Category: Writing
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Postmortem: Abuse in Tennessee Walking Horse community
Within minutes, Gino and I had pulled out onto the highway, leading the large trailer towards the point of exchange —McNutt Farm in Maryville— as a cruiser from the County Sheriff’s department cruiser pulled off the highway’s grass median to serve as escort. I looked down at my phone, the digital clock reading 6:43, and…
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Our Lesser Evil
Reviled by some for supporting the Iraq War, Michael Ignatieff (who now teaches at the University of Toronto) wrote an often overlooked book during the mid-oughts, called The Lesser Evil. Tackling an ambitious question –how can a state address the threat of terrorism– the book outlines the weakness of democratic institutions in the face of…
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In the field: Mefou National Park, Cameroon
While the organization has pledged to rehabilitate and release the more than 300 animals currently under their care, operators say they have delayed because of the security conditions in Cameroonian parks.
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Is “branding” the answer?
Today, I’ll be speaking on a media panel discussing tourism in Africa. While broad in scope, the intention of the event is to understand not only how journalists cover the continent and shape the stereotypes/conceptions of the region (I.e. Dramatic headlines citing death and disaster, how the media’s appetite for stories from the continent often…
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In the field: Kribi, Cameroon
I had rented a car to complete reporting in and around the town of Kribi, Cameroon. As I jumped out of the car for what I believed to be the final interview of the day, a four-hour drive from where we started that morning, I could hear an unsettling high-pitched hissing. Having driven quickly over…
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In the field: Douala, Cameroon
Along a snaking, pot-holed, mud road that leads away from Douala’s international airport, motorists pass road-side food carts, motor repair stores and —more recently— Chinese-operated boutiques selling everything from food stuffs to beauty products. As a young boy struggles with the rusty chain on his bicycle, the afternoon’s traffic hurries past.
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Broken CAR: The slow erosion of a state
Things are getting worse. That’s the message on CAR in a piece deftly reported by Tristan McConnell for GlobalPost.
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Transitions: Where I’ve been and where I’m going.
For those who follow this blog, though, I thought a short update was overdue.
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Resisting Resistance: Why Syria isn’t Rwanda…. Or Iraq.
Either way, the distinction in approach should prod a reader towards the ultimate question: On what grounds should the international community (or even The United States) risk the lives of their own for others?
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Postmortem: PTSD and Conflict Photographers
Reflecting on Overexposed: A Photographer’s War with PTSD.
Adam McCauley 