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Robert Huish

Associate Professor

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Email: huish@dal.ca
Phone: 902-494-2979
Twitter: @ProfessorHuish
Mailing Address: 
Department of International Development Studies
Marion McCain Building
6135 University Ave.
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PO Box 15000
Halifax, NS, Canada
B3H 4R2

Office location:
Marion McCain Building 2197
 
Research Topics:
  • Sanctions
  • International Relations
  • Activism and Social Justice
  • Global Health
  • COVID-19 Stigma

Education

  • B.A. (Hons.) Queens University兩
  • M.A.泭 Queens University兩
  • Ph.D.泭泭 Simon Fraser University

Dr. Huish is the host of the Podcast "GDP" which is the Podcast on all issues related to International Development. .

In response to online learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Huish offers a course on managing pandemics through cooperation and collaboration. .泭

Research Interests

With support from the Nova Scotia COVID-19 Health Research Coalition, I am currently working on

Broadly, my research explores global health inequities, and the role of economic sanctions in shaping those inequities, as well as the role of social justice in resisting them. 泭My current research looks at how donor nations are responding to the call for greater global health equity, and specifically how economic coercive measures (sanctions) impact the capacity of many countires in the global South to work with each other to improve health for all. 泭

I also pursue research on how sanctions impact泭human rights and security issues.泭泭In particular this work exposes how countries like Russia and North Korea continue to violate human rights, and how it pursues military aggression despite . Click here for my interviews on:泭;泭; and on泭

Other areas of research include泭泭and with special attention to Cuba, and how this facilitates comprehensive development.

At the moment I am currently working on the following projects:

  • Human Rights Activism in North Korea.泭
  • The impacts of climate change and health in pacific island countries)
  • The Impacts of Sanctions on Health and Security.

Teaching Interests

(global health; activism & resistance; experiential learning)

My teaching interests include topics on global health, poverty and human rights, neoliberal globalization, and . 泭泭

For more on this approach, check out this interview with泭, 災s well as泭

I'm also happy to introduce a new course on Pandemic management in the time of COVID-19.泭 泭combines podcast learning with game simulation to develop collaborative management strategies for students and policy makers.

Books

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters:

Huish, Robert. (2021). Global citizenship amid COVID-19: why climate change and a pandemic spell the end 泭of international experiential learning.泭The Canadian Journal of Development Studies.泭10.1080/02255189.2020.1862071

Huish, Robert (2020).泭 Cuba in Georgeou N., & Hawksley C. (eds).泭State Responses to COVID-19: a global snapshot at 1 June 2020. Sydney: Western Sydney University Press.

Huish, Robert (2020).泭 Canada in Georgeou N., & Hawksley C. (eds).泭State Responses to COVID-19: a global snapshot at 1 June 2020. Sydney: Western Sydney University Press.

Huish, Robert (2018). Going where no one should go: Experiential Learning without making the world your classroom. Journal of Global Citizenship and Equity Education. 6(1) 2 - 21.

Huish, Robert. (2018).泭 No Secret Cure: Why the 1970s Hold the Secret to Cubas Health Paradox in Kirk, Emily, Clayfield, Anna, & Story, Isabel (eds.) Cubas Forgotten Decade: How the泭1970s Shaped the Revolution.泭 New York: Lexington.

Huish, Robert, (2018), Poverty, Hunger and Inequality, in泭E-Learning Module on Operationalizing the Right to泭Development in Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals,泭Kanade, M; Puvimanasinghe S; Aginam O; Schwartz P eds.泭(Geneva, Ciudad Colon and Kuala Lumpur: UN, UPEACE and UNU-IIGH), Chapter 4.

Huish, Robert (2017). How to Sink the Hermit Kingdom:泭 Improving Maritime Sanctions against North Korea.泭 Canadian Naval Review. 13(2). 5- 10.

Huish, Robert. (2017). Health and Development, in Richardson, Douglas, et al.,泭The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment and Technology.泭New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Huish, Robert. (2016). Wanting to Care: A Comparison of the ethics of health worker migration in Cuba and the Philippines, in Luginaah, Isaac, Bezner Kerr, Rachael (eds.)泭Geographies of Development and Health. London: Ashgate.

Darnell, Simon & Robert Huish. (2015). Cuban Sport Policy and South South Cooperation: An Exploration of the Escuela Internacional de Educaci籀n F穩sica y Deporte. International Journal of Sport Policy and Politics. 7(1), 123 140.

Darnell, Simon & Robert Huish (2015). Cuban Sport and the Challenges of South South Solidarity, for Hayhurst, L. and Kay, T. (eds) Beyond Sport for Development: Transnational Perspectives on Theory, Policy and Practice. London: Routledge.

Huish, Robert. (2014). Why Does Cuba 'Care' So Much? Understanding the Epistemology of Solidarity in Global Health Outreach. Public Health Ethics;7(3), 261 276.

Huish, Robert, & Simon Darnell. (2014). Cuban Sport Development: Building Capacity from el Parque to the Podium,泭 in Brenner, Philip, Marguerite Rose Jim矇nez, John M. Kirk, & William Leogrande, (eds). A Contemporary Cuban Reader 2nd Edition. New York: Rowman and Littlefield. 367 372.

Huish, Robert (2014). The Heart of the Matter: The Impacts of Cuban Medical Internationalism in the global South. Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism. Cathie Krull (ed.) Gainsville: University Press of Florida. 176 191.

Huish, Robert (2013). Dissent 101: Teaching the dangerous knowledge of practices of activism. Canadian Journal of International Development Studies. 34(2). 364- 383.

Huish, Robert, Thomas Carter & Simon Darnell, (2013). The (Soft) Power of Sport: The Comprehensive and Contradictory Strategies of Cubas Sport-Based Internationalism.泭 International Journal of Cuban Studies. 5(1), 26 41.

Huish, Robert (2012). The Ethical Conundrum of International Health Electives in泭Medical Education. Journal of Global Citizenship & Equity Education. 2(1).泭 1-19.

Huish, Robert, Simon Darnell (2012). Solidarity, counter-hegemony and泭development: Exploring Cubas sport-based internationalism. Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies. 36(71), 139 164.

Collins, Damian, S矇bastien Flueret, Robert Huish, Anne C矇cile Hoyez,泭 (2011).泭Regards crois矇s sur les geographies de la sant矇 Anglophone et Francophone, in Sant矇 de g矇ographie. Paris: Press Economica-Anthropos.

Huish, Robert (2011). Punching Above its Weight: Cubas use of sport for South-South Solidarity. Third World Quarterly 32(3). 417 433.

Evert, Jessica, Robert Huish Gary Heit, Scott Loeliger, Evaleen Jones, Steve泭Schmidbauer (2011). Global Health Ethics. Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. Judy Iles & Barbara Sahakian, (eds). The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics. New York: Oxford University Press.

Huish, Robert and W. George Lovell (2010). Bajo los volcanes: La Influenca de泭Guatemala en Jos矇 Mart穩. 紼梗莽棗硃鳥矇娶勳釵硃. 52. 87 110.

Spiegel, Jerry and Robert Huish (2009). Canadian Foreign Aid for Global Health:泭Human Security Opportunity Lost. Canadian Foreign Policy. 15(3) 60 84.

Huish, Robert and John M. Kirk (2009). Cuban Medical Internationalism in Africa:泭The Threat of a Dangerous Example. The Latin Americanist. 53(3) 125泭 - 139.

Huish, Robert (2009). How Cubas Latin American School of Medicine challenges泭the Ethics of Physician Migration. Social Science & Medicine. 69(3) 301 304.

Parkes Margot, Spiegel Jerry, Breilh Jaime, Cabarcas Fabio, Huish Robert, Yassi泭Annalee. (2009). Promoting the health of marginalized populations in Ecuador through international collaboration and educational innovations Bulletin of the World Health Organisation.泭 87(4), 312 319.

Huish, Robert. (2008). Human security and food security in geographic study:泭Knowledge translation, concepts and elusive theory. 泭Geography Compass. 2(5) 1386 1403.

Spiegel, Jerry, Robert Huish, Klaudia Dmitrienko, Andrea A. Cortinois (2008).泭Canadian and Australian Health Aid, in Hanssonm Emily et. al. (eds.) Global Health Watch 2. London: Zed Books. 317 333.

Huish, Robert (2008).泭 Going where no doctor has gone before: 泭The role of泭Cuba's Latin American School of Medicine in meeting the needs of some of the world's most vulnerable populations. Public Health. 122(6) 552- 557.泭 (WHO International Joint Special Issue, Towards a Scaling-up of education for health workers.)

Huish, Robert & Jerry Spiegel. (2008). Integrating health and human security into泭foreign policy: Cubas surprising success. International Journal of Cuban Studies. 1(1) 1 13.

Huish, Robert and John M. Kirk (2007). Cuban Medical Internationalism: the泭development of the Latin American School of Medicine and human-resource-based healthcare provision. Latin American Perspectives. 34(6) 77 - 92.