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Published: 30 April 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392743-006
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9274-3
Published: 01 January 2017
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7348-3
... protagonists to thin caricatures or animals to convey an apparently moral lesson, often one that is grim and apparently irrational. Her reading of citizenship law’s jurisprudence initiates a political theory of citizenship narratives as paradox. Legislatures and Court Disputes citizenship apologue...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 20 January 2020
DOI: 10.1215/9781478007609-040
EISBN: 978-1-4780-0760-9
Published: 30 April 2010
DOI: 10.1215/9780822392743-005
EISBN: 978-0-8223-9274-3
Published: 07 April 2017
DOI: 10.1215/9780822373162-002
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7316-2
... media group on Facebook that emerged in the fall of 2013 in support of the Hawaii Marriage Equality Act that passed the Hawaiʻi State Legislature in November 2013. The chapter argues that, while there is Indigenous cultural revitalization of Hawaiian concepts that may be considered part of broader...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027553-010
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2755-3
... narcotics they would buy. In the United States, Congress and state legislatures passed increasingly harsh, punitive laws aimed at users. supply-side control punitive laws mandatory minimum sentences ...
Published: 13 July 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374794-007
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7479-4
... the heavily lauded civil rights “victories” emerging from courts and legislatures. The conclusion provides a view of what a trans politics whose demands—such as prison and border abolition, an end to poverty, and meaningful collective self-determination—far exceed what can be achieved through lawsuits...
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By Eben Kirksey
Published: 02 November 2015
DOI: 10.1215/9780822374800-008
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7480-0
... Florida is home to free-ranging rhesus macaques ( Macaca mulatta ). This chapter follows these wild animals from the national mediascape to the state legislature, from suburban enclaves and animal rescue facilities to Silver Springs State Park. Upward of 130 monkeys live along the Silver River...
Published: 05 January 2024
DOI: 10.1215/9781478025887-006
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2588-7
... Chapter 5 tracks the spread of conjugal visits in the 1960s and 1970s, an era commonly associated with the beginnings of law-and-order measures. Even as legislatures drifted toward increasingly severe sentencing laws, elected officials and corrections professionals advocated increased liberties...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-042
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... on, communities were to be legally abolished. In 1880, Secretary of State Ladislao Cabrera explained the theoretical rationale: “To put this immense wealth of [indigenous community lands] in circulation, to deliver them to intelligent and capitalist proprietors, was the spirit that animated the legislature...
Published: 10 November 2023
DOI: 10.1215/9781478027553-008
EISBN: 978-1-4780-2755-3
... to a handful of countries and requiring consuming countries to stipulate in advance how much narcotics they would buy. In the United States, Congress and state legislatures passed increasingly harsh, punitive laws aimed at users. supply-side control punitive laws mandatory minimum sentences...
... visits in the 1960s and 1970s, an era commonly associated with the beginnings of law-and-order measures. Even as legislatures drifted toward increasingly severe sentencing laws, elected officials and corrections professionals advocated increased liberties for prisoners, including conjugal visits...
Series: The Latin America Readers
Published: 06 July 2018
DOI: 10.1215/9780822371618-037
EISBN: 978-0-8223-7161-8
... to intelligent and capitalist proprietors, was the spirit that animated the legislature of 1874; and if the law is put into practice, public wealth will be considerably increased, and agricultural yields will also grow in the same proportion.” In fact, the state also stood to make money when individuals bought...