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When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching, Paul F. Tanghe
When Rhinos Are Sacred: Why Some Countries Control Poaching, Paul F. Tanghe
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Why are some countries more effective than others at controlling rhino poaching? Rhinos are being poached to extinction throughout much of the world, yet some weak and poor countries have successfully controlled rhino poaching. This dissertation presents a theory accounting for divergent patterns in the control of rhino poaching, explaining why rhino poaching has been controlled in some countries yet increases exponentially in others. It does so by examining the relational models predominant in each country with wild rhino populations, including institutional analysis of all rhino range states, detailed analysis of social constructions used by nearly two hundred conservationists in …
The Ethics Of Representation: Muslim Women Reenacting And Resisting Whiteness, Haneen Al Ghabra
The Ethics Of Representation: Muslim Women Reenacting And Resisting Whiteness, Haneen Al Ghabra
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This study examines Muslim women's performances and embodiment of White femininity. It addresses invisibility/visibility and problematic rhetorical constructs for re-securing and replicating White femininity, which in turn reasserts White masculinity as the dominant ideological structure in service of Whiteness. To be exact, the aim is to specifically focus on how Whiteness travels globally through Muslim bodies and subjects who speak the language of the imperialist and not the vernacular. This language of the imperialist is also the language of heteronormativity, class, and educational privilege. These intersections are not stand-alone categories but instead seep into one another in the service of …