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Research Fellow: Cacao and Climate Change
This position is only open to candidates who have completed their PhD studies within the past 24 months and who are US Citizens / permanent residents or cocoa producer country nationals including: Africa (Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia, & Nigeria); Latin America (Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, […]
Tags: #Agriculture #Biodiversity #Cacao #Climate change #Food Security
International Development & Diplomacy Internship Programme
Now in its 19th year, the International Development & Diplomacy Internship Programme (IDDIP) (formerly known as the UNPPP), is honored to be able to continue investing in the future of Canadian global citizens. The United Nations Association in Canada (UNA-Canada) appreciates Canadians want international experience through direct participation in international organizations and agrees that the unique […]
Tags: #Diplomacy #Human Rights #International development #Internship #United Nations
Post-doc: Indigenous Studies
The Interdisciplinary Initiative (IDI) in Applied Indigenous Scholarship at Western University is seeking applications for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship. Our successful Postdoctoral fellow will develop an independent program of research in areas that could include determinants of Indigenous well-being, Indigenization processes, and reconciliation in post-secondary environments. In carrying out this research, the candidate will draw broadly […]
Tags: #Indigenization #Indigenous studies #Interdisciplinary #Well-being
World-system Analysis
Immanuel Wallerstein, an American sociologist at Yale, developed the world-systems approach, which he has written about and developed for more than four decades –first published in The Modern World-System in 1974. In 2004 he authored World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction as a means to present the theory in a concise way, largely for those unfamiliar with […]
Tags: #Capitalism #Immanuel Wallerstein #Interdisciplinary #Participation #World-system
African Writing Award
It can be difficult for writers, before they become established, to write while simultaneously earning a living. To help meet this need the MMF awards annually a small number of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the aim being to allow each Scholar the time to produce the first draft of a completed book. The Scholarships are […]
New Publication: Searching for Social Justice in GIScience
Article is available here, from Cartography and Geographic Information Science. Abstract: Maps are explicitly positioned within the realms of power, representation, and epistemology; this article sets out to explore how these ideas are manifest in the academic Geographic Information Science (GIScience) literature. We analyze 10 years of literature (2005–2014) from top tier GIScience journals specific […]
Tags: #Empowerment #GIScience #Marginalization #Power #Social Justice
About me
Logan Cochrane
Logan is a Professor at HBKU in the College of Public Policy. He is an Associate Fellow of the Ethiopian Academy of Sciences and an Adjunct Professor at Hawassa University (Institute for Policy and Development Research). Over the last twenty years, he has worked in Afghanistan, Benin, Burundi, Canada, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda. Logan acts as a consultant for governmental agencies and non-governmental organizations, seeking to create bridges between research and practice.
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