Thursday, April 24, 2014
law in Shakespeare
The language of law is used to justify power.
Shakespeare in the graveyard in Hamlet- 'to act, to do, to perform'
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
The Limits to Scarcity
Scarcity is considered a ubiquitous feature of the human condition. It underpins much of modern economics and is widely used as an explanation for social organisation, social conflict and the resource crunch confronting humanity's survival on the planet. It is made out to be an all-pervasive fact of our lives – be it of housing, food, water or oil. But has the conception of scarcity been politicized, naturalized, and universalized in academic and policy debates? Has overhasty recourse to scarcity evoked a standard set of market, institutional and technological solutions which have blocked out political contestations, overlooking access as a legitimate focus for academic debates as well as policies and interventions? Theoretical and empirical chapters by leading academics and scholar-activists grapple with these issues by questioning scarcity's taken-for-granted nature. They examine scarcity debates across three of the most important resources - food, water and energy – and their implications for theory, institutional arrangements, policy responses and innovation systems. The book looks at how scarcity has emerged as a totalizing discourse in both the North and South. The 'scare' of scarcity has led to scarcity emerging as a political strategy for powerful groups. Aggregate numbers and physical quantities are trusted, while local knowledges and experiences of scarcity that identify problems more accurately and specifically are ignored. Science and technology are expected to provide 'solutions', but such expectations embody a multitude of unexamined assumptions about the nature of the 'problem', about the technologies and about the institutional arrangements put forward as a 'fix.' Through this examination the authors demonstrate that scarcity is not a natural condition: the problem lies in how we see scarcity and the ways in which it is socially generated.
Navy - Whales
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NRDC Takes Navy to
Court
to Save Whales |
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We've filed suit in federal court to stop a reckless Navy plan
for training with sonar and explosives that could injure or kill thousands of
marine mammals over the next five years. We’ve also launched a powerful
online media campaign, led by Pierce Brosnan, to mobilize public pressure on
the Navy to end its senseless assault on whales. BioGems Defenders have
already sent more than 193,500 messages to Defense Secretary Hagel. Make your voice heard
now.
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https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=97F8034555AC42C39B7AC4A70F577F0E.app337a?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3371&s_src=EMOSONPETNON0314BN&autologin=true&utm_source=nl&utm_source=nl&utm_medium=articalert&utm_campaign=marbgn
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