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...]
Tristram Stuart TED Talk: Food Waste on the Personal, Local, and Corporate Scale
Tristram Stuart’s TED Talk on food waste did a great job of breaking down the layered ways that food is wasted across the globe. Not only do we waste food everyday on a personal level, but supermarkets waste pounds upon pounds of edible food. On an even larger scale, large farms and corporations waste massive amounts of food, throwing it away if it is deemed … [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...]
Food and Stuff
The slow food movement is an interesting one, for a lack of better words. I understand the movement as a resistance to the neo-liberal, consumerist McDonalds [plural] of the world, but, in the US, it definitely had a suburban/quinoa-and-avocados feel to it - “convivia and heritage pork!” Especially the Leitch article, the movement reminded me of a previous discussion on how the … [Read more...]
Think Before You Eat
There’s no question that almost any type of food has a much richer and more complex history than we assume; all of the articles for the Slow Food case study provided multiple examples of food that held both a deeper social meaning and specific cultural ties to a group (or groups) of people. One such example that is especially relevant in the Southwest United … [Read more...]
