Imagining the Diasporic Link: The Franco-Algerian Media Dialogues on the 2005 ‘Emeutes’ in France
Irina Mihalache | Both France and Algeria have been struggling with the memory of colonialism, adopting various strategies of collective remembering.
David Carson | East meets west and on a mountain in Korea.
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Pearl Pirie | we drug the bushel tin out of the cellarwhen we done up the beets last week there.what a job.
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Cultural Shifts and Berrak Kabasakal | The fourth panel of the Institute of Political Economy annual conference.
Stop the World Water Forum»Emma Lui | How the 5th World Water Forum and the World Water Council Threaten People’s Access to Water.
National Identity Examined: A Study of the Quebec Nation»Rachel Ariey-Jouglard | What is a nation exactly? A theoretical look at the concept of nation in Quebec.
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Marx and the current ‘crisis’ of capitalism»D. T. Cochrane | The latest upheavals in the global financial markets have revived interest in the political economic analysis of Karl Marx. Sales of Marx’s opus Capital - which English media insists on calling by its untranslated German …
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Perilous Light»Fuyuki Kurasawa and Cultural Shifts | A public lecture on the visual representation of distant suffering in various parts of the world, and its implications for the production of otherness and vulnerability - this video is part of the Institute of …
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The Seven ‘Social’ Sins —
The Vatican has added seven modern mortal sins to the old list of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride. According to Bloomberg News, Bishop Gianfranco Girotti says that the new sins, brought about by the phenomenon of globalisation, add a social dimension. A number of media outlets are linking the … |
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The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet —
The Neoconservative Agenda to Sacrifice the Fifth Fleet – The New Pearl Harbor
by Michael Salla… |
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Questioning Boundaries: A Political Economy Conference —
The Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University is holding its 9th annual graduate studies conference this week. In coming weeks, Cultural Shifts will be posting a selection of papers from the event.
If you are in Ottawa, Canada, and would like to attend, the conference details are below. The event is open and free to the general public … |
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Taken For A Ride documentary —
Taken for a Ride whose “point of view” is perfectly clear is a scenic tour of how General Motors, beginning in 1922, dismantled urban mass transit across the United States and made mobility contingent upon the gas engine. By buying up trolley systems through its shadow subsidiary, National City Lines GM systematically gutted those streetcar companies and made … |
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6billion hectares - Brazilian clear cutting. —
This passionate message was posted by “niggaz4ever” on fotolog.net (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
The posted item highlights the issue of Brazilian clear cutting for the production of beef.
In Spain there is little or no mention of this sort of news.
It’s 6 billion hectares!!! How can it be kept quiet?
“Revolta”
malditos comedores de carniça, essa foto mostra outra cidade … |
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The Genetics of Politics —
Some political scientists and psychologists believe that there is a close relationship between the politics that we practice and our genetic makeup. While not entirely disregarding the “non-natural” world in the formation of our political values, they posit that genes may play an important role in determining our politics by driving us towards certain “natural tendencies”. This … |
