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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 107–135.
Published: 01 April 2020
... between government agencies and Muslim communities to prevent homegrown terrorism. From its inception, CVE has been controversial among Muslim and non-Muslim leaders within Southern California’s civil rights communities. While some suggest that American Muslims must play a leading role in countering...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (2): 384–391.
Published: 01 October 2024
... a systematic pattern in Norwegian politics for the Saami population and illuminate the Fosen case to describe how the Norwegian government handles the knowledge provided by the Indigenous South Saami reindeer herders at Fosen when developing wind power in the latter’s essential winter pastures. The use...
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Meridians (2021) 20 (1): 53–83.
Published: 01 April 2021
..., Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, and Tripura, this region represents India’s amorphous shadowlands in arbitrary political markings between the mainland and the off-centered northeastern periphery. These satellite states have been subjected to the neocolonial governance of the Indian government and its...
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Meridians (2013) 11 (2): 149–171.
Published: 01 March 2013
... in government policy. Copyright © 2013 by Smith College 2013 LEIGH JOHNSON CovertWarsin the Bedroomand Nation:Motherwork, Transnationalism,and Domestic Violencein BlackWidow'sWardrobe andMotheTr ongue Abstract: Thisarticlearguetshat, asatoolfor sociajlusticeandresistancet,heconcepot fmotherwork...
View articletitled, Covert Wars in the Bedroom and Nation: Motherwork, Transnationalism, and Domestic Violence in Black Widow's Wardrobe and Mother Tongue
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 204–232.
Published: 01 September 2015
... and controversy. This essay uses Chisholm's writings and speeches, as well as government documents, newspaper archives, and interviews to demonstrate Chisholm's dual engagement with the antiracist and antifeminist movements of her time within the context of legislative politics. Copyright © 2015 by Smith...
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Meridians (2015) 13 (1): 53–77.
Published: 01 September 2015
... reconstruction projects, symbolized by two major British government reports published in the 1940s. These are the Moyne Report (GBCO 1945), which shaped the transition of Britain's Caribbean territories from colonial to independent nations, and the Beveridge Report (Beveridge 1942), which shaped the modern...
View articletitled, Decolonizing Britain and Domesticating Women: Race, Gender, and Women's Work in Post-1945 British Decolonial and Metropolitan Liberal Reform Discourses
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 457–470.
Published: 01 October 2019
... in response to the government’s mismanagement of garbage in what they called the “You Stink” movement. Feminists, primarily through the formation the “Feminist Bloc,” joined in the protests and presented nuanced frameworks for understanding the problem and mobilizing against the state with a gendered lens...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 480–505.
Published: 01 October 2022
... by racial melancholia insofar as she bewails being governed as black and covets whiteness. Nig tends to her inner wounds by mourning, but social death chokes off her measures to work through her losses. This affective asphyxiation illustrates that her psychic condition arises not from an inner inability...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 267–296.
Published: 01 October 2023
... were then instrumentalized by an increasingly authoritarian and gender-conservative Islamist Turkish government to legitimize its repressive agendas, even succeeding to garner unexpected sympathy from some feminist politicians and academics in the United States. Naive confidence that such dichotomous...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 127–161.
Published: 01 September 2006
... to which bands enjoyed governmental noninterference. The entire Indian Act system was made essential to establishing and protecting band government operations and so the single most important factor in the affirmation oflndian sovereignty. As Cardinal asserted: We do not want the Indian Act retained...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 219–254.
Published: 01 December 2020
...—the embodiment and guarantor of Indian rights to self-government—was not obligated to conform to either the terms or the principles of Canada’s Bill of Rights. They shored up a definition of self-government that depended solely on the degree to which bands enjoyed governmental noninterference. The entire Indian...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 183–190.
Published: 01 September 2006
... distribution for poor women. After attending meetings in three communities in North Chennai, it became clear that AIDWA's efforts also had to include helping women in these fishing communities to demand accountability from local government representatives and to fight for their fair share of emergency aid...
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Meridians (2018) 17 (2): 309–324.
Published: 01 November 2018
... government also had to toggle between distant yet formidable international online publics and proximate and more critical yet disempowered neighbors. Though separated by time and space, in order to inspire salvationist impulses in their respective audiences both campaigns relied on a gendered notion...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 202–215.
Published: 01 September 2005
... then embarked on what would become a life-long campaign against the government-backed forest clearances in Kenya. In 1977, she founded the Green Belt Movement when she planted nine tree seeds in the yard of her house. In the following years, she succeeded in persuading women across Africa to do the same. Today...
View articletitled, Nobel Peace Laureate Wangari Maathai on the Environment, the War in Iraq, Debt, and Women's Equality: Interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2004
..., 1994 Despite the emergence of democracy movements in all corners of Africa, only a small number of African states are governed now by democratic regimes. At least since the colonial period, African women have mobilized to challenge patriarchal states and societies on behalf of their concerns, yet...
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Meridians (2006) 7 (1): 38–68.
Published: 01 September 2006
... "in the complex race-colour-class network that governs Jamaica she is neither the right race, the right colour nor the right class" to represent Jamaicans. For this writer, the selection of Facey-Cooper was problematic because it implied "that black people in Jamaica are incapable of representing themselves...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 195–201.
Published: 01 September 2005
... people , to reduce conflicts and poverty and thereby improve their quality of life. Let us embrace democratic governance, protect human rights and protect our environment. I am confident that we shall rise to the occasion. I have always believed that solutions to most of our problems must come from us...
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Meridians (2004) 4 (2): 129–136.
Published: 01 March 2004
... imperative to attend to the local, Charlotte Bunch wrote in the fall of 2002 that "Often what American feminists must do to help women elsewhere is not to focus on their governments but to work to change ours so that U.S. policies and corporate forces based here stop harming women elsewhere." When women meet...
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Meridians (2006) 6 (2): 209–219.
Published: 01 March 2006
... acceptance of torture as a tool for U.S. aims, carried out both by the United States and by various allied regimes on behalf of the United States; the impact of this within U.S. society; the assault on civil liberties by governments around the world; the demonization of Muslim men by Western governments...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 September 2005
..., which included Robert Mugabe, the independent country's first prime minister, and the British government. The agreement made provisions to establish a land fund, financed by the British and United States governments, which would compensate willing white farmers who sold their land to be redistributed...
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