Browsing All Posts filed under »Social Justice«

Reading Marx’s ‘Capital’

January 2, 2009

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Over at this blog you can watch, listen to, download or subscribe to a series of lectures given by David Harvey on Marx’s ‘Capital’.   This is a great resource of video lectures by one of the world’s most important Marx scholars.  There is something of a Marx revival going on at the moment as a… [Read more…]

La Luminata

October 26, 2008

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The web’s best blog for ethical / sustainable fashion and design news has moved – you can now find Rachel Holland’s La Luminata blog here, definitely one to bookmark if you are interested in the quirkier and innovative end of the green marketplace.

CFP:”Sport and Peace/Social (In)Justice.”

June 17, 2008

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May be of interest to those researching on Olympic themes….  The 29th annual conference of La Sociedad Norteamericana para la Sociologia del Deporte /The North American Society for the Sociology of Sport/La Société nord-américaine de sociologie du sport (NASSS) will be held 5-8 November 2008 at the Curtis Hotel in Denver, Colorado, USA. The theme… [Read more…]

La Luminata

February 5, 2008

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Rachel Holland has a new blog ’La Luminata’ here, devoted to “Regular illuminations & developments from the world of art, design & environmental change. “

Arts and criminal justice

January 20, 2008

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I’m on a steering group which is framing the development of a code of practice for artists working in criminal justice settings.  There is a blog documenting the process here.  The initiative has been started by the Anne Peaker Centre, a charity who provide advocacy and support for artists and arts organisations working in this field.

Regulating the night

November 26, 2007

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I have just been sent ‘Regulating the night: Race, culture and exclusion in the making of the night-time economy’ (Ashgate 2005) by Debrorah Talbot to review for the Journal of Cultural Geography, an American journal.  I’ll post a link to the review on here once it is published.

Burma – the dirty list

September 28, 2007

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The intensity of demonstrations and reprisals in Burma shows no sign of lessening and it is hard to know what we can do from so far away.  Although the Internet has provided a fantastic way of getting images out of Burma, this new connectedness has produced a very globalized form of impotence, based on a feeling of powerlessness… [Read more…]

Pilgrimage Guantanamo

August 9, 2007

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A friend of ours is planning to walk from Rochester to Canterbury cathedral, in order to raise awareness and funds for Reprive.  Reprive is Clive Stafford Smith’s charity, which offers free legal representation to prisoners in Guantanamo Bay and also on Death Row in the US.  You can go to our friend’s blog here to find… [Read more…]

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