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My dear friend Molle has released a clip “The Smiling Shaman” from around the farm I used to roam – call home. A summer intermezzo of light beats with a carnevalesque spirit…Frieden – Peace – Leben – Live – Tanz – Dance.
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Twenty years ago as a student at a socialist cadre school, named after Cosmonaut Wladimir Komarov, a strange even unexpected thing happened both to and by me in a crumbling ‘Real Socialist Germany.’ As political agitator, I had initiated weekly talks on the transformations through which we had all become – for a moment in [...]
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Habermas Revisited: Indigenous Lifeworld(s) Today
IPJ Vol. XXI, No. 3 (Winter 2010) | Uploaded 11 Dezember 2010
Indigenous Policy (IPJ) publishes articles, commentary, reviews, news, and announcements concerning Native American and international Indigenous affairs, issues, events, nations, groups and media. The Journal invites commentary and dialogue in and between issues.
Keywords: Habermas, Society
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An overview of publications together with abstracts is provided. You can order an E-book or printed copy by following the title. All publications on this site have been published with GRIN: Munich. In case you would like additional information on a particular piece please sent an email to luedert(at) interchange.ubc.ca
Die indische Diaspora in Tansania
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In 1982 John Gerard Ruggie coined, in reference to Polanyi’s notion of a “legitimate social purpose”, the concept of “embedded liberalism” describing the post second World War political compromise between free-market liberalism and domestic political interventionism. Ruggie identified in the institutional design of the era a “generative grammar” that centered on the idea that international [...]
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The streets were filled with a moving mass of White and Red. Waving Canadian flags to them attached screaming, singing intoxicated citizens ran, seemingly aimless, around the streets of Vancouver’s Downtown core. It was the 28th of February 2010 and the Winter Olympics had, after two weeks, come to a close. The Canadian Hockey Team [...]
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Satre wrote in 1961 on Cuba “Each time that the crane-lifts of the port place a new American car on the dock, blood runs stronger and faster. I was told, “The autos are costing us millions a year.” I took a closer look at the cars in Cuba and discovered the first imprint of the [...]
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Robert Cox postulates that theory is always for someone and some purpose. As such theories are propositions or ideas about the world in which we exist. The same can be said of those applying a certain type of theory in economic policymaking. They are idea enablers. Hence, I argue, choosing a set of theoretical [...]
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Featured on e-IR
A recent article on the contending notion of sovereignty has been published by e-IR. e-International Relations is an independent, student-run website for people who are interested in international politics. The article is entitled Contending Dialectics: Revisiting Material and Ideational Dimensions of Sovereignty. It exemplifies how either a Hegelian or Marxian dialectic runs in the background of [...]
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