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War By Other Means

Special Guest Editors Adeleke Adeeko, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, and Natasha Barnes

“War By Other Means”, a special issue of The Global South, examines the (post)modern nature of war. Following Carl von Clauswitz, guest editors Mike Hill and Tom Cohen suggest that we can no longer see war only in terms of time or nations, but must understand it as omnipresent in every aspect of human endeavor. The editors and contributors, then, seek to recognize the pervasive fluidity of contemporary violence in both visible and invisible actions. Featuring essays by Jan Mieszkowski, Jason Groves, Jody Berland, Angela Mitropoulos, Henry Sussman, Kevin Bell, Randy Martin, Warren Montag, and Robert Marzec, the journal examines war from rhetorical, ecological, domestic, literary, financial, and political angles.

Find the special issue here.

Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa

Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa   
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1

From the introduction by Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, Rijk van Dijk:

The purpose of this special issue is to explore and analyze the ways in which Christianity is becoming one of the most influential factors in the engagement of AIDS in some African countries. This special issue addresses the consequences of this rapidly expanding Christian engagement with AIDS and the questions it raises. These questions can be grouped into three main themes: first, those concerning the ways people are dealing with illness and death, treatment and care for the sick, and questions of morality, kinship, gender relations, and sexuality; second, those concerning the place of religion in the public sphere, in relation to civil society and government, development, and public health; third, those concerning transformations within Christian practices and worldviews in Africa. This special issue explores not only some diverse responses of African churches to AIDS, but also the place of Christianity in (inter)national AIDS programs and initiatives, and the Christianization of public discourse and debate about AIDS and its effects on other institutions, practices, and debates in African societies experiencing the AIDS epidemic.

This special issue thus offers recent research and timely reflections on the interrelationships of Christianity, AIDS, and society in African countries. As the studies presented here encompass East and Southern Africa (specifically, Botswana, Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania), this collection does not claim to present an overview of research in the whole continent, nor of the relations between Christianity and AIDS in Africa today; rather, it offers insights into the sometimes surprising relationships between AIDS and Christianity at particular moments and places over the last ten years.

Special Issue: Christianity and HIV/AIDS in East and Southern Africa   
Africa Today VOLUME 56, ISSUE 1

Introduction to Special Issue: Engaging Christianities: Negotiating HIV/AIDS, Health, and Social Relations in East and Southern Africa
Ruth Prince, Philippe Denis, Rijk van Dijk

Faith and the Intersubjectivity of Care in Botswana
Frederick Klaits

The “Failures of Culture”: Christianity, Kinship, and Moral Discourses about Orphans during Botswana's AIDS Crisis
Bianca Dahl

“Keep Holy Distance and Abstain till He Comes”: Interrogating a Pentecostal Church's Engagements with HIV/AIDS and the Youth in Kenya
Damaris Seleina Parsitau

HIV/AIDS, Pentecostal Churches, and the “Joseph Generation” in Uganda
Alessandro Gusman

Doing Better? Religion, the Virtue-Ethics of Development, and the Fragmentation of Health Politics in Tanzania
Hansjörg Dilger

BOOK REVIEWS

The Pitfalls of Liberal Democracy and Late Nationalism in South Africa. Mueni wa Muiu
E. Ike Udogu

Radicalism and Cultural Dislocation in Ethiopia, 1960–1974. Messay Kebede
Christopher R. Green

Dead Aid: Why Aid is Not Working and How There is Another Way for Africa. Dambisa Moyo
Ama Biney

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Transition 101: Looking Ahead

From the issue:

“What is the community? is not a question that one can easily answer, and to make the community the bearer of human rights, and to define duties toward its preservation, predisposes one to an incarcerating conception of identity, one which eventually endangers the very notion of human rights.”
—Souleymane Bachir Diagne

“Democratic ideals must come to terms with economic ideals for the empowerment of the least among us. What is needed is less mysticism and more rational analysis of social situations—whether in Africa or elsewhere.”
—Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

“Mr. George takes a fifty-euro note. It has some markings on it, reddish brown, above the stars of Europe. He wipes it down with a cloth on which he has sprinkled a transparent fluid. The note emerges pristine.”
—Petina Gappah

“In the same week that Luxolo came in, a teenager was stabbed in the heart with a screwdriver; a mother of three children was shot in the head by her boyfriend; a middle-aged man was attacked with an ax; and a teenager was beaten to death by his neighbors after having stolen a CD.”
—Rebecca Rosenberg

“Purging territory designated as home of outsiders appears to be the most decisive and only accessible expression of power available to people in desperate conditions seeking to regain control over their lives and the spaces they inhabit.”
—Moradewun Adejunmobi

Plus: Poems from Sonata Mulattica, by Rita Dove

http://www.transitionmagazine.com/index.html

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Race/Ethnicity 2.2 features the art of Samella Lewis

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Race/Ethnicity Volume 2, Number 2, "Race and Secondary Education: Content, Contexts, Impacts," features "The Barrier" by Samella Lewis. Pioneering artist and art historian Samella Lewis is renowned for her contributions to African American art and art history. She was born on February 27, 1924, in New Orleans, Louisiana, and her heritage led her to view art as an essential expression of the community and its struggles. Currently Dr. Lewis is Professor Emerita of art history at Scripps College of the Claremont Colleges.

Read more about the art featured in Race/Ethnicity at http://www.raceethnicity.org/coverart.html.

You may view more art by Samella Lewis and read about her accomplishments at these sites:

http://hearnefineart.com/hfa2/hfa2_samella.html

http://www.scrippscollege.edu/media/magazine/samella-lewis-contemporary-art-collection

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/special_report/black_history/article/samella_lewis/204933/

Race and Secondary Education: Content, Contexts, Impacts

Race/Ethnicity 2.2
Special Issue: Race and Secondary Education: Content, Contexts, Impacts

In the introduction the editors write:

"This issue of Race/Ethnicity explores the implications of race and ethnicity in systems of secondary education across the globe. We have chosen to focus on secondary education because it provides many children with their final level of formal education, making the content and character of that education a topic worth examining. In doing so, we recognize that formal learning environments must be considered within larger cultural, societal, national, and even global contexts to account for the overall impacts of the educational experience. All of these components work together to influence how children see themselves as individuals, national citizens, and global inhabitants.

While it is impossible, and not particularly desirable, to synthesize educational
practices across the globe, the essays within this volume provide some insight into the similarities and differences in the education of children and how issues of race and ethnicity are engaged in that process…

… The global impact of educational practices in all nations makes the ongoing discussion surrounding secondary education an important one to pursue, and we hope that the articles in this issue will contribute to conversations that will bring practitioners, researchers, and concerned citizens together in praxis in their continued work on the issues of access, equity, value, and reform."

The table of contents includes:

Race / Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Apr 2009, Vol. 2, No. 2

Chapter 2 from Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Paolo Freire

Selected Responses to Editors' Queries on Education
Robin Burns, Grace Takaheebwa, Robert Aspelagh, Erica Frankenberg, Sylvère Farraudiere

Social Studies Teachers' Reflections on Citizenship Education in Bavaria, Germany
Debora Hinderliter Ortloff

End of the Line: Tracing Racial Inequality from School to Prison
Lizbet Simmons

I Am Because We Are: Increasing Educational Opportunity for Early Childhood Education in Ghana, West Africa
Cynthia B. Dillard

Black Girls' Voices: Exploring Their Lived Experiences in a Predominately White High School
Tiffany A. Eggleston, Antoinette Halsell Miranda

Muslim Uyghur Students in a Dislocated Chinese Boarding School: Bonding Social Capital as a Response to Ethnic Integration
Yangbin Chen, Gerard A. Postiglione

Black Camera—Call for Papers

Black Camera is an international peer reviewed film journal devoted to the study of the black cinematic experience. Read this earlier blog post for more on this journal now at Indiana University Press. 

The only scholarly journal of its kind in the United States, Black Camera features essays and interviews, film and book reviews, archival notes, reports and programmatic statements that engage film in social as well as political contexts and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

Black Camera's aims are to document, encourage, and invigorate research and study of black film-making as an art form, cultural and political practice, and historical activity; engage in conversation with other cinematic traditions, movements and practices in world cinema; stimulate
new, and refresh traditional, theoretical and analytical perspectives; disseminate research to enhance the teaching of black film; and serve as a depository and showcase for black artistic and intellectual
achievement. 

The editor invites submissions on:

• Reconsideration of key black "classic" films
• Black (and other related postcolonial and third world) programmatic statements and manifestos
• Black sexuality in film
• Black filmmaking and cinematic formations in Europe
• Archival film documents
• Slavery and anti-colonial struggles in the historical film
• Lusophone and Francophone African cinemas
• Cinemas of the Maghreb
• Black Hollywood
• Black animation
• Women filmmakers of the African diaspora
• Caribbean cinemas
• Reception studies
• Film directors, screenwriters, actors

Michael T. Martin
Director, Black Film Center/Archive
Indiana Unversity, Bloomington

The Past that Does Not Pass

January Read for Free Selections

Bookmark our READ for FREE site and visit often for free access each month to articles from our journals.

Dalia Ofer, The Past that Does Not Pass: Israelis and “Holocaust Memory”.
Israel Studies Apr 2009, Vol. 14, No. 1: 1–35.  For more information on Israel Studies, please click here.

Wendy Rogers, Angela Ballantyne, When is sex-specific research appropriate?
International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics Oct 2008, Vol. 1, No. 2: 36–57.  For more information on IJFAB, please click here.

Chad M. Bauman, Redeeming Indian “Christian” Womanhood? Missionaries, Dalits, and Agency in Colonial India.  For more information on JFSR, please click here.

Vivian Nixon, Patricia Ticento Clough, David Staples, Yolanda Johnson Peterkin, Patricia Zimmerman, Christina Voight, Sean Pica, Life Capacity Beyond Reentry: A Critical Examination of Racism and Prisoner Reentry Reform in the US.
Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts Oct 2008, Vol. 2, No. 1: 21–43.  For more information on R/E, please click here.

Race and Incarceration

The third issue of Race/Ethnicity, “The Dynamics of Race and Incarceration: Social Integration, Social Welfare, and Social Control,” was published in Autumn 2008. The issue begins with  a  “classic” piece, a widely-cited excerpt from “Panopticism” in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. This selection looks at constant visibility as a manifestation of power exercised over those who are made visible. This mechanism of discipline is used on patients in hospitals, students in schools, workers in factories, soldiers in barracks, and prisoners in prisons. Those considered dangerous are placed in “segmented, immobile, frozen space.” The articles in this issue examine the space of prisons and the processes to place targeted populations within that space.

Topics include the relationship between incarceration and civil rights in the US; the mismatch between existing reentry reform proposals and the racial structures that propel mass incarceration; the increasing incarceration of migrants in the European Union; the overrepresentation of minorities in the criminal justice system in Britain and Wales; post-apartheid prison practices in South Africa; federally-sentenced aboriginal women in Canada; the Convict Criminology perspective; and a retrospective look by a former corrections director on his career in correctional administration.

An examination of who gets imprisoned, why, and the effects of incarceration on individual lives and society requires that we critically examine societal attitudes towards race and ethnicity, as well as the impacts of class and economic access in regards to control, integration, and welfare. The articles in this issue raise questions that must be addressed if incarceration is to serve as a first step toward rehabilitation and redemption rather than the final step toward social marginalization and exclusion.

For more information about Race/Ethnicity or to subscribe, go to http://inscribe.iupress.org/loi/rac.

IU Press/Journals to Publish Black Camera

In partnership with the Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive (BFCA), IU Press/Journals will publish Black Camera, edited by Michael T. Martin, beginning in the fall of 2009.  

Black Camera is devoted to the study and documentation of the black cinematic experience and is the only scholarly film journal of its kind in the United States. Published twice a year, it features essays and interviews that engage film in social as well as political context and in relation to historical and economic forces that bear on the reception, distribution, and production of film in local, regional, national, and transnational settings and environments.

In addition, Black Camera includes research and archival notes, editorials, reports, interviews with emerging and prominent filmmakers, and book and film reviews and addresses a wide range of genres—including documentary, experimental film and video, diasporic cinema, animation, musicals, comedy, and so on. It challenges received and ensconced views and assumptions about the traditions and practices of filmmaking in the African diaspora, where new and longstanding cinematic formations are in play. While its scope is interdisciplinary and inclusive of all of the African diaspora, the journal devotes issues or sections of issues to national cinemas, as well as independent, marginal, or oppositional films and cinematic formations.

Please check our website at http://inscribe.iupress.org for more information on Black Camera and on Film History, which has been published by IU Press since 2004 and is now in its twentieth volume.

The Indiana University Black Film Center/Archive, directed by Michael Martin, was established in 1981 as a repository of films and related materials by and about African Americans. Included in its collection are hundreds of movie posters.  Black Camera will regularly include four-color samples of this impressive collection in every issue.  

Race/Ethnicity: Multidisciplinary Global Contexts features art on covers

“Transnational Migration, Race, and Citizenship,” the focus of volume 1, number 1 of Race/Ethnicity, showcased “Urban Voyagers: Seekers 4,” by Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, a Chilean artist sponsored by the Chilean ministry of culture and recently invited to participate in the prestigious Eranos Institute in Switzerland. Her work and artist’s statement are available at http://www.lydianakashimadegarrod.com/.

Issue two, “Race and Coalition,” features a detail from Aminah Robinson’s mixed-media project “One Day in 1307: King Abubakari II.” Robinson is a nationally celebrated, Columbus, Ohio-based artist who received the MacArthur Foundation Award in 2004.
Her work can be seen at http://www.columbusmuseum.org/exhibitions/aminah/aminah_popup.html.

Race/Ethnicity welcomes submissions for cover art that relates to the themes of issues and offers small honoraria to artists whose works are featured.

To learn about the themes of upcoming issue, visit http://www.raceethnicity.org/call4paper.html.

Please contact the Eavon Mobley, Managing Editor of Race/Ethnicty, at mobley.2@osu.edu to determine the best medium in which to submit your piece(s).