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Dr Booth’s research on wedding bands in India and Pakistan is significant to me because it shows that a researcher cannot predetermine the findings of their study, but that does not necessarily remove its value. The procession of Indian wedding bands was loud and...
Dr Thomsen’s seminar showed me that research, regardless of its specificity, does not exist in a vacuum. Initially, his research on the sexual identity of Korean men living in Seattle seemed abstract to me, in grounding his study in his lived experiences and those of...
‘History is written by the victors’, is a recurring theme in many of the blog posts that I’ve read. I have been left wondering, what happens to the narrative of rebuilding countries post war, how the destruction of infrastructure, has ongoing effects on communities....
It’s not so hard- and you can do it from your couch!
There have been many proposed solutions to end systemic racism, reparations for slavery being one. Reparations are a terrible idea. Systemic racism is a problem that’s deeply embedded in the system, something that doesn’t go away with a check. Systemic racism is like...
There is a long history of dismissive linguistic and narrative framings of sociopolitical protests, both deliberate and inadvertent. Today, certain representations of the George Floyd protests delegitimize them and distract from their driving philosophy. This...
The late twentieth century was a time of tremendous change. With the weakening of the Soviet Union before the capitalist machine of the United States, the legitimacy of authoritarian regimes was beginning to crumble. To survive the fallout of the Cold War, China...
When Joe gave his lecture a few weeks it brought up some interesting ideas, but I didn’t imagine just how relevant it would become a few weeks later. With the help of the internet and other technology, protests against systemic racism have spread across the US and the...
The spirit of the American Revolution was embodied in the Constitution and its amendments: tenets for the protection of individual liberty and limitation of governmental power. Yet while such ideals seemingly entrenched to the founding fathers, arguably, that liberal spirit has been eroded either by the isolation of citizenry from the original injustices or by the diminution of the original law. Analysing the recent murder of George Floyd, we see how the complexities of modernity inhibit individual intervention against the abuse of state powers.
A sweeping golden cloak, pristine military attire and commanding a white stallion while staring directly into the viewers eyes as he points his army towards victory. That is how Napoleon Bonaparte is portrayed in the famous, Napoleon Crossing the Alps painting. The...
Wherein I help you cause violence.
Conflict has existed for almost as long as mankind has. Sometimes it erupts into war, sometimes into simmering problems under the surface, other times like an earthquake, with effects resonating across all kinds of people and over hundreds of years. All along these...