A week and a half ago, i attended a lecture by Professor Peter Hallward on Alain Badiou's Ethics at the ICA (as part of the Verso Books Radical Thinkers series). It was the perfect follow on to the Birkbeck conference on Hegel a week and...
Haiti and cholera have been coming up a lot lately. I have a meeting with an MSc student next week to talk about her dissertation on the topic. Ansel Herz has recently written what i found to be an appropriately critical if a rather forgiving...
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...
After weeks of struggling with the reason for placing blame in the cholera outbreak in Haiti, i finally landed on an argument that makes sense to me, and, hopefully, makes sense to others, as well. This was never about the "blame game", rather, was deeply...
I've been working on my paper pretty much non-stop for a week now and i'm beginning to realize that i'm completely overwhelmed by all of the possibilities of directions i can take: 1. there is of course the sheer irony of the fact that Haiti has...