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Puerto Rico Pandemonium: The Commonwealth Constitution and the Compact-Colony Conundrum [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
This Note will consider the historical background of the compact-colony conundrum and examine the development of self-determination in international law and democracy in the Americas in order to bring to light a new forum for this question.
Otaño, Jason Adolfo
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Deux exemples contrastés d'actions glottopolitiques menées sur des langues et dans des territoires vulnérables : les cas mirandais et aragonais

open access: yesLengas
In this contribution, we are dealing with two small linguistic communities that have historically suffered from an "internal colonialism" that could be described as slow for several centuries (due to their socio-economic and geographical marginality) but
Carmen Alén Garabato
doaj   +1 more source

Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in Italian Context - Past and Present [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Black (or) Italians? The Construction of Blackness in the Italian Context – Past and Present. In the last 30 years Italy experienced relevant changes due to its new configuration as a postcolonial country and land of transnational migrations, without ...
FABBRI, GIULIA
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Property and Empire: The Law of Imperialism in Johnson v. M’Intosh [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Chief Justice\u27s Marshall\u27s opinion in Johnson v. M\u27Intosh, 21 U.S. (8 Wheat.)543 (1823) has long been a puzzle, both in its doctrinal structure and in long, strange dicta which are both triumphal and elegiac.
Bonnerud, Patrik   +5 more
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“You're this person who's providing light”: Embodied responses to information loss and transition within LGBTQIA+ communities

open access: yesJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper reports on findings from 15 semi‐structured interviews with LGBTQIA+ individuals within the United States who have experienced the loss of one or more LGBTQIA+ information spaces. The paper specifically focuses on how such losses occurred and the information transitions experienced by the participants in response to this loss ...
Travis L. Wagner, Vanessa L. Kitzie
wiley   +1 more source

The Logic of Consciencism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
According to Kwame Nkrumah, the conscience of the African society is plagued with three strands of influences which have competing and conflicting ideologies: “African society has one segment which comprises our traditional way of life; it has a second ...
Kwesi, Richmond
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Book review:Conor O’Reilly (ed.), Colonial policing and the transnational legacy: the global dynamics of policing across the Lusophone community [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
First paragraph: Traces of the past are found in the present, in the continued (re)construction of identities and in practices built around them. Explorations of these legacies offered in O’Reilly’s edited collection provide valuable insights into not ...
Rogers, Ashley
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To protect and preserve? Explaining the gap between structural and superficial racial equality regimes in North Atlantic Rim universities

open access: yesBritish Educational Research Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how UK and US universities manage racial equality regimes through governance structures that prioritise institutional reputation over substantive racial justice reform. Drawing on Bourdieu's field, habitus and capital theory, the study demonstrates how universities neutralise racial justice efforts through bureaucratic ...
David Roberts
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical literacy and transnational Mayan liberation movements

open access: yesActa Theologica, 2009
The Zapatista and other Mayan movements in Mexico and Guatemala are demanding autonomy and respect for indigenous cultures. Still struggling for land-rights lost during colonialism and now suffering from neo-liberal trade policies, Mayan communities ...
Roberto Domingo Toledo
doaj   +1 more source

An Exploration of Poverty in Central Appalachia: Questions of Culture, Industry, and Technology [PDF]

open access: yesKOME: An International Journal of Pure Communication Inquiry, 2015
By most government statistical definitions, Central Appalachia is one of the most impoverished regions in the United States. Many of the region’s residents are low-income, dependent on government benefits, have high rates of obesity and diabetes, and low
Cara Robinson
doaj   +1 more source

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