Around the Web Digest- July 31
Hi everyone, hope the first week of August is not beating down on you too hard! Here are your readings for the week. As the 2016 Summer Olympic…
Hi everyone, hope the first week of August is not beating down on you too hard! Here are your readings for the week. As the 2016 Summer Olympic…
The Community Literacy Journal has just announced the publication of a special issue on “Community Food Literacies.” This journal is available electronically, through Project Muse, but if …
This web-roundup looks at the problem of polarization. Several events during the past month have brought the issue to the forefront. As a result, the web was filled…
Via The Institute of Making Zoe Laughlin of UCL’s Institute of Making has a new podcast, Things That Make Us. Following the model of Desert Island Discs, each week, Laughlin interviews…
Time will tell. Several days ago I went ocean fishing with a friend and colleague. We looked forward to a glorious day out
Time will tell. Several days ago I went ocean fishing with a friend and colleague. We looked forward to a glorious day out
Protestors in Brazilian favelas—poor neighborhoods in urban areas—have been caught between the police and gangs. Marcos De Paula/Associated Press On the night of June 24, 2013, the street…
Hi all, Development news: Arms industry does well on refugee and terrorism threats; The hopelessness of Australian refugees in Nauru; hungry children in Northern Nigeria; the future of…
Olympic Games have become the largest international diplomatic and corporate gatherings, write Susan Brownell and Niko Besnier. In May 2015, American and Swiss authorities swooped into the annual…
One of the overarching aims of my blog is to engage critically and academically with new, different and alternative approaches to writing and communicating ‘development’. I believe that…
The account that follows depicts a visit with my neurologist. The visit was one of many within a five-month period of navigating various medical spaces to get to…
1. To which extent does the notion of political agency is helpful to understand political change? To some extent, the notion of political agency has been used in…
De Schutter, Olivier. and Cordes, Kaitlin Y. 2011. Accounting for Hunger: The Right to Food in an Era of Globalisation. London/New York: Hart Publishing (288 pp). Timmer, C.…
In the wake of several brutal and unwarranted police shootings of black men and women, and the subsequent retaliation against innocent police officers, politicians across the country have…
After nearly three years of eating almost nothing but the watery beans and undercooked rice I was served while conducting research in Brazilian prisons, I couldn’t wait to…
While many people get caught up in the nationalistic pageantry of the opening ceremony, the reality of the international sports world today is one of increasingly fluid citizenship…
Die „Igeler Säule“, ein bedeutendes römisches Grabdenkmal bei Trier, soll in einem Großprojekt Geschwister bekommen: Rund 1500 weitere Fragmente werden hierfür gesichtet. Die Archäologen P…
Migrant Kenyan athletes must meet the demands of family and prepare for their own futures. All Kenyan medalists in Olympic men’s marathons from 1988 to 2008 have lived…
Travel writer/ editor/ photographer Bani Amor‘s work in Bitch magazine tackles the question of what it means to decolonize travel culture (tourism) as well as our trade relationships with…