Reading Development

Random readings on society, politics and change – Jorge Carrillo

Tackling corruption in Indian medicine

Dinsa Sachan – Some doctors and non-governmental organisations are taking up the fight against corruption in Indian medicine, which many observers claim is widespread in the country. Kickbacks have been … Continue reading →

Saturday, 16 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Why are human rights NGOs in emerging powers not emerging?

Lucia Nader – Middle-income BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) countries are becoming more politically prominent, appearing on the covers of magazines and newspapers in the developed world, … Continue reading →

Saturday, 16 November 2013 · Leave a comment

The Politics of Evidence

Conference Report – Who decides what data is needed, how it should be collected – and why and how it is used as evidence? What drives their choices? Politics of what … Continue reading →

Sunday, 10 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Militarization of Cities: The Urban Dimension of Contemporary Security

Katarína Svitková – Cities are, by their very nature, prone to manifestations of political violence and vulnerable to disasters of various kinds. As nodes of population, infrastructure, investment, centers of … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 5 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Degrowing Our Way to Genuine Progress

Erik Assadourian – Since the very creation of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) indicator, people have criticized it as a poor measure of societal progress. Even the father of the … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 5 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Urban poverty ‘without an outside’?

Dolf te Lintelo – Contemporary urban geography perspectives are very actively seeking for connections rather than posit dichotomies between the urban and the rural, the urban and the suburban, the … Continue reading →

Monday, 4 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Why a war on poor people?

Daniel Little – American conservatives for the past several decades have shown a remarkable hostility to poor people in our country…One piece of the puzzle seems to come down to ideology … Continue reading →

Saturday, 2 November 2013 · Leave a comment

Local state constructions of urban citizenship

Liela Groenewald – This study explores local state constructions of citizenship for the residents of informal settlements in urban South Africa during the first decade of local democracy, with a … Continue reading →

Wednesday, 30 October 2013 · 1 Comment

Top 100 City Innovators Worldwide

The movement to build, support, and sustain liveable cities worldwide is well underway, with individuals all over the globe and across numerous industries committed to leading the charge. Today, we’re … Continue reading →

Tuesday, 29 October 2013 · Leave a comment