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...]
The Politics of Instagram Use in Taiwan
*** Image 1 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 2 Source: Iris Huang, @irisspace Image 3 Source: Carol Lan, @carolbluelan For more on: visual rhetoric Hariman, Robert, and John Louis Lucaites. No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago, Ill.: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011. Lee, Eunji, Jung-Ah Lee, Jang Ho Moon, … [Read more...]
Imperialist Language?
Post for 11/29 I’m currently writing an archaeology paper that discusses the relevant theories regarding the abandonment of Chaco Canyon by its Ancestral Puebloan inhabitants around 1200-1300 CE. In researching the topic, I learned that after several hundred years of semi-permanent use, settlement in Chaco became fixed, and Chacoan society thrived from about 600-1200 CE. … [Read more...]
Efforts to change western medicine as cultural imperialism?
According to Donna Matheson, western medicine is often synonymous to and plays a major role in cultural imperialism. For some time, European scientists used race as a means to explain important medical phenomenon that in actuality had nothing to do with race at all. Race, as we know, is a social construct and most certainly not a scientific one. Patricia Barton articulates the … [Read more...]
Case study: 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...]
