EiJ Concept: Median Income
This essay explains the concept of "median income" and provides resources for teaching it in various contexts.
VISUALISING BHUTAN
A photo essay to introduce you to the EATWELL project.
Test project Heidi
In the spirit of life long learning
Testproject DM
Welcome to Daniel's testproject
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They could have discussed logistics on transport and mass treatments more, but overall they did a good job.
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Not really. There was no information provided.
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They also have a fantastic list of these on their website:
Alliance for Global Justice is an organization that seeks to achieve social change and economic justice by helping to build a stronger more unified grassroots movement.
Arts and Democracy builds the momentum of a growing movement that links arts and culture, participatory democracy, and social justice.
Cowbird is a community of storytellers and the beautiful platform that we partnered with to collect and display stories in our first year.
Coney Island Generational Gap is a youth group in Coney Island that organizes work programs, arts opportunities and media courses for more than one hundred youth in the neighborhood.
El Centro is a storefront immigrant day worker center in Port Richmond, Staten Island.
Housing is a Human Right is a creative storytelling project that aims to help connect diverse communities around housing, land, and the dignity of a place to call home.
Interoccupy.Net fosters communication across the Occupy movement.
Land of Opportunity is an ongoing trans-media documentary that captures the struggle to rebuild New Orleans, one of America’s most beloved and emblematic cities. We partnered with Land of Opportunity on Katrina/Sandy.
New York Public Library has been an essential provider of free books, information, ideas, and education for all New Yorkers for more than 100 years.
New York Writers Coalition provides free creative writing workshops throughout New York City for people from groups that have been historically deprived of voice in our society.
Occupy Sandy is a mutual aid network responding to the ongoing crisis in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.
Parsons: New School for Design has been a pioneer in art and design higher education since its founding in 1896.
Project Hope offered free and confidential supportive counseling and public education services to Hurricane Sandy disaster survivors in New York City and Nassau, Suffolk, Rockland, and Westchester Counties in the immediate aftermath of the storm.
Research Action Design (RAD) uses community-led research, transformative media organizing, technology development, and collaborative design to build the power of grassroots social movements.
The Beacon School is a public magnet high school on the Upper West Side that offers an inquiry-based college preparatory program with technology and arts infused throughout the curriculum.
The Hudson School is a private school in Hoboken, New Jersey, that provides intellectually inquisitive students in grades 5-12 with a rigorous and relevant college-preparatory education.
The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand in hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, and assess civic media tools and practices–including the text and phone technology that Sandy Storyline uses.
YANA (You Are Never Alone) is a worker training center and hurricane relief hub in Rockaway Park.
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"At this point, the burden of mental disorders after disasters has been well documented, and interest in the course of trajectory of psychological symptoms following disasters is growing."
"Persons who live in a community where a disaster hsa occured may differ in their degree of exposure in the event. They may be affected directly, being present at the disaster site, or indirectly, having loved ones present at the disaster site or seeing images of the disaster in the media."
"Ongoing stressors such as job loss, property damage, marital stress, physical health conditions related to the disaster, and displacement are often experienced by those affected by the disaster... Low levels of and reductions in social support are also associated iwth post-disaster psychological symptoms."
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Andreas_RebmannProfessor Adriana Petryna teaches Anthropology at UPenn. She focuses on science and technology, globalization and health, and medical anthropology. Her focuses are intertwined with DSTS Network at times, studying incidents of interest such as this article on Chernobyl, and at other times focuses on systemic health issues in socities.
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Byron J. Good, the author of this book is currently a professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard, with his research focusing on mental health services development in Asian societies, particularly in Indonesia. He has done collaborative work with the International Organization for Migration on developing mental health services in post-tsunami and post-conflict Aceh, Indonesia. More broadly, he works on the theorization of subjectivity in contemporary societies.