Robert Huish
Biographic Data
| ID | 2168047 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert Huish |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert |
| FAMILY NAME | Huish |
| SIGNATURE | HUISH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6331-6550 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Covid‐19 stigma, Australia and slow violence: An analysis of 21 months of Covid news reporting
Throughout the peak periods of Australia's COVID‐19 pandemic experience of 2020–2021, some lower socioeconomic areas with high migrant populations in Sydney and Melbourne were subjected to strict lockdown enforcement that included heavy police surveillance not experienced in the more affluent areas of these cities. Analysis of four major newspapers' COVID‐19 coverage from January 2020 to September 2021 reveals their reporting focussed on aspects …
Guest editorialA pandemic of global inequality: A special issue on how Covid-19 deepened social inequalities on a global scale
Global citizenship amid Covid-19: Why climate change and a pandemic spell the end of international experiential learning
The September 2019 Global Climate Strikes witnessed hundreds of thousands of students express forms of global citizenship through street-level environmental activism. These strikes were led, and motivated, by youth who chose to strike from class in order to send a message to world leaders. It was an enormous occupation of public space and public imagination that encouraged schools to cancel classes for students to go outside to engage in street-l…
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz & The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, by Daniel A. Rodríguez
The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific
Since 2006, 50 Cuban doctors have worked in Pacific Island countries (PICs), while 250 Pacific islanders have studied medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, nearly doubling the medical workforce in some countries. Although Cuba has pursued an extensive South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme in health around the globe for 60 years, the relatively recent presence of Cuba in the Pacific is intriguing. The programme is based on w…
Health and Development
Health and development are two intimately linked concepts that are often labeled as “global health.” International development has a transformative effect on the health landscapes in the Global South (referring to the division of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia that are in processes of development). Despite the close relationship between the two fields, in practice there is very little concern or connection between development practi…
Why Cuban Solidarity Was Ebola's Antidote: How Cuban Medical Internationalism is Radically Changing Health Geographies in the Global South
When the world responded to the 2014 Ebola outbreak a lot went wrong. Vaccines were promised but never delivered. Health workers were called for, but never arrived. Patients needed urgent care, but were forced into quarantine. Amid repeated calls for urgent action and increased care to the Ebola stricken countries in West Africa many nations acquiesced. Yet economically hobbled Cuba offered more health care workers, established more hospital spac…
Learning through South–South development: Cuban-African partnerships in sport and physical education
Since the 1990s, Cuba has offered scholarships to students from low-resource countries to attend the Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (EIEFD) for a six-year degree in sport, physical education, and coaching. Drawing on the experiences of EIEFD graduates from four Southern African countries (Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, and Lesotho) the authors discuss the meanings that this South–South cooperation through education holds f…
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship: Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them
Understanding the Place of Cuban Internationalism
For this issue of the International Journal of Cuban Studies we have selected three articles that explore dimensions of Cuba's unique approach to the international development landscape. The term 'Cuban internationalism' encompasses the country's broad approach to dynamic global relations that intersect economic trade, bilateral diplomacy, and social development. The authors in this issue are all careful to avoid the terminology of diplomacy, out…
The (Soft) Power of Sport: The Comprehensive and Contradictory Strategies of Cuba's Sport-Based Internationalism
The Cuban government creates and seeks opportunities to engage in collaboration, diplomacy, commerce, and trade in order to pursue its own concepts of progressive international development, which involves garnering much needed hard currency and political benefits for its national interests. Such strategies include the organisation and deployment of sport and physical activity programmes. Based on our analysis of, and interactions with, Cuba's Min…
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions of marginalized people. Cuba has developed a world-class health care system that provides universal access to its own citizens while committing to one…
Dissent 101: Teaching the “dangerous knowledge” of practices of activism
Development & Activism, a course offered at Dalhousie University, sparked controversy about whether a class should prepare students to organise activism, including public protest. Discussing these experiences, I argue there is a place in universities to teach activism as a skill of effective engagement with those in authority and with fellow citizens, thus enhancing democracy. If activism is taken as a process of commandeering space and place to …
Punching above its Weight: Cuba's use of sport for South–South co-operation
While known for training world-class athletes to compete in prestigious international competitions, Cuba is also educating 983 coaches from vulnerable communities in 53 countries at its Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (eiefd). These athletes are bound not necessarily for the Olympic podium, but for marginalised communities where they are expected to develop sport and recreation programmes. While Cuba has garnered hard currency…
Solidarity, Counter-Hegemony, and Development: Exploring New Dimensions of Cuba's Sport-Based Internationalism
Cuban internationalism has been recognized as a unique foreign policy approach that merges "soft power" with comprehensive development. While much has been written about the country's programs of cooperation, outreach, and solidarity, notably within the health sector, little has been mentioned to date about the extensive cooperation Cuba seeks with other nations in the global South through sport and physical education. This is a significant gap g…
How Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine challenges the ethics of physician migration
Human Security and Food Security in Geographical Study: Pragmatic Concepts or Elusive Theory
This article explores how the concepts of 'food security' and 'human security' build common language between action-based researchers and policy-makers for effective knowledge translation. Both concepts are important examples of how research can inform policy aimed at social justice. While human security is still building a sense of itself, the concept of food security demonstrates how broader issues can be excluded from the common language and h…
Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine
In response to Hurricane Mitch (1998) in Central America, which claimed over 30,000 lives, Cuba sent medical brigades to the affected region and constructed the Latin American School of Medicine just outside Havana. This medical school offers a free six-year medical education to students from rural and marginalized communities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States. This establishment is a logical continuation of a long-standing tr…
Logos a Thing of the Past? Not So Fast, World Social Forum
Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine
In response to Hurricane Mitch (1998) in Central America, which claimed over 30,000 lives, Cuba sent medical brigades to the affected region and constructed the Latin American School of Medicine just outside Havana. This medical school offers a free six-year medical education to students from rural and marginalized communities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States. This establishment is a logical continuation of a long-standing tr…
Human Security and Food Security in Geographical Study: Pragmatic Concepts or Elusive Theory
This article explores how the concepts of 'food security' and 'human security' build common language between action-based researchers and policy-makers for effective knowledge translation. Both concepts are important examples of how research can inform policy aimed at social justice. While human security is still building a sense of itself, the concept of food security demonstrates how broader issues can be excluded from the common language and h…
How Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine challenges the ethics of physician migration
Punching above its Weight: Cuba's use of sport for South–South co-operation
While known for training world-class athletes to compete in prestigious international competitions, Cuba is also educating 983 coaches from vulnerable communities in 53 countries at its Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (eiefd). These athletes are bound not necessarily for the Olympic podium, but for marginalised communities where they are expected to develop sport and recreation programmes. While Cuba has garnered hard currency…
Covid‐19 stigma, Australia and slow violence: An analysis of 21 months of Covid news reporting
Throughout the peak periods of Australia's COVID‐19 pandemic experience of 2020–2021, some lower socioeconomic areas with high migrant populations in Sydney and Melbourne were subjected to strict lockdown enforcement that included heavy police surveillance not experienced in the more affluent areas of these cities. Analysis of four major newspapers' COVID‐19 coverage from January 2020 to September 2021 reveals their reporting focussed on aspects …
Dissent 101: Teaching the “dangerous knowledge” of practices of activism
Development & Activism, a course offered at Dalhousie University, sparked controversy about whether a class should prepare students to organise activism, including public protest. Discussing these experiences, I argue there is a place in universities to teach activism as a skill of effective engagement with those in authority and with fellow citizens, thus enhancing democracy. If activism is taken as a process of commandeering space and place to …
Global citizenship amid Covid-19: Why climate change and a pandemic spell the end of international experiential learning
The September 2019 Global Climate Strikes witnessed hundreds of thousands of students express forms of global citizenship through street-level environmental activism. These strikes were led, and motivated, by youth who chose to strike from class in order to send a message to world leaders. It was an enormous occupation of public space and public imagination that encouraged schools to cancel classes for students to go outside to engage in street-l…
The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific
Since 2006, 50 Cuban doctors have worked in Pacific Island countries (PICs), while 250 Pacific islanders have studied medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, nearly doubling the medical workforce in some countries. Although Cuba has pursued an extensive South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme in health around the globe for 60 years, the relatively recent presence of Cuba in the Pacific is intriguing. The programme is based on w…
Logos a Thing of the Past? Not So Fast, World Social Forum
Logos a Thing of the Past? Not So Fast, World Social Forum
Cuban Medical Internationalism and the Development of the Latin American School of Medicine
In response to Hurricane Mitch (1998) in Central America, which claimed over 30,000 lives, Cuba sent medical brigades to the affected region and constructed the Latin American School of Medicine just outside Havana. This medical school offers a free six-year medical education to students from rural and marginalized communities in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and the United States. This establishment is a logical continuation of a long-standing tr…
Human Security and Food Security in Geographical Study: Pragmatic Concepts or Elusive Theory
This article explores how the concepts of 'food security' and 'human security' build common language between action-based researchers and policy-makers for effective knowledge translation. Both concepts are important examples of how research can inform policy aimed at social justice. While human security is still building a sense of itself, the concept of food security demonstrates how broader issues can be excluded from the common language and h…
How Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine challenges the ethics of physician migration
Punching above its Weight: Cuba's use of sport for South–South co-operation
While known for training world-class athletes to compete in prestigious international competitions, Cuba is also educating 983 coaches from vulnerable communities in 53 countries at its Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (eiefd). These athletes are bound not necessarily for the Olympic podium, but for marginalised communities where they are expected to develop sport and recreation programmes. While Cuba has garnered hard currency…
Solidarity, Counter-Hegemony, and Development: Exploring New Dimensions of Cuba's Sport-Based Internationalism
Cuban internationalism has been recognized as a unique foreign policy approach that merges "soft power" with comprehensive development. While much has been written about the country's programs of cooperation, outreach, and solidarity, notably within the health sector, little has been mentioned to date about the extensive cooperation Cuba seeks with other nations in the global South through sport and physical education. This is a significant gap g…
Understanding the Place of Cuban Internationalism
For this issue of the International Journal of Cuban Studies we have selected three articles that explore dimensions of Cuba's unique approach to the international development landscape. The term 'Cuban internationalism' encompasses the country's broad approach to dynamic global relations that intersect economic trade, bilateral diplomacy, and social development. The authors in this issue are all careful to avoid the terminology of diplomacy, out…
The (Soft) Power of Sport: The Comprehensive and Contradictory Strategies of Cuba's Sport-Based Internationalism
The Cuban government creates and seeks opportunities to engage in collaboration, diplomacy, commerce, and trade in order to pursue its own concepts of progressive international development, which involves garnering much needed hard currency and political benefits for its national interests. Such strategies include the organisation and deployment of sport and physical activity programmes. Based on our analysis of, and interactions with, Cuba's Min…
Where No Doctor Has Gone Before: Cuba’s Place in the Global Health Landscape
Tens of thousands of people around the world die each day from causes that could have been prevented with access to affordable health care resources. In an era of unprecedented global inequity, Cuba, a small, low-income country, is making a difference by providing affordable health care to millions of marginalized people. Cuba has developed a world-class health care system that provides universal access to its own citizens while committing to one…
Dissent 101: Teaching the “dangerous knowledge” of practices of activism
Development & Activism, a course offered at Dalhousie University, sparked controversy about whether a class should prepare students to organise activism, including public protest. Discussing these experiences, I argue there is a place in universities to teach activism as a skill of effective engagement with those in authority and with fellow citizens, thus enhancing democracy. If activism is taken as a process of commandeering space and place to …
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship: Perils and Potential of International Experiential Learning
Globetrotting or Global Citizenship? explores the broad range of international experiential learning options available to Canadian students, as well as the opportunities and the ethical dilemmas that come with them
Learning through South–South development: Cuban-African partnerships in sport and physical education
Since the 1990s, Cuba has offered scholarships to students from low-resource countries to attend the Escuela Internacional de Educación Física y Deporte (EIEFD) for a six-year degree in sport, physical education, and coaching. Drawing on the experiences of EIEFD graduates from four Southern African countries (Zambia, South Africa, Mozambique, and Lesotho) the authors discuss the meanings that this South–South cooperation through education holds f…
Health and Development
Health and development are two intimately linked concepts that are often labeled as “global health.” International development has a transformative effect on the health landscapes in the Global South (referring to the division of countries in Latin America, Africa, and Asia that are in processes of development). Despite the close relationship between the two fields, in practice there is very little concern or connection between development practi…
Why Cuban Solidarity Was Ebola's Antidote: How Cuban Medical Internationalism is Radically Changing Health Geographies in the Global South
When the world responded to the 2014 Ebola outbreak a lot went wrong. Vaccines were promised but never delivered. Health workers were called for, but never arrived. Patients needed urgent care, but were forced into quarantine. Amid repeated calls for urgent action and increased care to the Ebola stricken countries in West Africa many nations acquiesced. Yet economically hobbled Cuba offered more health care workers, established more hospital spac…
The gift of health: Cuba’s development assistance in the Pacific
Since 2006, 50 Cuban doctors have worked in Pacific Island countries (PICs), while 250 Pacific islanders have studied medicine at the Latin American School of Medicine in Cuba, nearly doubling the medical workforce in some countries. Although Cuba has pursued an extensive South-South Cooperation (SSC) programme in health around the globe for 60 years, the relatively recent presence of Cuba in the Pacific is intriguing. The programme is based on w…
Global citizenship amid Covid-19: Why climate change and a pandemic spell the end of international experiential learning
The September 2019 Global Climate Strikes witnessed hundreds of thousands of students express forms of global citizenship through street-level environmental activism. These strikes were led, and motivated, by youth who chose to strike from class in order to send a message to world leaders. It was an enormous occupation of public space and public imagination that encouraged schools to cancel classes for students to go outside to engage in street-l…
Cuban Health Care: The Ongoing Revolution, by Don Fitz & The Right to Live in Health: Medical Politics in Postindependence Havana, by Daniel A. Rodríguez
Guest editorialA pandemic of global inequality: A special issue on how Covid-19 deepened social inequalities on a global scale
Covid‐19 stigma, Australia and slow violence: An analysis of 21 months of Covid news reporting
Throughout the peak periods of Australia's COVID‐19 pandemic experience of 2020–2021, some lower socioeconomic areas with high migrant populations in Sydney and Melbourne were subjected to strict lockdown enforcement that included heavy police surveillance not experienced in the more affluent areas of these cities. Analysis of four major newspapers' COVID‐19 coverage from January 2020 to September 2021 reveals their reporting focussed on aspects …
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