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{"title":"Policing the pandemic: the legitimacy of the police and the potential for civil unrest; a personal commentary","authors":"Lewis","doi":"10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0133","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0133","url":null,"abstract":"The ‘Policing the Pandemic’ seminar series hosted online by the London Policing College and the International Police Association in November 2020 raised important issues for the immediate security of the state. These included a concern reported by delegates following experiences with members of the public by police members in several different countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. These anecdotal reports raised the suggestion that the legitimacy of the formalised policing function in the face of unpopular political imposition may be increasingly at issue. This brief commentary outlines the potential for civil disorder that might take place if the legitimacy of the police is questioned to a point beyond civil disobedience on a major scale, and suggests the need for the police to prepare for outbreaks of major disorder in 2021/2022.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128950598","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A reflection on the NHS, health security, and refugees","authors":"Aleshia Louise Borley","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0102","url":null,"abstract":"In 2021 a sudden influx of refugees arrived in the UK from Afghanistan, at a time when the British public were being encouraged to access healthcare services to obtain COVID-19 vaccinations. This report examines the successes and failures of care provision in the NHS across the country, in particular Wolverhampton, whereby refugees accessed healthcare provision in a local Primary Care Network. The report considers the author’s personal experiences while working within the local Primary Care Network, in addition to published research, in the context of health security. Furthermore, it highlights recommended improvements within the NHS to provide aid to the vulnerable, while preserving the system set out to create health security.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128961245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Who's policing whom? A look into the policing responses to harmful practices and the role of civic society","authors":"Polly Harrar","doi":"10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0081","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/JGLOBFAUL.8.1.0081","url":null,"abstract":"The United Nations defines harmful practices as: ‘. . . persistent practices and behaviours grounded on discrimination on the basis of sex, gender and age and other grounds as well as multiple and/or intersecting forms of discrimination that often involve violence and cause physical and/or psychological harm or suffering’. They are commonly perceived to be based on tradition, culture, custom and practice, religion and/or superstition, and in certain communities and societies these practices have been established for so long that they are considered or perceived to be part of accepted cultural norms. Where they have gone unchallenged for multiple generations, they have become ‘normalised’, which often makes it difficult to make the distinction between cultural/traditional norms and enforced harmful and controlling behaviour. Examples of harmful practices include, but are not limited to, female genital mutilation, honour-based abuse, forced marriage, dowry violence and abuse linked to faith and belief, such as witchcraft, possessions and breast ironing – all of which are practiced and are prevalent in the UK today. The focus of this paper is honour based abuse (HBA), which is often applied as a precursor to other harmful practices and which lends itself to highlighting the intersectionality of this largely gendered practice. The role of affected communities is explored, as is how this can lead to a culture of self-policing. A panoptic framework is adopted before conclusions are drawn as to the future of policing in addressing these hidden harms. The aim of this paper is not to provide a comprehensive critical analysis of policing responses to an ever evolving and highly complex crime type, nor is it to present all BAME women and communities as a homogeneous group, but rather to further explore some of the key concepts that arose from discussions and which may go some way to understanding hidden harms that exist in relation to honour and shame.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131554661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Keele's Manifesto for Decolonising the Curriculum","authors":"","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.7.1.0107","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"16 2","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"113964902","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The sheep’s revolution: Paradox of democratic consolidation and environmental regulations in post-transition Nigeria","authors":"A. A. Aduloju, T. Adedoyin","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0057","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last 20 years of uninterrupted democratic dispensation in Nigeria, the military regime has left the post-transition era with certain characteristics such as a low level of participation away from the center. While many have blamed the central authorities for the constantly increasing environmental threats, this study argues that the dwindling impact of civil society organizations (CSOs) on environmental regulation policies remains the missing link between policy formulation and implementation in Nigeria. This paper investigated the involvement of environmental CSOs within our democratic space, reflecting on the level of compliance with environmental regulation laws and the implications of this for environmental sustainability. This paper adopts both primary and secondary sources of information, and data were analyzed using a descriptive survey. The study reveals that the Nigerian government sees the CSOs as partners in ensuring environmental sustainability rather than deploying the CSOs as delivery agents to enforce environmental regulations and sustainability within the extractive and non-extractive contexts. This study concludes that, to tackle environmental degradation in Nigeria, much attention should be placed on environmental securitization advocacies through independent and effective environmental CSOs.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126632430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Crimes of a “benevolent” hegemony: Configurations of UK power in Northern Ireland and Iraq","authors":"Lily Hamourtziadou, Aidan O’Sullivan, Al Hassan, Ag Abdoul Aziz, Mali Omar Hassan, Ahmad Al Bashir, Sudan Ahmad Al, Faqi Al Mahdi, Mali Abdullah Al-Senussi, Libya Mahmoud Mustafa, Busayf Al-Werfalli, Libya Mohamed, Hussein Ali, Kenya Ali Muhammad, Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, Sudan Narcisse Arido","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.8.2.0153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.8.2.0153","url":null,"abstract":"Themes of hegemony and neoliberalism are explored in this paper that looks at UK role in crimes against humanity in Ireland and in Iraq, either alone or as part of a hegemonic coalition that claims to be fighting a brutal, unjust, and uncivilized insurgency. The common thread that ties crimes spanning 100 years is the narrative of the “benevolent” hegemon that kills, tortures, enslaves","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130271183","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Promoting democracy or pursuing hegemony? An analysis of U.S. involvement in the Middle East","authors":"Ruairidh Wooda","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.6.2.0166","url":null,"abstract":"Promoting democracy in the Middle East has been cited by the U.S. as a key foreign policy objective post-Cold War. As a result the U.S. has intervened in numerous countries and conflicts, particularly since 9/11 and the subsequent declaration of the War on Terror. However, this has not been without controversy and its actions often aid imperialism rather than the country it claims its intervention is benefitting. This paper challenges the claim that the U.S. is indeed promoting democracy, arguing that it is instead pursuing national objectives to increase hegemony. By analyzing U.S. involvement in the Middle East from the Soviet-Afghan War, through the Invasion of Iraq and Arab Spring, up to present day, this paper contends that the U.S. has continuously created instability in the region, in terms of both state and human security. By constructing various actors as threats to themselves, the West or the world, the U.S. has been able to justify its aggressive pursuit of foreign policy objectives in the Middle East. Utilizing the theories of realism, liberalism, and constructivism, this research discusses how the U.S. has attempted to achieve hegemony in the region, and indeed globally, before contrasting this with humanitarian efforts it has been a part of. The paper also analyses the impact external actors have had on U.S. action, discussing the crucial but often constrained role of the United Nations, as well as the contentious proliferation of private military and security companies in the post-Cold War era.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130818645","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ethnic faultline in the farmer–pastoralist conflict (FPC) – when does ethnicity matter to the FPCs? A case study of Adani-Nimbo area in South-Eastern Nigeria","authors":"Cletus Famous Nwankwo, Uchenna Paulinus Okafor","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.9.1.0044","url":null,"abstract":"The farmer–pastoralist conflict (FPC) has been discussed and given ethnic and religious appellations in some countries of West Africa, such as Ghana and Nigeria. In Nigeria, such a reading of the conflict is rampant in the media and dominant in national political discourse. However, these ethno-religious insinuations have not received serious scholarly treatment in Nigeria or been downplayed. In this paper, I examine the context in which ethnicity becomes vital to the FPCs, based on fieldwork in the Nimbo-Adani area of Uzo-Uwani municipal council of Enugu State affected most by the conflict in South-Eastern Nigeria. This area is an essential hot spot of the FPCs that has not been explored in analyzing the FPCs in Nigeria. The study is based on field observations and semi-structured in-depth interviews. The paper draws on the FPCs literature regarding the influence of ethnic identities on the conflict. It shows that the difference in ethnicity between pastoralists and farming communities is not the primary root of the conflict. At the first outbreak of violence, the difference in ethnicity was not the cause of the conflict. Ethnic identity only gets cited after the first brutal fighting between the nomads and the farming community. Non-violent conflicts often occur because of cattle destruction of farm crops and pollution of water sources. Although the herders are accused of various atrocities, such as rape and kidnapping, the first outbreak of violence was caused by retaliation for killing a herder in one of the villages. Heightening ethnic identity amplifies the construction of the herders’ identity and social status as non-indigenous and non-belonging in the villages. Thus, the villages seek the eviction of the herders based on their social status as non-indigenes. The paper argues that ethnic faultlines matter to the FPCs but only after other factors have initiated the conflict. Therefore, we should pay attention to the primary root of conflicts and how they get the basis for social exclusion activated.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131075781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Responding to war crimes: Debating the bombing of Auschwitz-Birkenau","authors":"Neal, Jackson","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.8.2.0261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.8.2.0261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122204007","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The not-so-innocuous question","authors":"Sarah L. Chevolleau","doi":"10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.13169/jglobfaul.10.1.0123","url":null,"abstract":"The not so innocuous question of “where are you really from?” is a racial microaggression, grounded on faux ignorance and innocence, placing the white aggressor in the place of victim, when challenged. Microaggression is not only found at Buckingham Palace receptions, but is everywhere: job interviews, bus stops, pubs and staff rooms. What it contains is a belief that people of the global majority “owe” white people, who see themselves as “native” to the UK, despite the undeniable historical facts surrounding how most of the African and Caribbean diaspora that live in the UK have ended up on this island: as a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism. Cornering a black woman in an overwhelmingly white space and cross-examining her about her heritage – a heritage rooted in displacement, discrimination and violence – that the white British benefit from, is denying, deflecting and defending racism.","PeriodicalId":167633,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Global Faultlines","volume":"80 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126254601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}