Archive for the ‘Americas’ Category

The Nutrition Transition: Evidence from Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Chile

BY LISA R. PAWLOSKI, JEAN B. MOORE, NIGEL WATERS AND XINIA FERNANDEZ ROJAS INTRODUCTION Obesity is increasingly becoming an epidemic in industrialized nations, particularly in the U.S., where one out of every three adults is obese. However, the U.S. is not alone with this emerging public health crisis.  In Europe, rates of obesity among adults [...]

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Posted by admin on June 1st, 2010 No Comments

Migration and the Challenges of Global Belonging

BY DEBRA LATTANZI SHUTIKA I began working with immigrant communities in 1995, focusing primary on new destinations.  New destinations are those communities that are experiencing significant immigration, but have had little or no prior history of being locations of migration and settlement.  I began my work  in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, the “Mushroom Capital of the [...]

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Posted by admin on June 1st, 2010 No Comments

Does Transitional Justice Work? Latin America in Comparative Perspective

BY TRICIA D. OLSEN, LEIGH A. PAYNE, AND ANDREW G. REITER Despite the recent proliferation of transitional justice practices and scholarship around the world, we know very little about whether and how it achieves its goals of strengthening democracy and reducing human rights violations.  Findings from the Transitional Justice Data Base (TJDB) fill that gap [...]

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Posted by admin on December 15th, 2009 1 Comment

Lessons From The Trial Of Former President Alberto Fujimori

BY RONALD GAMARRA HERRERA On April 7, 2009, the Peruvian Supreme Court’s Special Criminal Court handed down a unanimous sentence against former President Alberto Fujimori in the four cases of human rights violations for which he was on trial: collective assassinations in Barrios Altos and La Cantuta, and the abductions of journalist Gustavo Gorriti and [...]

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Posted by admin on December 15th, 2009 No Comments

Oil Crisis in the Global South: A View from Mexico’s Gulf Coast

BY LISA BREGLIA Across the frontlines of energy production in the Global South, an oil crisis is long simmering. This is not an oil crisis as we already know it: in other words, a crisis stimulated by market models of supply and demand, or a crisis abstractly negotiated by giddy futures speculators, or even a [...]

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Posted by admin on November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Studying Past Environments to Understand Our Global Environmental Future

BY SHERYL LUZZADDER-BEACH At first glance, ancient Mesoamerica and the modern world have major differences: diverse environments, different human histories, and different technological advances among many others. But closer examination through the lens of geoarchaeology provides clues to environmental change, and human impact on and adaptations to changing environments that span the globe. It offers [...]

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Posted by admin on November 11th, 2008 No Comments

Nutrition Education as a Global Health Intervention: Effects Among Nicaraguan Adolescent Girls

BY LISA PAWLOSKI Adolescent girls in developing countries are often considered a nutritionally at-risk group. Nutritional anthropologists study the impact of nutrition on adolescent growth and development and the sociocultural factors which influence nutritional status. Ten years ago, I examined the nutritional status of adolescent girls living in Mali, West Africa, and found them to [...]

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Posted by admin on November 21st, 2007 No Comments

1920s Transatlantic Encounters: Latin American Artists in Paris

BY MICHELE GREET Traditionally, the field of Art History has focused predominantly on art produced in Europe. Over the past several decades, with the increased emphasis on globalism and multiculturalism, the field has expanded to include non-European regions. Consequently, Latin American art has begun to achieve long overdue recognition in both museums and academic institutions. [...]

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Posted by admin on November 28th, 2006 No Comments

Transitional Justice: What to Do About the Torturers?

BY JO-MARIE BURT One of the most contentious issues facing transitional democracies is the problem of gross human rights violations committed during the previous regime. How should fragile democracies address the question of accountability, given the known deficiencies of their judicial systems; the ongoing power of the torturers themselves and/or those who benefited from their [...]

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Posted by admin on March 3rd, 2006 No Comments