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'The trial': a parody of the law amid the mockery of men in post-colonial Papua New Guinea
According to students of legal pluralism, the relationship between Western law and local dispute management processes, remedies, and so on is multiple and complex. Legal pluralism studies have not ventured very far outside the arenas of conflict resolution, be they authorized or private. In this article, I argue that legal pluralism has imposed methodological blinders upon significant expressive dimensions of its problem. In a satirical mock-trial that took place in rural Papua New Guinea, legal and indigenous constructions of order met not, as one might expect, instrumentally in the context of negotiating the resolution of a 'trouble case', but creatively combining in play to result in a multi-voiced, comic discourse. The law is shown to have rhetorical value, particularly in colonial and post-colonial settings where it may be deployed or invoked to represent and convey ambivalent attitudes about both justice and local constructions of personhood. / Les recherches consacrées aux formes de pluralisme juridique montrent la multiplicité et la complexité de la « relation » entre le droit à l'occidentale et les procédures, résolutions et autres démarches de gestion locale des conflits. Ces études ne se sont guère aventurées audelà du cadre de la résolution des conflits, qu'ils soient d'ordre administratif ou privé. L'auteur avance ici l'idée que d'importantes dimensions expressives de la problématique du pluralisme juridique ont été occultées. Dans une parodie de procès satirique organisée dans une zone rurale de Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée, les constructions juridique et indigène du droit ne se sont pas rejointes, comme on aurait pu le penser, au niveau instrumental, dans le contexte d'une négociation visant à résoudre un litige, mais à un niveau créatif, en se combinant pour produire un discours polyphonique d'effet comique. Il apparaît ainsi que la loi a une valeur rhétorique, notamment dans les contextes colonial et post-colonial, dans lesquels elle peut être appliquée ou invoquée pour représenter des attitudes ambivalentes à propos de la justice aussi bien que des constructions locales de l'idée de personne.
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Women, Animals, and Jane Goodall: \Reason for Hope\
DeKoven ponders the potential of emotion, especially when expressed through patriarchal, nonrevolutionary rhetoric, to motivate progressive political action. Her focus is on the hope, or the possibility of a future that enables positive affect, evoked by Jane Goodall in the best-selling memoir she wrote with the assistance of Philip Berman.
Journal Article
One midwife's journey; stories from Papua New Guinea and beyond
[...]as the warm Italian sun streamed through the windows and a slight spring breeze rustled in the cedar trees, Gigliola shared vivid memories from her long midwifery career. Here are a few of the stories Gigliola shared with me on this spring day in Tuscany: In the late 1940s, as Italy recovered from World War II, Gigliola entered a three-year midwifery training program (similar to what we call directentry training today, with no general nursing degree required). Through her direct care, and the training of other midwives, she had improved the safety of birth and the quality of life for thousands of women and babies.
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Contemplation in action.(humor - religion in TV advertising)
The advertising world is overdoing its New Age spiritualism in its advertising copy and music. Ads for Microsoft, Oldsmobile, Lexus, and ESPN dreamily evoke consumer satisfaction as if consumerism was a religion.
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