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Category: Acheson Prize

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Crossing Peninsulas: Early 20th-Century Korean Flexible Nationalisms in the Yucatán Peninsula

Posted on August 2021 by Victoria Isabel Quintanilla

Introduction: Peninsula to Peninsula In April 1905, hundreds of Koreans were gathered in Jemulpo Port under Korea’s hot spring sun.[1] The SS Ilford was about t...

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Trust on the Streets: How Does It Work and Why Does It Matter?

Posted on June 2021 by Thalia Baeza Milán

Acheson Finalist Current hegemonic economic and socio-cultural standards prioritize the freedoms and needs of individual entities—whether be a country, business...

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Are Protests Effective? Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria

Posted on June 2021 by Feyi Falana

This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Niger...

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An “Eternal Recurrence”: Patterns of German Ideological Hegemony in Modern Greek History

Posted on June 2021 by Robert Crystal

This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Abstract Throughout its existence, the Hellenic Republic has struggled to reconcile its “modern Greek” ...

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Pussy Riot is No ‘Riot Grrl’: How Western Media Misinterpreted Russian Protest Culture, 2012-2015

Posted on June 2021 by Catherine Zou Yi

This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Abstract Between 2012 and 2015, Pussy Riot and Petr Pavlensky gained international fame as artist-activ...

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The Carter Administration, Argentina, and Human Rights: 1977-1981

Posted on June 2021 by Tim Bradley

This piece was published in the Acheson Issue, Volume 11 Introduction When tanks and transports loaded with heavily armed soldiers rolled into Buenos Aires earl...

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Are Protests Effective?: Examining the Impact of Protests Against Gender-Based Violence on Legislation in Nigeria

Posted on June 2021 by Feyi Falana

1. INTRODUCTION On May 28, 2020, Vera Uwalia Omosuwa, a 22-year-old college student in Edo State, Nigeria was raped and sexually assaulted while studying in a c...

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The Zapatista Army: A Feminist Revolution Existing within the Patriarchy

Posted on June 2021 by Grace Miller

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Mexico’s President from 1988 to 1994, was seated comfortably with close family and friends at a resort in Huatulco, Oaxaca the evenin...

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Paratexts and Plurality: Mediation in Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon

Posted on June 2021 by Rebecca Amonor

TO THE DIVERSE AND DYNAMIC PEOPLE OF LAGOS, NIGERIA—ANIMALS, PLANT, AND SPIRIT These are the opening words of Nnedi Okorafor’s Lagoon (2014) and the dedication ...

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Adios to Justice: Japanese Peruvians, National Formations, and the Politics of Legal Redress

Posted on June 2021 by Lillian Hua

“I had felt that America was an ideal country that should be taken as a model for the whole world. Why, then, had that country moved to take such unacceptable m...

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