Past Science Breakthroughs | Social Sciences & Humanities
2024 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Rafael Prieto Curiel: Breaking the Wall of Drug Cartel Analysis
Rafael Prieto-Curiel's research on Mexican drug cartels highlights the critical role of reducing recruitment to curb violence to spread awareness about the National Safety budget, drug smuggling, and the limitations faced by the police.
2024 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Rafael Prieto Curiel: Breaking the Wall of Drug Cartel Analysis
Rafael Prieto-Curiel's research on Mexican drug cartels highlights the critical role of reducing recruitment to curb violence to spread awareness about the National Safety budget, drug smuggling, and the limitations faced by the police.
2023 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Pumla Gqola: Breaking the Wall of the Female Fear Factory
Gender-based violence persists as a pervasive epidemic on a global scale, thriving under the oppressive structures of patriarchal systems. This deeply ingrained issue demands profound introspection and systemic change. Historically, the burden of preventing such violence has disproportionately fallen upon women and feminine-presenting individuals, a skewed perspective that places the onus on potential victims rather than addressing the root cause—the thoughts and actions of men.
Pumla Dineo Gqola is a distinguished professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and the South African National Research Foundation Chair in African Feminist Imagination at Nelson Mandela University.
2023 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Pumla Gqola: Breaking the Wall of the Female Fear Factory
Gender-based violence persists as a pervasive epidemic on a global scale, thriving under the oppressive structures of patriarchal systems. This deeply ingrained issue demands profound introspection and systemic change. Historically, the burden of preventing such violence has disproportionately fallen upon women and feminine-presenting individuals, a skewed perspective that places the onus on potential victims rather than addressing the root cause—the thoughts and actions of men.
Pumla Dineo Gqola is a distinguished professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and the South African National Research Foundation Chair in African Feminist Imagination at Nelson Mandela University.
2022 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Sunil Amrith: Breaking the Wall to Environmental Justice
In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading to a form of technocratic essentialism. Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. His work puts global migration at the heart of environmental history, bridging those two fields in new ways. At Falling Walls, Amrith argues that in order to understand environmental justice, we need to understand the history of migration and empire in the Global South. In his talk, he seeks to re-insert these perspectives into the discourse by magnifying voices from the Global South as he discusses the nature of "home" in the context of a changing climate.
2022 SCIENCE BREAKTHROUGH
Sunil Amrith: Breaking the Wall to Environmental Justice
In the global North, discussions of climate change often carry an undercurrent of fear in terms of anxiety around an “inundation” of rich countries by so-called climate refugees. At the same time, much of the discourse is based on finding financial solutions to the vulnerabilities exposed by climate change, leading to a form of technocratic essentialism. Sunil Amrith is the Renu and Anand Dhawan Professor of History at Yale University. His work puts global migration at the heart of environmental history, bridging those two fields in new ways. At Falling Walls, Amrith argues that in order to understand environmental justice, we need to understand the history of migration and empire in the Global South. In his talk, he seeks to re-insert these perspectives into the discourse by magnifying voices from the Global South as he discusses the nature of "home" in the context of a changing climate.