climate – Decolonising Global Health Archive

By Mohammad Bin Khidzer

This short memo is based on the authors short field trips in Jogjakarta and Singapore in June and July 2025. It examines whether walking can prevent type 2 diabetes in tropical cities. Drawing on fieldwork in Singapore and Jogjakarta, the author shows how climate, infrastructure and socioeconomic inequality shape people’s ability to walk. While Singapore’s shaded walkways and transport network allow for active mobility, Jogjakarta’s heat, traffic and lack of pavements make walking difficult. The author demonstrates that in hot, humid contexts, “walking for health” depends on urban design and environment, and that for low-income diabetics facing food and medication insecurity, walking alone is not sufficient. The essay calls for diabetes-prevention strategies that integrate climate, infrastructure and inequality.

Read the full memo here.

Berkeley Center for New Media: History and Theory of New Media Lecture Series

with Yásnaya Elena Aguilar Gil
Linguist, writer, translator, language rights activist, and researcher ayuujk (mixe)
Introduced and moderated by Natalia Brizuela and Alex Saum-Pascual
Presented in partnership with the Center for Latin American Studies. Co-sponsored by Alianza UCMX, Spanish & Portuguese, the Arts Research Center, and The American Indian Graduate Program.

It is a myth of the West’s choosing: perpetual economic growth, advancing through a digestive system of sorts, one that uses technology as one of its core components. In its churn, ecosystems became goods; people, mere consumers. The myth turned the world into a place increasingly inhospitable to human life. An alternative, offered by Abya Yala, lies in separating economic development and the development of new technologies from consumerism. This would place technological creation and ingenuity once again at the service of the common good, not of the market. Technology as tequio; technological creation and innovation as a common good.

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