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June 2021 | TNRC Blog Post This post captures insights from a TNRC virtual panel on June 14, 2021 in which speakers from Kenya and India discussed an understudied, yet environmentally devastating trend: the unsustainable mining of river sand, facilitated by corruption, that feeds the global construction boom while destroying habitats and livelihoods and fueling conflict. Insights were contributed by Mohamed Daghar, Regional Coordinator for Eastern Africa, ENACT programme, Institute for Security Studies, and Dr. Prem Mahadevan, Senior Analyst, Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime. The panel was hosted by the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University, and moderated by TraCCC’s director, ....
Mar 12, 2021 Dr. Chris Balaschak, associate professor of Visual Arts, recently had his book, “The Image of Environmental Harm in American Social Documentary Photography” published by Routledge. In it, he explores new perspectives on the history of American social documentary photography, and how politically-engaged photography can serve as models for the representation of impending environmental injustices. “The project started in 2013 when I was on a research trip to the Museum of Modern Art archives in New York, and was looking at photography, prints, and books, made in response to the 1979 accident at the Three Mile Island nuclear plant,” he said. “I was interested in how artists were using photography as a means of protest, as a way of showing our proximity to potentially catastrophic environmental change, and were choosing photography because it is an inherently reproducible and circulatable medium.” ....