Connecting Social Capital and Vulnerability: Citation Network Analysis of Disaster Studies Abstract A growing body of disaster scholarship uses qualitative and quantitative methods to illuminate the role of social capital and…
COVID-19 as Eco-Pandemic Injustice: Opportunities for Collective and Antiracist Approaches to Environmental Health Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with a powerful upsurge in antiracist activism in the United States, linking many forms…
Why You Should Expect More Suez-Like Supply Chain Disruptions and Shortages at your Local Grocery Store When the Ever Given container ship choked off traffic in the Suez Canal for almost a week in late March 2021, it made big headlines around the world.…
Research Handbook on Human Rights and Poverty Professor Martha Davis, faculty director for Northeastern Law’s Program on Human Rights and the Global Economy and the NuLawLab, is a co-editor of the…
It’s Okay Not to Be Okay After a year that feels like a big human behavior experiment requiring every ounce of resilience, creativity, and fortitude we can muster,…
No Refuge: Ethics and the Global Refugee Crisis Syrians crossing the Mediterranean in ramshackle boats bound for Europe; Sudanese refugees, their belongings on their backs, fleeing overland into…
Effective Leadership Several years ago a reporter for a Mobile newspaper asked me what were the essentials for community resilience. My answer…
Letter: A Closer Look at Virus Numbers In Jack DeVine’s March 10 column, he referred to the “Worldometer” data on the effectiveness of mandated restrictions. Let me…
White Patriarchy Won’t Solve the Climate Crisis: Antiracist, Feminist Leadership Is What We Need Right Now A new kind of leadership is emerging to confront the climate crisis in an inclusive way. We know that we…
Growing the Squad to Fight Climate Change Professor Jennie C. Stephens explains why antiracist and feminist leadership must play a vital role in mitigating the climate crisis. The four…
Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy It was a year like no other: 2020 brought a deadly pandemic, crippling recession, protests against racial injustice, and bitter…
Gender and the Dynamics of Economics Seminars Abstract This paper reports the results of the first systematic attempt at quantitatively measuring the seminar culture within economics and…
