Global South

Clara Xavier Marques, CGII Fall 2024 GGR Research

Exacerbated by climate change, flash droughts pose significant threats to global food and water security.

The 'Tiny Packages with Big Impact: Workshop on Extracellular Vesicle (EVs) Isolation and Characterization' is born from the acknowledgment of a critical gap in hands-on EV research training.

This project will partner a UVA global health student with a Cambodian community mental health team to develop a research project focused on family and community supports for people with severe mental illness in Cambodia.

Cherrie Kwok will focus on advancing her dissertation project about the relationship between anti-imperialism and a late nineteenth-century artistic and literary style named Decadence.

Recent scholarship has indicated that more than outside aid, the success of an non-violent campaign for democratic rights depends on the skills of the campaign leadership.

Informed by the perspective of Global South studies, my project explores the ideological tensions within the Popular Socialist Party (PSP) between 1953 and 1954.

My current research is focused on collective action and informal governance in the COVID-19 pandemic responses seen in the favelas of urban Brazil, particularly in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro.

In a time of rising sea levels and global climate change, why do the arts matter after a hurricane?

The goal of this repository is to facilitate a deeper understanding of the artistic production of slums dwellers by speaking to questions of identity, race, diversity, and social justice.