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It was on an MP3 player while walking on a treadmill in a cavernous gym in New Jersey that I first heard 'The Folks Who Live on the Hill.' Those [...]

The scanner is silent and quick. Spine, hip, forearm. The bones keeping me vertical are holding up, plumb line to the sky, though the forearm and wrist dwindle. Now I [...]

There is no denying it: the ER is not a fun place to be in January of 2021. I'm in the waiting room while my husband parks, watching a chaplain [...]

The first person who ever taught me how to swim was a stranger I met on vacation. My boyfriend and I were staying in a five-story hotel made of white [...]

Liz judged other hikers by their knees. If they didn't have a few scars, some unshaven body hair, or roughened skin, they were rookies. Their leader Kaia's knees were calloused [...]

The goat's raw, baleful moan shadowed me across the rocky creek, up the flimsy trail to the top of the holler where I kept my van. The goat wailed mercilessly [...]

The structures I compose are studies of materials and our fundamental relationship to them. I use traditional textile-based media: I spin my own yarn, mix my own color dyes, and [...]

BOOK REVIEW of Honig, Lauren. 2022. Land Politics: How Customary Institutions Shape State Building in Zambia and Senegal. New York: Cambridge University Press. 365 pp. $120.00 (cloth), $29.99 (paper, ebook). [...]

BOOK REVIEW of Driscoll, Barry. 2023. Power, Patronage, and the Local State in Ghana. Athens: Ohio University Press. 272 pp. $34.95 (paper). Barry Driscoll's monograph addresses a significant gap in [...]

Across the United States, institutions of higher learning are grappling with legacies rooted in slavery. Catalyzed by the historic mandate of Brown University president Ruth J. Simmons, the first Black [...]

During the convention of 1836, delegates adopted the Texas Declaration of Independence. It justified independence by accusing the Mexican government of having failed 'to protect the lives, liberty and property [...]

The Real Rainbow Row: Explorations in Charleston's LGBTQ History. By Harlan Greene. (Charleston, S.C.: Evening Post Books, 2022. Pp. xiv, 337. Paper, $34.95, ISBN 978-1-929647-76-7.) Drastic Dykes and Accidental Activists: [...]

On October 6, 1971, Ron Sachs, editor of the University of Florida's student newspaper, the Florida Alligator, was arrested for violating the state's 1868 law prohibiting abortion. Sachs had not [...]

Young herders of Senegal's Ferlo region are grappling with a quickly changing natural and economic environment, and these conditions affect how they view the future. Research suggests that a decreasing natural-resource base is restricting the number of those who will successfully continue in the pastoral economy. Drawing on opinions gathered from young FulBe herders regarding the future viability of pastoral livestock management as an economically sound vocation, this article argues that improved policy support and material infrastructure are contributing to a greater sense of national belonging among herders, but they need policies that recognize the potential economic importance of mobile livestock production to the national economy and food security. Diversification of economic activities is important: herders' capacity to invest in diverse productive activities, including urban networking, makes a difference., Introduction This article explores the current ways that young herders are grappling with a quickly changing natural and economic environment and how these conditions affect their view of the future. [...]

This forum explores recent publications by two art historians: Susan Gagliardi's Seeing the Unseen: Arts of Power Associations on the SenufoMande 'Frontier' (2022) and Matthew Rarey's Insignificant Things: Amulets and [...]

In 2019, Angolan officials voted to change their penal code to make homosexual acts legal and create protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation. Western outlets touted this change as a triumph for global LGBTQIA+ activism broadly and sub-Saharan African LGBTQIA+ rights specifically. But what does the penal code mean for the LGBTQIA+ community in Angola? Laws that establish new legal rights may make minor steps in altering individuals' lives. Referring to fifty semistructured interviews conducted from 2022-23 and using a discursive meaning-making approach, I argue that while global actors welcomed progress, local benefits were mixed, with little progress gained and increased skepticism about future action from the government., Introduction In 2019, Angola created a new penal code. Spurred by newly elected President Joao Lourengo's campaign to eliminate corruption in government, aiming to craft a penal code that would [...]

Starting with Mali in August 2020, a series of coups d'etat in the West African Sahel has brought to power military regimes that have subsequently become popular with their respective [...]

In this essay, I show how critical projects of decoloniality might help build a new humanity. I focus on the intellectual output of Chielozona Eze, arguing that, as public-service scholarship, it bears witness to the shifts occurring in contemporary decolonial thought and thus exemplifies the role the humanities can play to midwife an inclusive and empathetic global democratic culture so central to decolonial studies. My analysis aims to demonstrate how the humanities can be a tool in meeting civic needs and interests and thereby help rehabilitate modern society., The critic should weigh not only the formal merits of literary works but also their moral content, whether they offer the semblance of good character and the undermining of evil [...]

The unrest that Senegal experienced between 2019 and 2024 has caused much concern about the democratic model for which the country has been known. The discussion that follows traces the [...]

I heard about this thing ten years ago from the skinny old man who lived next door to me. His last name was Ma, so everybody called him Skinny Ma. [...]

You who I don't know I don't know how to talk to you --JEAN VALENTINE, 1979, 'SANCTUARY' 2017, SIXTY-ONE YEARS 'Yesterday when I was unloading the trunk of the car, [...]

Crammed in a bathroom with both daughters, one foot on the bathtub ledge, Macy couldn't stop thinking about Pilar. Shocked at Macy's medieval notions of virginity, Pilar had helped her [...]

I approach abstraction similarly to how an author may approach a work of fiction. In an imagined narrative an author crafts characters and constructs an environment for them to exist. [...]

I drove all night on tangled mountain back roads to escape my husband in Idaho, panicking at every set of headlights in my rearview. Dimly lit signs welcomed me to [...]

In Bakersfield, we have the most prisons. What happens when you have prisons is that families of the prisoners move to the places where the prisons are, to be nearer [...]

I AT THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS, 1933 A steady rain on Potsdamer Platz & the Brownshirts, busy as termites as they circle the pyre, are perplexed-- all the books [...]

A new city, a new life, Linh Phuong had thought. Yet when she stepped out onto the gray-skinned Italian street lying naked at the top of Aventine Hill, she could [...]

For the past two months, I've been stealing dryer sheets from the supermarket and selling them door-to-door. I've got all the big brands, and biodegradable ones too. I've got Sunflower [...]

This article was written as part of the Center for World Indigenous Studies Research Study on the medicinal/pharmacological use of wildlife products for small communities supported by a grant from [...]

Ms. Lannette Nickens contributed suggestions in the final sections of this article. She is a former Assistant Attorney General of the State of Alaska (USA) and is an experienced attorney [...]

In my book entitled, Biodiversity Wars: Coexistence of Biocultural Collapse in the 21st Century (DayKeeper Press, 2019)[I] I discuss at length the need for a renewed effort to identify and [...]

This article derives from an interview with Dr. Ryser conducted by Zoltan Grossman on October 5, 2009. It was published in the book Asserting Native Resilience: Pacific Rim Indigenous Nations Face The Climate Crises, edited by Zoltan Grossman and Alan Parker, and released in 2012. In this essay, Dr. Ryser comprehensively explores the role indigenous sovereignty plays in addressing the challenges posed by climate change. Emphasizing the importance of traditional knowledge and governance structures in fostering environmental resilience and effective adaptation strategies, he highlights the critical need for indigenous peoples to assert their authority as regulators and standard-setters in the face of climate change., If one wants to find the green parts of the world, look only where the Indigenous people live, and there's a reason for that. There is a strong motive to [...]

Originally published in the Fourth World Journal in 2010, this article documents the outcomes of a research simulation conducted during a 'Global Pluralism' course at Antioch University/Muckleshoot College in 2009. During this 10-week exercise, ten graduate students assumed the roles of various stakeholders in climate negotiations, mirroring real-world dynamics observed in international conferences such as the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This simulation revealed indigenous peoples' marginalized status within civil society frameworks., Indigenous peoples around the world are being adversely affected by changing weather, droughts, floods, melting glaciers, and shifting temperatures, resulting in serious health problems, environmental changes, changes in plants and [...]

In this article, Dr. Ryser recounts the key events and strategies that led to the successful Indigenous movement to safeguard Indigenous rights during the Canadian Patriation. He tracks the movement's development from the 1969 'White Paper,' in which Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau and Minister of Indian Affairs Jean Chretien proposed eliminating the special status of Indigenous peoples in the new constitution, to Grand Cheif George Manuel's 1980 initiative, the 'Constitution Express,' in which he organized more than 600 Indigenous activists to travel across Canada by train to demand that the rights guaranteed in their Indigenous treaties with the British be upheld by the new Canadian Constitution. This article was initially published in 2012 as Chapter 4 of his book Indigenous Nations and Modern States: The Political Emergence of Nations Challenging State Power., My first-hand participation in the political transformation of 'band councils' into 'First Nations' during the period from 1970 through to 2006 began when I became an advisor to Chief George [...]

Fourth World knowledge systems vary widely but in the contemporary international environment, nations may be seen as engaging neighboring nations, states and international institutions with differing capacities. Understanding the different [...]

In this transcript of Dr. Ryser's remarks made before the US Department of the Interior's Secretarial Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, held in Seattle, Washington, on Feb 13, 2003, Dr. Ryser examines historical and contemporary trust relationships between states and indigenous nations. He outlines the origins and evolution of these arrangements, emphasizing the imbalance of power and the often exploitative nature of such relationships., Madam Chair and Members of the Commission on Indian Trust Administration and Reform, thank you for the invitation to present my analysis regarding forms of trusteeship arrangements between states and [...]

At the time of his death, Dr. Rudolph Ryser, founding editor of the Fourth World Journal and chair of the Center for World Indigenous Studies, had just completed the charter [...]

When the Albanese government was elected, it was widely proclaimed that climate policy was back on track in Australia. Eight bleak years of Coalition denialism and intransigence had been punished [...]

Four decades ago, John Langmore's article, 'Economic Strategy for a Labor Government', outlined a progressive vision for economic policy. Published in JAPE in 1983, Langmore called for the simultaneous pursuit [...]

Because AUKU S is supported by both major political parties (although not the Greens), it is not so vulnerable to political instability as some other big, divisive issues. In the [...]

'Capitalism after the Crises', the essay written by Treasurer Dr Jim Chalmers' for The Monthly (Chalmers 2023), elicited critical responses from across the political spectrum. On the one hand, it [...]

Monetary policy differs from other aspects of economic and social policy because it is not directly under the control of the federal government: it is managed by the Reserve Bank [...]

Arguments for improving the nation's taxation arrangements are not just voiced around the time of elections and changes of government. Recurrent arguments for change come from both disgruntled taxpayers and [...]