Month: October 2022

‘A little coldness exists’: Attitudes towards internal migrants in Romania

IGDC Member Thomas O’Brien and co-authors Remus Creţan, Raluca Covaci and Ioan Sebastian Jucu (West University of Timişoara, Romania) share this blog following their recent article looking at the internal migration and stigmatization in the rural Banat region of Romania. This article is republished from Identities with permission. Read the original article. Romania has several multicultural regions, including … Continue reading ‘A little coldness exists’: Attitudes towards internal migrants in Romania

Final summary: Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Gabriela Marques di Giulio shares with us her concluding thoughts on the IGDC/YESI Webinar ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene’ in the final blog of the series. This blog series accompanies the YouTube videos available in English and Portuguese. Co-host of the event, Gabriela Marques di Giulio, joins us for this concluding blog … Continue reading Final summary: Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene

Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

IGDC Member Saba Joshi shares with us her  IFJP blog about women’s collective action and resistance against land dispossession in contemporary Cambodia, following her ENLOE AWARD winning article on the subject.  On 7 August 2022, as she was sworn in as vice president of Colombia, Francia Marquez Mina created history. Marquez’s career, “from maid to Colombia’s first Black vice-president”, is … Continue reading Gendered repertoires of contention: women’s resistance, authoritarian state formation, and land grabbing in Cambodia

Coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies

Helena Ribeiro shares with us her thoughts on coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies in the blogs in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Helena joined us in this webinar to discuss coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies. Conflicts … Continue reading Coordinated policy responses to health, biodiversity and climate emergencies

Emergency framing and alternative futures

Peter Sutoris shares with us his thoughts on emergency framing and alternative futures in the thirteenth blog in this series based on the IGDC/YESI Webinar event ‘Emergencies, wellbeing and social justice in the Anthropocene.’ Peter Sutoris’s research interests include the anthropology of development, the role of education in development, cross-cultural scalability of development interventions, development … Continue reading Emergency framing and alternative futures