HiPo: The Langara Student
Journal of History and
Political Science
VOL. 3, MARCH 2020

HiPo
The Langara Student Journal of History and Political Science
Volume 3

EDITORS-IN-CHIEF
Arden Jansen
Adam Thomas

All articles are anonymously student peerreviewed and edited. Submissions from the
editorial team have been reviewed by
faculty. HiPo is published online annually
with the support of the Department of
History, Latin, and Political Science; the
Dean and Division Chair of Social Sciences;
Langara Communications & Marketing; and
the Langara Print Shop.

ISSN 2561-6536
Submissions:
https://langara.ca/departments/history-latinpolitical-science/HiPo
Email: hipojournal@langara.ca

March 2020

EDITORS
Brianna Almond
Lily Baker
Julian Brown
Declan Burke
Rory Flynn
Ashley Lavanchy
Gustavo Neves
Travis Richardson
Noah Sawchuk
Minab Yetbarek

FACULTY ADVISOR
Sean Maschmann
DEPARTMENT CHAIR, HISTORY,
LATIN, & POLITICAL SCIENCE
Niall Christie
DEAN, SOCIAL SCIENCES
& COMMUNITY PROGRAMS
Jacqueline Bradshaw
DIVISION CHAIR, SOCIAL SCIENCES
Laura Cullen

William the Hippo appears courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.9.1
Cover image: Bacchanal (detail), by Jean Jacque François Le Barbier, 1765-66. Metropolitan Museum of Art 2012.311

CONTENTS
EDITORIALS
Letter from the Editors-in-Chief
ARDEN JANSEN & ADAM THOMAS

1

Letter from the Department Chair
NIALL CHRISTIE

1

ARTICLES
Ecstatic Connection: Similarities between the Bacchanalian
Rites and Sufism
LILY BAKER

3

The Windigo, Wemstikoshiw, and War: Three Day Road and
the Intergenerational Story of Indigenous Canadians
DECLAN BURKE

9

Berber Versus the World: An Analysis of Moroccan History
and Cultural Identity
MOLLY LEE

15

The Effect of the Cold War on the American Civil Rights
Movement
ADAM THOMAS

24

Art of Despair: An Introspection of Madness Through
19th Century Post-Impressionism
COREY MORRELL

33

Michelangelo and Bernini: The Art of Battling Giants
GIGI WATSON

42

Environmental Sustainability and Economic Growth: Partners
in the Future of the Planet
DAWN ANDERSON
52
Green Growth or Degrowth: Two Opposing Paths to
Environmental Sustainability
APSARA COEFFIC-NEOU

63

The Right to Grow: Genetically Modified Seed Patenting
and Civilian Resistance in Guatemala
TEODORA RAWSTHORNE ECKMYN

70

Weaponized Womanhood: How German Women Were
Complicit in Their Deprivation of Agency
BRIANNA ALMOND

79

Kinder, Kirche, Kueche: Women in Nazi Germany
CAMILLE GARVEY

87

We are proud to present the third edition of HiPo: The Langara Student Journal of
History and Political Science. The HiPo journal provides students at Langara the
opportunity to have their work be published. It also offers the editors the valuable
experience of learning how to build and publish an academic journal. This year
features a variety of papers across each of HiPo’s covered subjects, and we are
excited to present a series of history essays that span time and touch on many
different parts of the world, a series of poli-sci essays drawing attention to
contemporary environmental issues, a couple of art history papers for the cultured
reader, and two accounts of womanhood under Nazi rule. We are pleased to offer
this mix of theme and variety, and hope you will be too.
The process of making this year’s edition has truly been a joy. We would like to
thank all the students who submitted to the journal. Many wonderful essays were
submitted this year on a wide variety of topics. We were incredibly lucky to have
such an enthusiastic and dedicated team of editors. Without them this publication
would not have been possible. We would also like to thank our Faculty Advisor
Sean Maschmann who supported us throughout this entire process. This journal
would not be possible without the History, Latin, and Political Science Department.
We would like to thank them for their support and encouragement. We hope that
you enjoy this year’s edition, just as we enjoyed creating it.
ARDEN JANSEN & ADAM THOMAS
Editors-in-Chief

It is a great honour to have the opportunity to write this letter for the third issue of
HiPo. This is a big year for the journal, as it will soon be appearing in university,
college, and high-school libraries across BC. Langara has also recently promised
to provide support for the journal and those involved in its production on an
ongoing basis. These successes are testimony to the outstanding and diligent work
that the student editors, contributors and faculty advisors have put in to enable the
journal to flourish, as well as the gracious support that we have received from
advocates in the college administration. On behalf of both myself and the
department I would ask everyone involved to accept my heartfelt thanks and
congratulations. And let us give particular acclaim to the students; we are
immensely proud of you all.
NIALL CHRISTIE, PHD
Department Chair
History, Latin and Political Science

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