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World Economic Forum and Risks
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…
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Health citizenship and Haiti…
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….
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Security and peace
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…
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On ego in the academy
This holiday season i happened into a conversation with two men – one with a PhD (i think?) in sustainable design and another working at Microsoft. We were chatting about graduate school, people…
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Rolling back the state
Over the past 15+ years, academics and researchers have written extensively about the rolling back of the state (Atkinson, 1999; Colás, 2005; Essex, 2008; Jessop, 2002; Kelsey, 1993; Koffman & Raghuram, 2009; Kiely,…
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Ideology, hegemony, governmentality, and theories of everything – oh my!
I finally picked up Terry Eagleton’s Ideology and started reading. I checked his book out something like 13 times before i bought my own. The first thing that struck me is that there…
Health citizenship and Haiti…
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….
Baking helps to relieve the soul
This will probably be the last of the crafting and baking posts for a very long time as we “do” Christmas tomorrow, and then it’s down to the real business of writing a…
