The Principles of Trauma Informed Care in the Context of Childhood Domestic Violence

By Shefali Golchha, NMIMS University, Mumbai

With the global discussion surrounding human rights constantly expanding, people express continued concern about their own safety, vulnerability, and agency. This is reflected in the number of crimes against children, women, and minorities that surface each day and the scholarly work that is derived from these experiences. Patricia Uberoi, known for studying family, marriage, and kinship systems in India, mentions that, while the family is imagined as a safe space, it is also a site of exploitation and violence.

Issue XIContent EditorsDecember 17, 2020children, human rights, India, violence, trauma, culture, feminism, methodComment

Misunderstood: A Cultural History of Eating Disorders in the West

By Meera Shanbhag, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN

Over 30 million people in the United States are plagued by eating disorders, with at least one death related to eating disorders occurring every 62 minutes.[1] These serious illnesses, which have the greatest mortality rate of any psychological disorder, are characterized by abnormal eating patterns.

V10 Featured, Issue XContent EditorsMay 9, 2020eating disorder, society, stereotypes, history, culture, science, biology, anorexiaComment

“What is this thing, Lord?”: Matthew O’Connor and the Queer Theology of the Catholic Church in Nightwood (1937)

By Olivia Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The modernist novel Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) is a celebration of difference. Published in 1937,[1] it precociously spotlights the voices of those who are often marginalized: homosexuals, women, Jews, starving artists, political activists, the working class.[2] The story focuses on a lesbian love triangle in Paris:

Editorial, Issue XContent EditorsMay 4, 2020modernist, queer, queer theory, history, LGBTQ+, Catholicism, literature, culture, gender, ChristianityComment

The Crises of Human Identity in the 1960s

By David deHaas

The 1960s were a time of many social and political movements representing the diverse voices and concerns amongst the fragmented American populous. The particular causes of these movements consisted of clashes between standard cultural norms that characterized American society, and communities that resisted this standard. I would posit that a substantial causal factor of these clashes was a widespread crises of human identity.

Archives, Issue VIIContent EditorsApril 6, 2017women, politics, government, identity, crisis, movement, culture, sexism, counter-cultureComment

The Paradox of Globalization

By Christopher Albert Jacques D'Silva

The advent of globalization has brought about sweeping changes that have left indelible marks on societies. While newfound interconnectedness between cultures, information, and people creates an increasingly homogenized planet in some respects, such trends also have the effect of isolating certain non-members of the so-called “global community.” This residual marginalization has typically affected those who obstinately cling to the past, and those who are simply dubious towards the current state of affairs. For these persons, methods of coping with this social and psychological schism run the gamut from complete denial and delusion, to important modulations of acceptance.

Volume 5, ArchivesContent EditorsMay 30, 2015culture, novel, identity, globalizationComment

Cloud Atlas

By Cory Collins

A circle has no end or beginning. It contains two equal halves, connected by the diameter and an invisible plane. David Mitchell’s novel emulates this eternal, undefined symmetry. His story ends where it begins, connecting twelve half-lives at the book’s center and throughout with an invisible force that binds them together.

Volume 4, ArchivesContent EditorsSeptember 5, 2014novel, literature, author, culture, Buddhism, philosophyComment