Ailie Rutherford; https://ailierutherford.com A lot has been written about care this last year. As multiple crises unfold and we work out how to reorganise our lives, both online and off, to...
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Intervention – “This Thing of Caring”
Intervention Symposium – “The Sanitization of/via Populism during the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Nicholas Abrams, Ferda Demirci, Sophia Jaworski and Jesook Song (Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto) If curing COVID-19 and its socio-economic repercussions has become the new...
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Intervention – “Toby Sharp’s Energy Dragon: The Politics of Productivity, Self-Care, and Decolonization in the Neoliberal University”
Heather McLean (Thompson Rivers University, Kamloops, BC, Canada) Toby Sharp is a world leading innovation and creativity researcher who spearheads university research commercialization...
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Intervention – “The ‘Outdoor’ Paradox: Public Policies and Scientific Evidence during the Covid-19 Pandemic in Portugal”
Simone Tulumello (Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa; Urban Transitions Hub, https://urbantransitionshub.org/) On 15 January 2021, amid a dramatic spike in cases of...
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Intervention – “Toward Emergent Scholarship: Aligning Classroom Praxis with Liberatory Aims”
Athena Co-Learning Collective: https://www.athenacollective.org/ Embracing Emergence In the book Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown describes emergent...
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Intervention — “The COVID-Climate Moment: Approximating Planetary Crisis in Palestine/Israel”
Ben Weinger (Department of Geography, UCLA) “We are in a state of emergency, both climatic and democratic. A dangerous Knesset bypass law will be put to vote tonight, and we won’t allow...
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Intervention – “The Pangolin and the Coal Mine: Challenging the Forces of Extractivism, Human Rights Abuse, and Planetary Calamity”
Kristen Lyons, Anthony Esposito and Murrawah Johnson Crisis has settled into our material and emotional landscapes, bearing down upon ecologies, human life, and everyday people’s...
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Intervention – “Disaster Capitalism, COVID-19, and Single-Use Plastic”
Nils Johansson (Strategic Sustainability Studies, KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Introduction COVID-19 is a disaster. Over two million people have died. And, as noted by Anthony...
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Intervention – “What is Community Policing Theory?”
Biko Agozino (Virginia Tech; [email protected]), Emmanuel C. Onyeozili (University of Maryland Eastern Shore), Augustine Agu (UNICEF) and Patrick Ibe (Albany State University) With the mounting...
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Intervention – “Elements of Contestation: Sectarianism, Extractive Violence, and the Forensics of Lebanon’s October Revolution”
Sara Fregonese (University of Birmingham; [email protected]) La tahriqū Lubnān be l ta’ifiyya (“Don’t burn Lebanon with sectarianism”) – Sign at fire rangers’ protest,...
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