This valuable resource for public health students and professionals examines COVID-19’s impact on underserved and resource-limited communities, sheds light on important social justice issues, and provides insight into the challenges and opportunities associated with vaccine distribution and the pandemic’s environmental impact.
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- 2024
- 2023
Cargoes in Motion considers both the materiality and special trajectories of cargoes across the Indian Ocean world in order to better understand the processes of exchange and their economic, social, cultural, and political effects on the region.
- 2023
This collection of first-person accounts by doctors, nurses, and others at the front lines in Appalachia explains how rural communities have responded to COVID-19, addresses stereotypical assumptions about and challenges within rural medical care, and describes burnout and other long-term effects of the pandemic on health-care workers.
- 2020
Sports in Africa, Past and Present
- 256 pages
- 9 hours of reading
Through the prism of sports and from a range of scholarly perspectives, this anthology offers insight into the varied and shifting experiences of African athletes, fans, communities, and postcolonial states.
- 2019
Conflict Zone, Comfort Zone
- 290 pages
- 11 hours of reading
By taking students out of their comfort zone, field-based courses-which are increasingly popular in secondary and postsecondary education-have the potential to be deep, transformative learning experiences. But what happens when the field in question is a site of active or recent conflict?
- 2019
Ambivalent
- 376 pages
- 14 hours of reading
Ambivalent makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories.
- 2019
Making a World after Empire
- 436 pages
- 16 hours of reading
In April 1955, twenty-nine countries from Africa, Asia, and the Middle East came together for a diplomatic conference in Bandung, Indonesia, intending to define the direction of the postcolonial world.
- 2014
Offers comparative and transnational insights that disturb romantic views of unchanging indigenous knowledges in harmony with the environment.
- 2003
Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie at the heart of all environmental history, the field opens the door to a wide range of inquiries, several of which are pioneered in this collection.South