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Challenging Democracy

I was recently asked about my participation in student protests back in my home country of South Africa - very thought provoking.  It got me thinking about how we protest today - within in the medias we have to our availability. South Africa has been a democratic country now for 16 years and in that …

Posted 25 months ago by marcelle mentor

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The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy

Title: The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy Author: Raj Patel Publisher: New York : Picador, 2010, c2009 Call Number: HB95 .P3185 2010 From the Publisher: "Opening with Oscar Wilde's observation that "nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing," Patel shows how our faith in prices as a way of valuing the …

Posted 26 months ago by pamela

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The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy

Title: The Global Diffusion of Markets and Democracy Editors: Beth A. Simmons, Frank Dobbin, Geoffrey Garrett Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008 Call Number: HF1359 .G5685 2008 From the Publisher: "The diffusion of markets and democracy around the world was a defining feature of the late twentieth century. Many social scientists view this …

Posted 27 months ago by pamela

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“Trudging Towards Freedom” with William Ayers

Schooling is never neutral. Schools are always contested spaces, sites of conflict and contradiction, hope and struggle. In the last half-century, social upheavals in South Africa, China, Europe, Chile, and the US were sometimes centered, often energized, and always echoed within the schools. School people in societies as diverse as medieval Saudi Arabia, the Soviet …

Posted 29 months ago by Jennifer Govan

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Learning by Doing

Background I know Jace Clayton through my wife, who is also a musician. Jace has been DJ-ing for over 20 years. When I interviewed him I thought it was really interesting that DJ-ing, for him, was both a personal and social activity. Jace learned how to DJ through one session with a friend and from …

Posted 30 months ago by Yana Kehrlein

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