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    Quoth 1950's America, nevermore: ParoDYING Poe's "The Raven" in MAD Magazine
    (2026) Lappin, Jessica
    Edgar Allan Poe's works have long been subjects of parody. In the visual art style of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics," this vertical scroll webcomic compares Poe's "The Raven" with MAD Magazine's 1954 comic adaptation. While Poe's poem uses Gothic tropes and poetic techniques to construct an effect of Romantic beauty, MAD's version subverts theses conventions through visual imagery, dismantling that effect and turning it grotesque. From 1845 to 1954 – and even now, in 2025 – the grotesque is embedded in spaces of beauty, with parody inviting us to reconsider what we "see" as beautiful.
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    Mapping Vulnerabilities: The Narratives of Structural Violence
    (Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2025-12) Samanta, Gopa
    This vast range of existing research on dimensions of vulnerability indicates the exclusivity of different ‘situations’ related to and generating vulnerabilities. While perusing the titles under ‘mapping vulnerabilities’ in web based search engines, it is starkly noticeable that most scholars talk about methods and indices on how to capture the nature and intensity of vulnerabilities in many different parts of the world, and a majority of these studies focus on climate-related crises, such as changes in the sea level and other catastrophic threats, exploring the incidence of threats and the impacts of those threats in terms of risk or possibility of loss. Therefore, it is important to understand how these vulnerabilities are created worldwide by corporate capital in a nexus with international power houses and organisations in this globalised world. ...The term vulnerability raises more questions than giving answers while mapping the socio-politico-economic impact of vulnerabilities. There is no dearth of literature on the procedures and strategies of mapping vulnerabilities. The contextuality of vulnerability like heat islands or water scarcity in cities to floods in the river basin areas gives useful insights into how to map the differential impacts of these threats on different community groups across class and gender through the lens of intersectionality. Thus, it is important to question the process of creating vulnerabilities, otherwise, one may get lost in the process of measuring vulnerabilities rather than looking into the structural processes vis-à-vis structural violence, which create these situations.
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    Administrative inclusion without legal incorporation among Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in India
    (Springer Nature, 2026-06-11) Bhambu, Sachin
    This paper examines the conditions of prolonged displacement and legal ambiguity experienced by Sri Lankan Tamil refugees residing in the Puzhal camp in Chennai, India. Drawing on mixed-method data collected through household surveys (N = 30), semi-structured interviews, and field observations, the study analyses how administrative inclusion without substantive legal incorporation reproduces long-term precarity. Despite decades of residence in India, refugees continue to face significant barriers in accessing welfare schemes, formal employment, higher education, and political rights due to their ambiguous legal status. Quantitative patterns from KoboToolbox data, combined with qualitative narratives, reveal persistent challenges in documentation renewal, livelihood insecurity, and constrained future aspirations. The findings contribute to wider debates on statelessness, postcolonial citizenship and post-war Sri Lankan Tamil displacement by highlighting how administrative exclusion shapes everyday life. The study emphasises the need for rights-based policy reforms that address structural vulnerabilities rather than temporary relief-based mechanisms.
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    From securitisation of migration to aid securitisation? V4 donors and addressing the root causes of migration
    (Taylor & Francis, 2026-07-14) Szynol-Orlińska, Monika
    The 2014–2016 refugee and migrant crisis led to a hardening of stances and consolidation of resistance to migration in the Visegrad Group (V4) countries. Portraying migration as an existential threat to states’ and societies’ security, they took a relentless stance: no migrants from the Middle East and Africa on their territory. At the same time, the V4 countries did not oppose the need for crisis resolution. They supported tackling the root causes of migration, primarily by providing on-the-spot assistance and increasing Official Development Assistance (ODA) transfers. This paper examines the implementation of the ‘root cause’ strategy by V4 donors in the leading countries of origin of asylum-seekers from 2014 to 2016 and in selected transit countries. The analysis tracks how narratives concerning migration have translated into ODA provision (its volume, structure, and delivery channels) and into the use of aid as an instrument serving donors’ interests. The research shows that the V4 response to the crisis was instrumental, limited and selective; despite numerous declarations, the strategy was only partially implemented. Donors were more devoted to externalising migration control and enhancing cooperation with non-EU states than supporting the socio-economic development of countries generating migration pressure.