Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Solitary confinement is torture, as defined by the United Nations and many of the world’s human rights organizations. Isolating people in solitary confinement often enables other (unsanctioned but nonetheless ubiquitous) abusive practices, including many forms of physical, psychological, and sexual violence.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Many of them had been severely traumatized during Israel’s so-called Operation Protective Edge in summer 2014. In 2016, as a master’s student, I published an article in Boston University’s Pardee Periodical (now The Pardee Atlas: Journal of Global Affairs ) about a new initiative at the ASDC to support their students.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Unpacking the ‘British Values’ Although promoting fundamental ‘British Values’ as part of spiritual, moral, social and cultural (SMSC) development in maintained schools is non-statutory, these values do go a long way in ensuring establishments can meet their obligations under section 78 of the Education Act 2002 (Gov.UK, 2014).

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