Kansas African Studies Center: Recent submissions
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Review of They Would Not Take Me There: People, Places and Stories from Champlain's travels in Canada, 1603-1616
(North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS), 2012-01-01)No abstract available for this item. -
Recent advances in the climate change biology literature: describing the whole elephant
(Royal Meteorological Society, 2010-06-11)Climate change biology is seeing a wave of new contributions, which are reviewed herein. Contributions treat shifts in phenology and distribution, and both document past and forecast future effects. However, many of the ... -
Diversity within Unity: Import Laws of Islamic Countries on Haram (Forbidden) Products
(The International Lawyer, 2014-05-15)How do Muslim countries treat importation of goods that Islamic Law (Sharı’a) considers Haram (forbidden), namely, alcoholic beverages and pork products? Why do they do so? What might Muslim countries do, in accordance ... -
The Fashion of Democracy: September 11 and Africa
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Aesthetics of Yoruba Recreational Dances as Exemplified in the Oge Dance
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Encroachment by Word, Axis, and Tree: Mapping Techniques from the Colonization of New England
(2004)It is well established that mapping has been an important tool for the colonization of North America. Techniques such as removal of toponymy, alteration of a boundary line location, and use of a map grid, were all successfully ... -
Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
(Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, 2014-04)The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region. Conceived in 2006 by just four small countries, it now embraces 12 that ... -
Support Groups, Marriage, and the Management of Ambiguity among HIV-Positive Women in Northern Nigeria
(The John Hopkins University Press, 2009-03)In the context of the African HIV epidemic, support groups are not simply spaces for discussions of social and health well-being; neither are they institutions functioning solely to cultivate self-responsible and economically ... -
Revisiting Arabic diglossic switching in light of the MLF and its sub-models: The 4-M Model and the Abstract Level Model
(Cambridge University Press, 2013-05-12)The goal of this paper is twofold. First, I wish to discuss two sets of problematic cases that arose when I applied Myers-Scotton's (1993) Matrix Language Frame model of codeswitching to Arabic diglossic switching ... -
Cattle Raiding, Cultural Survival, and Adaptability of East African Pastoralists
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Identity, Voice & Community Among New African Immigrants to Kansas
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Identity, Voice, Community: New African Immigrants to Kansas
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First Generation Indian External Sector Reforms in Context
(National Law University, Jodhpur, India, 2013)India's first generation external sector reforms are a fascinating case study of emergence from a post-Independence socialist-style economy to the world’s largest free market democracy. Part I of this article reviews the ... -
Policy Responses to Human Trafficking in Southern Africa: Domesticating International Norms
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Human trafficking is increasingly recognized as an outcome of economic insecurity, gender inequality, and conflict, all significant factors in the region of southern Africa. This paper examines policy responses to human ... -
Virtues, the Chinese Yuan, and the American Trade Empire
(University of Hong Kong, 2008)The relative foreign exchange valuation of the yuan, or renminbi, against the dollar is one of the longest-running and highest profile battles between the United States and China. What does the dispute, and America’s ... -
Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice
(National Law University, Jodhpur (India), 2009)Book review, Scrutinizing RTAs, A Comparative Review of David Gantz, Regional Trade Agreements: Law, Policy and Practice (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2009). -
Equilibrium Theory, the FICAS Model, and International Banking Law
(Harvard Law School, 1997)[...] Conventional wisdom finds that international banking law is an applied field. In contrast to a traditional field like constitutional law, in which well-developed bodies of literature exist that draw upon feminist ... -
Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Three of a Trilogy – Trade Remedies and Facilitation
(University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2012-04-02)This article is the third and final part of a trilogy, the argument of which is that the Doha Round is a failed instrument of counterterrorism. The Round, launched in November, 2001, was supposed to make the world safe for ... -
Poverty, Islamist Extremism, and the Debacle of Doha Round Counter-Terrorism: Part Two of a Trilogy – Non-Agricultural Market Access and Services Trade
(Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 2012-02-23)The title of the Trilogy on the Doha Round, of which this article is Part Two, connotes the general argument: the Round is a failed instrument of counter-terrorism. The Round, launched in November 2001, was supposed to ...