Published Voices

Is the field of international relations (IR) able to overcome the lack of universality and the colonial standards of ethics within the discipline? This paper aims to explore these issues of ethics in IR from both a historical and social justice perspective when it comes to the Global African Community (diaspora and continental).

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Through personal academic experience, I argue that the white educator visually embodies my own ‘personified’ Duboisian double consciousness. This develops through agents of socialization and the social behavioural inclinations held within the Freudian superego that teach values such as discipline, kindness, etc. I also argue this white embodiment of values and values themselves are an

As social impact bonds and development impact bonds welcome an opportunity for private sector investment to provide capital for social change, community interest must be prioritized in these multi sectoral contracts. Evaluation frameworks must ensure that targets and desired outcomes align profoundly with communities that impact bonds are set up to serve. Innovation is needed