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Can a State Decolonize Itself? A Critical Analysis of Bolivia's State-Led Decolonization Process
(2014-08-21)
This study examines how state involvement has affected Bolivia’s decolonization process. By comparing interviews on decolonization with various indigenous organizations and with the state’s Vice Ministry of Decolonization, ...
God Comes Homes To Rwanda: A Case Study of Transformational Development
(2012-12-17)
After the genocide of 1994, Rwanda was left in a state of chaos. With reconciliation as a national priority, Christian faith-based organizations have risen to the challenge of providing religious reconciliation training. ...
Community Perceptions of Mainline Needle Exchange: A Qualitative Study
(2015-05-29)
Community resistance to syringe exchange programs (SEPs) across Canada and the United States and severely limits the efficacy of SEPs as a harm reduction strategy. Based on interviews with residents and community leaders ...
The Assessment of the Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI's Aboriginal Justice Program: Final Report
(Atlantic Institute of Criminology, 2011-06)
This assessment examines how the AJP has evolved over the past three years and explores future trajectories for its development.
National Food Security in Cuba: By What Means?
(2018-10-30)
Using data retrieved from the FAO’s food database (FAOSTAT), food security is calculated in Cuba as the annual average recommended daily dietary needs (RDDNs) consumed from imported and domestically grown foods. Domestically ...
The Politics of Reality: Coextensiveness in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping
(Carmel Mikol, 2018-01)
A great deal of scholarly and critical analysis of Marilynne Robinson's Pulitzer Prize nominated debut, Housekeeping, focuses on themes of the domestic, definitions of home, and female relationships. Often read as a feminist ...
“Monstrous Maladies”: Oppression, Transgression, and Degeneration in The Picture of Dorian Gray and “The Yellow Wallpaper”
(2017-02-21)
Payne used historical and scientific context to explore the tragic realities behind the beauty of The Picture of Dorian Gray and "The Yellow Wallpaper." Payne firmly situates both works in the context of Victorian ideas ...
“We are not ghosts in waiting”: How atheists cope with death
(2015-06-01)
Death is not only experienced on a personal and psychological level, but it is also experienced as a rift in social life. Robert Hertz (1960) found that funerals, burials, and mourning made death the “object of a collective ...