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Tell Elon Musk, The Hell With It, Jethro K. Lieberman

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Erosion, Backsliding, Or Abuse: Three Metaphors For Democratic Decline, Thomas Keck

Political Science - All Scholarship

Drawing on Rosalind Dixon and David Landau’s Abusive Constitutional Borrowing: Legal Globalization and the Subversion of Liberal Democracy (2021), this essay calls attention to three competing metaphors for democratic decline (democratic erosion, democratic backsliding, and abusive constitutionalism) and elaborates their implications for how supporters of liberal democracy might arrest and reverse the decline. Drawing on Richard L. Hasen’s Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics–And How to Cure It (2022), Stephen M. Feldman’s Pack the Court: A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion (2021), and the Final Report of the Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court of the United States (2021), …

Navigation Programs Relevant For African American Men With Prostate Cancer: A Scoping Review Protocol, Nynikka R. Palmer, Ashley Nicole Smith, Brittany A. Campbell, Ghilamichael Andemeskel, Peggy Tahir, Tisha M. Felder Phd, Msw, Barbara Cicerelli

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The excess incidence and mortality due to prostate cancer that impacts African American men constitutes the largest of all cancer disparities. Patient navigation is a patient-centered healthcare system intervention to eliminate barriers to timely, high-quality care across the cancer continuum and improves health outcomes among vulnerable patients. However, little is known regarding the extent to which navigation programs include cultural humility to address prostate cancer disparities among African American men. We present a scoping review protocol of an in-depth examination of navigation programs in prostate cancer care-including navigation activities/procedures, training, and management-with a special focus on cultural context and …

The Perennial Quest: Working Towards Equitable Assessment With Student-Centric Learning Contracts, Matthew W. Schering

Theses and Dissertations

This dissertation examines the role of writing assessment in college composition courses, and how issues including learning aversion, access to technology, and white-language supremacy can harm our assessment practices and pedagogy. Writing assessment is one of the most important aspects of teaching and is a significant factor in shaping students’ attitudes about their abilities as writers. While writing assessment is of tremendous importance, effectively and equitably assessing student writing can be difficult, especially when teaching diverse student populations. In an effort improve the quality of writing assessment, this dissertation focused on developing Student-Centric Learning Contracts (SCLCs) as a more effective …

Availability, Accessibility And Utilization Of Electronic Information Resources And Services By Staff Of Nigerian Defence Academy, Kaduna, Abdulwasiu Ahmad Ismail, Tukur Abduljabbar

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

This paper investigate the availability, accessibility of electronic resources and services and the extent to which these resources were being used by staff of Nigerian Defence Academy. The objectives of this paper were to find out types of electronic resources and services available, accessed and utilized by staff of Nigerian Defence Academy Kaduna, to find out how users access and utilize these resources, to find out the purpose of accessing and utilizing these available resources, also to find out the problems that hinder these use of these resources. A survey research method was used to conduct this study and the …

Reckoning With Organizational Identity And Innovation In Research Libraries, Neil Romanosky

Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences

Who or what an organization thinks it is—its sense of identity—greatly informs the choices it makes. Yet an organization’s identity, which provides coherence and stability, may constrain or enable an organization’s capacity for innovation, which at its core is about doing new or different things. This paper explores the dynamics of organizational identity and innovation through a qualitative study involving leaders from eleven U.S. and Canadian academic research libraries—organizations and a profession that are experiencing an abundance of change and identity threats. A major finding of this research is that the very process of scoping and defining innovation can enable …

Indigenous Peoples’ And Other Stakeholder Reaction To An Unacceptable Proposed Corporate Investment: The Northern Gateway Oil Pipeline Project, Thomas O. Meyer, Jingyu Li, Fayez A. Elayan

Southern University College of Business E-Journal

The economic consequences of a First Nations response to Enbridge and the voicing of concerns over the violation of human rights resulting from the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline are examined. Despite overwhelming opposition and contrary to indigenous rights, the proposed pipeline was to cross more than 50 territories claimed by First Nations. The pipeline would transverse through unique ecosystems that are home to endangered species, and tankers would travel through one of the largest undeveloped temperate rainforests in the world. Given Enbridge’s history with oil spills and environmental violations, potential future oil spills are a serious concern. Because of these …

Negotiating Intersubjectivity As Methodology: Ethnographic Fieldwork And The Co-Production Of Knowledge, Brandon D. Lundy, Mark Patterson, Alex O'Neill

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

How is ethnographic knowledge fashioned and impressions managed during power-laden, discursive interview events? This chapter examines ethnographic encounters with foreign investors, development workers, and government officials in Guinea-Bissau as a way to explore intersubjectivity as a site of meaning making. These encounters take place in negotiated spaces where the dynamics of the encounter are fluid and contextually sensitive. Through an analysis of the co- production of knowledge, social researchers can begin to examine intersubjectivity within the ethnographic interview as both a shared resource and a potential liability for ethnographic interlocutors. This chapter highlights some of the methodological implications of negotiating …

Tradition: Intermittent And Persistent, With Particular References To The Cherokees, Raymond D. Fogelson

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Flipping The Microscope: Peer Education, Race, And Fieldwork In A South African Travel Course, Scott London, Kristen Klaaren

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Doing Ethnography To Connect, Exchange, And Impact, Brian A. Hoey

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Connecting, Exchanging, And Having Impact, Brian A. Hoey, Hannah G. Smith

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Celebrating The Local, Melinda Bollar Wagner

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

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Let’S Hear It For Sound Marks: Trademark Protection In Copyrighted Songs, Iyanu Lipede

Liberty University Law Review

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The Sex-Trafficked Plaintiff’S True Identity In Civil Suits: Pre-Trial Protective Orders, Kate M. Buerer

Liberty University Law Review

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Dobbs V. Jackson Women’S Health Organization: The Court’S Opportunity To Overrule Roe, Or, At Least, Correct The Evidentiary Catch-22 Created By Roe And Casey, Rena M. Lindevaldsen

Liberty University Law Review

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State Regulation Of Chemical Abortion After Dobbs, Clarke D. Forsythe, Donna Harrison M.D.

Liberty University Law Review

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Liberty University Law Review

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Representation Of Women Executives In Economic Development Organizations: A Longitudinal Analysis In The South, Rae Andre, Judith Y. Weisinger

Southern Business Review (Archived)

Rae Andre, Ph.D., 1s professor of business admin1strat1on, Human Resources Group, College 01 Business Administration, Northeastern Uni\ersity, Boston, MA 02115.

Judith Y. Weisinger, Ph D., is assistant professor of human resources management, Human Resources Group, College of Business Administration, Northeastern University, Boston, MA 02115.

Liberating Liberty: How The Glucksberg Test Can Solve The Supreme Court’S Confusing Jurisprudence On Parental Rights, Hugh C. Phillips

Liberty University Law Review

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Sexual Exploitation Of Children: Protection From More Than The Public, Caitlin Lindenhovius

Liberty University Law Review

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Manufactured Mootness: How The Supreme Court’S Decision In New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Highlights The Need For Congress To Define The Term “Prevailing Party”, Austin Deramo

Liberty University Law Review

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Lying To Get A Court-Appointed Attorney Is Not An Obstruction Of Justice, Meredith L. Baker

Liberty University Law Review

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Decriminalizing Adultery: An Unanticipated Step In Restoring The Value Of Marriage, Ted N. Echols

Liberty University Law Review

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Liberty University Law Review

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Defining Art In The Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival, Rachel Syka

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter explores the role of identity, place, and origin of the artists in the Gozo International Contemporary Arts Festival in Gozo, Malta. Based on research conducted in July 2010 for a summer field school in sociocultural anthropology, I draw on conversations with several of the artists showing their work, as well as interactions with local organizing officials, arts instructors, and Gozitan artists and craftspeople not directly involved in the exhibit. I argue that the event is a space in which central questions of Gozitan identity are actively addressed and negotiated, focusing particularly on the manner in which the international …

Thomas Kinkade: Money, Class, And The Aesthetic Economy, Susan Falls

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Contemporary art is seldom given sustained anthropological analysis despite its tantalizing potential. As a response, this essay examines the work of Thomas Kinkade to cast an oblique light on the production of value. Kinkade’s mechanically reproduced opus representing Cotswold cottages, quaint city scenes, and Disney fantasies are sold by authorized dealers in malls, along tourist strips, and online. Rather than operating as kitsch, lowbrow, or a new model for art-making, Kinkade’s overt profit motive, self-celebration, and evangelical Christianity refract political, economic, and especially aesthetic constructions that undergird contemporary markets. A bad boy of the aesthetic economy, Kinkade’s work, mostly dismissed …

A World Of Difference: Unity And Differentiation Among Ceramicists In Quinua, Ayacucho, Peru, Jennifer A. Vogt

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

This chapter analyzes local notions of authenticity drawing on ethnographic data collected during thirteen months of fieldwork in the rural village of Quinua, Peru. The author highlights how local ceramic artisans conceived of authenticity, which, it is argued, is encapsulated by local terms and material practices surrounding the concept of artesano verdadero. Artisans in Quinua share, borrow, and even “steal” designs from others. Within this context, artisans persistently evaluated each other based on these practices. Ultimately, the narratives artisans tell themselves and others about who they are, and are not, as artisans, thereby put forth claims about who counts and …

Mirror Dance: Tourists, Artists, And First People Heritage In Botswana, Jessica Stephenson

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

Arts destined for the tourist market have long been devalued and set aside from serious study. They are considered mass-produced, artistically uninteresting, and inferior in quality. Recent scholarship counters these views; many forms of tourist art can be recognized as artistically inventive and conceptually complex authentic objects of significance to both client and artist. Here the paintings and prints created by artists affiliated with the Kuru Art Project in Botswana are considered as forms of autoethnography, after Mary Louis Pratt’s term for indigenous autobiographies created in the context of “contact zones.” Autoethnographies are received heterogeneously—in this case, as both nostalgic …

A Memoir Of An Other, Robert C. Philen

Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society

I am the literary executor for my late partner, the prolific poet and essayist Reginald Shepherd. Shepherd often spoke of writing a memoir but never had the chance to do so before his death. However, the essays he wrote, his poetry, his correspondences, and other writings contain many, many fragments of memoiristic material in his voice. I am in the process of assembling these fragments into his posthumous memoir, and the project bears a strong relationship to the long tradition of ethnographic biographies, as well as being a strong example of bricolage and mythic thinking. Here, I will reflect on …