2020 Volume 12 Issue 11

American History
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Bonds of Slavery and Bonds of Love: Investigating the Role of African-American Families and Marital Unions in the Struggle Against Slavery
By Xavier G. Reader
Resistance to oppression is often found in the most unlikely of places. This article investigates the significance that families and partnerships played in fostering the emotional support necessary to sustain enslaved peoples throughout the onslaught... Read Article »
American Slavery Antebellum South Slave Rebellion Marriage Family American History
Spirituality
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Pain and Power: BDSM as Spiritual Expression
By Alicia Charles D'Avalon
Western society is becoming increasingly secular as religion disappears from the public sphere. This developing identification has created a void as people move away from the traditional, established symbols and maps of meaning. People are still... Read Article »
Spirituality BDSM Pain Sexuality Subcultures
Economic Theory
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
A Postcolonial Theory of Value: Broadening Economic Scholarship Through Disciplinary-Mimetic Valuation
By David L. Myers
This work aims to integrate postcolonial scholarship into some basic theoretical foundations of a mainstream economic curriculum. Noting the insufficiencies of neoclassical economics to deal with problems of cultural difference and priority, the... Read Article »
Postcolonial Literature Value Theory Economic Value Cross-Cultural Communication
Feminism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
The Illusion of Empowerment: A Feminist Analysis of Disney's Hercules
By Kasandra J. DiSessa
Disney’s Hercules, which features both a strong male lead and a strong female lead, has the potential to appeal to, and therefore influence, a larger group of child viewers than the more gendered movies, such as the traditional Princess movies... Read Article »
Feminism Disney Hercules Gender Roles Children's Movies
Russian History
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Molding the Peasantry on the Road to Modernity: State and Peasant Relations in Russia and the Soviet Union
By Sophia Hernandez Tragesser
This paper examines the peasantry's response to modernization measures taken by Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the pursuit of modernity, the Tsarist Russian and early Soviet regimes altered... Read Article »
Russia Soviet Union Peasantry Modernity Russian History
Identity
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
One Person, Two Names: A Study of Naming Practices in Hong Kong and the Use of English and Chinese Names
By Wibke Eickmann
The practice of using an English name is widespread among native Chinese speakers. Especially in Hong Kong many use an English name in their everyday life. Using qualitative interviews, this study examines the thoughts and feelings about this practice... Read Article »
Hong Kong Identity Management Symbolic Capital Habitus Naming Practices
Mental Health
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
A Quantitative Evaluation of Shame Resilience Theory
By Cade L. Arnink
Shame is an adaptive emotion. Yet, it is associated with poor mental and behavioral health as well as lower wellbeing and negative relational strategies. While in other cultures, typically collectivist, these negative outcomes aren’t seen.... Read Article »
Shame Shame Resilience Well-Being Individualism Collectivism Mental Health
Contemporary Art
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Félix González-Torres's Portrait of Ross: Beyond Form and Content
By Julianne Miao
Félix González-Torres’s Untitled (Portrait of Ross in L.A.) [1991] uses its unconventional medium and presentation to reveal holes in the limited language of the traditional art historical narrative. Composed of a pile of metallic... Read Article »
Contemporary Art Visual Art Queer Studies Performative Art
Ancient History
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Goddess in the Sheets, Prostitute in the Streets: Examining Public & Private Divisions of Gender in Mesopotamian Cities
By Georgia H. Vance
This paper explores the spatial expression of the female gender in early Mesopotamian cities from c. 2334-1595 B.C.E. Gender in Mesopotamia has been widely studied socially but not spatially, and here I aim to provide a consideration of gender through... Read Article »
Archaeology Gender Mesopotamia Ancient History Ancient Near East Sensory Anthropology
Populism
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Today's Poland as a Bastion of Conservative Populism: Targeting Families in a Populist Power Grab
By Jaroslaw S. Myjak
With right-wing populists gaining power and electoral campaigns everywhere becoming more virulent, many are calling for a return to individualism and rationality. But, at least in countries like today’s Poland, such pleas fail to take into... Read Article »
Poland Polish Politics Populism Conservatism
Democracy
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Has the U.S. Constitution Reached its Expiration Date? A Review and Criticism of the World's Longest Lasting Constitution
By Emma L. Bernstein
The United States Constitution is the longest lasting written constitution in the world, despite the fact that one of the key framers, Thomas Jefferson, believed that written constitutions ought to have a nineteen year expiration date before they... Read Article »
Constitution Democracy Presidential System American Politics
Ethics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Aquinas, Just-War Theory, and Pandemic Response
By Ezekiel Vergara
“Just-war theory,” as it is called, aims to guide action during warfare, so that states and individuals can act ethically. Because warfare is often analogized to epidemics, this paper will argue that just-war theory can recommend how... Read Article »
Thomas Aquinas COVID-19 War Ethics Government Political Theory
Biopolitics
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Deconstructing and Renouncing the Conditioned Identities of Gender and Nationality in Modern Society
By Anna . Militsi
This paper investigates the convoluted societal processes to which the individual is exposed from an early age in order to form and acquire their sense of identity, and aims at dismantling these very processes by exhibiting their flimsy and unsubstantiated... Read Article »
Gender Nationalism Biopolitics Patriotism Vulnerability Social Construction Identity
Social Movements
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Complementary Spheres of Resistance in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: The Relationship Between Formal and Informal Arenas of Protest
By Faith A. Fisher
The African National Congress is widely credited as the institutional body that effectuated the fall of Apartheid in South Africa. While the formal actions of the ANC enfeebled the National Party, the political party only represents one source of... Read Article »
South Africa Anti-apartheid Movement Social Movements Political Parties Apartheid Protest
Museology
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Challenging the Dichotomy Between "Natural" and "Cultural" in Museums: A Case Study of Bird Symbolism and Human Origins
By David Lichty
Many natural history museums use the categories of “cultural” and “natural” as a means of separating exhibition content. This article challenges this practice and the inherent paradigm that supports it. By dismissing the... Read Article »
Museums Museology Culture Symbolism Animal Symbolism Archaeology Human History
Brain Neurology
2020, Vol. 12 No. 11
Are Isochronic Tones Effective? The Impact of Isochronic Tones on Brainwave Entrainment and Stress
By David Moniz-Lewis
Isochronic tones are a hypothesized auditory brainwave entrainment technique in which a single tone is played at regular beat intervals. Brainwave entrainment, also referred to as neural synchronization, is a phenomenon by which external stimuli... Read Article »
Isochronic Tones Brainwave Entrainment Stress Music Sound Design Neural Synchronization Brain Neurology

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