Issue 5 Ebola’s Ecologies »Medical Vulnerability, or Where There Is No Kit…displaced, and thus plays a far more significant role in humanitarian portfolio. In 2013 (a low year), MSF treated 27,900 patients with cholera, many times the total number who had…
ResearchersTom Scott-Smith…embarking on a new project concerning disaster shelter, with particular attention on encampment and refugee housing. His work has appeared in a number of peer-reviewed scholarly journals including Third World…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »Remittance Channels & Regulatory Chokepoints…store is representative of many small operations providing travel and financial services, including plane tickets, visas, box shipping, and remittances. Discussing her business, the owner Kelly gestured to a wall…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »The Political Meaning of Hacktivism…Factual truth is essential to politics for a number of reasons, not least of which is that “facts inform opinions,” which means that “freedom of opinion is a farce unless…
Issue 4 Food Infrastructures »Scaling Up/Scaling Down…each group should not exceed a certain number of families (40 is common), some groups have become even larger. Indeed, the demand substantially exceeds the supply; because farmers are lacking,…
Issue 10 Chokepoints »The Invisible ‘Jungle’ of Calais…and Turbout 2017; Mambra 2017). Calais, as seen by Google. Google Earth From Chunnel to “Jungle” As the number of migrants in Calais escalated, the French government in 1999 asked…
Issue 8 Hacks, Leaks, and Breaches »Survival of the Cryptic…and woe to those who wield it ineffectively. Other cypherpunks proffered different views, however, raising a number of caveats in their discussion of the Bush emails that tease out nuances…