Ripped from the Headlines

September 16, 2016
DW, a German online publication, has done pretty extensive coverage of events within Indonesia's story of forest fires and haze over the last couple years. The most...
September 1, 2016
In this article by an environmental news website, we learn more in detail about the philosophy of swidden ("slash-and-burn") agriculture and its difficult...
August 29, 2016
This is a bit about the TF for this course, Emily Nguyen. Emily explains: I study the cultural politics of agrarian change in formerly agricultural villages of peri-urban...
August 16, 2016
Recently, when back visiting my hometown of San Diego, I was discussing life and other things with a nurse, who was born and raised in the Philippines. I told her I was...
August 15, 2016
A change.org petition has been posted to urge Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte not to allow former dictator Ferdinand Marcos a hero's burial. This follows in...
August 15, 2016
Bucking the odds and proving naysayers wrong, prof. Harms managed to write a book. The University of California Press even agreed to publish the thing. If you like, you can...
July 10, 2016
There is ongoing debate about whether Indonesia is seeing a rise in Islamic fundamentalism. This article discusses several key examples that could point towards a more...

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