Jordan Sand

Jordan Sand teaches the history of Japan at Georgetown University and writes widely on cities and material culture in East Asia. His own experiment in network thinking, titled “Gentlemen’s Agreement, 1908: Fragments for a Pacific History,” appeared in the journal Representations (Summer 2009) and can also be found here.


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Global Warming and Network Think

On August 26th, 2014, in the lead-up to the United Nations summit scheduled for the following month, the New York Times carried a story on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s latest draft report on risks associated with runaway growth in the emission of greenhouse gases. Dramatic photographs accompanying the article showed receding ice cover […]