Uneven Developments

The Unresolved Past

April 18, 2012

Yesterday I took a trip to the idyllic Castello di Rivoli to the west of Turin with my friend Andrea. […]

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Welcome to the Land of Inequality

April 17, 2012

Teaching American Studies in Torino, as I am for the next two weeks, is an eye-opening experience.  I feel a […]

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Accidental Deaths

April 16, 2012

I’m in Torino, Italy for a couple of weeks to teach a course in the Masters in American Studies program. […]

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Beirut Dispatch: The Arab Spring and the Muddled Left

January 31, 2012

Lebanon is a country with a long history of sectarian strife. The remnants of the civil war, which pitted Christians […]

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Architecture of Fear

December 11, 2011

During the colonial era, Africa was represented as the land that time left behind. European colonial powers justified their rule […]

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Climate Apartheid

Here is the final press statement from the Climate Justice Now! Campaign on the events in Durban:  COP17 succumbs to […]

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Behind the scenes

December 10, 2011

A couple of films by my friend Rebecca Sommer, plus a clip of an impassioned statement from a young Climate […]

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Failure

I think today must go down in history as the moment when humanity collectively failed to secure its own future. […]

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People’s Alternatives

December 8, 2011

This is the final session in a two-day workshop organized by the Transnational Institute, a group that bills itself as […]

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Global Corporate Influence on Energy and Climate Policy

Jacqui Patterson, Director, NAACP Environment and Climate Justice Program I’m going to be talking about the impact of coal corporations […]

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