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The Mistakes That Make People

Reconceptualizing Power and Resistance in Rwanda

Will Rollason

person’s conduct by another is difficult. Commonly, the difficulty of controlling another person seems to stem from the presumption that the mind or will of the one exercising control is radically separated from the bodily conduct of the target of power

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Life at a Tangent to Law

Regulations, ‘Mistakes’ and Personhood amongst Kigali’s Motari

Will Rollason

will and trust made it possible for them to make a living. Indeed, from a purely material point of view, it is evident that the boss system is the practical basis of the ikimotari . 6 With the exception of people who had previously held better jobs

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Within the Whole Body

An Interview with Ishmael Hope and Will Geiger on Tlingit House Screens and Indigenous Phenomenology

Sol Neely, Ishmael Hope, and Will Geiger

On a cold, snowy January night in Juneau, Alaska, Will Geiger and I convened at Ishmael Hope's home—with his wife, Lily, and their five children—for dinner and cordiality in advance of our recording session. The Hope family is exceedingly generous

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The Will of the People?

Carl Schmitt and Jean-Jacques Rousseau on a Key Question in Democratic Theory

Samuel Salzborn

, undoes to day, all that was concluded yesterday” ( Hobbes [1651] 1909: 144–145 ). While a nondemocratic system tries to guarantee permanence and stability to its subjects while demanding the same from them, but regardless of their will, democracy promises

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Walking to Write

Following Patrick Leigh Fermor across Europe

David Wills

remote Peloponnesian village of Kardamyli ( Wills 2015 ). Following Fermor’s death in 2011, biographers have inevitably felt freer to explore—and speculate about—the minutiae of his life. There is the acclaimed authorized biography by Artemis Cooper

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Compliance

Politics, Sociability and the Constitution of Collective Life

Will Rollason and Eric Hirsch

Charles I, and rebutting directly Charles’ justification of his conduct before and during the Civil War, Milton contends: He [Charles I] confesses a rational sovrantie of soule and freedom of will in every man, and yet with an implicit repugnancy would

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Lauri Rapeli and Inga Saikkonen

gaining ground and democracy is backsliding even in old and robust democracies, how will the pandemic affect the already uncertain future of democracy? In this commentary, we address the issue by discussing some possible scenarios in established and

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Colonising ‘Free’ Will

A Critique of Political Decolonisation in Ghana

Bernard Forjwuor

Seek ye first the political kingdom and all other things shall be added unto you. — Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House — Audre Lorde While the general concept, meanings, and accounts of

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There Will Be Trouble

Curating Theater in India

Amitesh Grover

plays, I will highlight two here. Silver Epidemic , a play by Cia Mungunzá de Teatro (Brazil), built a frenzy of entangling bodies, maddeningly juxtaposing “the” against the disenfranchised, the outcasts, the people of “Crackland” who repeatedly get

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Will Gartside

Torture porn's crowning achievements, as identified by Gregory A. Burris (2010), are the Saw and Hostel series. He argues that the Saw series represents a puritanical mind-set running amok, while the Hostel movies reflect a culture struggling to come to terms with the horrors of Abu Ghraib. This article challenges this position. It identifies thematic patterns within the Saw and Hostel films to demonstrate how the images of violence on display throughout both series tend to reinforce, rather than subvert, the popularly held belief that the Abu Ghraib scandal represented mere abuse, as opposed to torture. The article shows how these films trivialize and rationalize torture and the roles that sex and gender play in this process.