User:Natverd/Choose an Article

Option 1
Article title: Environmental Impact of Fashion

Article Evaluation: The article tied in well with the topics covered in class, but is not fully flushed out as an article yet. The topic is relevant to current issues and we thought adding more information to the page would not only provide quality information, but also have a good chance of remaining on Wikipedia. In order to improve this article, we may add information regarding the negative impacts of people working in sweatshops as well as the air and water pollution due to corporations of the fashion industry.

Sources:


 * https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/17543266.2017.1406541
 * http://eprints-bangaloreuniversity.in/4528/
 * https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-environmental-impacts
 * https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200310-sustainable-fashion-how-to-buy-clothes-good-for-the-climate
 * https://www.sustainyourstyle.org/old-environmental-impacts
 * https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/01/fashion-industry-carbon-unsustainable-environment-pollution/

Option 2
Article title: Late Capitalism

Article Evaluation: This article tied into our in class discussion of the effects of late stage capitalism. The article has an alert at the top saying that the article needs to have in line citations added. There is not much information found in this article. We could include information about capitalism occurring in the world today, the pros and cons of capitalism, and who is benefiting from capitalism and who isn’t.

Sources:


 * https://www.thebalance.com/late-stage-capitalism-definition-why-it-s-trending-4172369
 * https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/security/reports/2019/04/29/469086/fy-2020-defense-budget-gets-wrong/
 * https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/ice-melting-arctic-transport-route-industry/
 * https://cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/theory/marxism/modules/jamesonlatecapitalism.html
 * https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-10/-late-capitalism-not-even-close
 * https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2015/06/basics.htm
 * https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/jfrieden/files/frieden_rogowski_page_proofs_0.pdf

Option 3
Article title: United States Military Deployments

Article Evaluation: This topic arose from certain conversations that came up during Week 4’s discussion posts. The current reach and expansion of the United State’s military was of particular concern and we thought adding to the current Wikipedia page would be a productive topic. The article is currently an introduction and a couple tables, citing seven sources. We believe we could add a section about the economic and political impacts that US military deployment had, from a neutral point of view.

Sources:


 * https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/world/middleeast/us-troops-deployments.html
 * https://www.vetfriends.com/resources/us_deployments_overseas.cfm
 * https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/map-shows-places-world-where-us-military-operates-180970997/
 * https://www.nap.edu/read/13499/chapter/9
 * https://www.hdiac.org/podcast/the-political-economic-and-cultural-effects-of-the-united-states-overseas-military-presence/
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320984127_US_Military_Deployment_and_Host-Nation_Economic_Growth

Option 4
Article title: Economic Sanctions

Article Evaluation: In chapter 3 we discussed the economic sanctions that the United States has used to coerce countries like Venezuela into submitting to the common sense and “democracy” of the United States. Some information that we could add to this wikipedia article could include going much more in depth into the details of United States sanctions.

Sources:


 * https://www.state.gov/economic-sanctions-policy-and-implementation/
 * https://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-92-106
 * https://home.treasury.gov/policy-issues/financial-sanctions/sanctions-programs-and-country-information
 * https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-are-economic-sanctions
 * https://www.brookings.edu/research/economic-sanctions-too-much-of-a-bad-thing/

Option 5
Article title: Pluralist Commonwealth

Article Evaluation: This article deals with Gal Alperovitz’s proposal of pluralist economy that we read about in Week 3. While there is a brief introduction with a few citations, we believe the article could use expanding. For example, the latest article source is from 2014, so we could write more about the academic and public perception of this proposal, especially in the modern times. We could also write a bit about the history that led Alperovitz to come up with this theory.

Sources:


 * https://pubs.lib.umn.edu/index.php/ijps/article/view/154
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/048661347200400203?journalCode=rrpa
 * https://www.researchgate.net/publication/304001116_Community_wealth_building_forms_what_they_are_and_how_to_use_them_at_the_local_levelSubmission_as_part_of_Symposium_AMP-2014-0114-PS_entitled_Alternative_Economic_Futures_New_Directions_for_Management
 * https://nonprofitquarterly.org/building-a-democratic-economy-sketch-of-a-pluralist-commonwealth/
 * https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5406/jamerfolk.133.530.0471?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=Pluralist%20Commonwealth&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3DPluralist%2BCommonwealth%26sd%3D2015%26ed%3D2021%26efqs%3DeyJjdHkiOltdLCJkaXNjIjpbIllXMWxjbWxqWVc1emRIVmthV1Z6TFdScGMyTnBjR3hwYm1VPSJdfQ%253D%253D&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_solr_cloud%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly-default%3Aa340eb8b8e4287b0babc0f99158d3fa1&seq=1
 * https://medium.com/@dan.sisken/progressive-visions-review-of-principles-of-a-pluralist-commonwealth-8b05327c4c9a