Conceptualizing Culture: A Perspective from the South

By Evelina Dagnino, UNICAMP – Brazil
See original post at Culture Web
Being a Brazilian and a Latin American political scientist, what I would like to explore in my presentation are the efforts in conceptualizing culture which have emphasized the relationships between culture and politics. Since it would be impossible to survey all different traditions and ways [...]

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Shoreditch and the creative destruction of the inner city

By Benedict Seymour
“Gentrification in London, a city now rated among the most expensive in the world, embodies the drive of a cannibalistic capitalism looking for ways to cut its costs in a period of declining profit rates and deepening national current account deficits: The search for new, cheaper use values (primarily space, but also intangible [...]

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Newsflash: Populism Is Popular

By David Sirota
“Admittedly, contradiction is everywhere: Republican rallies bewail deficits the GOP manufactured, and Democrats lament deregulatory schemes they originally crafted. But no matter how hypocritical the response is, it is a response, and that represents change from decades of aloof government. It suggests a democratic renewal whereby populism—i.e., advocating what the public wants—isn’t merely [...]

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Socialism for Bourgeoisie

By Boris Kagarlitsky
“Before admiring the amount of money that some countries are ready to allot, there is a need to bear in mind that all over the world the “problem assets”, which will be written off in the near future, cost much more than $1 trillion, according to experts. This way, the money of taxpayers [...]

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Participative Democracy: Community Participation or Technocratic Elitism

By Richard Nash
University of the Sunshine Coast
Paper presented to the Australasian Political Studies Association Conference University of Tasmania, Hobart29 September – 1 October 2003
Abstract:Discussions on natural resource management promote the idea of community participation as a central mechanism for collaborative politics, participatory democracy and sustainable development. The employment of such terminology implies broad and integrative [...]

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A city that shelters a fiction of the reinvention that never ocurred

“In the absence of a place where a genuine reinvention happens, an honest substitute will be a city that shelters a fiction of the reinvention that never occurred. A city that assumes the external appearance of the expectations of that one who sought it, leading him to believe in a battle won. A city that [...]

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Philanthrocapitalism: after the goldrush

By Michael Edwards
Read it at: http://www.opendemocracy.net/article/globalisation/visions_reflections/philanthrocapitalism_after_the_goldrush

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ECONOMICS AND THE SPACE OF MODERNITY: Tales of Market Production and Labour

Arturo EscobarSee article at his homepage: http://www.unc.edu/~aescobar/text/eng/economics%20and%20modernity-escobar.pdf

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Quelques bonnes raisons de se libérer du travail

Anselm Jappe
Origine site du FSPB Forum Social Pays Basque: Samedi 29 Janvier 2005 , IUT Chateau Neuf (St André), amphithéâtre
de l’IUT
Read it here: http://1libertaire.free.fr/Selibererdutravail.html

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Lula’s Social Policies: New Wine in Old Bottles?

By Alcino Ferreira Câmara Neto and Matías Vernengo
Working Paper No: 2006-07, University of Utah, Department of EconomicsSee article at Utah University here: http://www.econ.utah.edu/activities/papers/2006_07.pdf
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