Visualizing Inequity in Global Maternal Healthcare I undertook a project in which I endeavored to visualize maternal healthcare inequities on a global scale through an online interactive map. My final project can be found at:pantai kuta bali http://genevieverowe.com/projects/global-maternal-health/ … [Read more...]
US military intervention in Colombia and the Philippines
US interventionism was one of the most impactful foreign policies in the 20th century in which the United States government, in an effort to contain communism, interfered with the internal politics of various nations around the world. Certain social movements or groups such as the Taliban or the Hmong were sponsored and funded by the United States since they helped advance the … [Read more...]
Developing a Global Consciousness in the Absence of Nation-States
One of the most defining features of the world today is how interconnected we are. The global world is more familiar to us now than it has even been. However, there is some growing concern over the nature of human governance and our relation to the entire world. This is especially in reference to the citizenship of a nation-state. In "World Citizenship Defined" we see an … [Read more...]
Culture and the Adoption of Contrary Economic Policy
The article Copyrighting Che overviews the causes, reasons, and results of the Cuban government allowing the free The Cuban government, in this border area of cultural economics, granted Cuban artists certain property rights regarding their intellectual labor that gave them an elite status compared to the average Cuban laborer. The economic impetus - the intellectual … [Read more...]
Oppa Gangnam Style: Korean Culture in the Age of Internet Culture
Doobo Shim's article on the spread of Korean culture across East and Southeast Asia outlines many of the processes and explanations as to why Korean culture specifically became so pervasive among other cultures. The liberalization of media played a major role in directing Korean culture towards an outward expansion. They accepted the importation of American movies (under … [Read more...]
