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“Now I Know What It Means to Be a Donbas Child’s Mother”: Ukrainian, Western and Russian Media Representations of the ICC’s Arrest Warrant Against Maria Lvova-Belova and Vladimir Putin
No full textThis article analyses media representations of Maria Lvova-Belova, Russia’s Commissioner for Children’s Rights, in light of the ICC arrest warrant issued for her and Vladimir Putin over the unlawful deportation of Ukrainian children. Using discourse analysis across Ukrainian, Russian, and selected Western (UK/US) media, it examines how gendered narratives shape understandings of female agency, political violence, and motherhood.
Drawing on feminist and poststructuralist theories, the article explores how Lvova-Belova is framed differently across contexts: Ukrainian media depict her as a key perpetrator of a genocidal campaign, emphasizing her autonomy and casting her as a monstrous mother. Western outlets often downplay her role, portraying her as subordinate to Putin. Russian state media, meanwhile, presents her as a humanitarian saving orphaned children.
These gendered framings reflect broader ideological divides and serve political ends. The article highlights how femininity and motherhood are strategically deployed to construct narratives of blame, innocence, or legitimacy during war
"Ukraine Must Be Free!": Review Article
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Dispossession: Anthropological Perspectives on Russia’s War AgainstUkraine edited by Catherine Wanner. Routledge. 2024
Feminist Perspective on Russia’s War in Ukraine: Hear Our Voicesedited by Maryna Shevtsova. Lexington Books. 2024
Night Train to Odesa: Covering the Human Cost of Russia’s Warby Jen Stout. Polygon. 2024
Russia and Ukraine: Entangled Histories, Diverging States by MariaPopova and Oxana Shevel. Polity. 202
A Transnational Feminist Evaluation of the Efficacy of Topless Protest in Tunisia: Femen’s International Jihad Versus Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité
No full textFemen is a bare-breasted feminist group that originated in Ukraine and specializes in topless protests. This article evaluates Femen’s involvement in Tunisia by shedding light on its universalized and decontextualized feminist politics. This article uses a transnational feminist approach in order to question the efficiency of Femen’s international Topless Jihad campaign in Tunisia. I argue that the civilizational and delocalized topless approach cannot advance women’s rights in this Muslim-majority country. The first part of this article addresses the problems of Femen’s civilizational feminism. The second part of this article compares Femen’s non-situated international feminism that tries to lead Tunisian women from Europe to another cross-border feminist group that has operated in Tunisia during the same post-revolutionary period using a contextualized approach. As such, my analysis juxtaposes the inefficacy of Femen’s global bare-breasted activism with the efficacy of the regional transnational feminist alliance Collectif 95 Maghreb-Egalité. By contrasting the failure of Femen’s anti-Islam techniques to achieve equality with the gradual success of Collectif 95’s situated approach in progressing the equality cause in post-revolutionary Tunisia, I demonstrate the inefficiency of embracing feminist politics that demonize Islam and the usefulness of a feminist strategy that works with Islam in order to create reform from within, not from above
How Federal Government Policy Helped Create Retirement Insecurity
No full textFinancial security in retirement is crucial. Without it, people fall into poverty, work until they die, and die younger than they should.
In the 21st century, Americans fund their retirement from Social Security, traditional pension plans, defined contributions plans and private retirement savings plans. Of these four, only Social Security is exclusively the creature of government. Nevertheless, federal law regulates the other three to such an extent that it is fair to say that all four reflect government retirement policy.
Since 1974, the federal government has spent billions of dollars supporting the private retirement system. In turn, the private retire-ment system has often failed its participants, sometimes leaving them impoverished. In contrast, Social Security has consistent success in reducing poverty and providing a financially strong old age.
The last 50 years demonstrate that the private sector is an unre-liable provider of retirement benefits. Private employers deny their workers retirement benefits, siphon off pension monies for corporate use and declare bankruptcy as a means of leaving their losses to the fed-eral government to make right. In turn, the federal government must spend even more money regulating the private sector and protecting pri-vate workers and their retirement monies. Whatever the theories, we have decades of proof that if the federal government wants to ensure financial security for the elderly, then it should stop providing tax ben-efits and direct payments to private sector retirement plans and instead focus on expanding and strengthening Social Security
Taxing Zero
No full text“Zero-price” transactions—in which goods or services are provided at a cash price of zero—are an increasingly important feature of economic life. Consumers can search the web, use email, listen to music and even trade stocks, all without paying anything out of pocket. But zero-price transactions are not free: for-profit businesses provide products at zero price because they get something valuable from consumers in return. Consumers pay with their time, attention or private information. Zero-price transactions are not giveaways; they are a form of barter exchange.
Under federal income tax principles, barter exchanges are taxable: both parties to the transaction are taxed on the value they receive. This Article considers the treatment of zero-price transactions from an income tax perspective. Should zero-price transactions be taxed like barter exchanges? If so, how should the amount received in a zero-price transaction be valued? And how can the federal government practically collect tax owed on zero-price transactions
The Role of Marriage in the Internal Revenue Code
No full textThis Article offers a new descriptive account of the role of marriage in the federal tax system. It first outlines an economic frame that explains both why marriage is economically valuable—marriage produces large amounts of untaxed surplus—and why its legal structure is as it is—drawing on both Coase and the theory of numerus clausus. The Article then suggests that most federal tax rules that turn on marriage can be understood as solutions to one of two interrelated problems: “entanglement” and “relative indifference.” By “entanglement,” I refer to the fact that the daily activities of spouses are commonly so intertwined as to make standard rules for their taxation impossible to apply, even if we wanted to. By “relative indifference,” I refer to the fact that entangled spouses often do not care who owns what, owes what, earns what or pays what to the degree they would if they were not interpersonally committed. As a result, they are often able to engage in tax avoidance behaviors that atomistically motivated actors would find unattractive
Beyond “Non-Local”: Biogeochemical and Morphological Approaches to Examining Diverse Migrant Experiences in Epiclassic Central Mexico
No full textWhile biogeochemical analyses of residential history have revolutionized the study of paleomobility, the monolithic categories of “local” and “non-local” obscure a great deal of important variation in individual migrant experiences. Furthermore, these binarized designations may not always provide a culturally salient indicator of social difference. Here, the authors take a novel approach to integrating previously published biogeochemical 87Sr/86Sr data with intra-site biodistance analysis of cervicometric dimensions in order to access a diversity of migration experiences within both “local” and “non-l ocal” individuals (n = 73) at Non-Grid 4, a ritual shrine site in Epiclassic (600– 900 C.E.) central Mexico, where a minimum of 180 individuals were sacrificed and interred. We generate an estimated phenotypic distance matrix using Mahalanobis distances (d2) to identify possible nth generation migrants among individuals who appeared biogeochemically “local.” The integration of biogeochemical and cervicometric data thus adds a time depth to their analyses of paleomobility in ancient Mexico beyond first-generation migrants identified by biogeochemical methods alone. The article also examines “non-local” sacrificial victims’ phenotypic affinities and available 87Sr/86Sr data to reconstruct possible migration networks and motivations for migrant individuals relocating to central Mexico during the Epiclassic. This broader contextualization of migrant experiences allows the authors to consider how and why these migrants’ lives ended in violence in their new homeland more holistically.
Si bien los análisis biogeoquímicos de la historia residencial han revolucionado el estudio de la paleomovilidad, las categorías monolíticas de “local” y “no local” oscurecen una gran cantidad de variaciones importantes en las experiencias individuales de los migrantes. Además, es posible que estas designaciones binarizadas no siempre proporcionen un indicador culturalmente destacado de la diferencia social. Aquí, tomamos un enfoque nove-doso para integrar datos biogeoquímicos 87Sr/86Sr publicados previamente con análisis de biodistancia dentro del sitio de dimensiones cervicométricas para acceder a una diversidad de experiencias de migración dentro de individuos “locales” y “no locales” (n = 73) en Non-Grid 4, un santuario ritual fechado al Epiclásico (600–900 a.C.) en el centro de México donde se sacrificaron y enterraron un mínimo de 180 individuos. Generamos una matriz de distancia fenotípica estimada utilizando las distancias de Mahalanobis (d2) para identificar posibles migrantes de enésima generación entre individuos que parecían biogeoquímicamente “locales.” La integración de datos biogeoquímicos y cervicométricos agrega una profundidad temporal a nuestros análisis de paleomovilidad en el México antiguo más allá de los migrantes de primera generación identificados solo con métodos biogeoquímicos. También examinamos las afinidades fenotípicas de las víctimas sacrificiales “no locales” y los datos 87Sr/86Sr disponibles para reconstruir las posibles redes migratorias y las motivaciones de las personas migrantes que se trasladaron al centro de México durante el Epiclásico. Esta contextualización más amplia de las experiencias de los migrantes nos permite considerar de manera más holística cómo y por qué las vidas de estos migrantes terminaron en violencia en su nuevo hogar.
Literary Translation is Original, Creative Writing
No full textIn February 2023, I traveled to Mexico City to attend an homage to my friend, the Mexican poet David Huerta, whose poetry I’ve translated extensively. There, in the company of Huerta’s colleagues and friends, I was received and embraced as a fellow poet, my translations understood as poetry that coexists with Huerta’s and their own. Upon my return to the US, I found this reply from a writing program to my inquiry as to whether literary translation projects were eligible for their writing fellowship: “We ask that Fellowship projects be original writing or research; translation projects are not accepted.” In response, I wrote the following description of literary translation as original, creative writing, based on my own work and personal experience. I dedicate it to the memory of David, writer, reader, literary thinker, and teacher extraordinaire, and to the enormous literary community he left incalculably enriched
Word, Sound, Image: Grzegorz Wróblewski on YouTube
No full textOne of Poland’s leading literary figures, Grzegorz Wróblewski was born in Gdańsk in 1962, grew up in Warsaw, and moved to Copenhagen in 1985. Described by Marjorie Perloff as “the true poetic chronicler of our 21st century diaspora in all its absurdities and anxieties,”2 Wróblewski has published dozens of volumes of poetry, prose, and drama in Poland, as well as several books in Denmark and other countries. Active in the contemporary music scene, he has collaborated with several performers and musicians based in Europe, including Olga Magieres, Bobi Peru, Paweł “Kelner” Rozwadowski, and the punk rock band Deuter. As a visual artist, he has exhibited his paintings in various galleries in Denmark, Germany, England, and Poland. Exceptionally prolific and versatile, Wróblewski is no stranger to Anglophone readers. English translations of his poetry appear in several volumes, including my translations Kopenhaga (Zephyr Press, 2013), Zero Visibility (Phoneme Media/Deep Vellum, 2017), and Dear Beloved Humans: Selected Poems (Diálogos Books, 2023)
A sciame. Sedici poesie italiane: In Swarm. Sixteen Italian Poems by Maria Grazia Insinga
No full textThe translations presented here are taken from Maria Grazia Insinga’s latest poetry anthology, A sciame (In Swarm), published in 2023 by Arcipelago Itaca in Osimo, Italy. The collection is divided into three sections, from which the most exemplary poems have been selected: “La stanza dell’acqua” (“The Water Chamber”), “La testa che parla” (“The Speaking Head”), and “Nel nome del giglio” (“In the Name of the Lily”)