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Friday, December 13, 2019

Real world Issues Presentations-This will be updated regularly

1. Detention Centers

https://www.anthropology-news.org/index.php/2019/08/05/what-to-call-us-border-detention-centers/

Human Rights

Power
Change
Identity

2. Iran Blue Girl
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/10/football/iran-football-women-sahar-khodayari-spt-intl/index.html
Original article no longer available NY Times

Human Rights

change
culture
society

3.Major clashes erupt in Hong Kong ahead of National Day
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/world/asia/hong-kong-protest-china-national-day.html
New York Times

Human Rights

change
culture
society

4. Many US women say 1st sexual experience was forced in teens.
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/sexual-health/many-u-s-women-say-1st-sexual-experience-was-forced-n1054891
Power

power
identity
symbolism

5. Hong Kong as China Asserts Power.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/29/business/hong-kong-china-power.html

Human Rights

power
society
symbolism

6. Children Stealing Vanilla and Prison Term
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-49885904/the-children-in-prison-for-stealing-vanilla

Human Rights
Society
Power
Change

7. Muslim Internment Camps in China
https://nowthisnews.com/videos/politics/activist-aydin-anwar-on-chinese-internment-of-muslims
Please verify source if you are using this one.

Inequality
Power
Identity
Materiality

8. Muslim Family Boarding NYC Ferry
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/three-muslim-familes-not-allowed-board-ferry-after-being-labeled-n1067991

Human Rights
Belief and Knowledge
Culture
Social Relations

9. Violence streamed in Synagogue

https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/germany-shooting-halle/index.html
Violence
symbol
change
beliefs and knowledge

10. Mental Health Issues and Abuse Nigeria

https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/11/africa/nigeria-mental-patients-abuse-hrw-report/index.html
Human Rights

Belief and Knowledge
Power
Change

11. Gender Equity in jobs
https://mwi.usma.edu/women-arent-problem-standards/
Inequality

Culture
Belief and Knowledge
Change

12. Elections in Great Britain exit Brexit
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/11/uk/uk-election-explainer-ge19-gbr-intl/index.html

Power
Change
Identity
Social Relations

13. Catholic Priests abuse deaf

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-50549918
Human Rights
Power
Change
Belief and Knowledge

14. Human Rights ethnic cleansing China
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/z3bbp3/people-are-pressuring-the-olympic-committee-to-help-shut-down-chinas-uyghur-camps
Identity
Power
Change.

15. She was sex-trafficked and then criminally charged. Now she's asking for a pardon. Marisa Lati
Human Rights
Change
Power
Society

16. Protests muslims in a Hindu nation
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/world/asia/india-citizenship-protests.html
Inequality
Power
Identity
Change

17. France and Antisemitism
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/14/europe/france-anti-semitic-attacks-intl/index.html
Power
Identity
Culture
Symbolism

18. People of Color and Pollution
https://www.calhealthreport.org/2019/02/08/people-of-color-and-the-poor-disproportionately-exposed-to-air-pollution-study-finds/
Materiality
society
inequality
power

“She was sex-trafficked and then criminally charged. Now she’s asking for a pardon.”

Marisa Lati - The Washington Post


Them

e: Inequality 
Key Concepts:

  • Culture
  • Change 
  • Belief and Knowledge 
Human RiTheme: Inequality 
Key Concepts: 

  • Power
  • Identity
  • Materiality