The Visual Construction of Criminality

RAB’s Photo Sessions and the Visual Construction of Criminality
November 16th, 2009 Posted in Bangladesh, governance
By Rahnuma Ahmed
The title of my column is somewhat misleading, I think it’s best to state that right away. Intrigued by the press briefings that RAB (Rapid Action Battalion) offices hold every so often where `criminals’ are displayed alongwith crime artefacts laid out on [...]

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PUBLIC NOTE ON ELTON BRUM’S MURDER FOR THE MILITARY POLICE OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL – BRAZIL – August 21, 2009

MST releases photo and public note to society:

The Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST – Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra) comes to public to manifest his grief again for the loss of companheiro Elton Brum loss, to manifest  solidarity to the family and for:
1. To denounce one more harsh and violent action [...]

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Inscribing Subjects to Citizenship: Petitions, Literacy Activism, and the Performativity of Signature in Rural Tamil India

By Francis Cody
“But for the women who had come to the office that day from Katrampatti, my sense is that they would only have been satisfied that they had performed the act of petitioning at grievance day if they had been able to see the collector and plead with him orally using generic conventions compelling [...]

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Capitalism and Social Rights

By Ellen Meiksins Wood
“In fact, we could just as easily say that the history of rights has
been a contraction, not an expansion, of political rights — not an
expansion from one set of rights to another but a contraction of
political rights to exclude the social and the economic. Political
rights have certainly expanded in the sense that [...]

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