Uneven Developments

Representing the Landless

March 28, 2013

Earlier this week I went to see a film in the MOMA New Directors/New Films series. The film was They’ll […]

Profiting from Climate Insecurity

March 27, 2013

These days, virtually everyone knows that the world we take for granted is becoming more precarious as a result of […]

March 25, 2013

Indigenous activists and their allies stand up to big oil.

The Politics of Climate Change

March 24, 2013

Some good academic work has been coming out on the politics of climate change lately.  Here are a couple: The […]

March 22, 2013

The World Bank funds the wrong projects

The Right to Heal

March 21, 2013

Last night I attended an event at the Brecht Forum to commemorate the Tenth Anniversary of the U.S. invasion of […]

March 20, 2013

What does it mean to understand democracy as a form of political life grounded in consumption of abundant fossil fuels? […]

March 17, 2013

Closed-door negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Trade Agreement = threats to environmental laws protecting the global commons.

Accumulation by Dispossession

March 16, 2013

Earlier this week, David Harvey appeared on a panel about contemporary Land Grabs along with activists Somnath Mukherjee, Smita Narula, […]

Upcoming World Social Forum to be held in Tunisia, origin of the Arab Spring. The WSF promises to be an […]