Race, as Downing and Husband (2005) remind us, is a ‘social category’ without a ‘scientific basis’ (p. 2). And yet, for better or worse, race is a fundamental dimension of contemporary life, one of the few master tropes that define identities, elicit solidarities and operate as an instrument of othering. Though ‘more inclusive and less objectifying’ (Spencer, p. 45), ethnicity is a ‘transient c...

ions. Consumers, students and alternative food-system leaders recognize and place great importance on solving social justice problems (Allen et al., 2003; Howard and Allen, 2006; Perez and Allen, 2007). Local food systems serve many purposes and improve the quality of life for many people. Realizing justice in local food systems 305 by gest on Sptem er 1, 2010 cjres.odjournals.org Doloaded rom ...

Fifteen years since the events that are held by some to have caused it, Gulf War Syndrome continues to exercise the mind and energies of numerous researchers across the world, as well as those who purport to be its victims and their advocates in the media, law and politics. But it may be that the search for a scientific or medical solution to this issue was misguided in the first place, for Gul...

In this intervention, we discuss how the COVID-19 pandemic has reconfigured transnational mobilities, connections, and solidarities, which reveals fragility of transnationalism predicated on cosmopolitan ethics but rooted in nation-level politics. We show that as severely disrupted (infra)structures state-centric from above, survival well-being diverse transnationally mobile groups, such refuge...

Abstract After the 1877–78 Russo-Ottoman War, Ottoman Empire saw rise of ethnic and sectarian clashes in Anatolia, Balkans, elsewhere, task explaining that remains unfinished. Many have examined intellectual formations solidarities after 1878, but availability new ideas cannot alone account for their widespread uptake. Why 1878 did ordinary people respond more to calls upon solidarity? Drawing ...

Abstract The steady rollout of Covid-19 vaccines comes attached with a series difficult questions. Are human right? Should patents be enforced in way that puts people the global South behind queue? These questions are not new; world struggled these ethical dilemmas during HIV-AIDS pandemic at end twentieth century, when governments led by Nelson Mandela fought multinational pharmaceutical corpo...

Abstract This interview focuses on a spectrum of urgent challenges facing marginalized human and other-than-human communities, including the intersecting crises global anthropogenic climate disruption state institutional racist violence. We discuss consider opportunities, limits, contradictions pursuing transformative, intersectional political change scholarship through efforts to bridge commun...

In this work, we explore the role of land in Indigenous theorizing about health, embodied a occupation that resisted climate-adaptive development project imposed on community from top down by local government. The proposed building stop bank Oroua River sought to alienate Māori remnants land. Embedded and emerging culture-centered academic-community-activist partnership, an advisory group membe...