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Noir As Politics: Spanish Language Hardboiled Detective Fiction And The Discontents Of The Left, Patrick Blaine

Fast Capitalism

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Saviano, Garrone, Gomorrah: Neorealism And Noir In The Land Of The Camorra, Fabrizio Cilento

Fast Capitalism

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Facebook Killed The Reunion Star: How Facebook Is Changing Who We Are And What We Do, Sara Ridenour

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A Research Agenda For Social Media Surveillance, Daniel Trottier

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A Contribution To The Critique Of The Political Economy Of Google, Christian Fuchs

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A Notion Of Faces Not Laws: Facebook As Ideological Platform, Matthew Levy

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Slovene Without A Passport: Ljubljana, Theory, Utopia, Ben Agger

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The Yugoslav Wars As The Primordial Accumulation Of Capital, Mirt Komel

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Researching Slovenian Media In Transition: Situating Knowledge, Jurij Smrke

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Intoxicated With Raison D'Etat, Anej Korsika

Fast Capitalism

Advocates of mercantilism, economic doctrine that dominated Western Europe from 16th to late 18th century, argued that positive balance of trade is of quintessential importance for any successful economic policy. Prime responsibility of every state was thus taking care of imports never exceeding exports. From such a perspective trade was not something beneficial (as proponents of laissez-faire economy, namely Adam Smith, would later on argue) but rather a zero-sum game. Instead of cooperation, states had to compete with one another. Because there wasn’t any common denominator that could prove to be of mutual interest, the natural state of affairs between …

Front Matter, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

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About The Authors, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

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Full Issue, Fast Capitalism Editorial Team

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Full Issue: Volume 7, Issue 1, Editorial Board

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The first issue in the seventh volume of the Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal.

Colonial Whaling In Walvis Bay And In Southern Africa: Environmental Exploitation And Legacy Of South Africa’S Cetaceans, Jake L. Zarak

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper examines the colonial whaling industry in Southern Africa, with a focus on Walvis Bay, tracing its long term environmental and socio-economic impacts. From the 1700s to the 1900s, whaling operations, primarily led by American, British, and French enterprises, exploited the region’s rich populations of sperm and right whales, drastically reducing their numbers. The study contextualizes whaling within a broader colonial framework, analyzing its effects on whale migratory patterns, indigenous communities, and marine ecosystems. It explores as well, the transition from whaling as an economic endeavor to modern conservation efforts and the romanticization of whales in literature and art. …

“This Would Certainly Happen Unless We Killed Every White Man”: The Tsilhqot’In’S War Of Survival, Samuel W. Louwagie

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

In 1864, several Tsilhqot’in (also spelled as “Chilcotin” or “Chilcoaten”) killed workers building a road across their territory in modern-day British Columbia. Six of the Tsilhqot’in, including their war chief, Lhatŝ’aŝʔin (also spelled as “Klatsassin”), were subsequently executed by the British colonial government. Since the Tsilhqot’in were initially assisting the road crew, this paper addresses the question of what caused the so-called “Chilcotin War” to begin.

Western Mansions In The Gardens Of Perfect Brightness, Another History Of High Qing Sino-European Exchanges, Nicolas Woreth

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

The Gardens of Perfect Brightness, the favorite residence of Chinese Emperors in the High Qing era (1683-1799), held mysteries that will remain forever concealed from the public eye after French and British imperialist forces looted it and burned it beyond repair during the Second Opium War (1856-1860). Behind the doors of the secret garden, scarcely open to anyone but the emperor, his wives, and servants, worked European artists and scientists. Most of them were Jesuit missionaries who served the emperor in the hope of gaining his favor and support for the spread of Christianity in China.

This paper aims to …

Gold, Manuscripts, And Misunderstanding: The Forgotten Intellectual Wealth Of Timbuktu, Caroline A. Valdovinos

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This article re-examines Timbuktu’s legacy, challenging European myths that imagined the city as a hidden African “El Dorado” while overlooking its intellectual wealth. From the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, Timbuktu thrived as a hub of trade, religion, and scholarship, home to mosques, libraries, and networks of learning that drew scholars from across the Islamic world. Manuscripts on theology, law, medicine, and science circulated widely, placing the city at the heart of West Africa’s intellectual life. Yet European explorers and mapmakers, influenced by accounts like those of Leo Africanus, recast Timbuktu as a treasure-laden city of gold. This obsession, reinforced by …

Bodies As Battlefields: Gendered Violence During The Russian Pogroms, Alisa L. Fixler

Swarthmore Undergraduate History Journal

This paper explores how sexual violence during the Russian Civil War, particularly perpetrated by the White Army, was used as a ubiquitous tool for genocide against Jewish women. From 1918 to 1922, Jewish Women in the Russian Empire faced pervasive sexual violence during the pogroms: periods of mass violence and riots targeting Jews. This wave of violence led to displacement, immigration, and a profound impact on culture, reshaping the Jewish community forever and serving as a driving factor in the Jewish diaspora. Previous scholarship fails to critically engage with sexual violence as a unique tool in itself, as opposed to …

"El Malcriado" Newspaper From November 2, 1973

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"El Malcriado" newspaper. the official voice of the United Farmworkers. The newspaper is dated to November 2, 1973

"A Dignity Of Their Own"

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document titled "A Dignity of their own" promoting a march at Austin to protest for the rights of farmworkers. The document also states how the public can help support the march.

Names Of Committee Members

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Handwritten notes of what appear to be notes with names of committee members. The listed committees are; transportation, finance, publicity, and legislative committee.

Document Advocating For The Rights Of Farmworkers

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Document stating opinions in favor of the farm workers. The document mentions the unfair treatment that the farm workers received and how the purpose of the march is related to advocating for protection and a minimum wage for farm workers.

"To The Rear, March! 1965-1940" Article, John Beecher, Ernest Lowe

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Article titled "To the rear, march! 1965-1940". The author of the article is John Beecher and the photographs are by Ernest Lowe.

"Valley Marchers Nearing Austin"

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

Article from the Texas AFL-CIO News titled "Valley marchers nearing Austin". The article is dated August 20, 1966, and it states updates on the Valley farm workers' march across Texas.

Rural Advance Magazine Summer 1972

Migrant Farm Workers Organizing Movement Collection

"Rural Advance" magazine published by the Rural Advancement Fund of the National Sharecropper Fund. The magazine was published in the summer of 1972.

Parasocial Relationships And Depression, Phoenix Disher

Quest

Critical Analysis

Research in progress for PSYC 2301: General Psychology

Faculty Mentor: Joshua Arduengo, PhD

It is with great pleasure that I introduce Phoenix Disher’s “Parasocial Relationships and Depression,” a critical analysis paper he wrote for my Psychology 2301 course in the Fall 2022 semester. The assignment was designed to ask students to deeply analyze a psychology-related topic of their choice. Having recently experienced COVID-19, the world was a new place, and the nature of human relationships had changed significantly. Coming out of the pandemic, we related to our families differently, not necessarily worse, just differently. We also relied on …

Cho, Not Che?: Positioning Blacksburg In The Political, Ben Agger

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Media Spectacle And The "Massacre At Virginia Tech", Douglas Kellner

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Satire, Guns, And Humans: Lessons From The Nacirema, Steve Kroll-Smith, Gwen Hunnicutt

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