Issue 3, Volume 1: Extraction et exploitation : mouvement du monde *Nouveau*

 

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1. Coral Reefs: The Impact of Resotation Infrastructure on Coastal Communities

Tait Gould, (she/her), fourth year at the University of Ottawa majoring in International Development and Globalization with a minor in Music.

 

Coastal communities are highly impacted by climate change, infrastructure and social policies implemented to protect coral reefs. This is explored through academic readings and a case study in Guam.

 

2. Flirting for Foreign Funds: Rethinking Global Sex Work in the Asian Context

Justine Pascual, (she/her), third-year student in International Development and Globalization at the University of Ottawa

By analyzing llicit Flirtations: Labor, Migration, and Sex-Trafficking in Tokyo by Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work by Kimberly Kay Hoang, this paper urges readers to challenge their current understanding of global sex work.

 

 

 

3. The Benefits of Agenda 21

Charlene Smith, (she/they), third year at Ryerson University majoring in Geographic Analysis with a minor in French

This paper analyzes the commitments made by the United Nations through Agenda 21. It covers five crucial steps that the government and other organizations alike, must follow in order to achieve environmental sustainability. Along with this, it shows the struggles different countries face worldwide and their approach to tackle their environmental flaws.

 

 

 

 

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4. Women’s Voices in Environmental Spaces: A Manufactured Narrative

Sofia Slater, (she/her), Environment and Business student at the University of Waterloo

This piece discusses how history has shaped the Global North's perceptions of women within environmental movements and what is deemed an acceptable environmentalist by Western society. It also explores some of the challenges faced by racialized women within environmental spaces today.

 

 

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5. Uprooted Retribution and Barren Earth, Pregnant Mother

Jocelyn Johnson, (she/her), Fine Arts Student at the University of Ottawa

Jocelyn’s work depicts how Mother Earth would react to the arrogance and cruelty of human greed. It incorporates themes of extraction and exploitation, with the first painting depicting Mother Earth angrily grieving over uprooted trees. The second piece imagines a celestial, divine Mother Earth who plans to rebirth the entire planet. This series aims to critique humanity’s extractive industries and our contribution to climate change, with an emphasis on clear cutting.

 

 

 

6. Resistance from Food, The Elves of the Shallow Sea, and Consequence

Xinyi Song (Oliver), (he/him), Visual Arts Student at the University of Ottawa

Oliver’s series consists of three paintings, Resistance from Food, The Elves of the Shallow Sea, and Consequence. All three pieces examine the interactions between climate change and animals, taking inspiration from current events, including overfishing and irresponsible disposal of waste. 

 

 

 

7. In The Garden, Burning Flowers 

Peter Dubinski, (he/him), Fine Arts Student at the University of Ottawa 

In The Garden Burning Flowers is a book-based photo project that thinks about vulnerability, hope, animals, mortality, and the fragility of truth. Made after dark among the woods and rivers of Ontario and Quebec, the work consists of black and white photographs rendered in a flash-documentary style, driven by an interest in the sensation of the familiar crossing into the strange, Peter’s work considers how photography personifies the non-human and symbolizes those he is closest to. The series explores how our human presence is at once estranged and benevolent, adrift in our need of again learning to coexist.

 

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Issue 2, Volume 1: La décolonisation dans le développement – Comment faire les choses différemment?

 

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1. Creativity and the Solidarity Economy

Sinéad Dunne, (she/her), Recent graduate in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa.

 

Creativity, and in particular creative economics, is often considered as somehow distinct from the realm of economics and politics. This paper will argue for the essential inclusion of creativity in development and policy making, recognizing creative acts as a practice which builds social capital and reciprocity economies.

 

2. Decolonizing the Single Mentality Approach to Solving Underdevelopment and Rural Poverty in the Global South: A Book Review

Philip Tetteh Quarshie, (he/him), Ph.D. Student in Geography (International Development Studies), University of Guelph

What is the best way to address global poverty and underdevelopment? How much confidence should we put into foreign aid, free-market or democracy for the poor? This book review is about decolonizing single-approach mentality to addressing global poverty and underdevelopment in modern times.

 

 

3. Eyes on Chile: On the Brink of Departure from Neoliberal Policies?

Natasha Cortes, (she/they), Final Year Student, International Development and Globalization at the University of Ottawa

Following the economic restructuring of the 1970’s, Chilean activists and academics suggest privatization as a catalyst for inequality in the country today. This piece provides a brief overview of the two-tiered social infrastructure in Chile, and looks to the incoming constitutional restructuring as a potential opportunity to close the inequality gap.

 

 

 

4. Indigenous Inclusion in Climate Change Policy

Aneela Rahman, (she/her), Master’s Candidate in International Development and Globalization

This paper aims to explore Indigenous adaptation strategies and how they can be integrated into policy. The key takeaway is that the inclusion of Indigenous communities and their ecological knowledge can support existing scientific research as well as policy formulation.

 

 

 

5. Visual Culture and the Climate Crisis

Sinéad Dunne, (she/her), Recent graduate in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa

This paper understands the idea of creative culture not as simply 'the arts', but includes practices like marketing and architecture alongside the traditional arts, and includes those practices not typically contained within gallery settings. Creative culture should be seen as one of the most effective tools for communicating the climate crisis for its ability to employ imagination to make tangible the invisible violences of environmental degradation. Importantly, the use of this imagination is creating an environment in which viewers are asked to rethink our relationship to each other and our environments, and the ways in which we use them.

 

 

 

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7. Consumption Driven Externalization of Land Demand and Outsourcing Land Degradation

Celestine Muli, (she/her), Researcher on Environmental Projects

The environmental and socio-economic long-term impacts of trade, such as land use patterns, deforestation, and natural resource degradation, remain complex and controversial. For example, unprecedented land-use changes are exacerbated by the constant development of economies and expansion of global markets resulting in resource depletion and ecosystem degradation. This essay describes how in most cases, decisions on local land use are largely influenced by economic globalization, which increases the impact of large agribusiness enterprises and international financial flows at the local level.

 

 

8. Indigenization as Decolonization

Rika Mpogazi, (she/her), Undergraduate International Development Student

Decolonization requires us to introduce structural changes that disrupt the status quo. This article seeks to identify the issues with the surface-level assimilation of Indigenous peoples, and knowledge or teaching practices into our academic spaces, in order to ethically reconstruct our academic discourse.

9. In Fear of Intervention

Rika Mpogazi, (she/her), Undergraduate International Development Student

The international community has long been divided on when, where and how to intervene in the Israeli–Palestinian peace process. This article will break down the historical trajectory of foreign intervention in this disputed region and elaborate on how countries like Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom' actions, or the lack thereof, have aggravated existing tensions between the Israeli state and the Palestinian people.

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10. Cooking Deeper: Learning from Hawa Hassan’s In Bibi’s Kitchen

Jenelle Maillet, (she/her) and Jenna Williams (she/her), recent graduates in International Development and Globalization, University of Ottawa