Category: Academic Analysis
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Curve Lake’s day school history reveals Indigenous activism in the face of colonial schooling
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By Jackson Pind, Assistant Professor, Indigenous Methodologies, Chanie Wenjack School of Indigenous Studies, Trent University Chief Elsie Knott, the first female chief of a First Nation in Canada, disliked the Indian Day School system from her own childhood experiences and wanted something better for the next generation.…
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Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – USA (2) – By Elizabeth Blum, Professor of Environmental History, Troy University Environmental Protection Agency staff and contractors are often involved in large cleanups of toxic waste, such as after the Los Angeles fires of early 2025. Mario Tama/Getty Images As Congress faces a Sept. 30, 2025, deadline to…
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Governments, universities and non-profits must work together to safeguard Canada’s lakes and rivers
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – Canada – By David Barrett, Research Associate, Aquatic Science, Faculty of Science, University of Calgary Recent reports of proposed federal government spending cuts to water monitoring and research strike a particularly ominous note for Canada’s Prairies. The government is considering significant reductions to programs, specifically within the Canada Water…
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A second runway at Gatwick airport could improve efficiency and bring down fares – an economist’s view
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Marwan Izzeldin, Senior Lecturer in Economics, Lancaster University Steve Travelguide/Shutterstock The £2.2 billion plan for a second runway at London’s Gatwick airport has divided opinion over environmental concerns and its ability to kickstart the economic growth the UK so badly needs. Critics have said that the…
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RuPaul’s Drag Race: how mainstream drag is losing its political, activist and community focus
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Chris Greenough, Professor of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University As UK fans prepare to sit down for the seventh series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, it is worth asking what the competition format really offers drag. Since first airing in the US in 2009, Drag Race…
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Port Talbot, one year on: steelworks closure shows why public is losing trust in net zero
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Nicholas Beuret, Lecturer in Management and Ecological Sustainability, University of Essex The rolling mills are still working, but the furnaces are long cold. Of the 4,000 people previously employed at the steel mill in Port Talbot, Wales, only half still work there. Despite union protests and…
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How can Europe fight back against incursions by drone aircraft?
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Matthew Powell, Teaching Fellow in Strategic and Air Power Studies, University of Portsmouth An increasing number of drones have been spotted around Denmark’s airports in recent weeks. The most recent incidents around Aalborg and Billund airport caused considerable disruption followed as scheduled flights were prevented from…
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No more resets, reboots and reshuffles: brand experts on why Labour now needs a total overhaul
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Christopher Pich, Associate Professor in Marketing, University of Nottingham Labour is holding its 2025 conference against a backdrop of Andy Burnham, mayor of Manchester, calling for “wholesale change”. Burnham is making a clear attempt to use the government’s record of scandal, u-turn and general identity crisis…
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The ancestors of ostriches and emus were long-distance fliers – here’s how we worked this out
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Klara Widrig, Postdoctoral research fellow, Smithsonian Institution Oleksii Synelnykov/Shutterstock Aside from being a delight to watch, flight in birds is regarded by many cultures as a symbol of freedom, and a source of inspiration for humans to build our own flying machines. This makes those birds…
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The eye in the sky: what Denmark’s drone sightings tell us about power and fear down the years
Source: ForeignAffairs4 Source: The Conversation – UK – By Kathrin Maurer, Professor , Department of Cultural and Linguistic Studies, University of Southern Denmark All-seeing ‘eye in the sky’: drones make us uneasy because we don’t know who is controlling them. Piotr Piatrouski/Shutterstock Red and blue lights blink in the Danish sky. Is it a plane,…