War at the Margins

War at the Margins offers a broad comparative view of the impact of World War II on Indigenous societies. Using historical and ethnographic sources, Lin Poyer examines how Indigenous communities emerged from the trauma of the wartime era with social forms and cultural ideas that laid the foundations for their twenty-first century emergence as players on the world’s political stage. With a focus on Indigenous voices and agency, a global overview reveals the enormous range of wartime activities and impacts on these groups, connecting this work with comparative history, Indigenous studies, and anthropology. The distinctiveness of Indigenous peoples offers a valuable perspective on World War II, as those on the margins of Allied and Axis empires and nation-states were drawn in as soldiers, scouts, guides, laborers, and victims. Questions of loyalty and citizenship shaped Indigenous combat roles—from integration in national armies to service in separate ethnic units to unofficial use of their special skills, where local knowledge tilted the balance in military outcomes. Front lines crossed Indigenous territory most consequentially in northern Europe, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands, but the impacts of war go well beyond combat. Like others around the world, Indigenous civilian men and women suffered bombing and invasion, displacement, forced labor, military occupation, and economic and social disruption. Infrastructure construction and demand for key resources affected even areas far from front lines. World War II dissolved empires and laid the foundation for the postcolonial world. Indigenous people in newly independent nations struggled for autonomy, while other veterans returned to home fronts still steeped in racism. National governments saw military service as evidence that Indigenous peoples wished to assimilate, but wartime experiences confirmed many communities’ commitment to their home cultures and opened new avenues for activism. By century’s end, Indigenous Rights became an international political force, offering alternative visions of how the global order might make room for greater local self-determination and cultural diversity. In examining this transformative era, War at the Margins adds an important contribution to both World War II history and to the development of global Indigenous identity

“This is Not a Game:” Exploring QAnon Conspiracy as an ARG Through the Lens of Theodor Adorno

Since 2017, an insidious conspiracy theory has spawned and spread across various internet forums and social media platforms. Named QAnon (often shortened to simply Q ), this conspiracy exists as a catch-all conspiracy with an inherently ambiguous set of core beliefs and ever-changing end goal surrounding a mythical event named The Storm, a period of civil unrest that ends with the purported cabals prevalent in the American government being brought to justice and the heroic Q-adherents being placed in positions of power. However, this Storm has yet to occur, highlighting the myriad of non-occurring events and claims that, logically, should have caused QAnon to collapse under the weight of reality. This paper seeks to determine why and how QAnon has yet to disband or lose its small, but determined, group of followers. First, the conspiracy is connected to the niche phenomenon of Alternate Reality Games (ARGs), multimedia trans-narrative storytelling whose emphasis on community collaboration and group puzzle-solving echoes the environment of QAnon. Next, the works of philosopher Theodor Adorno are explored to discuss some of the rhetorical tactics and culture manipulation that both QAnon and ARGs utilize to gain a following, and how QAnon manipulates these tactics even further to create a captive audience. By approaching the conspiracy through unconventional means, a greater understanding of how it functions and gains an audience can be found, a crucial first step in countering the conspiracy for good

Is No News Good News?: Exploring the Impact of Social Media Use on Misinformation Beliefs

Does diminishing access to print news have an impact on people’s propensity to believe misinformation? What if this misinformation emanates from an online source as opposed to a print source? The focus of recent research on misinformation has been narrow: (1) recognizing its existence and acknowledging its potential impact, and (2) generating and categorizing potential analytical types of misinformation. However, the ramifications of vanishing print media have so far been overlooked. This paper asserts a connection between news sources and misinformation beliefs, further positing that the decline in the quality and availability of quality print journalism predicates an individual’s belief in political misinformation. Although inconclusive results were found linking geography with a tendency towards using social media as a main news source, analysis of social media habits and beliefs using the 2020-2022 ANES Social Media Survey suggests that misinformation belief generally concurs along party lines; that is, most users of these sites will follow general political leanings toward or against fake news stories. However, as partisan users increase their exposure to online material, they become more likely to believe in the misinformation spread from politically like-minded sources as opposed to those who obtain news from print. Thus, these data suggest that misinformation relies on the size of the audience exposed to it alongside the time invested in reading and propagating these stories. Although a preliminary analysis, it suggests several avenues for further examination and study and introduces a basis for new research on the topic to better explore correlations of the phenomenon

Penitenciária Estadual da Pedra Grande: um estudo sobre a política de combate a criminalidade em Florianópolis entre 1935-1945 /

Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Centro de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas.O presente trabalho desenvolve um estudo, sobre as reformas que foram efetuadas na Penitenciária Estadual da Pedra Grande em Florianópolis, de 1935 a 1945. Através desta reforma, que contemplou não só a parte física da Instituição, como também a estrutura técnico-administrativa, tentou-se implementar um efetivo regime penitenciário no Estado, que era quase inexistente até então. Tendo sobretudo, como objetivo perceber como se deu este processo que buscava transformar Florianópolis numa cidade higienizada, civilizada e sobretudo moderna

The Topographic Setting of Bronze Age Metalwork Deposits in North East England

This thesis considers the relationship between Bronze Age metalwork deposits and topography in north-east England. Through a critical examination of the metalwork record for the region, the first time all Bronze Age metalwork finds from north-east England have been catalogued and analysed together, depositional patterns are demonstrated to be highly contingent on topography. Structured by means of a multi-scale approach that adopts the river catchment as the basic unit of study, a number of novel methodological approaches are applied to the dataset, such as the use of metal detecting records from the Portable Antiquities Scheme database to assess potential biases in the metalwork record (chapter 4), and a GIS based Monte Carlo simulation to characterise the distribution of find-spots of different types of metalwork deposit within a generic river catchment area (chapter 5). A number of associations identified between certain types of metalwork deposits and topographic features are consistent with overarching conventions that operated across Bronze Age Britain, such as the prevalence of Late Bronze Age swords from rivers and river valleys. However, the presence of discrete and more nuanced patterns within distinct topographic zones demonstrates the existence of unique depositional histories based on localised geographies of experience. A case study focusing on one such pattern - a discrete grouping of martial metalwork deposits from north Northumberland, is used to explore the potential significance of metalwork deposition within both a social and cosmological landscape. Deposition has commonly been interpreted as a ritual activity that took place in peripheral locations that were removed from daily life. This thesis provides an alternative perspective by considering how the places where metalwork deposition took place may have been linked to other activities and routines that were central to Bronze Age life