Author profile: Christopher Keith Johnson

Christopher Keith Johnson works for a Washington, DC-based international NGO focused on global worker rights. He resides in Johannesburg, South Africa. His work has been published in the Small Wars Journal, International Policy Digest, E-International Relations, the Journal of Black Studies, the Journal of Pan-African Studies, and Sahara Reporters. He earned his Ph.D. from Temple University, an MSc from the University of Birmingham, an M.A. from the  University at Albany, SUNY, and a B.A. from Elizabeth City State University.

Using Disability Critical Race Theory in American Special Education Classrooms

Christopher Keith Johnson • Dec 2 2021 • Articles

DisCrit does not attempt to fix the bias of individual educators. It seeks change beyond the walls of the special education classroom and the school surrounding it.

Is it Possible to Escape the Past? Race and the Radicalization of Robert Byrd and Anders Breivik

Christopher Keith Johnson • Jan 26 2021 • Articles

In the case of Byrd and Breivik it is an internal rather than an external exercise of whether someone radicalised can compromise their own values.

American Global Health Internationalism and the Ebola Crisis in West Africa

Christopher Keith Johnson • Jun 16 2020 • Articles

America will have great difficulty being the hospital and the gun shop for the global South. Perhaps it is time for it to re-examine its approach and re-order its priorities.

The Impact of White Supremacy on US Foreign Policy towards Africa

Christopher Keith Johnson • Feb 7 2018 • Articles

America’s failure to confront its racial history, specifically white supremacy, will prevent it from making the most appropriate decisions about aid or policy,

No Security Required: The Danger of Boardroom-Driven Development

Christopher Keith Johnson • Mar 26 2014 • Articles

We should be wary of buzzwords and trends in development, as ideas that make a great deal of sense in a boardroom are, at times, very difficult to justify in the field.

Post-Development and the Practitioner

Christopher Keith Johnson • Jan 8 2014 • Articles

Post-development thinking interrogates the history, meaning, and motives of the development industry while forcing the development professional to change how they view the world.

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