By Roberta Garrett, Senior Lecturer in Literature and Cultural Studies, University of East London
Warning: this article contains spoilers for all seasons of The Handmaid’s Tale.
Hulu’s television adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s landmark 1985 feminist novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, has now come to an end.
The series focused on female oppression within the imagined future religio-fascist state of Gilead. So, in light of the Donald Trump-led Republican party’s infringements on the reproductive rights of women, it seems appropriate that the first series launched in 2017, a year after…
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By Will de Freitas, Environment + Energy Editor, UK edition
The UK government’s Advanced Research and Invention Agency – known as Aria – recently announced it is funding 21 research teams to explore what it terms climate cooling. The money involved (£56 million) isn’t much in the grand scheme of things. But experts on both sides of the debate (and this issue divides climate academics more than almost any other) agree it’s likely to be a precursor to more significant investment in future.
This…
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By Carlos Abrahams, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Assessment - Director of Ecoacoustics, Nottingham Trent University
Usue Ruiz-Arana, Senior Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, Newcastle University
Paying attention to soundscapes within the landscape design process can create a stronger sense of place and reduce unwanted noise.
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By Siona O'Connell, Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and African Studies, University of Pretoria
The click of a camera shutter and the improvisation of a jazz saxophone may seem worlds apart. Yet, in the hands of South African photojournalist and cultural organiser Rashid Lombard, they became inseparable instruments of resistance and celebration.
Born in Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) in 1951, Lombard began his journey as a photographer during one of the most turbulent…
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By Veena D. Dwivedi, Director – Centre for Neuroscience; Professor - Psychology | Neuroscience, Brock University
Describing artificial intelligence as having neural networks and understanding language has implications for how we understand both AI and the human brain.
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By Ombline Damy, Doctorante en Littérature Générale et Comparée, Sciences Po
In the popular novel The German Lesson, a character based on Nolde falls victim to Nazi policies on “degenerate art”. Recent research on the painter’s life tells a more complex story.
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By Julie Zollmann, Digital Planet Fellow, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Many argue that gig work involves exploitation, as research and media coverage have highlighted. But that doesn’t seem to deter ride hailing drivers on platforms like Uber and Bolt.
In Kenya, in fact, many new drivers continued to join platforms even as fares were slashed starting in 2016.
As a PhD student studying the role of digitalisation in development, I spent several years trying to understand…
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By James H. VanZwieten Jr., Assistant Professor: Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
Gabriel Alsenas, Director: SouthEast National Marine Renewable Energy Centre, Florida Atlantic University
Mahsan Sadoughipour, Graduate Research Assistant: Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering, Florida Atlantic University
Yufei Tang, Associate Professor and I-SENSE Fellow: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Florida Atlantic University
Some of the fastest ocean currents in the world have been discovered off South Africa, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania and Madagascar. These can be used to generate energy.
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By Everton Silva, Doutorando no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Fernando Abreu Oliveira, Mestre em Biociências e técnico de laboratório em Química, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)
Fernando Geraldo de Carvalho, Doutor em Ecologia, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
James Ferreira Moura Junior, Psicólogo comunitário e Professor, Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira (Unilab)
José Max B. Oliveira-Junior, Professor Adjunto IV no Instituto de Ciências e Tecnologia das Águas (ICTA), Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)
Karina Dias-Silva, Professora Adjunta III de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Leandro Juen, Professor Associado III de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
Mayerly Alexandra Guerrero Moreno, Doutoranda em Sociedade, Natureza e Desenvolvimento, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará (UFOPA)
To guarantee the preservation of protected areas, public policies must be adapted to local realities, incorporating traditional knowledge as an essential part of the solutions to environmental problems
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By Fabrício Gatagon Suruí, Biólogo e Primatólogo, Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi
The primate species identified in the Sete de Setembro Indigenous Land have symbolic meanings that are deeply associated with the cultural, ecological and mythological elements of the Paiter-Suruí people’s cosmology
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