Discussion of the often-intersecting issues of politics, health, access to food, agriculture, land rights, and climate change.
In our ongoing series, “Track Changes,” we link to online content that we have found to be problematic in its assumptions, framing, or language and provide a question or thought(s) […]
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by Kelsey P. Norman
In academic literature and among policy practitioners, migrant destination countries are generally considered to be developed, Western states. Indeed, European countries were the highest immigrant-receivers per capita […]
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by Brenda Bartelink
In the past decade sexuality has become a centre of contestation and cultural encounter between African and “Western” actors in African societies. Initially tied to contestations over the […]
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by Cilas Kemedjio
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Foucault, in the History of Madness, argues that the process of secularization of assistance to the poor has led to its increased moralization and the […]
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by Jennifer M. Ramos and Daniel Brunstetter
Unmanned aerial system (UAS) technology is proliferating around the world. Despite concerns about potential abuses, this technology can – so the argument goes – […]
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by Laura J. Mitchell
Hard on the heels of an anti-climactic election season in the US punctuated by myopic views of the world and cataclysmic what-ifs, the resurgence of
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posted by Carrie Reiling
When the United States sent army advisors to Liberia to construct clinics in the fight against Ebola in the region, some worried that the deployment was a […]
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