Welcome to Items & Issues, the relaunched monthly newsletter from the Social Science Research Council. Since 1947, Items has served as a platform for sharing the SSRC's work and fostering broader conversations about the social sciences. This newsletter continues that tradition, offering a curated selection of social science readings drawn from Council platforms and the wider field.
Trending Essays
This piece by Victor Ogbonnaya Okorie examines the 2011 groundwater contamination emergency in the Niger Delta and how it was shaped by the neoliberal water…
Frontiers
This essay explores the theoretical and empirical relationship between peace and the environment in the modern era, confronting human-driven environmental changes with potentially catastrophic effects.
This essay proposes a new framework for compensating contributions to sustainable stewardship of the environment, prioritizing the restoration of Indigenous sovereignty and land.
This article explores why people in climate-vulnerable regions of Kenya and Namibia express more hope for the future than many in Germany, despite facing greater…