During the 2014-2015 Ebola outbreak that affected the Mano River region, humanitarian response teams were sent to West Africa to help the affected countries to …
The prison is a commodity frontier. Building on the work of Ruth Wilson Gilmore and Abolitionist Geographies, the prison-industrial complex is indeed a space where …
Fany Lobos Castro is an activist-scholar based in the rural territories of Maule Sur, Chile. The women of these territories are struggling to defend their …
With the increasing availability of memory devices that supplement or in many cases surpass our biological memory, the question of where the body ends and …
Sugar has become a mainstay of contemporary diets. Sometimes visible in the form of sweets and heaping teaspoons of white powder dumped into coffee and …
Over the past years,the Republic of Georgia has emerged as an important surrogacy hub at Israel’s “fertility frontier,” where cheaper and more readily available surrogates …
This contribution considers sex work as social reproductive work in gendered capitalist structures. Exploring the role that sex workers played and continue to play in …
Scientific management and work rationalization are usually associated with the rise of industrial capitalism and factory labor. This narrow perspective, however, obscures the rural and …
The gold-mining waste frontier collides with conservation efforts in the south of the Peruvian Amazon, placing Indigenous communities in a challenging landscape. This essay shares …
This article analyzes the history of hydrocarbon waste across Algeria and France. Focusing on the critical years between the discovery of oil in late-colonial Algeria …
This article focusses on an inter-disciplinary and mixed-methods study of the critical circuit of minerals from irregular mines to e-waste dumps in Ghana. The move …
Commodity frontiers embody global-scale power transitions, grounded in place-based frictions. These historic processes of countryside remaking involve commodification and local socio-ecological dialectics, addressed here through …
The Nuclear Culture project of Ele Carpenter is the overarching title for her curatorial research into art and nuclear culture covering the full material trace …
Commodity frontiers embody global-scale power transitions, grounded in place-based frictions. These historic processes of countryside remaking involve commodification and local socio-ecological dialectics, addressed here through …
This short essay shows how “waste”, historically and in the present, has operated as capitalism’s dialectical frontier: animating its relentless drive for profit, subtending its …
This historical article is comprised of two parts. The first part is a concise survey of mathematical developments. The second part includes some personal remembrances …
After serving the entire Brown University community for many decades, the Art Slide Library was officially closed in 2010. Faculty were given four years to …
During C. elegans lethargus, a sleep-like behavior called quiescence occurs in short bouts during which animals spontaneously pause locomotion and feeding. Multiple laboratories are interested …
BACKGROUND: Many studies have addressed the relationship between iron deficiency anemia (IDA) and cognitive impairment, but none have evaluated the role of non-iron deficiency anemia …
A double‐blind placebo‐controlled study of the concurrent administration of albendazole and praziquantel was conducted in >1500 children with high prevalences of geohelminths and schistosomiasis. The …
BACKGROUND: Few studies have described heterogeneity in Schistosoma japonicum infection intensity, and none were done in Philippines. The purpose of this report is to describe …
BACKGROUND: A genome wide association study found significant association of a sequence variant, rs7566605, in the insulin-induced gene 2 (INSIG2) with obesity. However, the association …
We examine the mapping of the distribution of ability onto earnings in a hierarchical job assignment model. Workers are assigned to a continuum of jobs …
A salient theme in D. Gale Johnson’s work is the importance of agricultural development for general prosperity and for economic diversification (e.g., Johnson 2000). Johnson …
This study exploits the quasi-random assignment of air pollution changes across counties induced by federally mandated air pollution regulations to identify the impact of particulate …
Between 1950 and 1990, the aggregate population of central cities in the United States declined by 17 percent despite population growth of 72 percent in …
We model growth and technology transfer in a world where technologies are specific to particular combinations of inputs. Unlike the usual specification, our model does …
This paper examines whether the Solow growth model is consistent with the international variation in the standard of living. It shows that an augmented Solow …
I use microeconomic estimates of the effect of health on individual outcomes to construct macroeconomic estimates of the proximate effect of health on GDP per …