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Resisting Colonialism, Militarism and Patriarchy: Rokeya's and Woolf's Feminist Strategies
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Tounsel, Christopher. Chosen Peoples: Christianity and Political Imagination in South Sudan.
No full textMurphy, Dawn C. China’s Rise in the Global South: The Middle East, Africa, and Beijing’s Alternative World Order.
No full textQuasi-Democracy and Autocracy as Governance Systems in Nigeria: An Examination
No full textBoth democracy and autocracy are forms of governance systems that have been operated by humankind in the course of organizing society. They differ from one another and can hardly be combined for governance purposes without wreaking havoc in the society that does so. In some societies, there has been evidence that a historical transition from autocracy to democracy took place; the latter has since been consolidated. This is notably true in capitalist social formations. But, in some other societies, such linear transition has not been perfected and consolidated; such societies have often been stuck with autocracy, even when they propagandize democratic rule. Two points have to be raised about these forms of governance based on what has been said so far. In the first instance, because of the inherent differences in the natures of the two governance systems, humankind has arrived at a conclusion that democracy is better than autocracy and that it is historically a progressive development. Secondly and consequentially, a society that has been able to transition from autocracy to democracy should not allow itself to regress. This has not been the case in the Nigerian governance system. At Nigeria’s independence in 1960, democracy was explicitly accepted to be an antithesis of colonial autocracy. However, both autocracy and elements of democracy were used and have since been combined for governance. Just halfway into the first decade of independence, the military took over, and alternations between civilian rule and autocracy took place. The paper attempts to clarify both concepts of democracy and autocracy, provide a detailed analysis of governance in Nigeria, and show how the country’s debilitating economic structures and other factors have reinforced autocratic nature of governance, whether military or civilia
Effects of Maceration on Light Stable Isotopic (δ13C, δ18O) Values of Pig (Sus scrofa) Rib Bone Carbonate: Implications for Geolocation Estimates of Unidentified Human Remains
No full textGeoprofiling isotopic analyses provide investigative leads for unidentified human remains cases by determining possible regions of origin or excluding unlikely residences during life, which in turn can reduce the number of missing persons an investigator must consider. However, maceration methods involving heat, bleach, baking soda, and detergents have much potential to significantly change biogenic isotopic values in the structural carbonate phase of bone bioapatite. Here we test the impact of seven maceration methods on δ13C and δ18O values of bone carbonate (BC) of pig (Sus scrofa) ribs. Four of the seven maceration methods altered pig δ13CBC values with offsets ranging from 0.4‰ to 1.4‰; this amount of change would not severely impact human diet or geolocation interpretations. Five of the methods significantly decreased pig δ18OBC values by averages ranging between 1.0‰ and 2.6‰ likely due to the isotopic exchange between bone and heated water. As an illustrative exercise, we compared our study’s results to macerated rib δ13CBC and δ18OBC values of an identified New York City resident previously in the custody of the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME). We suggest that maceration methods, especially those involving heated water, can potentially contribute to erroneous geolocation estimates garnered from rib δ18OBC values of unidentified individuals
Pioneers of Color: A Counternarrative of Foundational Figures in Forensic Anthropology's History
No full textPopular renditions on the history of forensic anthropology have traced the discipline’s roots back to early European anatomy and nineteenth to twentieth-century American research and applications to the legal system, often highlighting the works of several recurring figures. These forebearers are overwhelmingly composed of white men to the exclusion of, as we argue here, pioneers of color. As a counter to prevailing Eurocentric narratives, we present the biographies of diverse contemporaries who were equally foundational to the field, including Black Americans, immigrants, and luminaries outside of the Western world. Common themes among their experiences involved discrimination, a lack of opportunities and recognition, and a biocultural and humanistic praxis that demonstrate modern discourses within the forensic anthropology community are not novel. Ultimately, this work shows that the historical foundations of forensic anthropology, in both the United States and globally, include a far more diverse cast of pioneers than what the prevailing literature suggests and should serve as a springboard from which our discipline can grow, both in its past and in its future
A Dialogue on Un/Precendented Pandemic Rhetorics
No full textInspired by conversations at the 2021 Rhetoric Society of America Institute workshop on Pandemic Rhetoric(s), this dialogue assembles graduate student, early-, mid-career, and established rhetoric of health and medicine (RHM) and critical health communication scholars to discuss a keyword that has structured political, social, and biomedical thinking about COVID-19: un/precedented. In identifying un/precedented as an organizing temporal rhetoric for the pandemic, we interrogate how recurrent appeals to the pandemic’s novelty both allow for and limit our capacities to meet the pandemic’s tremendous exigencies head-on. Leveraging our unique scholarly and community commitments, we theorize how un/precedentedness 1) becomes complicit in government inaction, 2) (re)asserts conceptual and literal borders, 3) justifies state and national public health mandates, and 4) obscures other historical and contemporary pandemics. We conclude by offering possibilities for interdisciplinary and longitudinal research into the far-reaching effects of contagious disease.
The Common Sense of a Wealth Tax: Thomas Paine and Taxation as Freedom from Aristocracy
No full textThomas Paine’s writing helped spur the American colonies to independence and ensure that the new nation would be a republic, not a monarchy. In light of the renewed interest in wealth taxes, this article provides a close examination of Thomas Paine’s wealth tax proposal in the second volume of The Rights of Man. Unlike Paine’s proposal to tax inheritances, his 1792 proposal to tax wealth on an annual basis is often overlooked. The article identifies Paine’s various design specifications, provides original estimates of the impact of Paine’s wealth tax proposal within his own time period and as applied to billionaires today, and discusses ambiguities in the proposal. The article then places Paine in conversation with the contemporary wealth tax policy debate and demonstrates how Paine informs both the design and evaluation of tax policy. Lastly, the article clarifies the relationship between democratic ideals and taxation, portraying tax policy as a normative expression of republican ideals