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    Academic Dispatches

    Academically peer-reviewed, Academic Dispatches are conference length papers that aim to address current events by presenting innovative entrées to a problem in short, concise peer-reviewed pieces. Academic Dispatches are intended to allow for active dialogue among academics about current events, as well as to introduce broader audiences to currents within academe.

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Os impasses das questões de gênero e sexualidade no Brasil atual

    Author: Ana Maria Colling

    Apesar dos avanços no combate à desigualdade de gênero no mundo e da presença das mulheres em todos os segmentos da sociedade, as conquistas ainda são lentas e o mito[...]

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    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Academic Journal: Summer 2015 (Issue: Vol. 3, Number 1) · Culture · Featured

    Soumission de Houellebecq : ¿Islamófoba, decadente o misógina?

    Author: Josefina Bueno Alonso

    ¿Qué ocurre cuando una novela da que hablar antes de su publicación? ¿Qué ocurre cuando se la conoce sólo por uno de los temas que aborda? Sin duda, la última[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    De l’humour noir aux caricatures : impensés d’une tradition satirique

    Author: Isolde Lecostey

    Liberté d’expression et humour font l’objet d’une quête permanente de leurs limites. C’est un truisme de rappeler que la liberté n’est pas l’espace ouvert à tous les possibles contenus dans[...]

    "Excitable Speech? Radical Discourse and the Limits of Freedom" (Summer 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Writing Rites of Reclamation: Blackness and Caribbean Remembering

    Author: Melanie Manuel-Webb

    In his Nobel Prize speech Derek Walcott noted that a “sense of elegy, of loss, even of degenerative mimicry” defines our understanding of the sweep of Caribbean and arguably post-plantation[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured

    Intersectionnalité et féminismes arabes avec Kimberlé Crenshaw

    Author: Ines Horchani

    Dans « Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex : A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Antiracist Politics[1]» (1989), Kimberlé Crenshaw explique pourquoi le féminisme afro-américain[...]

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    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Featured · Global Perspectives

    Mexico’s Border (In)Security

    Author: Rebecca Galemba

    Nearly every block of the former sleepy colonial town of Frontera Comalapa, Chiapas, Mexico now hosts a “Travel Agency”, which advertises trips to Tecate, Baja California, Altar, Sonora, and Tijuana,[...]

    "Intersectionality, Class, and (De)Colonial Praxis" (December 2014/January 2015) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Featured

    Mythology, Taboo and Cultural Identity in Elif Shafak’s The Bastard of Istanbul

    Author: Alissa Simon

    The Bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak, discusses the complexities presented by political upheaval and cultural stereotype. Shafak portrays two families, one Armenian and one Turkish, who share strong cultural[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured

    Ivy League Foundational Narratives and Academic Disciplinary Hierarchies

    Author: Silvia Spitta

    [H]e was considered the foremost of authorities on the Mexicans of Texas.  Hank Harvey had been born in New York City some sixty years before.  He had gone to grade[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Las fallidas transformaciones al interior del movimiento LGBT en el Perú: una interpretación crítica desde la perspectiva interseccional

    Author: Roland Álvarez Chavez

    El Contexto El haber sido miembro del Movimiento Homosexual de Lima (Mhol), una de las organizaciones gay/lésbica más antigua de Sudamérica[1] debería producir orgullo y satisfacción, pero ¿qué ocurre cuando[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts

    Ibn Fadlan: Crossing Over and the Nature of the Boundary

    Author: Joy Hayward-Jansen

    “I’ve known rivers: I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I[...]

    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Arts · Culture · Global Perspectives

    Cartography of Mass City-zenry in Global Netscapes in Cristina Peri Rossi’s Short Stories ‘Los desaarraigados’ [‘The Uprooted’] and ‘La grieta’ [‘The Crevice’].

    Author: Indrani Mukherjee

    While traditional storytelling was based on oral renderings as imagined by a narrator, now the trends are often based on the visual readings of events as imagined by the availability[...]

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    "Sites of Home" (June 2014) · Academic Dispatches · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives

    The Spectacle of Indian Elections and the West

    Author: Ritu Mathur

    Editor’s note: Given the timeliness of the content, this Academic Dispatch is an advance release of Issue II, Volume I, which will be released in full in the coming weeks. ****** The[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    EU Territorial Control, Western Immigration Policies, and the Transformation of North Africa

    Author: Kelsey Norman

    New countries of settlement On August 19th I observed as some three hundred people — migrants, activists and a few officials — gathered outside a morgue in Rabat to mourn[...]

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    “For the Land of All Mongols”: Gada Meiren the Bandit, Hero, and Proto-Revolutionary

    Author: Anne Henochowicz

    On April 4, 1931, Old Gada (Lao Gada 老嘎达) and his guerilla troops were surrounded by the Fengtian (Manchurian) army on three sides and the Shar Mörön River on the[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Global Perspectives

    Desigualdades sociais e saúde no Brasil

    Author: Ionara Magalhães de Souza & Edna Maria de Araújo

    Temos uma sociedade desigual, que se adaptou a esse padrão de desigualdade e dele se serve e a partir dele se reproduz (THEODORO, 2008, p.81). O Brasil é um país[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Toward a Political Economy of the Postcolonial

    Author: Paul Giffard-Foret

    Ever since the early 1980s when postcolonial studies was initially introduced to academia, the discipline has not ceased to grow. It has moved from its initial literary venture consisting of[...]

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