In troubling times, academics must rally together...

For all of us concerned with poverty and global justice, these are troubling times indeed. In recent months we’ve witnessed resurgent nativism in world politics, intensified austerity, worsening refugee crises, and escalating geopolitical conflicts. At the same time, investigative journalism is in decline, and there is increasing skepticism toward the institutions of knowledge that hold power accountable. In the new world of “alternative facts”, xenophobic myths and climate denialism are flourishing.