Smart city initiatives have been adopted by cities worldwide, proposing forward-looking,
technological solutions to urban problems big and small. These policies are indicative of a …

Serial forced displacement has been defined as the repetitive, coercive upheaval of groups.
In this essay, we examine the history of serial forced displacement in American cities due to …

The interest of social scientists in complexity theory has developed rapidly in recent years.
Here, I consider briefly the primary characteristics of complexity theory, with particular …

Nationalism is back with a renewed force. Hungary is a virulent example of the new
nationalist ascendancy. As the country was a former liberal star pupil, Hungary's neo …

Despite the power of the Darwinian paradigm, evolutionary biology is just now being
recognized as a basic science essential for medicine. Most diseases decrease fitness, so it …

Recent disease events such as SARS, H1N1 and avian influenza, and haemorrhagic fevers
have focussed policy and public concern as never before on epidemics and so …

Anti-Black Racism and the AIDS Epidemic: State Intimacies argues that racial disparities in
HIV rates reflect the organization of racialized poverty and structural violence. Challenging …

Deindustrialization is a major burden on workers' health in many countries, calling for
theoretically informed sociological analysis. Here, we present a novel neoclassical …

Background Housing instability is linked to numerous health outcomes, but the specific
impact of eviction from renter-occupied households, an event that has immediate …

A public health approach to understanding and eliminating excessive police violence.
Excessive police violence and its disproportionate targeting of minority communities has …