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Keeping a feminist curiosity in critical military studies: In conversation with Cynthia Enloe
No full textThis conversation between Cynthia Enloe and Daniel Conway began in November 2022 for The World Today magazine and was continued and expanded in July 2024. Cynthia Enloe’s fifteen books include Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics (2nd ed, 2014); Maneuvers: The International Politics of Militarizing Women’s Lives (2000) and Globalization and Militarism: Feminists Make the Link (2nd ed, 2016). Her latest book, Twelve Feminist Lessons of War was published in 2023. Enloe has won numerous awards and is one of the honourees named on the Gender Justice Legacy Wall at the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Daniel Conway is the author of Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign: War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa (2012) and has recently published articles exploring grassroots women’s and LGBTQ+ organizing and Pride events in South Africa, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Shanghai and Mumbai in the journals International Feminist Journal of Politics, Sexualities, International Affairs and Sociology. © 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
Delinking Development: Material and Epistemic Justice and Caribbean Reparations
Get PDFIn this conceptual paper, we consider novel avenues for development in the Anglophone Caribbean by addressing the historical heritage of chattel slavery, Indigenous dispossession, and extractive capitalism and their pivotal roles in shaping capitalist modernity. Our analysis encompasses the historical configurations of the development paradigm, elucidating the impact of colonial violence, extractive and racial capitalism, and the resulting material and epistemic repercussions. Positioned within the conceptual framework of reparations, we propose restructuring the aid system and asserting the right to epistemic autonomy as two strategic avenues for reshaping the current developmental trajectories of Caribbean societies
Enhancing Food Security with High-Quality Land-Use and Land-Cover Maps: A Local Model Approach
No full textIn 2023, 58.0% of the African population experienced moderate to severe food insecurity, with 21.6% facing severe food insecurity. Land-use and land-cover maps enable informed resource management, urban planning, environment monitoring to enhance food security. The development of global landcover maps has been facilitated by the increasing availability of earth observation data and advancements in geospatial machine learning. However, these global maps exhibit lower accuracy and inconsistencies in Africa, partly due to the lack of representative training data. To address this issue, we propose a data-centric framework with a teacher-student model setup, which uses diverse data sources of satellite images and label examples to produce local land-cover maps. Our method trains a high-resolution teacher model on images with a resolution of 0.331 m/pixel and a low-resolution student model on publicly available images with a resolution of 10 m/pixel. The student model also utilizes the teacher model\u27s output as its weak label examples as a form of outcome-based knowledge distillation. We evaluated our framework using Murang\u27a county in Kenya, renowned for its agricultural productivity, as a use case. Our local models achieved higher quality maps, with improvements of 0.14 in the F1 score and 0.21 in Intersection-over-Union, compared to the best global model. Our evaluation also revealed inconsistencies in existing global maps, with a maximum agreement rate of 0.30 among themselves. Our work provides valuable guidance to decisionmakers for driving informed decisions to enhance food security
Addressing critiques refines global estimates of reforestation potential for climate change mitigation
Get PDFReforestation is a prominent climate change mitigation strategy, but available global maps of reforestation potential are widely criticized and highly variable, which limits their ability to provide robust estimates of both the locations and total area of opportunity. Here we develop global maps that address common critiques, build on a review of 89 reforestation maps created at multiple scales, and present eight reforestation scenarios with varying objectives, including providing ecosystem services, minimizing social conflicts, and delivering government policies. Across scenarios, we find up to 195 Mha (million hectares) are available (2225 TgCO2e (teragrams of carbon dioxide equivalent) per year total net mitigation potential), which is 71–92% smaller than previous estimates because of conservative modeling choices, incorporation of safeguards, and use of recent, high-resolution datasets. This area drops as low as 6 Mha (53 TgCO2e per year total net mitigation potential) if only statutorily protected areas are targeted. Few locations simultaneously achieve multiple objectives, suggesting that a mix of lands and restoration motivations will be needed to capitalize on the many potential benefits of reforestation. © The Author(s) 2025
Armenian Club group photo, 1951
No full textA 1951 group photo of Clark University\u27s Armenian Club.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/armclubphotos/1000/thumbnail.jp
Woman gives speech at Athletic Awards banquet, 1982
No full textWomen\u27s basketball coach Barbara Stevens gives speech at a Clark University Athletic Awards banquet, 1982.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023.The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/athawardphotos/1005/thumbnail.jp
Someone receives their award, 1982
No full textSomeone receives their award at a Clark University Awards banquet, 1982.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023.The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/athawardphotos/1006/thumbnail.jp
Baseball player slides into a base [2], 1959
No full textA Clark University baseball player (slides into a base [2], 1959.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/baseball/1032/thumbnail.jp
Baseball players on the team’s bench [2], Circa 1960s
No full textClark University baseball players on the team’s bench, circa 1960s.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/baseball/1025/thumbnail.jp
Coach signals to his player to stop at third, circa 1960s,1970s
No full textThe Clark University baseball coach signals to his player to stop at the base, date unknown.
All photographs in this collection were digitized between 2022 and 2023. The photographs in this collection are part of the Photographs and Media record group of Clark University’s Archives & Special Collections.https://commons.clarku.edu/baseball/1018/thumbnail.jp