other athletic opportunities, as a means to achieve elite-level success. It focuses specifically on hockey players from Winnipeg, Manitoba, who played in the National Hockey League. This qualitative research study uses semi-structured interviews and secondary material to explore the factors that resulted in young male hockey players in Winnipeg being encouraged to exclusively participate in hockey year-round. This study historicizes the shift in youth sport in the post-Second World War period in Canada to better understand the reasons for early sport specialization and the forces that shape contemporary youth sport
Le discours de la chasse à l’épreuve du genre viatique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles)
No full textCet article explore le discours cynégétique dans les récits de voyage des débuts de la Nouvelle-France (seizième au dix-septième siècles). Confrontant les témoignages de chroniqueurs emblématiques (Lescarbot, Champlain, Leclercq), il souligne l’importance de la chasse tant pour la survie des premiers explorateurs que dans la mise en place d’un système économique basé sur l’exploitation faunique. Il soutient que l’activité cynégétique du Canada s’est cristallisée dans l’imaginaire collectif des Européens, à la fin de la Renaissance, avec un discours sur l’abondance des ressources animales et l’espoir d’en tirer profit. Dans une perspective plus ethnographique, il examine comment les relationnaires développent – alors qu’ils décrivent les outils, les techniques et les croyances autochtones en lien avec la chasse – une rhétorique de la singularité pour relater l’altérité américaine. Enfin, il met en relief comment le récit de chasse est à l’origine d’une réflexion critique sur la contestation des privilèges de caste, la chasse étant l’apanage des seigneurs dans la société de l’Ancien Régime
Handmade: Editing AI Texts
No full textTo create them, 5 authors describe images appearing in Bernhard Cella and Seth Weiner\u27s book Handmade. These descriptions are then copied in artificial intelligence tools to generate poems. Finally, the authors make significant edits to the poems to make their their own as well as to transform them into literary pieces. These final poems are published here
British Columbia’s Mental Health System: Addressing Systemic Human Rights Issues
No full textIn British Columbia (BC), Canada, mental health reforms over the last decade have moved back and forth between calls for practices that restrict human rights and those that are rooted in equity and social justice. In this article, we explore some of these tensions and their implications for human rights and equity in mental health care by critically analyzing three policies guiding mental health reform in BC using an intersectionality-based policy framework. Specifically, we interrogate the effects of a biomedical and individualized framing of mental health and substance use. We argue that such a framing is buttressed by neoliberal ideology and lays the groundwork for public and professional acceptance of coercive practices with particular consequences for Indigenous and racialized populations. This framing is juxtaposed with a holistic wellness and trauma-informed policy framework anchored by an understanding of the impact of colonization. However, what is missing in both policy framings is a full account of the documented ongoing human rights violations experienced by many people accessing BC’s mental health system. Our analysis shows how applying an intersectionality-based policy framework allows for a deeper exploration of the complex, interlocking systems of power and oppression that give rise to these human rights violations. We conclude with a discussion of the important role that decolonizing and intersectional approaches play for capturing the complexities of systemic inequities and advancing mental healthcare that protects and promotes mental wellbeing and human rights
Feminist Reading Together in a Different Register
No full textIn this paper we reflect upon our multi-year reading group as a site of decolonial feminist praxis that motivates reading in a different register from how we were trained to read as academics in the humanities. In collaborative study we willingly open ourselves to change, to being worked on by one another and by the texts we read. Our reading together has initiated the undoing of settler colonial academic subjectivity and the co-creation of new forms of scholarly subjectivity grounded in relations of care, openness to transformation, and a growing commitment to epistemic justice. In giving an account of our group history and process we reflect on our complicities with settler-colonialism in the university and consider the ways that reading together has cultivated our capacities to listen to counter-narratives, formulate institutional and self critique, and engage in epistemic reparations