Crises bring habits into focus. For a scholarly discipline like ours, the practice of gathering by the hundreds or thousands somewhere in the world each year is a habit that merits some scrutiny. Sharing work and meeting colleagues and potential collaborators is...
Between 2005 and 2007 UN peacekeeping troops carried out several raids on Cite Soleil, an economically-depressed neighbourhood of Port au Prince. The raids were targeted against leaders of criminal gangs but scores of civilians were killed, including children, and...
