Reading Development

Random readings on society, politics and change – Jorge Carrillo

Privatizing Censorship, Eroding Privacy: Freedom on the Net 2015

Internet freedom around the world declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2015 as more governments censored information of public interest while also expanding surveillance and cracking down on privacy … Continue reading

Saturday, 7 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Authoritarian spaces, (un)just spaces?

Justice Spatiale/Spatial Justice, No. 8 – This issue offers a discussion on the authoritarian exercise of power, not on authoritarianism defined as a political regime that seeks to restrict political pluralism … Continue reading

Friday, 6 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Spatial Justice and the right to the city – An interview with Edward Soja

As someone who has been promoting this spatial turn for many decades, I now want to push it still further, by assertively adding a significant spatial dimension to other kinds … Continue reading

Thursday, 5 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Towards a regional democracy? – An interview with Edward Soja

Edward Soja passed away recently. In this 2011 interview, he defends the idea that we need to change the way we think about the social and political organization of urbanized territories … Continue reading

Thursday, 5 November 2015 · Leave a comment

“We have to call off this capitalist urbanization dynamic” – An Interview with David Harvey

What we’ve got right now are some of these totally absurd forms of urbanization, for example in states like Dubai…the only thing that has kept global capitalism alive over the … Continue reading

Wednesday, 4 November 2015 · Leave a comment

The Decade of Adjustment: A Review of Austerity Trends 2010-2020 in 187 Countries

This paper: (i) examines the latest IMF government spending projections for 187 countries between 2005 and 2020; (ii) reviews 616 IMF country reports in 183 countries to identify the main … Continue reading

Tuesday, 3 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Policy brief – The Forthcoming Adjustment Shock

According to IMF projections, 2016 marks the beginning of a second, major period of expenditure contraction globally. This ILO paper questions if the projected fiscal contraction trajectory—in terms of timing, … Continue reading

Tuesday, 3 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Leave no one behind: the real bottom billion

As the Millennium Development Goals draw to a close, and their replacement, the Sustainable Development Goals, are agreed by UN governments, close to a billion people remain in extreme poverty, … Continue reading

Sunday, 1 November 2015 · Leave a comment

Transforming cities for sustainability: facts and figures

Architects, engineers, urban planners, civil society and policy makers face the challenges of creating sustainable, healthy, ‘smart’, ‘green’, adaptive, inclusive, productive, safe, flexible and resilient cities. These are just a … Continue reading

Friday, 30 October 2015 · Leave a comment