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International Mountain Day, 11 Dec 2021

https://www.un.org/en/observances/mountain-day Water guardians. The last time I was in Nepal I had a near-death experience, accidentally crushed by people celebrating Machindranath, the divine water-guardian...

Julian Caldecott | 10 Dec 2021

The most reliable geophysical tool is the geological hammer

“The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!” “The most reliable and trustworthy geophysical tool is a geological hammer!” This remarkable statement...

Nikolai Bagdassarov | 9 Dec 2021

Judicial Proceedings to Clarify International Law on Climate Change

World leaders recently convened in Glasgow for the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) on the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Several reports have been published in past weeks discussing...

Snjólaug Árnadóttir | 9 Dec 2021

Personalized security drives Iraq’s political deadlock

Deadlock following Iraq’s October 10th, 2021 elections shows that control over the security forces remains the country’s most important political issue. The parliamentary block led by Shia politician...

Matthew Nanes | 8 Dec 2021

Why Are China Studies So Contentious?

Studying China can be contentious. I have been in China study seminars that were as confrontational as sessions of U.S. Congress. A primary reason for the contentiousness is that people study China from...

Shaomin Li | 7 Dec 2021

The Elusive Nature of Zionism and its Redemptive Visions

Zionism is probably among the most discussed and least understood of modern national movements. The literature on it is vast and highly contested. If history is the study of change over time, the rapid...

Arieh Saposnik | 6 Dec 2021

Why Leaders Fail: Criteria for Evaluating Prospective Organizational Leaders that Likely Will Not Show Up in an Ad, Job Description, Resume, Cover Letter, or Interview Protocol

The following insights are derived from Motivating Self and Others by Martin Ford and Peyton Smith. Leadership search and selection processes typically focus on positive experiences and accomplishments...

Martin E. Ford, Peyton R. Smith | 6 Dec 2021

Cambridge handbook of Forensic Psychology

May 4th, 1987 marked the beginning of a string of violent sexual attacks on women across Southern Ontario. During this time at least eighteen women across the districts of Scarborough, Peel, and St. Catharine’s...

Miranda A. H. Horvath, Jennifer M. Brown | 3 Dec 2021

Making the Uncanny Beautiful

Section V of Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses, titled “A City Visible but Unseen,” is not about an imaginary city but a migrant ghetto wilfully disavowed. The unseen citizenry are undocumented migrants...

Ankhi Mukherjee | 2 Dec 2021

“Buried in the Red Dirt”: Thinking about Palestinian Death and Reproduction

As I was conceptualizing a project on death in early 2016, a friend and colleague I was visiting in Jerusalem mentioned a sloppy online essay that had drawn the ire of Palestinian feminists. The piece...

Frances S. Hasso | 1 Dec 2021

Lost Species Day, 30 November 2021

Now we remember millions of species that died from centuries of war with nature. But we can learn from this, and build peace with nature instead. We've done this many times before, and to do so again we must remember and restore the old ways of harmony and sufficiency.

Julian Caldecott | 30 Nov 2021

A History of Polish Theatre

A History of Polish Theatre offers a new and original look at the complex pasts of Polish theatre. The editors wished to move away from strictly devised forms of periodization, and instead build historical...

Bryce Lease, Michal Kobialka, Katarzyna Fazan | 25 Nov 2021