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Rapid changes in earth’s vital signs draws attention to the importance of changing senses of place

Unprecedented surges in climate-related disasters coupled with rapid biodiversity loss, technological transformations and contestation associated with mobility and migration and post-national territorial...

Christopher Raymond | 30 Jul 2021

Shari‘a, Inshallah

Muslims around the world have recently celebrated Eid al-Adha, one of the holiest times of the year. The holiday commemorates the Prophet Abraham’s calling to surrender his beloved son to God (who provided...

Mark Fathi Massoud | 30 Jul 2021

Pulling it all together: Elizabeth Bishop in Context

In May 1975 Elizabeth Bishop replied to a letter from a complete stranger called Miss Pierson asking her a series of questions about how both to write and understand poetry. Bishop kept up a lifelong...

Jonathan Ellis, Angus Cleghorn | 30 Jul 2021

Climate Change and Security: Whose Security?

Climate Change: The Heat is On In the lead up to CoP26 talks in Glasgow in November 2021, we’ve seen plenty of international attention on climate change. This attention is influenced by a few different...

Matt McDonald | 30 Jul 2021

Darwin’s Argument by Analogy

No scientific thinker is more globally famous than Charles Darwin. Yet among scholars there is much debate about how, exactly, the argument which made Darwin famous – his argument for evolution by...

Gregory Radick, M.J.S. Hodge, Roger M. White | 29 Jul 2021

Seeking the right to food: Food Activism in South Africa

How does one ask his government to give him food? Since antiquity, different social groups and classes have used different strategies to express their discontent against rulers who are unable or unwilling...

Bright Nkrumah | 29 Jul 2021

Scottish Women’s Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century

When people learn that I’ve been working on a book on nineteenth-century Scottish women writers, they frequently ask ‘were there any’? This is an understandable question. In fact, it’s the question...

Juliet Shields | 27 Jul 2021

Understanding DNA Ancestry

How DNA Ancestry companies reach their findings from a person’s cells remains a mystery to almost everyone who purchases the service. Sheldon Krimsky author of Understanding DNA Ancestry aims to de-mystify the science behind the claims.

Sheldon Krimsky | 27 Jul 2021

Pandemic in Thought and Action

On February 29th 2020, I submitted my manuscript “Beings of Thought and Action” to CUP for review. While I did register news of cases of COVID-19 in Europe, little did I know what that would mean...

Andy Mueller | 22 Jul 2021

Planetary Health: Safeguarding Human Health and the Environment in the Anthropocene

The book-Planetary Healthexplores the many environmental changes that threaten to undermine progress in human health Humanity has made major, albeit inequitable, progress in health and development...

Andy Haines, Howard Frumkin | 22 Jul 2021

The Republican War on Cities

Voting laws recently passed or awaiting passage in Republican-controlled state legislatures along with the outrageous vote “audit” ongoing in Arizona have been widely covered in the press through...

Kevin R. McNamara | 21 Jul 2021

Brainy Girls, in Shakespeare’s Time and Ours

When Netflix released its limited series “The Queen’s Gambit” last year, who would have predicted that a show about a girl chess prodigy would reach the # 1 spot in 63 countries? The international...

Caroline Bicks | 19 Jul 2021