The purpose of this paper is to challenge the dominant narrative of Christian service providers working for North Korean refugees’ welfare, and to articulate the perspectives of non-Christian aid recipients, especially North Korean refugees in China and South Korea. Drawing upon postcolonialism, I will unpack dysfunctions of Christian missions and ministries while relating them to anthropologic...

In this article I elaborate and codify the extended case method, which deploys participant observation to locate everyday life in its extralocal and historical context. The extended case method emulates a reflexive model of science that takes as its premise the intersubjectivity of scientist and subject of study. Reflexive science valorizes intervention, process, structuration, and theory recon...

Richard Tempest is a Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, former director its Russian, East European, Eurasian Center. He holds BA (First Class), MA, PhD from Oxford. His interests include Russian world history culture, military history, political science body. author “Overwriting Chaos: Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Fictive Worlds” (Boston: Aca...

This article provides a survey of the life and scholarship William Twining, focusing largely on his contribution to broadening legal education scholarship. Part I reviews background, personality education, then explores significance Africa anti-colonialism, inspiration American realism, teaching in Africa, Belfast, Warwick UCL, law reform efforts scholarly output. II examines intellectual hallm...