Category: Government & Policy
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The Anti-Gay Agenda: The Rise of Political Homophobia in Eastern Europe
Though eastern Europe has never been an exemplary model for human rights, the past few years have engendered major concerns for the LGBTQIA+ (LGBT) community within this region. Key political leaders across eastern Europe have chosen to use the LGBT community as scapegoats for underlying societal issues and to bolster campaign platforms to garner the […]
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“If the Youth are Effeminate, then the Nation is Effeminate”: Militarized Masculinity and Xenophobic Nationalism in China
In early September this year, the Chinese government issued a document prohibiting “effeminate men on TV”. China’s mainstream news organizations have followed published a series of articles to criticize effeminate men, believing that feminine masculinity is an abnormal aesthetic that should be corrected, and this also cause a hit discussion on the Chinese Internet. In […]
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January 2021 is not June 2020
The attempted coup yesterday and its contrast with the Black Lives Matter movement invites serious reflection about the difference in motivations between a seditious, antidemocratic personality cult, and legitimate dissent. Prejudice long held that the already powerful will do what is just and what is orderly, since the powerful are order by definition. Yesterday proved […]
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The Urban Space as Nature
The Urban Space as Nature The concept of nature and what is natural is socially constructed as much as any social or relational category. What is imagined when asked: ‘What is a natural space or nature to you?’ is reflective of what is considered the environment around us. Being in a desolate forest, next […]
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Infrastructures of Oppression: Public Transport System of Dhaka City, Bangladesh
One of the early technologies in the history of human civilization that brought extraordinary transformations in the mode and mobility of human life was the invention of the wheel. With this innovation, the progress of human civilization got new momentum allowing people to carry goods, travel between places, and most importantly shrink the physical distance […]
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Oregon and White Supremacy Annotated Bibliography
I originally created this annotated bibliography as part of a project to design a survey about white supremacy in academic libraries for ACRL-Oregon. During the ACRL-Oregon and Washington joint conference in October 2019, librarians discussed the 2017 shooting of a protester by a white supremacist student at the University of Washington. Academic librarians expressed a […]
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White Supremacy and Oregon Academic Libraries
Why is it important to explore the relationship between white supremacy and academic libraries in general, let alone Oregon academic libraries? The answer begins with statistics. According to the most recent American Library Association diversity count, librarianship remains overwhelmingly white, with only 12% of credentialed librarians identifying as racial or ethnic minorities (“Diversity Counts” […]
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Chapter 7: The Miracle of the Golden Arches
“What do your research and scholarship—RIGHT NOW—challenge and remake? What do your institutional practices—RIGHT NOW—challenge and remake?” At the October 2019 Conference on Community Writing in Philadelphia, an event that brings together teachers, scholars, artists, activists and community organizers, Carmen Kynard asked the above questions in “All I Need is One Mic”: A Black […]
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Scholar Spotlight: Monique Kampherm
Hi there! I am Monique Kampherm and I am a PhD candidate in English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, researching the rhetorical intersection of politics and social media. 1. Why did you apply to HASTAC? I applied the HASTAC scholars fellowship because of the extensive knowledge-network of collaborative thinkers […]
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Introduction: From Sit-In to Drive-Thru
In the introduction of Franchise, Marcia Chatelain uses the tagline “From Sit-In to Drive-Thru” to illustrate how fast-food restaurant franchises such as McDonald’s have been central to black capitalism in the United States since the 1960s. Chatelain suggests that black capitalism is “[t]he notion that black liberation can come through black control of the […]