ESRC Seminar #4: “Food and Corporations” This seminar’s focus is on the position and role of Food Corporations. Civil society organisations (CSOs) spend much time and energy trying to influence and sometimes […]
Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities
Abstract: The world faces a ‘perfect storm’ of social and ecological stresses, including climate change, habitat loss, resource […]
No measure for culture? Value in the new economy
Abstract: This paper explores articulations of the value of investment in culture and the arts through a critical discourse analysis of policy documents, reports […]
Good Bye Lenin! Of Dreamworlds, Catastrophes and Empires, Now and Then
Abstract: The past–his past, the past of state socialism–usually enters the text of Slavoj Žižek by way of a joke. For example,“take the good old joke about the difference between Soviet-style bureaucratic Socialism […]
Adeus Lênin! De dreamworlds, catástrofes e impérios, agora e então
Abstract: Este artigo trata de um sintoma: o de uma mudança ideológica, uma fratura histórica na produção fantasmática da organização social – a transição de […]
Against Automobility
Abstract: “Despite its promise of freedom and autonomy, the ubiquity of the automobile has influenced unforeseen ecological, social, and political change. In Against Automobility, a panel of distinguished scholars take a critical […]
