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Marilyn Martin’s profile on The Conversation

More than one million Indians travel annually to work in oil projects in the Gulf, one of the few international destinations where men without formal education can find lucrative employment. Between Dreams and Ghosts follows their migration, taking readers to sites in India, the United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait, from villages to oilfields and back again. Engaging all parties involved—the migrants themselves, the recruiting agencies that place them, the government bureaucrats that regulate their emigration, and the corporations that hire them—Andrea Wright examines labor migration as a soci...

Here are HONOLULU Magazine's 25 Greatest Hawaii Albums of the New Century.

Not just any dancer-turned-fitness instructor can launch an entirely new type of class, turn it into an international business, and train everyone from Victoria’s Secret models to, well, all the moms stuck at home this year. Should we be surprised that just such a powerhouse, Xtend Barre founder Andrea Rogers, is also a single mom of two girls? Now that is strength. With so many of us on the cusp of deciding when and whether to venture out into the world again to work out, socialize, and work, we thought this was the perfect opportunity to get Rogers to tell us the essential things that hel...

David Bennun , February 2nd, 2021 08:50 There was grey and gravel-flavoured BlokeMusic before him. But, argues David Bennun, the tepid indie-folk mumbler’s commercial success ensured that an awful lot more came after him – and we’re still living with the consequences 20 years on Somewhere in the North Shore district of Oahu, third largest of the Hawiian islands, lives a fellow by the name of Jack Johnson. Although it might be more accurate to call him a dude. A particular kind of dude. And not just any old particular kind of dude. Johnson is the Platonic ideal of the laid-back socially ...