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Meridians (2023) 22 (1): 11–33.
Published: 01 April 2023
... led to an explosion of the wind industry in many countries, including Norway. Many of the onshore wind development projects have been built in areas central to reindeer herding. This article asks whether reindeer have become the new buffalo that are being sacrificed in the race to build green energies...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 133–155.
Published: 01 April 2024
... effectuates the colonization of the Sámi people. (my translation) Mining, hydropower, forestry, and wind power produce “cumulative effects” (Larsen, Stinnerbom, and Wik-Karlsson 2017 ), whose combined negative impacts severely affect Sábme. Centrally, extractive industries have and continue...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 464–490.
Published: 01 March 2017
... alliances with others. The dialectic between the self-construction ofidentity and the industry ofliterature, that is, the acts of writing, amounts to the articulation ofideology" (Richards 2000, vii). To paraphrase Richards, I examine the ways in which a selfconstruction ofidentity, through the industry...
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Meridians (2023) 22 (2): 231–239.
Published: 01 October 2023
... central roles in the work of properly memorializing the dead, Kami Fletcher’s “Black Women Undertakers of the Early Twentieth Century Were Hidden in Plain Sight” historicizes the central role Black women played in the development, maintenance, and expansion of Black undertaking skills and industry...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 73–93.
Published: 01 March 2001
.... Traditional gender ideologies equating women with certain innate abilities (delicacy,for example) are no less operative in Chile than in, say, the tea industries of Sri Lanka or Cameroon (see note 2 on Jain and Reddock), but, whereas typically such ideologies go hand-in-hand with justifications for devaluing...
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Meridians (2009) 9 (1): 1–29.
Published: 01 September 2009
... government has begun to fulfill its promise to "turn around" thirty to forty years of"soft" criminal justice policy (Roslin 2007; Whittington 2008). In both countries, anti-prison activists have developed an analysis and critique of the prison-industrial complex, its role in producing and maintaining racial...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 146–156.
Published: 01 September 2004
... on the roof to provide relief from the sun. Robert L. Pettigrew, who published a history of Dauphin Plantation in 1958, thought Dauphin was doing much good by creating an industry that provided employment for the poor peasants of this dry and forsaken area. To him, this sisal plantation was a "truly...
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Meridians (2001) 1 (2): 95–127.
Published: 01 March 2001
... of her own, but a whole workshop, a mini-factory of her own. In the industrial suburbs of Bangalore, Mani heads a small company that manufactures instruments for measuring wind speed and solar energy. Here one witnesses an almost complete reversal of gender roles. Some thirty workers, largely men, stood...
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Meridians (2024) 23 (1): 1–13.
Published: 01 April 2024
... to the irony of metropolitan society calling upon Arctic peoples who are not responsible for the climate crisis to “forego economic development and extractive industries” (Markussen 2017 : 307). For Markussen, such calls to transform Arctic territories into “a form of World Heritage and present the Arctic...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 93–129.
Published: 01 September 2008
... and also engage other aspects of diasporic music. 8 Cultural exchanges are paramount in this industry once one has been well received by audiences. In addition, while I focus on the performative elements of calypso and its lyrical content, I also integrate different cultural media, such as contemporary...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 358–371.
Published: 01 October 2019
...-pitched laughter was challenged only by her histrionic crying, which started with a few plangent notes of whimpering and inevitably rose to an industrial wail that summoned the sympathetic ministrations of peers and teachers alike. Addie’s sulky expression exuded the emotional power of an agitated...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (2): 414–444.
Published: 01 October 2019
... Hilton . 2001 . Foreword to Strange Fruit: The Biography of a Song . New York : HarperCollins . Avilés Marco . 2017 . No soy tu cholo . Lima, Peru : Debate . Black Paula . 2004 . The Beauty Industry: Gender, Culture, Pleasure . New York : Routledge . Brand Peg...
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Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 317–333.
Published: 01 October 2022
... (re)learned something about time and progress(ion). Grandma isn’t on a linear path of decline or recovery. Her path is winding. Each day is different. When I enjoy a day with her, I must understand it as a singular event that will not be replicated or remembered. This is the painful task of living...
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Meridians (2005) 6 (1): 58–81.
Published: 01 September 2005
... makes explicit the anxieties about a national identity underlying the commercially successful films oflndian cinema, commonly known as Bollywood in reference to Bombay as the Hollywood of the Indian film industry. 4 A hybrid form from its inception, Bombay cinema reworked the melodrama, musical...
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Meridians (2000) 1 (1): 157–178.
Published: 01 September 2000
... Tayo feel "another dimension" in the old man (120). Both the boxes and stacks of things from the urban, industrialized world and the traditional paraphernalia of the medicine man are "plainly part of the pattern." One of the most interesting items in Betonie's hogan is his collection of calendars...
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Meridians (2001) 2 (1): 219–240.
Published: 01 September 2001
..., head covered in a flowing chador of golden silk, stands barefoot outside the Citadel of Cairo. The chants of the Muslim call to prayer echo through the winding streets. Quietly declining the slippers set aside for privileged visitors, she walks barefoot into the ancient mosque like a common Egyptian...
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Meridians (2019) 18 (1): 41–62.
Published: 01 April 2019
... come to serve for many as a symbol of racial and therefore national unity.” At the same moment the industrialization of Mexico meant that many Indigenous groups were subject to state terrorism through loss of land and forced movement. When Frank impulsively moves to New York following his father’s...
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Meridians (2008) 8 (1): 180–204.
Published: 01 September 2008
... efforts to control and discipline their collective behavior in a shifting industrial environment (Carby 1992).1 Ring the Alarm One could make a claim that a curious new version of this phenomenoncall it "policing the upwardly mobile black woman's body in a high-profile context"-has taken shape at the turn...
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Meridians (2014) 12 (1): 121–148.
Published: 01 March 2014
... journeyed north during the Great Migration anticipated a milk-andhoney reality repletewith abundant industrial work and limited racial backlash-a welcomealternative to their meager sharecropping existencein the South. What many found, however,was that the racism they experienced in the South was also...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (1): 32–64.
Published: 01 April 2020
... the significant impact of industrial education aimed at Black people in the U.S. South, which revolutionized Black education between 1902 and 1935, but he admits that, as late as 1930, “slightly more than two-thirds of Southern Blacks lived in rural areas [where] public schooling, especially at the secondary...
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