Another production is possible
I picked (or rather, lifted) up this volume unaware that it is only the second of five in a giant project entitled Reinventing Social Emancipation. Whether anyone will be able to lift all five and reinvent social emancipation at the same time is open to question. So I’d better come clean – I’ve yet to digest even the second one properly. But I’ll certainly do my very best, during the months ahead, to keep trying. The admirable project, based in Portugal, has employed Majority World academics to put some intellectual flesh on the bare bones of the alternatives to neoliberal globalization, many of which are already up and running.
Something is surely afoot, and digesting these volumes, even incompletely, should help the more inquisitive among us to see what it looks like. It will doubtless take a lot more alternatives a lot longer to overturn prevailing orthodoxy. But, at the very least, anyone who already feels entitled to dismiss them out of hand should be required – especially by the Northern media – to read the entire series before making further comment.
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- by Boaventura de Sousa Santos (ed)
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- Verso
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- ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-148-9
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- http://www.versobooks.com
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Voices from the margins:
Multimedia: video, podcasts, and more.
- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
- Raised Voices audio:
- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
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