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Articles tagged with global
Pioneering Afro-Brazilian geographer Milton Santos sought to redeem the field from its methodological fragmentation and colonial legacies.
The Global South will suffer the most as colonial legacies, climate change, and capitalism continue to plunge millions into hunger.
Though the organization’s legacy has been domesticated, its grassroots leadership embraced the global fight for freedom.
Financial globalization was supposed to spur development. Instead it transfers money to the Global North and exacerbates existing inequalities.
Sovereign states have been mythologized as the natural unit of political order. History shows how new they are—and how we can think beyond them.
There is a cost to advancing caste as the preeminent analytic in place of race—we lose the precision that comes with naming our affliction a problem of anti-Blackness. We mistake the map for the territory, the skin for the bones, and the bones for the skin.
The celebration of Isabel Wilkerson’s ‘Caste’ reflects the continued priority of elite preferences over the needs and struggles of ordinary people.
