Mon 11.01.10| Marx and the Non-Western World
Many critics, including Edward Said, have faulted Karl Marx for his assumptions about the non-Western world, not to mention his unsavory comments about "unhistorical peoples." But are Marx's early...
View ArticleTues 6.28.11| Climate Chaos
Residents of the Global North may be justly wringing their hands about flooding, droughts, and freak weather, but the most worrying effects of climate change are expected to hit the countries of the...
View ArticleWed 8.15.12 | The Environmentalism of the Poor
In the Global South, movements have emerged over the last forty years to fight the ecological destruction wrought by multinational corporations and rapacious nation-states. And they have frequently...
View ArticleWed 3.09.16 | Who Does Global Poverty Threaten?
Akhil Gupta sees a growing tendency to view global poverty as a threat not to the acutely poor but to elites in the global North. Unchecked migration, terrorism, and disease vectors are seen as...
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