By Jo Mackiewicz, Professor of Rhetoric and Professional Communication, Iowa State University
Although I have a good gig as a full professor at Iowa State University, I’ve daydreamed about learning a trade – something that required both my mind and my hands.
So in 2018, I started night courses in welding at Des Moines Area Community College. For three years, I studied different types of welding and during the day worked on a book about the communication…
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By Yaniv Feller, Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies, University of Florida
Johanna Neumann was 8 when she witnessed a mob of local citizens and Nazis vandalizing the Bornplatz Synagogue in Hamburg. They were “shouting and throwing stones at the marvelous glass windows,” as she later said in an oral history interview. Other students at the Jewish school nearby described a mountain of prayer books and Torah scrolls lying in the dirt on the street, desecrated and set aflame.
It was 1938,…
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By Joseph J. Gonzalez, Associate Professor, Global Studies, Appalachian State University
Blackouts on the Caribbean island are shining a light on a crumbling economy that the nation’s communist leaders may struggle to emerge from.
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By Stewart Prest, Lecturer, Political Science, University of British Columbia
In Canada, the recent provincial election in British Columbia shows just how important it is for losing politicians to accept defeat. regardless of the example set by Donald Trump.
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By Joey Crozier, PhD Candidate, Secrecy, Propaganda and Intelligence Gathering, Aberystwyth University
Stuart monarchs were repeatedly challenged by dangerous threats – a gunpowder plot, a civil war and political revolution. As a result, by the restoration of Charles II in 1660, the English government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets…
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By Mark Bennister, Associate Professor of Politics, University of Lincoln
Ben Worthy, Lecturer in Politics, Birkbeck, University of London
In her victory speech, Badenoch described her first tasks as ‘tough but simple’ – we’d argue they’re tough and extremely challenging.
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By Anne-Sophie Fernandez, Professeur des Universités, Université de Montpellier
Audrey Rouyre, Assistant Professor en Management Stratégique, Montpellier Business School
Isabel Estrada, Associate Professor of Innovation & Strategy, University of Groningen
The Galileo satellite project brought major players in the European space industry into “coopetitive” relationships. Effective governance is key to managing the tensions inherent in such undertakings.
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By Gibson Ncube, Senior Lecturer, Stellenbosch University
A public figure who appeared often on TV and radio, Pathisa Nyathi celebrated the history and culture of Zimbabwe’s marginalised Ndebele people.
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By Russell H. Kaschula, Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
Mbali Sunrise Dhlamini, Lecturer on the New Generation of Academics Programme (nGAP) in African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
Language has always been used as a political football in South Africa. This can be traced back to the competing English and Dutch colonisers, from the 17th to the early 20th centuries, each group trying to assert linguistic as well as economic and social control.
Later, language was used to divide and rule under apartheid. For instance, the racist regime created “homelands” –…
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By Carlos Lopes, Professor at the Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, University of Cape Town
African countries need to unite and negotiate strongly at COP29 for more climate change adaptation grants and fewer loans that only leave the continent paying back debt.
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