Representing the crisis
Service design
Proposals for a progressive governance
Transhumanism
Sexing borders
The promise of the commons
Environmental justice
Critique of web 2.0
interviews on the crisis
Stephen Gudeman invites us to re conceptualise our understanding of the economy not as flat plain consisting of markets and market like behaviour that lead to equilibrium situations, but as a overlapping and conflicting spheres of value and practices. Through his comparative and ethnographically informed perspective of the economy, Gudeman helps us challenge certain dominant narratives of the current crisis.
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Indigenous rights were once denied because Indigenous peoples were not considered modern: now they are denied if they are. Native title requires them to be ‘traditional’, argues Gaynor Macdonald, and to call someone ‘traditional’ is to imply they do not share ‘our’ time. |
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The paternal/provider role of the Soviet State is being gradually replaced in the case of Georgia by a more individualistic and money orientated society. Time is not only money, says Eleni Sideri, it also flows and this fluidity offers new opportunities, contradictory experiences, and also disappointments to social agents. |
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Susan Ossman examines the stories of people who have lived in several countries, and asks that we avoid identifying them by birthplace or ethnicity, or measures of social class developed in the place they presently live. Before coming to conclusions about their identities, we must pay attention to their concrete pathways and the ways in which their journeys are transformative. |
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Madalina Florescu takes on board the complex issue of freedom in relation to the implementation of new technologies of surveillance, which ultimately render the experiece of crossing borders as liable of crime. |
