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				<title>Deconstructing Social Classification and Mobility: The Hindu Varna System, Plato&#39;s Magnificent Myth, and the British Caste System</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1927/deconstructing-social-classification-and-mobility-the-hindu-varna-system-platos-magnificent-myth-and-the-british-caste-system</link>
				<description>By Aadi C. Krishna - This research elucidates the striking parallelism between the Hindu Varna System and Plato&#39;s Magnificent Myth through an unorthodox view of their class-based classification, social mobility, and meritocracy while arguing that these stem from the Arguments from Division of Labor and Biological Determinism. Furthermore, it establishes that the Caste System introduced in India by the British in the 18th Century fundamentally differs from the systems followed in ancient India and Athens and investigates the fundamental forces and the motivations behind its implementation. Lastly, the paper conducts...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2021 02:49 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Resurrecting the Bog Queen: Exploring the Gender Politics of Ireland&#39;s Bogs in Postcolonial and Nationalist Literature</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1826/resurrecting-the-bog-queen-exploring-the-gender-politics-of-irelands-bogs-in-postcolonial-and-nationalist-literature</link>
				<description>By Rosie  Ryan - Bogs are one of Ireland&amp;rsquo;s most notable and mysterious landscapes. As explored in the work of Seamus Heaney, the bog&amp;rsquo;s capacity to preserve memory across generations makes it a melancholic terrain that is uniquely suited to explorations of Ireland&amp;rsquo;s national identity, particularly as Ireland emerged out of the grip of British colonialism. This paper draws upon postcolonial, feminist, and literary theory to explore why the bog has become such a provocative terrain for the exploration of Irish identity and Irish femininity. Beginning with the writings of colonial administrators,...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2020 10:41 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Flipping the Cultural Script: Papaya Soap and Skin Color Stratification in the Philippines</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1820/flipping-the-cultural-script-papaya-soap-and-skin-color-stratification-in-the-philippines</link>
				<description>By Aimiel Trisha W. Casillan - Centuries of subjugation under Spanish and American colonial rule have embedded an idealistic view of white beauty in the minds of Filipinos. It continues to be deeply rooted in Philippine culture due to the constant exposure of Filipina bodies to the advertisements of the massive skin lightening industry. Papaya soap, one of the many objects produced by the industry, has perpetuated social stratification in the Philippines. In the following critique, I explore the origins of papaya soap while using a feminist consumerist lens to reveal how it has been marketed to promote a colonial mindset of...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:14 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Linguistic Essentialism and Indigenous Authenticity: The Role of Indigenous Languages in Defining Indigeneity</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1790/linguistic-essentialism-and-indigenous-authenticity-the-role-of-indigenous-languages-in-defining-indigeneity</link>
				<description>By Ella  Agoos - Since the European invasion of Latin America in the sixteenth century, the concept of indigeneity has been inherently political. In what can only be described as an ongoing ethnocide, colonial powers did everything they could to stomp out the rich diversity of indigenous cultures throughout the land while imposing their Western Christian values upon colonized groups. After centuries of being denied their own culture, indigenous groups now struggle to preserve their surviving cultural practices. One such element of culture that many indigenous peoples see as tied directly to their identities is...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2020 10:03 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Gender Dynamics in &quot;The Sheik&quot; as Novel and as Film Adaptation</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1782/gender-dynamics-in-the-sheik-as-novel-and-as-film-adaptation</link>
				<description>By Sophie  Hammond - The 1921 Hollywood film The Sheik tells the story of Lady Diana Mayo, a spirited English peeress who, on a trip to the French Sahara, is kidnapped by and eventually falls in love with the Arab sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan. The film made Rudolph Valentino an international heartthrob, showered Paramount Pictures in money, and nearly singlehandedly founded the genre of &amp;ldquo;oriental romance&amp;rdquo; Hollywood films. The film&amp;rsquo;s power over the public imagination relied on American fantasies of the Orient as a place of billowing sands, luxurious silks, and heated, primal romance (Teo 110). But The Sheik...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Feb 2020 08:28 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Newspaper Coverage of the Mau Mau Movement: A Constructivist Argument</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1731/newspaper-coverage-of-the-mau-mau-movement-a-constructivist-argument</link>
				<description>By Esme  Trahair - On February 14th, 1965, just one week before he was assassinated, Malcolm X delivered a speech in Detroit. He spoke about his beliefs concerning segregation and civil rights, and made a point of contextualizing the civil rights movement globally. Toward the beginning of the speech, he mentioned the Mau Mau in Kenya, and stated that they had &quot;played a major role in bringing about freedom for Kenya, and not only for Kenya but other African countries,&quot; adding that &quot;what [they] did frightened the white man.&quot;[1] He was not the only civil rights leader to speak of this movement,[2]&amp;nbsp;and in fact,...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2018 02:47 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Native Design in Modern Fashion: The Transformations of Native American Flower Beadwork</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1730/native-design-in-modern-fashion-the-transformations-of-native-american-flower-beadwork</link>
				<description>By Jianing  Zhao - What happens to flower beadwork when its application is transformed from traditional clothing decoration, to painting on the wall, and back to embroidery on high-end fashion garments? What happens to Native women, when their bodies are lost, violated, and heal; when their art is celebrated, stolen, and reclaimed? This paper traces the movement of Native American (particularly M&amp;eacute;tis) flower beadwork through time and space, from the traditional beadwork in moccasins in the Walking with Our Sisters project, to experimental uses in paintings such as Water Song, and eventually to the problematic...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:41 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Victorian Racism: An Explication of Scientific Knowledge, its Social Character, and its Relation to Victorian Popular Culture</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1719/victorian-racism-an-explication-of-scientific-knowledge-its-social-character-and-its-relation-to-victorian-popular-culture</link>
				<description>By Peter  Conlin - The British Empire of the nineteenth century displayed and embodied racism in its composite. In embodying this idea of racial inequality, the Empire created grounds on which it could justify the imperialist actions that it executed throughout the world during this century. Actions such as extending its power, influence, and domination to continents like Africa and Asia and imposing &amp;lsquo;Britishness&amp;rsquo;[1] in such places.[2] Many scholars in the existing scholarly literature have agreed on the point that racism was used as a tool of justification for imperial actions, such as Andrew Aptner...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jan 2018 08:31 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Before Drones: U.S. Covert Action in Africa During the Congo Crisis</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1720/before-drones-us-covert-action-in-africa-during-the-congo-crisis</link>
				<description>By Drew A. Calcagno - A man named Patrice Lumumba led the nation&#39;s independence struggle, starting as the head of a local anti-colonial movement and eventually growing to be the first democratically-elected prime minister. Lumumba was under no delusion that Belgium and the greater West would continue to exploit the Congo if given the chance. Due to this philosophy, he expressed in famously charismatic terms that the Congo would progress only if it fully divorced itself from the colonial yoke. Through his magnetism, Lumumba found great allies as well as great enemies. His approach was rich with revolutionary diction...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2017 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The Body as a Weapon of Resistance in Postcolonial Short Stories: The Cases of Augusto Monterroso and Zulema de la R&#250;a Fern&#225;ndez</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1706/the-body-as-a-weapon-of-resistance-in-postcolonial-short-stories-the-cases-of-augusto-monterroso-and-zulema-de-la-rand#250;a-fernand#225;ndez</link>
				<description>By Kyle S. McQuillan - The arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the &amp;ldquo;New World&amp;rdquo; at the end of the fifteenth century triggered an age of violence, oppression, and colonization that lasted until the United States took the stage as a modern colonial power in 1898. Overt colonization was transformed and reinvented as neocolonialism under the guise of &amp;ldquo;international policy&amp;rdquo; written with the intention of controlling the entirety of the Western Hemisphere. The economic, social, and political systems put in place by the Spanish, and later the Americans in the postcolonial period, are still tangible in...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2017 10:28 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Cacao Cravings: Europe&#39;s Assimilation and Europeanization of Chocolate Drinking from Mesoamerica, 1492-1700 C.E.</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1669/cacao-cravings-europes-assimilation-and-europeanization-of-chocolate-drinking-from-mesoamerica-1492-1700-ce</link>
				<description>By James C. Miller - Chocolate is a foodstuff that many people in the modern world take for granted; the sweet treat can today be found plentifully and cheaply in practically any store all across the globe, especially in the Euro-American world. Despite its commonplace, most people do not know exactly where the addictive confection came from and how it became a near staple of industrialized, modern societies. Many in the &amp;lsquo;Western World&amp;rsquo; would be surprised to learn the true origins of chocolate and how it first became a European craze. Chocolate was a confection made mostly from powder that originated from...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2017 12:08 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Modern and the Traditional: African Women and Colonial Morality</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1655/the-modern-and-the-traditional-african-women-and-colonial-morality</link>
				<description>By Rabah  Omer - Modernity and tradition are used as contradictory and exclusive concepts where the former indicates progress and the latter indicates a past without contemporary legitimacy. Modernity characteristically denotes a post-traditional, post-medieval historical period, one marked by the transition from feudalism and agrarian structure to capitalism, industrialization, secularization, rationalization, the nation-state and its institutions with their systems of surveillance (Barker 2005, 444). Conceptually, however, modernity refers to the modern era. For a while in the eighteenth century, culture was...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:27 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Aristocratism and Authoritative Politics in Behn&#39;s &quot;Oroonoko&quot;: The Existential and Socio-Political Semiotics of Death and Torture</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1644/aristocratism-and-authoritative-politics-in-behns-oroonoko-the-existential-and-socio-political-semiotics-of-death-and-torture</link>
				<description>By Conner R. Hayes - Aphra Behn&amp;rsquo;s Oroonoko offers a complex representation of the semiotic and socio-political meaning of seventeenth-century torture and death and the intersectional manner in which physical agony coincides with authoritative colonial politics. The novella&amp;rsquo;s protagonist, Oroonoko, is hyperbolically described in terms of his Eurocentric physicality and aristocratic traits; this descriptive treatment reinforces his singularity from his slave peers and objectifies him as the subject of their mass spectatorship. His sharp physical, cultural, and ideological divergence from the collective slave...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2017 09:28 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Imagining Ethiopia: The Contrasting Views of Ethiopian Power, Progress, and Significance</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1544/imagining-ethiopia-the-contrasting-views-of-ethiopian-power-progress-and-significance</link>
				<description>By Benyam T. Alemu - The ancient civilization of Ethiopia has captivated the West and served, across centuries, as an inspiration for much of Africa. As a regional power in Eastern Africa, the nation is a strategic pathway into the Horn of Africa and guiding force in continental diplomacy. Ethiopia has been an imperial force imposing its will on neighboring nation states and also a firm symbol of resistance against colonialism. Interestingly enough, despite all of its influence on the world, Ethiopia has correspondingly shrouded itself in mystery. The Ethiopian mystique has seductively toyed upon the visions of the...</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2017 10:08 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>&quot;Solidarity of &#39;the Colonized&#39;&quot;: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Sinn F&#233;in&#39;s Connection To Palestine</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1561/solidarity-of-the-colonized-a-critical-discourse-analysis-of-sinn-feins-connection-to-palestine</link>
				<description>By Celia  Lohr - Ireland and Palestine share histories of colonialism, ethnonationalist conflict, and resistance characterized as &quot;terrorism.&quot; While Ireland has reached an official status of &quot;peace,&quot; the de-legitimization of its struggle for independence perpetuates cycles of conflict in the region and reveals lasting difficulties with legitimacy between Ireland and Britain. Through discourse analysis, I examine how the Sinn F&amp;eacute;in party reaffirms the Irish struggle for independence through solidarity with Palestine. Specifically, I analyze how Sinn F&amp;eacute;in constructs moral and immoral identities, de-...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2016 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Post-Colonial Duality and Identity in Ballard&#39;s &quot;The Crystal World&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1495/post-colonial-duality-and-identity-in-ballards-the-crystal-world</link>
				<description>By Emma O. Volk - J. G. Ballard&amp;rsquo;s The Crystal World (1966) is a prismatic text, apparently translucent yet linguistically opaque, with moments of unexpected ontological intricacy. Like the crystals consuming the forest, Ballard&amp;rsquo;s descriptive language itself multiplies, encrusting the novel in adjectival embellishment and convoluted pseudo-science. Yet beneath the pop-apocalyptic overtones, The Crystal World is a text deeply informed by its post-colonial setting. In his seminal work Colonial Desire: Hybridity in theory, culture, and race, post-colonial theorist Robert J.C. Young identifies the &amp;ldquo...</description>
				<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2016 09:45 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>A Colonial Catalyst: Reverberations of the Sykes-Picot Agreement in the Rise of ISIS</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1494/a-colonial-catalyst-reverberations-of-the-sykes-picot-agreement-in-the-rise-of-isis</link>
				<description>By Sumaia N. Masoom - The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (more commonly known as &amp;ldquo;ISIS,&amp;rdquo; but also referred to as the &amp;ldquo;Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant&amp;rdquo; or simply &amp;ldquo;the Islamic State&amp;rdquo;) has been on a reign of terror in the Middle East for the past three years, and emerged seemingly out of nowhere. However, though its rise appeasr to be quite rapid and is often blamed on Islam or the Middle East itself, in reality, ISIS has its roots much deeper in history, as far back as the beginnings of Western colonialism and the fall of the Ottoman Empire, and the subsequent western affinity...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2016 11:45 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>The Colonial Subject: Seeing the Unseen and the Construction of Subjectivity in &quot;Apocalypse Now&quot; and &quot;La Noire de...&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1443/the-colonial-subject-seeing-the-unseen-and-the-construction-of-subjectivity-in-apocalypse-now-and-la-noire-de</link>
				<description>By Eric N. Hahn - The complex and multifaceted nature of cinema is further complicated by the unmistakable tension between the quasi-objective potential inherent in the medium&amp;mdash;the camera merely operating as an observer&amp;mdash;versus the unrestricted camera which functions as a metaphysical transport to the psychological and even physical experience of a distinct body. Upon close examination, it can be said that both of these modes of address are unique to cinema and arguing for the significance of one over the other is a fool&amp;rsquo;s errand. As such, this paper does not address this arguably problematic dichotomy...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2016 09:04 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>How Important is the Notion of the &#39;Civilising Mission&#39; to Our Understanding of British Imperialism Before 1939?</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1437/how-important-is-the-notion-of-the-civilising-mission-to-our-understanding-of-british-imperialism-before-1939</link>
				<description>By Thanapat  Pekanan - The &amp;lsquo;civilising mission&#39; is a broad ideology that combines four main ideals; Enlightenment ideals, Christian / Evangelical ideas of pre-destination, racist ideas about white superiority and Liberalism. All these ideals have had a significant role in our understanding of British imperialism before 1939. Due to the limitations of this essay, I will focus on two of the most relevant and important aspects of the &amp;lsquo;civilising mission&#39;: racism and Liberalism. This essay proceeds in three parts. The first section demonstrates how important racism was in influencing the understanding of British...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2016 12:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Exploiting the Poor and Powerless: Forced Labor Systems in the Early and Later Modern World</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1408/exploiting-the-poor-and-powerless-forced-labor-systems-in-the-early-and-later-modern-world</link>
				<description>By Drew  Liquerman - Our world has witnessed significant shifts, transformations, and evolution in government systems, the balance of power among nations, economics, the rights of men and women, and social structures and relationships over the past 500 years. However, the plight of the poor and powerless worker has remained static. Societies blessed by climate, latitude, disease resistance, powerful militaries, and a little bit of luck have used this opportunity to exploit others. Throughout recorded history, nations and cultures have taken advantage of the cheap or free labor of conquered areas or the downtrodden...</description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 14 May 2016 07:46 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>First the Land and then the Language: Linguistic Imperialism in Transjordan and Palestine</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1579/first-the-land-and-then-the-language-linguistic-imperialism-in-transjordan-and-palestine</link>
				<description>By Kate  Pashby - In Jordan, a state renowned for medical tourism, all physicians are proficient in English because medical classes are taught in English, indicating that English, rather than Jordan&#39;s official language of Arabic, is the prestige language of Jordanian medicine. As a result, Jordanians who have access to English through wealth and education receive more opportunities than those without access. These language ideologies come from Jordan&#39;s history as a British mandate. This paper applies the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis to a set of primary sources, Palestine and Transjordan administrative...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 31 Dec 2015 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Cultural Tensions and Hybrid Identities in Derek Walcott&#39;s Poetry</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1141/cultural-tensions-and-hybrid-identities-in-derek-walcotts-poetry</link>
				<description>By Nidhi  Mahajan - In his Nobel Lecture, Derek Walcott described the experience of watching a Ramleela performance in a village in Trinidad, remarking: &quot;... Two different religions, two different continents, both filling the heart with the pain that is joy.&amp;rdquo; The pain that fills Walcott&amp;rsquo;s heart is the pain of a fragmented identity. This pain is also joy, the joy of a hybrid existence. Derek Walcott (b. 1930), a Caribbean poet and playwright who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1992, published his first collection of poetry at the age of fourteen, in which he described the beautiful and rich landscapes...</description>
				<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2015 07:48 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Feminist and New Historicist Readings of Kipling&#39;s &quot;The Man Who Would Be King&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1019/feminist-and-new-historicist-readings-of-kiplings-the-man-who-would-be-king</link>
				<description>By Kelley S. Kent - &amp;ldquo;The Man Who Would Be King&amp;rdquo; (1888)[1] is one of Rudyard Kipling&amp;rsquo;s most well known and highly acclaimed short stories. Michael Caine, Sean Connery, and Christopher Plummer starred in John Huston&amp;rsquo;s classic film adaptation (1975), which provided a testament to the story&amp;rsquo;s enduring popularity (Beckerman 180). Even when Kipling&amp;rsquo;s critical reputation suffered, &amp;ldquo;The Man Who Would Be King&amp;rdquo; continued to garner acclaim. However, because of its unsettling ambiguity, this story &amp;ldquo;resists classification&amp;rdquo; (Gilmour 37). Like the rest of misogynistic...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2015 11:07 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Creating Europe: The Discourse of Civilisation</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1084/creating-europe-the-discourse-of-civilisation</link>
				<description>By Benjamin  Walton - Today political philosophy is generally conducted in the light of the perceived triumph of liberalism. That is, it typically proceeds from the assumption that it is unreasonable, if not irrational or pathological, to resist liberalism whether as a mode of thought or as a social order. Despite critics&#39; repeated attempts to demonstrate the incoherence of liberal values, they appear to have stood the test of time - so much so, that the solutions to the world&#39;s pressing social problems are largely being conceived of within the parameters of a liberal world order .2 However , E. P. Thompson asks rhetorically...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jan 2014 07:58 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>India and Nigeria: Similar Colonial Legacies, Vastly Different Trajectories: An Examination of the Differing Fates of Two Former British Colonies</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1483/india-and-nigeria-similar-colonial-legacies-vastly-different-trajectories-an-examination-of-the-differing-fates-of-two-former-british-colonies</link>
				<description>By Caroline  Cohn - The nations of Nigeria and India both have exceptionally diverse populations, endured the deliberate divide-and-rule strategies executed by British colonizers who sought thereby to exacerbate existing differences, and experienced peaceful transfers from colonial rule to independence. Despite these key similarities in certain aspects of their colonial and decolonization experiences, India and Nigeria have had very different levels of success in their efforts to create and maintain politically stable nation-states. Today, India is distinguished from other post-colonial independent nations for its...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 15 Nov 2013 12:00 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Anxieties of Empire: Examining Frontier Governance in 19th Century British India</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/760/anxieties-of-empire-examining-frontier-governance-in-19th-century-british-india</link>
				<description>By Zaib Un Nisa  Aziz - In May 2012, Shakil Afridi received a sentence of thirty-three years &amp;ldquo;rigorous imprisonment&amp;rdquo; and a large fine for aiding foreign intelligence gatherers in their quest for Osama bin Laden. The Pakistani state did not charge Afridi &amp;ndash; a doctor from the Khyber area of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) &amp;ndash; under the national criminal code, where they would have risked a controversial public trial and a possible death sentence. Instead, Mohammad Nasir Khan, assistant Political Agent of Bara, Khyber Agency, announced on May 23rd, 2012 that Dr. Afridi had been tried &amp;...</description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2013 11:45 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Implicit Negritude in &quot;The Dark Child&quot;</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/614/implicit-negritude-in-the-dark-child</link>
				<description>By Miles G. Kellerman - In James Kirkup and Ernest Jones&amp;rsquo; English translation of Camara Laye&amp;rsquo;s 1953 autobiography, The Dark Child, there is a significant stylistic decision in the final sentence. Kirkup and Jones&amp;rsquo; version reads: &amp;ldquo;Later on I felt something hard when I put my hand in my pocket. It was the map of the m&amp;eacute;tro&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; (Laye 188). Laye wrote the memoir in French, and the final sentence reads as such in the original version: &amp;ldquo;Plus tard, je sentis une &amp;eacute;paisseur sous ma main: le plan du m&amp;eacute;tro gonflait ma poche&amp;rdquo; (Laye 174, French edition). Kirkup and...</description>
				<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:09 EST</pubDate>
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				<title>Ronan Bennett&#39;s &quot;The Catastrophist:&quot; Paralleling Ireland and Congo</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/565/ronan-bennetts-the-catastrophist-paralleling-ireland-and-congo</link>
				<description>By Rachel E. Wallaace - In The Catastrophist, Ronan Bennett draws on events in Ireland to frame the political situation in the Congo and depicts political parallels between the two countries. Simultaneously he uses the reporting of these events to attack the &amp;ldquo;culture of aloofness based on middle class complacency,&amp;rdquo; as he criticises the revisionist style of historical writing which adopted a detached, non-committal approach to &amp;lsquo;The Troubles&amp;rsquo; in Northern Ireland (Bennett 1994: 55). Moreover, Bennett also refers to the situation in Ireland to accentuate an overall theme of disconnection and division...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2011 08:05 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>A Critical Analysis of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide and the Sociopolitical Implications of Colonial Rule in Africa</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/272/a-critical-analysis-of-the-rwanda-burundi-genocide-and-the-sociopolitical-implications-of-colonial-rule-in-africa</link>
				<description>By Chloe S. Manchester - There has always been a great deal of intrigue as to why certain people and certain parts of the world are cursed with such a greater deal of suffering than others. Over time certain societies have developed through a series of phases of modernity and civilization to become more successful. Industrialization has strengthened economies, research has advanced technology, science has made discoveries in healthcare, and the result has been that some people in some parts of the world enjoy significantly higher standards of living than those elsewhere. What is also striking is how development has been...</description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jul 2010 07:05 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>The Horn of Africa: Critical Analysis of Conflict Management and Strategies for Success in the Horn&#39;s Future</title>
				<link>http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/256/the-horn-of-africa-critical-analysis-of-conflict-management-and-strategies-for-success-in-the-horns-future</link>
				<description>By Emily K. Elmore - Locations that are biased toward one party or the other will immediately put the visiting party in a defensive posture and can limit the efficacy of collaborative talks before they begin. Third parties may also perform an inquiry to establish the facts of the dispute and subsequently offer acceptable solutions. Regional third parties have acted in the Horn, but resulted in little success for reasons to be later examined. In this region, third parties must be carefully selected; mediators have been difficult to designate due to alliance swapping, perceptions of illegitimate representatives, and...</description>
				<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 08:24 EDT</pubDate>
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