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A simple story of Credit Crisis…

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The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo. This looks like an excellent video that teaches us, dummies, what happened in the crisis..

Darwin ban is a shame!

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"Top Ten (Alternative) Valentine?s Songs

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Metal Hammer editors provide you top 10 song lists on Valentines Day…….

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India?s Shri Ram Sene, a right-wing Hindu group, is responsible for violent attacks on women who wear attire that they claim ?violates Indian norms.? To counter the thuggery, Bangalore-based Alternative Law Forum (ALF) has launched a satirical campaign seen above, titled ?A Consortium of Pubgoing Loose and Forward Women?. Found in Pink Panties to Counter Violence Against Women

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"Human Rights at 60………

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"Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union

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Deleuze, Feminism, and the New European Union: An Interview with Rosi Braidotti

by Pascale LaFountain

Rosi Braidotti is at the vanguard of politically active theorists. Her engagement is marked by her intellectual prowess in feminism of the European Union and by the formation of the Netherlands Research School of Women’s Studies, which she founded in 1988 and where she is currently Distinguished Professor. This interview navigates topics ranging from Braidotti’s most recent book Transpositions (2006) to larger questions regarding contemporary nomadism and the role of Deleuzian philosophy in feminism.

Multi-National Monitor/Alternet: The 10 Worst Corporations of 2008 – by Robert Weissman

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"Two Cultures? Tension in Social Science

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In a recent article in Insider Higher Education, " ‘Two Cultures’ Tension in Social Science" it was reported that

Key philanthropic and government programs offering grants for Ph.D. students appear to be excluding proposals for graduate students in sociology and political science, while favoring proposals from those in history, anthropology and a range of relatively small disciplines, such as art history and ethnomusicology, according to data released Friday. The analysis was presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association and focused on programs to support field research or international research.

It is ironic. We know that Political Science is one of the disciplines that gets funded much. But they complain to get the last fragments of funding. In the political economy of academia, humanities and theoretical social sciences had lost their ground. They should be the one to complain. Besides,political science and sociology have become so quantitative that there is probably some need for qualitative assessments…

[MONDAY TALK]Prof. Soysal: Most Turkish universities are still autocratic

By YONCA POYRAZ DOĞAN

Professor Ayşe Soysal, a former rector of Boğaziçi University, said “academic freedom” is a distant idea for many Turkish universities and that this has left many researchers feeling restricted. “The main problem is that most of the universities in Turkey are still autocratic.

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