Horribly hilarious: An interpretation of Esther

2021 ◽  
Vol 118 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-230
Author(s):  
Melissa A Jackson ◽  
Bert Young
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Biblical Narrative ◽  
Body Count

Finding humor in the book of Esther is not terribly unusual among those who read, study, and commentate on the book. Sustaining that outlook as the body count grows, however, proves more of an interpretive challenge. This interpretation of Esther, one that both adheres to the biblical narrative and follows a thread of the comic through it, undertakes that challenge. Comedy’s aspects of being revelatory and boundary-drawing enable a reading of Esther as farce that reckons with the troubling violence of Esther, without endorsing its replication beyond the story-world it inhabits.

scholarly journals The perils of the body count

2016 ◽  
Vol 151 (4) ◽  
pp. 1110-1111
Author(s):  
Tom Treasure ◽  
Samer Nashef
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Count

Beyond the Body Count

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-46
Author(s):  
Patricia Krueger-Henney
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Black Girls ◽  
Classification Systems ◽  
The Body ◽  
Empirical Science ◽  
Girls Of Color ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Social Science ◽  
Field Notes ◽  
Body Count

I position critical ethnographic researcher field notes as an opportunity to document the physical and ideological violence that white settler states and institutions on the school-prison nexus inflict on the lives of girls of color generally and Black girls specifically. By drawing on my own field notes, I argue that critical social science researchers have an ethical duty to move their inquiries beyond conventions of settler colonial empirical science when they are wanting to create knowledges that transcend traditions of body counts and classification systems of human lives. As first responders to the social emergencies in girls’ lives, researchers can make palpable spatialization of institutionalized forms of settler epistemologies to convey more girl-centered ways of speaking against quantifiable hierarchies of human life.

War, violence, and population: making the body count

2010 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 429-430
Author(s):  
R.J. Fisher
Keyword(s):  
The Body ◽  
Body Count

Fake Silk

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul David Blanc
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Carbon Disulfide ◽  
Viscose Rayon ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Body ◽  
Death Sentence ◽  
Safety Concerns ◽  
History Of ◽  
Body Count

When a new technology makes people ill, how high does the body count have to be before protectives steps are taken? This disturbing book tells a dark story of hazardous manufacturing, poisonous materials, environmental abuses, political machinations, and economics trumping safety concerns. It explores the century-long history of “fake silk” or cellulose viscose, used to produce such products as rayon textiles and tires, cellophane, and everyday kitchen sponges. The book uncovers the grim history of a product that crippled and even served a death sentence to many industry workers while also releasing toxic carbon disulfide into the environment. Viscose, an innovative and lucrative product first introduced in the early twentieth century, quickly became a multinational corporate enterprise. The book investigates the viscose rayon industry's practices from the beginning through two highly profitable world wars, the midcentury export of hazardous manufacturing to developing countries, and the current “greenwashing” of viscose rayon as an eco-friendly product. This book brings to light an industrial hazard whose egregious history ranks with those of asbestos, lead, and mercury.

scholarly journals The Labour Recruitment of Local Inhabitants as Rōmusha in Japanese-Occupied South East Asia

2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (S24) ◽  
pp. 165-185
Author(s):  
Takuma Melber
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
East Asia ◽  
Prisoners Of War ◽  
The Body ◽  
South East Asia ◽  
The Social ◽  
Huge Impact ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forced Labour ◽  
Body Count

AbstractDuring World War II, Japan, as occupying power, mobilized thousands of labourers in South East Asia. While the history of Allied prisoners of war (POWs) deployed as forced labourers on the Burma-Siam “Death Railway” is well known, the coercive labour recruitment of local inhabitants as so-called rōmusha has, until today, remained an almost completely untold story. This article introduces rōmusha, with a particular focus on the Burma-Siam Railway, and presents the methods used by the occupying powers to recruit local inhabitants in Java, Malaya, and Singapore, initially as volunteers, and increasingly using force. We look, too, at the tactics and strategies of avoidance the locals were able to deploy. The article offers insights into the poor working conditions on the railway, discusses the body count, and gives an idea of the huge impact of the forced labour recruitment not only in economic terms, but also in terms of the effect it had on the social structure at both the micro and macro levels.

Ethics of the “body count” in clinical trials

The Lancet ◽  
1998 ◽  
Vol 352 (9126) ◽  
pp. 495-496
Author(s):  
Howard Spiro
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Trials ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Count
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