![]() ![]() Researchers of state crime must build an understanding of how policy is a tool of state crime.Īfter years of negotiation, on January 1, 1994, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect in Mexico. Nearly three decades after NAFTA, ignorance of such effects should not be possible in light of negotiating new or renegotiated old trade deals. Using anomie-strain theory, social structure of accumulation theory, and the concept of a criminogenic policy, NAFTA is contextually situated and connected to its harmful effects, contributing to poverty, under- and unemployment, displacement of rural farmers, the destruction of small-scale corn growers, malnutrition via the neoliberal diet, and a loss of Mexican food sovereignty. ![]() ![]() Using the copious research on NAFTA, the trade deal is shown to have ingratiated transnational corporations while leaving poor rural farmers to cope for themselves in a newly shaped economy. ![]() The current study is a case study of the negative harms primarily felt by Mexican farmers. With the implementation of NAFTA in 1994, several consequences have followed. Crimes against agriculture: NAFTA as state crime in Mexico ![]()
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![]() The psychological impact of these pressures manifests in different ways: a man wakes up to find a stranger relaxing in his living room and starts to wonder if this is his house at all a struggling writer decides only when his girlfriend breaks his heart will his work have depth. This unique celebration of its writing brings together ten stories exploring the tensions and pressures that make the city what it is: tensions between the public and the private, pressures from without judgemental neighbours, the expectations of religion and society and from within family feuds, thwarted ambitions, destructive relationships. ![]() For the capital city of one of the most powerful nations in the Middle East, its literary output is rarely acknowledged in the West. ![]() A city of stories short, fragmented, amorphous, and at times contradictory Tehran is an impossible tale to tell. ![]() ![]() ![]() Wilson Literary Science Writing Award one even has an asteroid named for her. His best-selling authors have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Pulitzer Prizes, The Man Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award (fiction and non-fiction), the British Book Award, LA Times Book Awards, the PEN Award for first non-fiction, the NAACP Image Award for Literary Fiction, and the PEN/E.O. The son of two writers, he brings a background of international law to his career. ![]() Born in Paris, of Russian heritage, he graduated with honors from Yale College and holds a J.D. Eighteen years later he left as a vice-president to start Carlisle & Company. Carlisle began his career as a secretary in the literary department at William Morris Agency. ![]() ![]() ![]() Olive Varanakis's father was obsessed with the lost city of Atlantis, and since he was born and raised on the island of Santorini, Greece, he left Olive in the US with her mother when she was eight years old and returned to the island. Because as Liv slowly begins to discover, her father may not have invited her to Greece for Atlantis, but for something much more important. But not everything on the Greek island is as perfect as it seems. She also definitely doesn’t want Theo-her father’s charismatic so-called “protégé”-to witness her struggle.Īnd that means diving into all that Santorini has to offer-the beautiful sunsets, the turquoise water, the hidden caves, and the delicious cuisine. ![]() And yet Liv doesn’t want their past to get in the way of a possible reconciliation. There are so many questions, so many emotions that flood to the surface after seeing her father for the first time in years. So when Liv suddenly receives a postcard from her father explaining that National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on Atlantis-and will she fly out to Greece and help?-Liv jumps at the opportunity.īut when she arrives to gorgeous Santorini, things are a little…awkward. What Liv does remember, though, is their shared love for Greek myths and the lost city of Atlantis. Liv Varanakis doesn’t have a lot of fond memories of her father, which makes sense-he fled to Greece when she was only eight. ![]() |