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AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

In response to

Where are you situated as COVID-19 plays out? What backstories shape your engagement with COVID-19? How can you be contacted? What questions and settings are you especially interested in following?

I am currently in the process of transitioning my M.A. level course on Science, Technology, and Development with 11 students to virtual instruction. One of my interests in engaging with COVID-19 is to examine how it (should) informs development ideologies and practices. How should students of development studies retool -- conceptually, methodologically, practically -- in wake of the pandemic?

Mapping Detention and Toxicity

The city of Adelanto is part of San Bernardino county, located in northern Inland Empire by the Mojave Desert. Adelanto holds the California’s largest detention center.

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Christian.vandyke

Annotation of

Lead in Newark's Drinking Water

In response to

How was development funded?

I agree that Newark had terrible water but a big issue is the funding to fix the problem... and the artical goes into all the research about the water but neglects to talk about federal and local funding.

HURRICANES NEWARK, NEW JERSEY Presentation

Hurricane Vulnerability/Resilience in Newark

In this PECE essay, there are numerous articles that discuss New Jersey's, mainly Newark's, vulnerabilities and resilience to hurricanes.

Newark NJ; All natural disasters

Great way to pin point the days of hurricanes in Newark, allows us to find more research on other hurricanes that have hit the area.

Newark opens JFK during Sandy

NJIT helping after Sandy

Njit came together with 'U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and the Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force' to help small business after Sandy.