Podcast of the day: The Extraenviromentalist: David McNally on Successfully Resisting Austerity

From our friends at The Extraenviromentalist Podcast. From the episode notes: Through the transfer of private debt to balance sheets of governments around the world, we’ve entered an age of austerity where citizens are experiencing drastic cuts to basic necessities. Civil unrest has resulted from people demanding that corporate greed should be punished instead of individuals. As… Continue reading

Essay of the Day: Revolutionary or Less Than Revolutionary Recognition

* Article: Revolutionary or Less-Than-Revolutionary Recognition? By Richard Gunn & Adrian Wilding Summary: “In the course of the last twenty years, the term recognition has entered the lexicon of mainstream political theory. The present paper takes issue with accounts of recognition which have become influential in these decades. Our criticism of such accounts is twofold:… Continue reading

Open invitation to network our labour for a radical change

Networked Labour was an outcome of an international seminar held in Amsterdam between 7-9 May 2013. The seminar was initially supported by Networked Politics, transform! europe, Transnational Institute and IGOPNET (Institut de Govern the Polítiques Públiques). At the end of the seminar several ideas have emerged one of which was to improve this web space and try to transform it into a transnational and… Continue reading

Movement of the Day: Infodesarrollo Ecuador

This is the organisation that organized 24 workshops for the FLOKSociety.org project in Ecuador, in order to obtain civic input from all layers of Ecuadorian society: “Infodesarrollo.ec is the Ecuadorian Information and Communication Network for Development, formed by 19 organizations, whose mission is to promote the generation and exchange of information, methodologies, experiences and knowledge… Continue reading

P2P PhD Research Opportunities in the UK

AHRC funding for UK/EU Arts and Humanities research students The Midlands3Cities Doctoral Training Partnership will be awarding 410 PhD studentships over a five year period to excellent research students in the Arts and Humanities. The DTP, a collaboration between Nottingham Trent, Nottingham, Birmingham, Birmingham City, Leicester and De Montfort universities, provides research candidates with cross-institutional… Continue reading