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‘The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil’: mapping the use of law in environmental politics in Central America

‘The Legal Cultures of the Subsoil’: mapping the use of law in environmental politics in Central America

by Talking Humanities | Mar 12, 2019 | Features, Human Rights, Projects, Research & Resources

Courts have increasingly become the locus of environmental disputes. Dr Ainhoa Montoya looks at one such case, which occurred in El Salvador, where resource extraction has preoccupied many of its citizens for more than a decade. In 2017, the Salvadoran Legislative...
‘Development’ versus human rights: the fight for Suriname’s rainforests

‘Development’ versus human rights: the fight for Suriname’s rainforests

by Talking Humanities | Jun 5, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, Human Rights, Politics & Law, Republished

Image (© 2018 Richard Price) Though Suriname’s Saamaka people have already achieved a remarkable victory at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights that guarantees their right to their territory and the rainforests within it, the state’s continued push towards...
Towards a ‘Commonwealth 21st century development paradigm’ 

Towards a ‘Commonwealth 21st century development paradigm’ 

by Talking Humanities | Apr 15, 2018 | Analysis & Comment, Features, History & Classics, Human Rights, Politics & Law

Image: © Commonwealth Secretariat In the seventh of a series of scholarly articles marking the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London, Dr Nicholas Watts, senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (ICWS) , examines the...
What’s in a name change?

What’s in a name change?

by Talking Humanities | Feb 9, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Public Engagement, Research & Resources

It used to be known as HRI Digital, now it is called The Digital Humanities Institute. Michael Pidd, who leads the team at the University of Sheffield’s digital humanities centre, explains why.  On 17 January 2016, HRI Digital changed its name to The Digital...

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