Today’s PhD school, Tracing Colonialism and Orientalism in Social and Political Thought, consisted of an introductory talk by Engin Isin, followed by a talk from Ian Almond, referencing his book, The New Orientalists: Postmodern Representations of Islam from Foucault to Baudrillard (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007)....
It’s the end of Day Three of the Oecumene Symposium. We’ve had two days of conference and one of PhD School. I’m skipping drinks and hoping to catch up on blog posts, note taking, and other thoughts and ruminations. I came here as much to...
Thanks to Stuart Elden for the lead. First, it's important to note that this diagram is based from responses of WEF survey respondents. These are "469 experts and industry leaders who worry that the world’s institutions are ill-equipped to cope with today’s interconnected, rapidly evolving risks....
Mountz (2004) and others (Nagar et al, 2002; Hyndman, 2001) point to the importance in the scalar narratives of globalization, and particularly, in locating the processes of power in relation to the state. In this case, the processes of power are being negotiated and managed...
I've been mired, lately, in conversations around managing security. It began with a rather heated exchange about the role of prisons. I had snorted rudely at the thought of a prosecutor guiding Vipassana sits twice a month. What kind of Vipassana meditator thinks that putting...