Totally forgot to make this post. Oops. In our class discussion, we incidentally started talking about digital memory. One of my favorite topics in that sphere is disaster remembrance. Fun fact: I am…

Zygmunt Bauman, a sociologist and philosopher, points out that today’s politics has been replaced with the freedom of indifference. People are merely concerned about personal interests, safety, and stability within the closed private…

Last semester I took a class on international migration (political science and migration studies). A core tension in the course (and readings) was a debate surrounding the source(s) of migration. The data make…

The topic next week is Politics, Borders, and People in Motion. This is my priority list: Let me know if you think I missed an important chapter from the Routledge Handbook and I…

The Koenig article was disturbing to me. I think it’s the idea that everyone knows what’s about to happen to people, and all we can do is take a picture of it after…

The memory of Cambodia’s dark past is a reminder of the atrocities committed by the Khmer Rouge regime, and it serves as both a testament to human resilience and a call to action…

I have been reading about social movements and the digital humanities this week, and I see potential connections between these fields and my own capstone project on K-12 school shootings. While the readings…

“One who is incapable of participating or who is in need of nothing through being self-sufficient is no part of a city, and so is either a beast or a god.” (Aristotle, Politics)…