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New Book: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
Dear HumanDHS friends
Commons Knowledge
The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet
By: Ramez Naam
Published: April 9, 2013
By: UPNE
364 Pages
ISBN: 978-1611682557
The free market is such a powerful catalyst of innovation that… Continue reading
Carol Smaldino: A Torn Valentine
Dear HumanDHS friends,
Carol Smaldino posted a new article on her Huffington Post blog, reflecting about ambivalent feelings of many people around Valentine’s Day.
Article link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carol-smaldino/valentines-day_b_1270568.html?
New Book Published by Dignity Press: “Decolonizing Peace” by Victoria Fontan
Dear HumanDHS friends,
Decolonizing Peace is finally out with Dignity Press! Decolonizing peace, offers a vivid critique of what Victoria refers to as the “peace industry” and the neo-colonial Northern addiction to helping, hence infantilizing, the Global South. The book looks at… Continue reading
Article on Ecocide
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link to article:
http://human-wrongs-watch.net/2012/10/28/15660/
What Is Ecocide?
Ecocide is, according to Polly’s definition, “the extensive damage to, destruction of or loss of ecosystem(s) of a given territory, whether by human agency or by other causes, to such… Continue reading
Article: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
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The Global 1%: Exposing the Transnational Ruling Class
by Peter Phillips and Kimberly Soeiro
http://www.projectcensored.org/top-stories/articles/the-global-1-exposing-the-transnational-ruling-class/?utm_source=Media+Freedom+foundation+List&utm_campaign=72cfb80560-Desperate+Times+Demand+Revolutionary+Measures&utm_medium=email
Censored Notebook Aug 13, 2012
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Abstract: This study asks Who are the the world’s 1 percent power elite? And to what… Continue reading
Article: Should Trees Have Standing?
Dear HumanDHS Friends
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, Vol. 3 Special Issue, 2012, pp. 2–3 Foreword On being 40: a celebration of ‘Should Trees Have Standing?’
Philippe Sands
Professor of Law, University College London, UK
http://e-elgar.metapress.com/content/1mh3855t43758155/?p=a96c14b934ba4306a883d63dcd813a05&pi=1
Few law… Continue reading
Editorial: Forced Migration and Displacement During the Arab Spring
This is to notify you that Volume 2, Number 2 of the JID is released.
Table of Contents
Editorial: Forced Migration and Displacement During the Arab Spring
Veronica P. Fynn
JID (2012), Vol. 2 No. 2,… Continue reading
New Book: Children, Citizenship and Environment
Dear HumanDHS Friends
New Book: Children, Citizenship and Environment
Nurturing a Democratic Imagination in a Changing World
By Bronwyn Hayward
Children growing up today are confronted by four difficult and intersecting challenges: dangerous environmental change, weakening democracies, growing social inequality,… Continue reading
Articles Relating to the “Arab Spring”
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Disquiet and despair: the gender sub-texts of the “Arab spring”Published on openDemocracy (http://www.opendemocracy.net) Deniz Kandiyoti [1] , 26 June 2012
The extreme precariousness of women’s rights in post- Arab spring successor regimes can neither be fully… Continue reading
Looking Beyond Rio, Towards Degrowth
Dear HumanDHS Friends
Looking Beyond Rio, Towards Degrowth
by Charles Eisenstein on 1st July 2012
http://postgrowth.org/looking-beyond-rio-towards-degrowth/
You know folks, I’m a bit worried about my 16-year-old son, Jimi. When he was 13, he grew three inches. When he was 14,… Continue reading