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The introduction of a social credit system in China has been seen as a controversial idea in the West. But what do Chinese citizens think? Xinyuan Wang went to find out.
Kenya is renowned for its natural environment. But are the country’s protected areas and policies enough to conserve its less well known mammals, birds, and amphibians? The answer is no. Peter Tyrrell explains why.
The team is taking a break until mid-January. Wishing all our readers, contributors and republishers a happy, restful and safe holiday. We look forward to sharing an array of new, fresh, interesting and relevant research and analysis from The Conversation sites across the world in the coming year.
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Commuters on the Shanghai Metro all on their smartphones in March, 2019.
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Xinyuan Wang, UCL
China's social credit system has been described as a 'dystopian nightmare straight out of Black Mirror' but many citizens think it will help fight fraud and bring about a better society.
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Peter Tyrrell
Peter Tyrrell, University of Oxford
Most of Kenya's biodiversity needs protecting outside protected areas in human‐dominated landscapes that are undergoing rapid change.
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Politics + Society
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Sabine Lee, University of Birmingham; Susan Bartels, Queen's University, Ontario
The voices of young victims in Haiti can now be heard for the first time thanks to a groundbreaking new research project.
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Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York); Jennifer Midori Miller, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
A survey of San ostrich eggshell beads - a common find at archaeological sites - paints a bigger picture of hunter-gatherers, herders and shifting cultural tradition.
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Business + Economy
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Clement Prince Addo, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
African countries are among the lowest internet speed but it has the most expensive communication and internet costs.
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Ruben J. Garcia, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
All seven Democrats set to take the stage on Dec. 19 had vowed to boycott the debate in support of a union that represents 150 food service workers in California.
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Joseba Achotegui Loizatge, Universitat de Barcelona
Las personas que migran en situaciones extremas sufren problemas de salud mental que se transforman en miedos, migrañas, depresiones y situaciones de desapego muy graves. Hoy, en el Día Internacional del Migrante, nos acercamos a las patologías que sufren los migrantes del siglo XXI.
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Paola Díaz, École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
Testimonios recogidos a lo largo de la frontera EEUU-México muestran cómo se deshumaniza a los migrantes, convertidos en fuente de ingresos: de empleados forzosos del narco a mano de obra barata.
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Yannick Prost, Sciences Po – USPC
Peut-on évoquer une « crise de l’immigration » en France qui justifierait de ternir l’épure « progressiste » portée par le président tant sur le plan intérieur que dans l’arène européenne ?
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Antoine Pécoud, Université Paris 13 – USPC
Le droit au travail des migrants est une question souvent passée sous silence au profit des seuls enjeux sécuritaires ou humanitaires.
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