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The Trees POV : Refugee Landscapes in Postrevolutionary Tunisian Cinema
No full textIn early 2011, at the height of the so-called Arab Spring, Muammar al-Qaddafi’s regime (r. 1969–2011) started to disintegrate. As violence convulsed Libya, hundreds of thousands of people fled across the borders into Tunisia and Egypt—not only Libyans, but also third-country nationals who had been living and working within Libyan borders, many from sub-Saharan Africa.1 In response, and against the backdrop of a newfound revolutionary idealism, the Tunisian government chose to keep the border open.2 In February, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) established the Choucha refugee camp, located eleven kilometers from the Ras Jadir border post—Tunisia’s first refugee camp since the Algerian war in 1962.3 That same month, the filmmakers Ismaël, Youssef Chebbi, and Ala Eddine Slim drove south from Tunis to Choucha to make a film
George Cobb: A Legacy of Influence
No full textGeorge Cobb had a remarkable career as a visionary leader in statistics education and I was privileged to have him as a mentor and a friend. He influenced my teaching and that of many others by challenging us to think about the entire enterprise of statistics education differently. In this article I highlight contributions to the profession and George’s impact on my own work
Can Status Competition Save the World? Grafting, Green Energy, and the Climate Crisis
No full textIn this article I argue that the climate crisis may emerge as a new arena for status competition among states, enabled through the grafting of decarbonization and green-energy policies onto the status order’s existing symbolic-materialist logic. Status is often thought of as a destabilizing force in world politics, as its pursuit so often pushes states toward violent and financially wasteful policies of social aggrandizement. But this belief elides two points: that the status order and its rules of membership and esteem are malleable and subject to change; and that the emergence of different and new status symbols can also push status-seeking toward more prosocial outcomes. Rather than see these changes as occurring through explicit normative transformation, however, I argue that the status order is most likely to change surreptitiously when entrepreneurs can graft new status symbols onto an order’s underlying tenets, thus concealing but also producing change. I apply this grafting theory to the climate crisis in arguing that (1) highly visible steps taken to effect the green-energy revolution can be legibly grafted onto the existing status order; (2) this grafting technique was already evident in the Biden administration’s increased framing of the climate as an arena of status competition against China; and (3) in an era of renewed great power rivalry, status competition may at least compel states to make the kinds of costly and needed investments in climate mitigation they eschewed earlier
Are Asian Americans BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color)? Internalization of the Model Minority Stereotype and COVID-19 Racial Bias on Interracial Solidarity Toward Black Americans
No full textObjectives: Collective minoritized identities such as Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) may promote cross-racial solidarity. However, Asian Americans occupy a racially triangulated position as the “buffer minority” stereotyped as both the model minority and perpetual foreigner, complicating their inclusion in the BIPOC identity. The present study examined how the model minority and perpetual foreigner stereotypes relate to Asian Americans’ perceived belongingness and identification with the BIPOC identity and, in turn, their interracial solidarity toward Black Americans.
Method: A path analysis was conducted using cross-sectional data from a sample of 312 Asian Americans (Mage = 41.19, 69.87% college graduates, 46.79% foreign-born) to examine direct and indirect effects on Black community activism orientation (BCAO), with internalized model minority stereotype (MMS) and experiences of COVID-19 racial bias (CVRB) as exogenous predictors and perceived BIPOC inclusion and BIPOC self-identification as mediators.
Results: The BIPOC variables demonstrated a direct and positive association with BCAO. Furthermore, internalized MMS negatively related to BCAO through the sum effect of decreased perceived BIPOC inclusion and BIPOC self-identification, while experiences of CVRB positively related to BCAO through the sum effect of increased perceived BIPOC inclusion and BIPOC self-identification.
Conclusions: Asian Americans’ perceived BIPOC inclusion and BIPOC self-identification are shaped by their racially triangulated position, characterized by both the inhibiting effect of internalized MMS and the promoting effect of experiences of CVRB. This heightened or diminished BIPOC self-concept subsequently influenced their willingness to engage in interracial solidarity for Black Americans
Politicizing federal troops in US mirrors use of military in Latin America in the 1970s and ’80s
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The distribution of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis in amphibians of Erie County, Ohio
No full textChytridiomycosis, caused by the highly infectious fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), has devastating impacts on amphibian populations worldwide. Despite a growing body of knowledge about the global distribution of Bd, its prevalence and impact on amphibians in the Midwest are still relatively unknown. Although data on the geographic distribution of Bd and its infection of various taxa in Ohio is gradually increasing, no publicly available information exists regarding its presence or absence in Erie County, Ohio. To begin building a picture of the distribution of Bd, and thus chytrid, in Erie County, we conducted nocturnal surveys for amphibians at nine different sites and collected swab samples from any amphibians found. In addition to biological samples, water samples were collected for Bd environmental DNA analysis. Following DNA extraction from collected swabs and water samples, we used real-time PCR to detect the presence of Bd. At least one positive sample was positive from all of the nine survey sites and across all four species encountered (Lithobates clamitans, Lithobates pipiens, Lithobates catesbeianus, Eurycea bislineata). These findings indicate that the chytrid-causing fungus is widespread in Erie County, Ohio, and has infected multiple orders of amphibians and species of anurans. This emphasizes the importance of further monitoring of both overall Bd prevalence and species-specific chytrid response in order to develop effective conservation strategies for amphibian populations in Erie County and throughout Northern Ohio
Insight Into an Ancient Plate Boundary: A Structural Investigation of the Granite Wash Mountains (Arizona, U.S.A.)
No full textThe Maria fold-and-thrust belt in the Mojave-Sonoran deserts of SE California and west-central Arizona preserves multi-deformed rocks involved in Jurassic (ca. 165-140 Ma), Cretaceous (ca. 120-100 Ma) and Cretaceous-Eocene ( ca. 80-40 Ma) tectonic events that affected southwestern North America. An ongoing debate remains on the plate organization and geodynamics of the western North American margin during the Late Cretaceous through the Eocene. In the Granite Wash Mountains (AZ), thrust faults associated with Cretaceous crustal shortening are overprinted and cross-cut by ductile shear zones. Shear zones strike dominantly NW-SE, mirroring Miocene (ca. 20-15 Ma) low-angle detachment faults in the region and raising questions as to their genetic relationships with these structures. In the southern Granite Wash and Little Harquahala ranges, metasedimentary fabrics co-located with the Cretaceous-aged Hercules Thrust system are cross-cut by syn-kinematic dykes that show map-scale s-fabrics, suggesting possible NW-SE transtensional motion. The Tank Pass Granite pluton (ca. 70 Ma), previously thought to have been undeformed, preserves evidence of both top-NE and top-SW shearing and macroscale S-C fabrics, which we present here with new fine-scale geologic mapping, field relationships, and stereograms. These structural relationships between shear zones and their host materials lay the foundation for future work targeting the temperature conditions via microstructural analysis and ages of deformation preserved in these shear zones
Indigenous Whaling Rights and the IWC: Two Rhetorics
No full textBuilding on the verifiable presupposition that whaling is an essential part of material, communal, and spiritual life in the indigenous communities that practice it today, this research examines differing rhetorics indigenous advocates use/have used to argue for the maintenance of these practices. While invoking historical and ongoing trauma was the de facto tact of indigenous arguments to the International Whaling Commission from the beginning of indigenous presence at the IWC in the 1970s through the twenty-first century, some indigenous advocates today have shifted to an approach that asserts lasting rights rather than asking for compassion. Analyzing four indigenous testimonies to the IWC, then addressing two rhetorical arguments central to the conversation, this research examines the dialectics of requests and assertions, memory and progress, and theories of trauma versus rights in the negotiations with the IWC to continue indigenous whaling practices and go toward an sovereign indigenous future