By Noam Lupu, Professor of Political Science, Vanderbilt University
Nicholas Carnes, Professor of Public Policy and Political Science, Duke University
Both major U.S. political parties regularly tout their commitment to working-class Americans and claim to be the party of the working class. However, neither the Democrats nor the Republicans nominate many candidates who spent substantial time in working-class jobs.
This near-absence…
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By Jamie Seabrook, Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor, Department of Paediatrics; Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Jasna Twynstra, Associate Professor, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Jason Gilliland, Director, Urban Development Program; Professor, Geography & Environment, Western University
Rawan Alfares, Master of Science student, Brescia School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, Western University
Researchers surveyed more than 1,500 students at a large Canadian university to better understand the relationship between cannabis use and diet quality.
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By Darren Elliott-Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film, Media and Gender, University of Stirling
In Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Gillian Anderson plays Billy, a reclusive actress famous for playing a classic “final girl”. That’s the last woman left alive to confront the killer in a slasher movie. “It’s all about flesh … and fluids,” she explains when discussing the appeal of the fictional Camp Miasma franchise, the series of slasher films at the heart of this affectionate meta-slasher.
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun’s follow-up to the critically acclaimed queer…
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By Adam Farquhar, Research Associate in the School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Donald Trump’s Board of Peace published a 15-point roadmap for Gaza in late July in which Hamas would hand its weapons to a committee of Palestinian technocrats, certified by an international verification body, and Israel would withdraw from the strip in phases. After Israel officially rejected the plan on August 9, US envoy Jared Kushner flew to the Egyptian coast to
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By Nhlanhla Mpofu, Researcher in TESOL & Literacy, University of Notre Dame Australia
Simthembile Xeketwana, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
In many South African classrooms, learners continue to experience the subject of history through the language, concepts and perspectives inherited from colonial traditions. Changes have been made to what children are taught. But the curriculum changes might not be enough to change what children learn in history classrooms.
The reason for this is that English continues to dominate as the language of learning and teaching in most secondary schools. This is despite the fact that South Africa officially recognises…
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By Sheila Petty, Professor Emerita of Film Studies, University of Regina
African film festivals were once quite rare, but in the past decades they’ve been growing in the continent and mushrooming around the world. A recent open access book explores these events through case studies.
The book’s editor, African cinema scholar Sheila Petty, has also written chapters in it about the role film festivals play in creating a living and lasting conversation about African culture.…
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By Simon Pooley, FLS, Lambert Reader in Human-Wildlife Coexistence, Birkbeck, University of London
The okapi’s story reveals how Indigenous knowledge shaped its discovery, while colonialism, mining and conflict now threaten this remarkable rainforest animal.
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By Marloes Janson, Professor of West African Anthropology, SOAS, University of London
The highway between Lagos and Ibadan was built in 1978 at the height of Nigeria’s oil boom. Lagos is the country’s largest city, with an estimated population of over 20 million, and Ibadan the third-largest and home to a globally renowned university.
But the boom years are over and rising traffic and decades of neglect have turned the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway into one of Nigeria’s…
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By Ivis García, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Urban Planning, Texas A&M University
Drought and a ruptured pipeline have forced Puerto Rico into revolving water shut-offs. For many people, the disruption started years earlier, as did loss of faith in the utility.
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By Thomas Moore, PhD Candidate in Philosophy, University of Sheffield
A visit to my friend in a remote Yorkshire village led me into a three-month immersion in one of Britain’s most remarkable forms of social care.
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