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social movements
273 Items, 20 Members
food crops vs. export crops
154 Items, 33 Members
Which priorities should policymakers, activists and academics concentrate on? Fair trade of export crops? Local production of food crops? Export/local production of organic produce?
Development Africa
234 Items, 40 Members
Information and discussion about continent-wide development issues/perspectives.
Zimbabwe Mugabe land reform
21 Items, 2 Members
Land reform measures by Mugabe are controversial even among those on the left. It is important to respect the dialogs from decent scholars on all sides. This makes debates about Zimbabwe similar those regarding Rwanda, the legacy of Kagame, and the character of genocide.
Chad-CameroonPetroleumDevProject
139 Items, 6 Members
Documents relating to World Bank-sponsored petroleum development project.
resource curse?
7 Items, 1 Members
Extractive Industries Transparancy Initiative
20 Items, 1 Members
Corporate control of public sphere
202 Items, 1 Members
Public-private partnerships regarding water, land and other public spaces. CSR as a development strategy. Contracting out government.
Latin America Left
119 Items, 1 Members
odious debt
11 Items, 1 Members
A fundamental argument underlying the debt relief (Jubilee) movement is that much of the debt countries must pay back is illegitimate, or odious. The foremost odious debts are those given to despots with full knowledge that those debts simply serve the interests of the creditors (often those cre...
Burkina Faso Exploitation-Resistance
146 Items, 1 Members
The legacy of Thomas Sankara; social mobilization; Compaore's legacy of pro-Western authoritarian "light-handedness"
IFIs and Neoliberal Economic Development
18 Items, 1 Members
World Bank, IMF and: privatization; governance; civil society and NGOs; "sustainable development"
economic crisis
193 Items, 3 Members
Includes 2007- economic/finance crisis and financial crises in general.
Workers Assemblies
8 Items, 1 Members
U.S. History and Politics
26 Items, 1 Members
corporate violence
38 Items, 1 Members
Violence by and on behalf of corporate entities (broadly defined). Corporate: "of, relating to, or formed into a unified body of individuals."
economic theory
57 Items, 1 Members
Middle East/North Africa Uprising 2011
394 Items, 4 Members
Originally titled "Arab World" uprising, but this description was incorrect from the beginning. Subsequent title Middle East uprising only slightly more accurate. This uprising is really a continuation of Iran 2009, with center of influence in North Africa, and strands spreading into continenta...
Can Petroleum Aid development?
237 Items, 4 Members
Neoclassical economists approach petroleum as a "resource curse", alleviated only through appropriate institutional incentives promoting lagging comparative advantages (e.g. export crops). However, broader study of petroleum corporations, authoritarian governments, international supporters, and ...
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) as Window dressing
40 Items, 1 Members
us conservative memes
11 Items, 1 Members
Discussion and collection of emotive memes sprinkled through conservative media that, regardless of the reasonableness of the over-riding argument (e.g. Saul Alinski's admiration of Barry Goldwater), implant and sustain the desired mindsets in over-worked and under-critical US conservatives. These
MNC supply chains
4 Items, 1 Members
How are products made and distributed to consuming areas of the world?
social theory
31 Items, 4 Members
Originally anthropology theory but moved into cultural geography and ecology.
Cameroon-Contestation-consent
16 Items, 1 Members
Niger Delta
14 Items, 5 Members
For discussion, information, documents relating to the struggles in the Niger Delta and particularly exploitation by multinational petroleum corporations such as Shell.
NGOs and failed development
12 Items, 1 Members
Many have persuasively argued that NGOs cause rather than combat development disasters. This argument should be taken seriously but requires continuing contextual research.
land reform in Africa
45 Items, 1 Members
Discuss issues including Zimbabwe white farms, squatting versus "small foodstock farms," neoliberal economics and formalizing land tenure, and relating common property to individual property.
Africom
14 Items, 1 Members
financial speculation
4 Items, 1 Members
Includes oil, food, real estate, currency and other commodities.
Critical Pedagogy - Freire
2 Items, 1 Members
MNC interlocking directorates
5 Items, 1 Members
ungoverned space
7 Items, 1 Members
Mike Mullen and others in Obama's government have latched onto this idea as an essential part of counter-terrorism. Is it counter-terrorism or neocolonialism redux?
What is idle land?
5 Items, 1 Members
In recent years, countries from Saudi Arabia to European countries have been buying up large amounts of "idle" or "reserve" land in order to produce food crops, biofuels or to get subsidies for carbon sequestration. How is idle land defined, and how is it similar to colonial "empty" lands?
Kimberley Process Diamond Certification
10 Items, 1 Members
Congo Mining and Human Rights Abuses
27 Items, 1 Members
Terrorism Responses
1 Items, 1 Members
War on terror Saving democracy in the face of violence Criminals and/vs terrorists
China and Africa
36 Items, 1 Members
Resisting Chevron
9 Items, 1 Members
Chevron involved in destroying environment and violating human rights in Burma, Nigeria, Ecuador and elsewhere.
Herman Chomsky genocide
15 Items, 1 Members
Material that discusses approaches by Chomsky and Herman, among other radical theorists, to genocide. They both provoke from their generally very constructive anti-racist, anti-colonial positions, and enable right-wing partisans who suggest that they are genocide deniers ergo anti-Semitic and wa...
World Social Forum Dakar 2011
2 Items, 1 Members
indigenous knowledge - substance or power?
0 Items, 1 Members
Arun Agrawal, in "Dismantling the divide between indigenous and scientific knowledge," makes an effective argument for concentrating not on the substantial differences between indigenous and scientific knowledge, but rather the relations of power that determine which people have a voice in making...
Communtarian socialism Bolivia
8 Items, 1 Members
Examine Bolivian development of communitarian socialism, and broader contexts/applications.
International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala
1 Items, 1 Members
Earth Institute Critiques
0 Items, 1 Members
Good articles in support of Earth Institute are welcome. However, the slant of this group is best indicated at the beginning. If my position changes from critique to support, then I will change the purpose of this group.
Orstrom and common property institutions
2 Items, 2 Members
Discussion of Nobel-prize winner and political scientist Elinor Orstrom's notions of common property, institutions and governance.
Kono Sierra Leone Diamonds
2 Items, 1 Members
For tracking and discussing Kono diamond mine resources.
