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New Directions in African Film Studies
No full textThis review essay examines three recent contributions to African film studies: Lokangaka Losambe’s Postcolonial Agency in African and Diasporic Literature and Film, Lindsey B. Green-Simms’s Queer African Cinemas, and Matthew H. Brown’s Indirect Subjects: Nollywood’s Local Address. Each book proposes a distinctive framework for interpreting African screen media, addressing questions of agency, subjectivity and modernity. The essay explores how these texts expand the field’s methodological and theoretical horizons – utilising concepts such as globalectics, Afri-queer fugitivity and periliberalism – to read cinematic form and reception across diverse contexts. Attention is given to the ways in which these authors reconsider the African film canon, foreground new archives, and offer innovative approaches to issues of visibility, indirectness and cultural negotiation. The review situates these works within broader developments in African cinema, including recent trends in genre, distribution and representation, and argues for a plural and flexible critical practice attuned to the evolving nature of African screen cultures
Global Tax Hubs
No full textGlobal tax hubs are the black boxes of the international tax regime (ITR). The driving forces of their strategic interaction with other building blocks of the ITR remain undertheorized. This Article offers the first theory of tax hubs as a two-sided global marketplace. It argues that tax hubs are the matchmakers of the ITR. Indeed, international investors, tax hubs and endpoint jurisdictions play different yet interrelated roles within the same ecosystem, i.e., the two-sided platform. The theory is positive rather than normative. It aims to explain how the creeping marketization of the ITR, as part of international law, has been frequently instrumented worldwide over the last century. The Article provides a stress test to the theory’s explanatory power and its limitations. Antitrust law and economic concepts form the conceptual framework of this piece
The Decline of Chevron, the Rise of Loper Bright and the Shifting Sands of Tax Law
No full textThe repeal of the Chevron deference doctrine has triggered what some may argue is a seismic shift in how tax law may be interpreted and applied, which may have far-reaching implications for taxpayers, the Internal Revenue Service and the federal government. This Article examines the evolving landscape of U.S. federal tax law in the wake of the Loper Bright decision, specifically focusing on the tax and economic consequences for key tax areas such as the General Anti-Abuse Rule and the complicated foreign tax credit and transfer pricing regimes, as well as the rules that characterize financial instruments or equity investments and the technical measurement and accrual of interest and OID rules. By removing the automatic deference previously afforded to the federal agencies in general and the IRS in taxation, courts may now be open to take a far more active role in interpreting ambiguous tax statutes, which could introduce further uncertainty on one hand, but also perhaps new opportunities for taxpayers. This Article argues that the repeal of Chevron deference could potentially result in inconsistent rulings, heightened litigation and a redefined balance of power between the judiciary and regulatory agencies. As the U.S. administrative legal system enters this new era, the U.S. federal tax system may follow, and all parties involved must navigate an increasingly unpredictable legal environment, with long-term consequences for innovation, compliance and tax strategy
Comparing In Situ and Laboratory Osteological Observations
No full textAmong the more than 2,000 interments from the Phaleron Burial Ground, 79 individuals buried in the Esplanada mass graves are said to have died violently, perhaps bludgeoned to death. The Esplanada remains were observed in the field by Ingvarsson and Bäckström (2019); ten of these 79 were later excavated and studied by Buikstra and colleagues in a laboratory setting. The field and laboratory analyses for these ten individuals are compared here. Estimates of skeletal sex and age at death were refined slightly through laboratory analysis. Stature estimates trended toward slightly larger values following laboratory measurements of long bones. Pathology observations for both teeth and bones differed significantly between laboratory and field contexts. While these results should not be generalized uncritically to other contexts and observers, we indicate that estimates of skeletal sex and age at death for adults varied little between these field and laboratory situations. Re-searchers should, however, note the differences reported here between field and laboratory observations of dental and skeletal pathology
Three Stories and a Funeral : Multiple Narrative Fictions Exploring DisAbility Osteobiography in Roman Dorset
No full textPaleopathological study uses complex terminology, including medical jargon, to describe and understand a disease process and/or diseased individual. Such terminology might not be comprehensible and accessible to non-bioarchaeologists, including similarly affected individuals. This is especially the case when considering the interplay of disease with disability. How is disability defined, recognized, and understood in past peoples? Can this be communicated using nontraditional mechanisms? Developing other or nonstandard mechanisms for communication of bioarchaeological and paleopathological studies is vital for public understanding of and engagement with the discipline. This project studied a small cemetery assemblage from Roman Alington Avenue in Dorset. Osteobiographies were developed for those buried within the cemetery, and then, following grounding in disability theory and using a feminist standpoint theory approach, three interweaving fictive narratives were written about three specific individuals. One of these three was an individual previously diagnosed as having Langer-type mesomelic dwarfism. In writing the narratives, the implications of the constructions of possible bodily impairment and socially constructed views of disability were considered. Through this writing, focusing on bodily materiality and object-relations, the constructive effects of the interactions between the three people themselves and between them and their physical and social environments became clear regarding Roman views of disability, thereby producing new knowledge and understanding. This article explores the potential of integrated narrative fiction to enable communication of the implications of putative disability in one past group
Spine Hyperkyphosis with Extensive Ankylosis in Seventeenth-Century Lucca (Italy) Disability in a Time of Crisis
No full textArchaeological excavations in the city of Lucca (Tuscany, central Italy) brought to light a cemetery of 91 burials for people of low social status dating to the first half of the seventeenth century that originated during a catastrophic epidemic event. There were two epidemics in this period, plague in 1630–1631 and petechial typhus in 1648–1650. A double tomb (T.29) contained the skeletal remains of a female aged 16–20 years and a non-adult aged five to six years. The female presented pathological skeletal alterations: the thoracolumbar tract of the spine from T5 to L1 was affected by a severe hyperkyphosis with a curvature of 180°, due to the complete collapse of the bodies of T8, T9, and T10, and ankylosis of bodies and posterior arches of all the vertebrae. On the endocranial surface of the cranium, two rounded depressions at the end of the enlarged meningeal sulcus of the left parietal are consistent with aneurysms of the meningeal artery. Moreover, the long bones of the limbs appeared slender, with all the indices of robustness lower than the sample average. The differential diagnosis suggested that hyperkyphosis could be attributed to a severe case of Pott’s disease, which likely caused prolonged paraplegia. Undoubtedly, the young woman received care and assistance during the acute phase of the disease, in the rehabilitation period, and for the rest of her life due to the pathological deformities of her spine
“Karnan”: Internal Colonialism as the Symptom of Mimicry
No full textMari Selvaraj’s Karnan represents internal colonialism—defined as regional disparities in socioeconomic development—as an element of mimicry. The fictional movie narrates the feud between two villages in Tamil Nādu and illustrates how mimicry of the British rule in the Subcontinent reinforces socioeconomic disparities, exemplified by the lack of a bus stop in one of the two villages. First, the fictional movie is put back into its historical and real-life context of caste violence in Tamil Nādu. Second, the concept of mimicry is explained through Bhabha’s writings and legacy in postcolonial studies in the context of India and its caste system through the lens of Karnan. Then, the concept of internal colonialism is explored through the lack of mobility that Karnan and his fellow villagers experience in the movie. Finally, internal colonialism is integrated into Bhabha’s conceptualization of mimicry in postcolonial studies
A Ceno do Odio: The Scene of Hate
No full textJosé Sobral de Almada-Negreiros was born on April 7, 1893 in the Portuguese colony of São Tomé and Príncipe. He was a multidisciplinary artist whose extraordinary work as a poet and painter have had a lasting influence on Portuguese culture. In addition to literature and painting, Almada-Negreiros also created ballet choreographies, tapestries, engravings, murals, caricatures, mosaics, azulejo paintings, and stained-glass work
Emigrés by Richard Scholar
No full textRichard Scholar: Emigrés: French Words That Turned English.Princeton UP, 2020
Narrating Fractures: Teaching Notes on Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
No full textYaa Gyasi’s acclaimed 2016 debut novel, Homegoing, has significantly contributed to African and African American literary and cultural studies. Given its scope and thematic depth, Homegoing has become a significant work in contemporary global Black literature, prompting considerable scholarly analysis, focusing on a range of topics from ecocritical aspects (Asempasah et al.) to diaspora and the search for home (Madongonda and Gudhlanga), trauma and the living past (Grindstaff), historical violence and personal identity (Huang), epigenetic inheritance (Mikić), female descendency (Motahane, Nyambi, and Makombe), extractive form (Okoth), bottom-up examination of Black History (Reynolds), and aurality and Afro-Modernity (Royston and Ogoti). Despite this extensive critical engagement with the novel, hardly any scholarship explicitly theorizes or reflects on its pedagogical dimensions, particularly why it is a propitious text for exploring the Black Atlantic and the legacy of slavery. A brief survey of publicly available syllabi repositories reveals that the novel is prominent in undergraduate and graduate curricula within global Black studies, African and African American literature, and African diaspora courses. This essay critically reflects on my experience with the novel both as a graduate student and as an instructor in three distinct courses: Advanced Seminar on African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Introduction to Global Black Studies at Clemson University, and Africa and the Atlantic World at Clemson University. Drawing on these pedagogical experiences, I aim to delineate the complex thematic and historical concerns the novel raises and advance approaches for critically engaging its literary, cultural, and historical significance