By Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Intergenerational Report projects population growth slowing from an average of 1.4% a year over the last 40 years to 0.9% a year over the coming four decades.
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By Sara Shneiderman, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology and School of Public Policy & Global Affairs; Ivan Head South-North IDRC Chair, University of British Columbia
Amy Leigh Johnson, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Berry College
Development in known hazard zones is creating untenable risks for communities around the world. Here’s how Nepal and the global community can build back differently.
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By Rosie Simms, Director of Place-Based Projects, POLIS Water Sustainability Project, University of Victoria
Deana Machin, Senior Indigenous Advisor with the Indigenous Watersheds Initiative, Practitioner Avisor to the POLIS Water Sustainability Project, University of Victoria
Oliver Brandes, Co-Director; Associate Director of Strategic Partnerships and Public Policy of the POLIS Project; Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
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By Nick Turner, Professor and Ken Croft Chair in Management, Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary
Duygu Biricik Gulseren, Associate Professor, School of Human Resource Management, York University, Canada
Fırat K Sayın, Associate Professor of Management, Saint Mary’s University
New research shows supportive supervisors may help protect employees’ psychological well-being, but meaningful support requires workplaces that can adapt to changing needs.
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By Teresa Anne Fowler, Adjunct assistant professor, Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary
By amending its Education Act to remove the language of ‘diversity’ and ‘belonging’ and restricting flags that can fly, Alberta is enacting a quiet curriculum of silence.
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By Shannon Brincat, Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of the Sunshine Coast
Juan Zahir Naranjo Cáceres, Sessional Academic in International Relations, Political Science and Legal Studies, University of the Sunshine Coast
When a loyal ally can be squeezed over land inside its own territory, collective defence starts to look like an open protection racket.
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By Istinomer
The challenge is not simply whether an entrenched authoritarian government can be defeated, but whether almost two years of a student-led mobilisation can be translated into electoral power.
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By Deevia Bhana, Professor Gender and Childhood Sexuality, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Teenage pregnancy is often explained in simple terms. Girls are said to lack knowledge about contraception, take sexual risks or make poor choices.
But is it that simple?
For almost three decades, I have been researching how gender and sexuality come to matter in the lives…
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By Brianna Castro, Assistant Professor of Urban Sustainability, Yale University
In a waterfront settlement in Lagos, Nigeria, I watched from the shoreline as two men worked a stretch of lagoon from their canoe. One held the boat steady. The other dived underwater a few metres, then surfaced with a bucket full of sand, emptied it into the canoe, and went under again for more. They did this for hours, collecting as much sand as the canoe could hold without sinking before returning to shore.
That sand is sold to households and building sites across Nigeria’s largest city, including neighbourhoods much wealthier than the one the divers live in. It gets packed around…
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By GV Central Asia and Caucasus
One of the strongest realizations during my reporting was that digital violence often enters daily life disguised as normal behavior: Control becomes attention, surveillance becomes care, pressure becomes love.
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