By Yolandi Burger, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Gauteng City-Region Observatory
As a design researcher working in urban graphic heritage, I explore how everyday graphic objects communicate in public spaces. I have started to think of the city as a kind of living, dispersed archive. It is not an archive that replaces formal institutions, but one that exists alongside them.
In a recent mapping project that I led for…
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By Jonathan Oladeji, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Johannesburg
Chioma Okoro, Professor and Acting Head of Department: Department of Finance and Investment Management, University of Johannesburg
Green ratings are growing in South Africa, mainly for upgraded older buildings, but some low scores suggest buildings may appear greener than they are.
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By Diana Orcés, Adjunct Professor of Government, School of Public Affairs, American University
Donald Trump obtuvo el 43% del voto hispano en 2024, frente al 35% en 2020, un avance importante para los republicanos. Ahora, a medida que se acercan las elecciones de mitad de mandato, los hispanos en Estados Unidos, independientemente de su afiliación política, están perdiendo la fe en el sueño americano, y las actuales políticas migratorias podrían explicar en parte…
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By H. Damon Matthews, Professor and Climate Scientist, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Global climate warming is expected to cross the 1.5 C temperature threshold — the lower limit of the Paris Agreement temperature goal — within a handful of years. This temperature increase shows no signs of slowing, and on our current trajectory, Canada is likely to experience temperatures 5 C above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century.
These are the headline messages of two major climate reports that were released earlier this month: The United Nations Environment Programme’s Limiting…
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By Vidya Mani, Associate Professor, Darden School of Business; Research Associate Professor, Biocomplexity Institute, University of Virginia; Cornell University
There’s not much diesel fuel lying around, and lots of people want to buy what is available, as well as what little is produced each day. It’s all a matter of supply and demand.
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By Larry Savage, Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
Bill C-39 makes it easier for Ottawa to intervene when collective bargaining produces the very conflict that it is designed to manage.
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By Matthew Ades, Assistant Professor. Department of Medicine. McGill University, McGill University
Anthony Sandre, Assistant Professor, McMaster University
Sonia S Anand, Associate Vice-President Global Health, McMaster University
Leg pain can be a symptom of peripheral artery disease, a condition that is part of the same disease process that causes heart attacks and many strokes.
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By Alessia Noccaro, Lecturer in Robotics and Mechatronics, Newcastle University
Scientists are creating additional robotic arms, legs and thumbs to push the boundaries of what can be achieved by the human body.
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By Tom Birkett, Professor of Old English and Old Norse, University College Cork
Felix Lummer, Postdoctoral Researcher, University College Cork
Timothy Liam Waters, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of English and Digital Humanities, University College Cork
In the wake of the Alternative für Deutschland’s (AfD) electoral success in the Saxony-Anhalt state election, commentators both in Germany and internationally have expressed concern with the party’s extreme right-wing policies. Among these concerns are recent calls from party elites to adopt “remigration” policies.
The AfD has a lot in common with the far…
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By Fraser Cattini, PhD candidate, Avant-Garde Ireland, University of Liverpool
In Happy Days, one of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s best-known plays, the body of the protagonist Winnie is embedded in a mound of sand or dirt. During the first act, she is buried to above her waist and in the second, she is buried up to her neck.
In the stage directions, Beckett specifies the staging should feature an “expanse of scorched grass rising centre to low mound”, as well as “blazing light”. This is suggestive of a post-human landscape which has been affected by ecological disaster.
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