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Environmental Right-To-Know and the Transmutations of Law

Law does more than codify, regulate, and control; it also catalyzes and transmutes, provoking cascading social and cultural effects, particularly when the force of law is informational.

SfAA Panel: Beyond Environmental Injustice

Essay for the double-panel "Beyond Environmental Injustice", 81st Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 22-27, 2021.

Repertoires of Knowledge in Times of Pandemic: Insight on the Fridays for Future Movement in Mexico (Mariana Arjona Soberón)

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The Gendered Human of Humanitarianism: Medicalising and Politicising Sexual Violence

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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 followed up by looking at rape rates across the world, how rape is regarded in different countries, and when humanitarian aid started.

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5 Years After Haiti's Earthquake, Where Did The $13.5 Billion Go?

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How does the article address public health inequities or emergency response?

The article dicusses how the UN has caused major health issues but is not being held accountable by the court's decision, so that is a clear injustice for Haiti. Additionally, the only money that goes directly to Haitians to spend in the recovery has been spent on helping increase children's immunizations rates and increase HIV medical treatment, so they have shown some ability to help themselves when given the resources.

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The Waiting Room

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What kinds of action and points of intervention are suggested by the film? If the film itself does not suggest corrective action, describe actions that you can imagine being effective.

There clearly need to be some policy changes in the healthcare system. I think Obamacare is not the answer and is way too much policy and not enough sense, but we need something. People need affordable coverage for the issues that make sense for their gender and age bracket, they need to be given more help when they are trying to work, and there needs to be more incentive to become a doctor so that there are more PCPs out there nipping a lot of these issues in the bud. So the ER is for emergencies and is a less stressful, long-wait, ridiculous situation.