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ORCHESTRATING DIFFERENCE AND SIMILARITY: Black Fungibility, and the Spatial Redrawing of Racial Categories in Spanish Colonial Morocco, Sahara and Guinea

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract In this article I dissect the spatial strategies through which the Spanish attempted to orchestrate both racial difference and similarity in the African colonies of Morocco, Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea during the first half of the twentieth century.
Pol Fité Matamoros
wiley   +1 more source

French crime fiction

open access: yes, 2003
Chapter 4 ‘The detection of crime is evidently not an art that has been cultivated in England.’ ‘Our Detective Police’, Chambers Journal, 1884. It is not for nothing that Moriarty was otherwise known as the Napoleon of crime, that Poe's Chevalier Dupin invented ratiocination from a comfortable armchair in a darkened room in Paris, or, for that matter ...
openaire   +3 more sources

“Dead cities, crows, the rain and their ripper, the Yorkshire ripper”: The red riding novels (1974, 1977, 1980, 1983) of David Peace as Lieux d’horreur [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article explores the role and importance of place in the Red Riding novels of David Peace. Drawing on Nora’s (1989) concept of Lieux de mémoire and Rejinders’ (2010) development of this work in relation to the imaginary world of the TV detective and
Cummins, ID, King, MS
core   +1 more source

The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

open access: yesThe British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

« La vision d’un monde marquée par les pratiques locales » au prisme du roman policier – entre « villes » et « campagnes »

open access: yesEbisu: Études Japonaises
Crime fiction and ethnography have a great deal in common. They originated at the same time, while the regional focus in both fields has shifted over time from the “city” to the “countryside”.
Daisuke Fukunishi
doaj   +1 more source

The legal life of objects : speaking evidence and mute subjects in Mark Twain’s Pudd’nhead Wilson [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
textIn this paper, I argue that legal authorities assign speaking power to objects and evidence in the courtroom in order to deny speaking power to racialized subjects and police racial identities.
Henry, Valerie Anne
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La omisión como estrategia de traducción del género negro: Io uccido, de Giorgio Faletti

open access: yesJoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation, 2014
What characterises the translation of crime fiction? Is it a type of specialised translation? How is the translation influenced by literary conventions?
Esther Morillas
doaj   +1 more source

Literature, Crime Fiction and Scientific Language [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
El siguiente trabajo analiza la estrecha interacción entre cienciatecnología y literatura, en especial en el género policíaco, con la pretensión de demostrar que la vinculación existente entre estos saberes, articulada en una gran variedad de ejes -desde
Díaz Alarcón, Soledad
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Serial maternal filicide as evidence of Munchausen syndrome by proxy

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy (MSBP), or Fabricated or Induced Illness (FII), is a form of physical and emotional child abuse and maltreatment that remains frequently under‐detected due to a significant lack of clinical awareness. This case report aims to highlight the challenges of diagnosing MSBP, its impact on victims, and the ethical ...
Ahlem Mtiraoui   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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