Could Distributed Peer Review Better Decide Grant Funding?
The landscape of academic grant funding is notoriously competitive and plagued by lengthy, bureaucratic processes, exacerbated by difficulties in finding willing reviewers. Distributed […]
Aporophobia: Why People Reject The Poor
The idea that the poor are impoverished morally as well as materially, that they lack humanity as well as means, has a long history.
Talking With Paschal Anosike About African Development and His Award-Winning Book
Professor Paschal Anosike, author of the new book ‘Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development in Africa,’ has received the second Sage Social Justice Book Award.
Volume Examines the New Social Science of the Holocaust
We live in a culture profoundly influenced by the legacy of the Holocaust. More than seven decades after the fact, the Nazi extermination […]
Restoring Regina Twala, Southern Africa’s Erased Activist and Anthropologist
Born in South Africa and exiled to neighboring Eswatini, Regina Twala was one of southern Africa’s most important intellectuals: a pioneering writer, academic, political activist and feminist. Why, then, has she been all but forgotten?
Julia O’Connell Davidson on the Hope and the Hypocrisy of Addressing ‘Modern Slavery’
An interview with Sociologist Julia O’Connell Davidson, who has long examined the various components of exploitation and violence that often get lumped into the catch-all term of outrage, ‘modern slavery.’
Ignorance of History is Not Strength
Simon F. Oliai discusses the rise of populism as reflected in his review of David Owen’s book ‘The Road to Perdition.’
(Macro)Marketing for Sustainability and Society with Mark Peterson: Watch the Teaching Business for People and Planet Webinar
“There is also a dimension of intergenerational justice, making these decisions [sustainable business practices], so that our generation is not ripping off […]
‘Old Bones in Boxes’: Lessons On Race and Physical Anthropology
The discipline of physical anthropology has a dark, often fraught past. It was misused to justify slavery and even genocide. In this […]
