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Godfrey, B. J. (2004). Barrio under siege: Latino sense of place in San Francisco, California. In Hispanic spaces, Latino places: Community and cultural diversity in contemporary America (pp. 79-102). University of Texas Press.
San Francisco's Latino community does not rival in size or visibility such predominantly Hispanic metropolises as Los Angeles and Miami, but it boasts a long-term cultural contribution to an ethnically diverse and cosmopolitan city. Widely admired for its historic qualities, scenic charms, and social tolerance—and economically propelled by the Bay Area's high technology boom—San Francisco became one of America's most expensive real estate markets in the late twentieth century.

Giroux, H. A. (2021). Trumpism and the challenge of critical education. Educational Philosophy and Theory, 1-19.
The United States government is on fire. For four years, the fundamentals of democracy and its mode of governance have been under attack by Trump, his Vichy-like Congressional Republicans, and right-wing media apparatuses along with numerous conservative digital and social media outlets. As the inferno gained momentum, it was doused with gasoline by reactionary media conglomerates such as Fox News, which spread disinformation, hate, and bigotry.

Turner, K. (2022). Branding Beyond the Rainbow: An Exploration of Authentic Advertising for Gen-Z's LGBTQ+ Community.
“Brand authenticity” is an interesting concept. It's difficult to objectively define, hard to effectively execute, yet remains a requirement in winning the hearts of consumer audiences. Generation-Z, the most diverse and openly LGBTQ+ generation yet, places high value upon authenticity and purpose-driven marketing. This creates a challenge for advertisers as they adapt their messaging to the next big wave of spenders; brands must find a way to connect with Gen-Z's LGBTQ+ audience without engaging in the pitfalls of rainbow-washing.

Schöneberg, J., Haudenschild, D., Darvishi, H., Momeni, S., & Ziai, A. (2022). The many faces of Post-Development: alternatives to development in Tanzania, Iran and Haiti. Sustainability Science, 17(4), 1223-1234.
Post-Development, a body of transitional imaginaries, is not homogenous, neither in its critique, nor in the alternatives proposed. Given that the term ‘development’ is already highly contentious, the question of what ‘alternatives to development’ might be, becomes difficult to respond to. In this article, we argue that Post-Development can assume many faces that are highly dependent upon their conceptual and geographical contexts.

Lang, V. (2021). The economics of the democratic deficit: The effect of IMF programs on inequality. The Review of International Organizations, 16(3), 599-623.
Does the International Monetary Fund (IMF) increase inequality? To answer this question, this article introduces a new empirical strategy for determining the effects of IMF programs that exploits the heterogeneous effect of IMF liquidity on loan allocation based on a difference-in-differences logic.

Bennett, M. D., Walther, S. C., & Tirrell, A. (2021). Transboundary Water and paradiplomacy in the San Diego-Tijuana binational region.
The San Diego-Tijuana border region has experienced transformative political, economic, and social integration in the globalization era. These changes have yielded regional institutions, governmental partnerships, and other cross-border apparatuses that capitalize on the significance of the border while acknowledging its unique challenges. Transboundary water management issues across the watershed have similarly provided cooperative arenas for local and regional actors to establish partnerships.

Wright, W. J. (2021). As above, so below: Anti‐Black violence as environmental racism. Antipode, 53(3), 791-809.
Activists and scholars often describe environmental racism as an immoral and illegal dumping of toxic waste into poor, Black, and people of colour communities. Yet, the use of environmental habitats in (and with) which Black people are mutilated, concealed, and contained has gone under-conceptualised as a mode of environmental racism.

Colgan, J. D., Green, J. F., & Hale, T. N. (2021). Asset revaluation and the existential politics of climate change. International Organization, 75(2), 586-610.
While scholars have typically modeled climate change as a global collective action challenge, we offer a dynamic theory of climate politics based on the present and future revaluation of assets.

Loboguerrero, A. M., Campbell, B. M., Cooper, P. J., Hansen, J. W., Rosenstock, T., & Wollenberg, E. (2019). Food and earth systems: priorities for climate change adaptation and mitigation for agriculture and food systems. Sustainability, 11(5), 1372.
Human activities and their relation with land, through agriculture and forestry, are significantly impacting Earth system functioning. Specifically, agriculture has increasingly become a key sector for adaptation and mitigation initiatives that address climate change and help ensure food security for a growing global population.