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21 Jan 2024, 5:40 pm
Cusco: The cultural capital of the country The cobblestone streets, colonial architecture, and ancient ruins of Cusco — the former capital of the Incan Empire — give it a historic and captivating feel. [read post]
21 Jan 2024, 10:39 am
Both his arrest and subsequent conviction have sparked mass protests and rioting in Senegal, in particular amongst Senegalese youth, with whom his pan-Africanist message and anti-France (Senegal’s former colonial power) stance have resonated. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 2:24 pm
Pix Credit here Be careful what you wish for. [read post]
18 Jan 2024, 4:00 am
Another was the rise of penal colonies. [read post]
16 Jan 2024, 11:33 am
This bibliography comprises scholarly books, book chapters, and journal articles published or accepted for publication by full-time, emeritus, and retired faculty of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law between October 1, 2023 and December 31, 2023. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 9:05 pm
Pollman explained that dealing with distressed startups through other means, therefore, is crucial to sustaining the venture capital ecosystem. [read post]
4 Jan 2024, 6:05 am
On Dec. 8, 1982, seven years after Suriname’s independence and almost three years after Bouterse’s military coup overthrew a fledgling constitutional government, his soldiers rounded up 15 leading political opponents from their homes in the middle of the night and brought them to the colonial-era Fort Zeelandia in the capital Paramaribo. [read post]
30 Dec 2023, 6:25 pm
Pix credit here For the last several years, and with no particular purpose other than a desire to meander through reflection, I have taken the period between Christmas and New Years Eve to produce a summary of the slice of the year to which I paid attention through epigrams and aphorisms. [read post]
27 Dec 2023, 3:54 am
The settling of the American colonies is closely tied to English joint-stock companies of the 1600s. [read post]
20 Dec 2023, 7:00 am
Increasingly, refugees (MPC Blog, Dec. 2023) [text]Reports:Addressing root causes and drivers of irregular migration: An evidence gap map (International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, Dec. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]Building Equitable Partnerships (Asylum Access, Dec. 2023) [text]- See also related toolkit.Data Gaps in Microdata in the Context of Forced Displacement (Joint Data Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]Global Appeal 2024 (UNHCR, 2023) [text]The Only Real Protection is Local: The case for… [read post]
12 Dec 2023, 4:02 am
” That includes the perils of capitalism and other “power structures”: “Anti-racism is deeply rooted in anti-oppression, which analyzes the world through the lens of power, including the historical and ongoing structures of racism, white supremacy, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, capitalism, ableism, classism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia and more. [read post]
29 Nov 2023, 7:55 am
Ravitch Restricted access Chapter 12: The view: propertizing the visibility of distance Sarah Marusek and Anne Wagner Restricted access Chapter 13: Semiotic insecurity and fake news law Ahmad Pakatchi Restricted access Chapter 14: Beware of (bad and dangerous) metaphors: remarks made at the intersection of cognitive linguistics and law Angela Condello Restricted access Chapter 15: Semiotics of international law Michael Salter Restricted… [read post]
26 Nov 2023, 6:34 pm
Mientras nos reunimos aquí en La Habana, capital de una Cuba que lleva más de 60 años bloqueada con el declarado propósito de que estalle contra sí misma, Gaza sigue siendo bombardeada como colofón genocida de otro bloqueo de décadas. [read post]
23 Nov 2023, 8:12 am
Pix Credit here One of the great fundamental contradictions of globalization has been its insistence on two conditions: the first is the elimination of borders to effectuate principles of free movement of goods, investment, capital (and to some extent people). [read post]
7 Nov 2023, 6:30 am
Holyoke CollegeBeen on the Shop Floor Too Long: Black Labor After the 1964 Civil Rights Act Ellen Nye, Harvard University Hierarchies of Capital: Monetary Governance in a Globalizing World Larissa Kopytoff, University of South FloridaContested Claims: Law, Islam, and Citizenship in French Colonial Senegal Noah Rosenblum, New York UniversityPresidential Administration and Democracy, 1877-1939 Sanne Ravensbergen, University of MichiganMixed Courts and the… [read post]
30 Oct 2023, 10:28 am
For most far-leftists, the greatest evil in the world is capitalism. [read post]
29 Oct 2023, 4:32 am
Jews therefore cannot suffer racism, because they are regarded as 'white' and 'privileged'; although they cannot be victims, they can and do exploit other, less privileged people, in the West through the sins of 'exploitative capitalism' and in the Middle East through 'colonialism.' This leftist analysis, with its hierarchy of oppressed identities—and intimidating jargon, a clue to its lack of factual rigor—has in many parts of… [read post]
28 Oct 2023, 1:01 am
Spanish conquistador Hernán (or Hernando) Cortés, who went to Mexico, headed for the Aztec capital, and brought back chocolate to the Spanish court in 1528 along with the equipment necessary for brewing the drink. [read post]
24 Oct 2023, 4:58 am
The historic city center, on the other hand, offers beautiful colonial architecture and lively streets, while the nearby Tayrona National Park provides an idyllic natural retreat. [read post]
1 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm
But through their visionary schemes and corrupt machinations, U.S. speculators and statesmen had spawned a distinctive and enduring form of settler colonialism: a financialized frontier, which transformed vast swaths of contested land into abstract commodities. [read post]
