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AK COVID-Development Studies Intersections

Aalok Khandekar

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Transnational STS COVID-19 Project Participants

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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?

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jaostrander

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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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jaostrander

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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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jaostrander

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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.