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Pödelwitz got future

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What initiatives (research, activism, education, etc.) are illustrative of this organization’s work?

Pödelwitz is an activist initiative in the central german coal district, which is located in a village which was supposed to be evacuated for a planned expansion of a neighboring coal mine. After successfully resisting this expansion, the activists now promote social-ecological transformation in the village and the wider region. I will collaborate with them as part of my project in C-urge to study the role of justice in such transformations. Thereby we hope to arrive at an understanding of justice that is not opposed to urgent societal transformation in light of climate change, but a means of achieving this.

Conflictual Collaboration: Citizen Science and the Governance of Radioactive Contamination after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

In the aftermath of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, citizen scientists collectively tracked and monitored residual radioactivity in Japan, legitimizing alternative views to an official assessm

Radioactive Performances: Teaching about Radiation after the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster and its release of radioac- tive contamination, the Japanese state put into motion risk communica- tion strategies to explain the danger of radiation e

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Lessons in the Rubble: The World Trade Center and the History of Disaster Investigations in the United States

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

To make this argument Knowles used various other academic papers, public and private reports from investigations, past and current government policies, and news articles and reports.

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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How (if at all) is emergency response addressed in the article or report?

Emergency response is not directly addressed, but this article does discuss mental health counselors and debriefing of victims as key components of emergency response to a disaster to decrease the number of individuals who may suffer from mental illness due to the disaster in the future.

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Semper Fi: Always Faithful

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What parts of the film were you not compelled or convinced by? Why?

There were not any portions of this film that were not convincing.

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Describe the routes of user engagement

Users can access the site from a computer or there is an app available for smart phones.

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Compassion Protocol: Legalizing Diseased Undocumented Immigrants

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What were the methods, tools and/or data used to produce the claims or arguments made in the article or report?

The article was developed with the use of data analysis of accepted individuals to show the change/development in immigration policy and the increase of immigrants due to medical reasons.

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Nuclear Emergency Response: Atomic Priests or an International SWAT Team?

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What are the main findings or arguments presented in the article?

One of the main arguments of this article is that there is a large focus on nuclear safety but instead there should be a focus on emergency preparedness for when there are nuclear disasters. Schmid argues that safety and preparedness needs to take a higher priority than keeping industry secrets. Individual nuclear industries should to an extent be sharing reactor designs so in the event of an emergency responding agencies know the equipment they will be facing.

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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Who are the authors, where do they work, and what are their areas of expertise? How is the author professionally situated in respect to emergency response? Note any other publications/research foci that are of relevance to the DSTS Network.

Byron J. Good is a medical anthropologist and Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard Medical School and Professor of Cultural Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard. Good's writings have primarily focused on the cultural meaning of mental illnesses, patient narratives of illness, and development of mental health systems.