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Time to Throw out the Balance Sheet

by Alan Lester A bit of a departure from our standard project blog, this essay responds to the latest rehashing of the British Empire in the media (The Rhodes statue debate and a YouGov poll have both made the British

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Insights from Inside the Idomeni Refugee Camp

By Zoe Gilchrist The refugee crisis headlined the news all of last summer.  I read article after article describing the conditions and the difficulties that refugees were facing in their attempt to escape war and/ or search for the opportunity

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Posted in International Relations, Rights

What Does Zika Mean for Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights?

by Maya Unnithan, Hayley MacGregor & Jackie Cassell The lightning emergence of Zika virus as a World Health Organization (WHO) designated global emergency comes just as the Ebola crisis in West Africa appears finally to be under control. There is no

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Questioning, and Deepening Our Understanding of, ‘Truth’

Will Hood is the creative mind behind the innovative new audio documentary series, The Glass Bead Game, funded in part by the School of Global Studies at the University of Sussex. A Sussex alum and a seasoned documentary film maker,

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Posted in Anthropology, Climate Change