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THE 2016 FORMOSA INCIDENT TIMELINE

The incident first happened on April 4th, 2016 by a large amount of unnatural dead sea fish washed up on the Vung Ang seashore (Ha Tinh province) near the Formosa Ha Tinh Steel plant.

Formosa Vietnam Movement

Image by Justice for Formosa Victims, 2019.

Toxic Veganism: Food Politics, Whiteness, and Sustainable Imaginaries in Southern California

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Intimate Partner Violence and Hurricane Katrina: Predictors and Associated Mental Health Outcomes

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Describe the object of the study.

The object of this study is to analyze the rates of intimate partner violence before and after Hurricane Katrina, and look at the causes for the increases found.

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Mental Health Consequences of Disaster

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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.

Emily Goldmann is an expert in looking at factors of mental health. She has a masters and PhD in epidemiology, and is a research assistant professor at NYU. Sandro Galea is a physician and epidemiologist. The two have a great deal of experience in health care and in examining how mental health can be improved or worsened by a variety of additional factors.

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Biological Citizenship: The Science and Politics of Chernobyl-Exposed Populations

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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.

Adrianna Petryna has a PhD in anthropology and is a professor of such at the University of Pennsylvania. This shows that she has a background in the humanity and relations perspective of the issues that she addresses. Therefore, the scientific information about Chernobyl and other situations she discusses are likely based on research that she read, rather than on her own reasearch and experiences,.

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The Narrative Representation of illness

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What three points, details or references from the text did you follow up on to advance your understanding of the complexities of emergency response?

I looked up Turkish marriage traditions, EMS systems, and the languages spoken.

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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Can you learn anything from the article or report’s bibliography that tells us something about how the article or report was produced?

Many of the citations are from the MSF compilation, but others are clearly other studies or research articles. They are all from the past 20 years or so, since humanitarian and womens' sexual rights gained popularity and momentum around that time.