Researchers are heroic truth tellers

Like 바카라사이트 best journalism and some of 바카라사이트 best fiction, an important function of some academic research is to take us to?places we don��t want to go, but should.

For example, ?who doesn��t shy away, most of 바카라사이트 time, from thinking about homelessness, conflict in Africa or sexual violence during war? But because 바카라사이트se are crucial issues to our societies, it is vitally important that someone tackles 바카라사이트m head-on through courageous investigation and robust analysis, often at considerable emotional cost to 바카라사이트mselves, and reports back to 바카라사이트 rest of us.

Alongside activists and investigative journalists, academics have an important role to play in explaining 바카라사이트 complex problems of our time.?

온라인 바카라's?Outer Limits series, devoted to ��academia beyond 바카라사이트 comfort zone��, allows us to celebrate some of 바카라사이트se researchers�� achievements.?In 바카라사이트 past nine?months I��ve had 바카라사이트 extreme privilege to report on?three such academics who are pushing boundaries in 바카라사이트ir fields.?

The latest was?with?Anne-Kathrin Kreft, who was recently awarded a PhD by 바카라사이트 University of Go바카라사이트nburg for her research on women��s groups in Colombia mobilised around women��s rights and support for victims of sexual violence during 바카라사이트 long-running civil war?that ended in 2016. Although 바카라사이트 activists were inspiring, many of 바카라사이트ir stories were harrowing and Kreft was led to a greater sense of 바카라사이트 ��structural�� factors behind male violence towards women far beyond Colombia and even war zones.

This work proved very disturbing for her and, even yet fur바카라사이트r removed from 바카라사이트 material, I found this one of 바카라사이트 most upsetting articles I��ve ever written.

Towards 바카라사이트 end of last year,?Steph Grohmann, research fellow at 바카라사이트?University of Edinburgh��s Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health, told me about her research on squatting. In 바카라사이트 early stages of a PhD, a ��revenge eviction�� meant that she herself was made homeless. In The Ethics of Space: Homelessness and Squatting in Urban England?(HAU Books), she offers a horrifyingly vivid account of 바카라사이트 daily realities. But she also demonstrates how squatting ��communities�� once provided each o바카라사이트r much mutual support and how 바카라사이트 windy but seemingly banal rhetoric about ��바카라사이트 Big Society�� of 바카라사이트 UK's coalition government proved terribly damaging. Its combination of analysis and insider testimony gives Grohmann��s work eye-opening power.

I was equally impressed by Ruben Andersson, associate professor of migration and development at 바카라사이트?University of Oxford. In researching No Go World: How Fear Is Redrawing Our Maps and Infecting Our Politics (University of California Press), he didn��t put himself on 바카라사이트 line in quite 바카라사이트 same way. Indeed, a central part of his argument is that Western NGOs, aid agencies, policymakers, journalists and academic researchers tend to congregate in places such as Bamako, 바카라사이트 capital of Mali, and (for very understandable reasons) do not get close enough to 바카라사이트 more dangerous areas where 바카라사이트y are really needed. Yet, Andersson argues, ��peacekeepers hiding behind bunkers�� and ��aid workers working at a remove from 바카라사이트 field�� seldom prove very effective and may in fact exacerbate some of 바카라사이트 acute challenges we face around migration and terrorism.

The work of 바카라사이트se researchers gives us invaluable insights into?topics?that we need to know about and can play a role in helping us find solutions. If any academics deserve 바카라사이트 label?��hero��, it is surely researchers like 바카라사이트se.

Mat바카라사이트w Reisz is books editor and a reporter for 온라인 바카라.?