Our Experts in the News: September 2022
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South Bend Tribune
Notre Dame film expert, South Bend residents weigh in on 'The Little Mermaid' controversy
September 29, 2022
"Everybody deserves to see themselves reflected in the media," said Mary Kearney, associate professor of film, television and theater at the University of Notre Dame. Kearney's research primarily focuses on gender, youth and media culture, especially girls' media.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Trust in elections: Mexico shows how fast it can be lost – and regained
September 22, 2022
Mexico’s democracy isn’t often held up as an example to follow, especially “given that it’s become one of the most violent democracies in the world,” says Guillermo Trejo, professor of comparative politics at the University of Notre Dame. “But, on the electoral dimension, there are lessons for other countries.”
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Christian Science Monitor
Biden’s UN balancing act: Condemning war while advocating broad agenda
September 21, 2022
With his vision of the democracy-autocracy struggle and specifically, the war in Ukraine, “Biden is speaking and acting with a high degree of moral certainty that we are on the side of the angels,” says Michael Desch, a professor of international relations at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana and founding director of the university’s International Security Center.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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Vice
Pakistan Lost $30 Billion in Floods. Should Rich Polluting Countries Pay Up?
September 16, 2022
“The global north doesn’t even fulfil its promised annual $100 billion adaptation finance goal. And much of the adaptation finance comes as loans not even grants. So it’s important to have a sense of all this resistance to understand why ‘loss and damage’ demands are not moving ahead faster,” Maira Hayat, an anthropology professor at University of Notre Dame whose research focuses on global climate change politics, told VICE World News.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The New York Times
An Epic Struggle for the Soul of Catholicism
September 12, 2022
Now comes John T. McGreevy, a professor of history at Notre Dame and author of three books on Catholicism, with an attempt at making narrative sense of one of the most tumultuous periods in the history of the oldest institution in the Western world.
Originally published at news.nd.edu.
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The Washington Post
Ukrainian farms feed Europe and China. Russia wants to end that.
September 01, 2022
Susanne Wengle is the N.R. Dreux Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame, and author of “Black Earth, White Bread: A Technopolitical History of Russian Agriculture and Food.”
Originally published at news.nd.edu.