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Our Agency is Powerful

November 24, 2011 – 10:35 am

Roger Nelson talks with environmental art activist Natalie Jeremijenko on creating future foods for humans and the planet

Posted in arts and culture | Also tagged art, food, food art, Jeremijenko, Roger Nelson | Comments Off

Culture, Climate Change and Cuisine: Forum

November 24, 2011 – 10:22 am

Can we eat our way to a biodiverse future? The future of sustainable food lies in a complete rethink of how humans relate to the natural environment through collective engagement. Carbon Arts and Arena Project Space invite you to join the Cross(x)Species Adventure Club and engage with New York based artist / engineer /activist Prof [...]

Posted in Events, Project Space Events and Discussions | Also tagged food, food art, Jeremijenko | Comments Off

Water in a Geo-political Context

November 14, 2010 – 11:08 am

Lindsay Fitzclarence on the need for alternative perspectives about water policies and the Murray-Darling Basin

Posted in features | Also tagged Anthropology, Australian farming, colonisation, cotton, desalinisation, electricity, England, environment, environmentalism, global trade, Indigenous Australians, irrigation, Lindsay Fitzclarence, media, Murray-Darling Basin, nation building, public ownership, rainfall, sustainable development, Water, water policy, water quality | Comments Off

Consuming Social Justice

February 2, 2001 – 9:07 am

This article attempts to move beyond totalising cynicism, as well as unbridled optimism, towards a more nuanced understanding of fair trade. I explore the contradictions and paradoxes of using consumer practices to build bridges of socio-economic solidarity across core and periphery. More specifically, I want to determine how fair-trade discourse constructs understandings of development, consumerism, and global justice.

Posted in features | Also tagged alternative consumption, alternative trade organisations (ATOs), capitalism, collective action, Commerce Clause of the US Constitution, commodity fetishism, consumerism, corporate power, de-linking from the global economy, debt crisis, democracy, development, economic exploitation, environmentally friendly, ethical consumption, ethical mutual funds, fair trade, Fair Trade Federation, First World, Fourth World, global economy, global inequality, global justice, globalisation, identity construction, imperialism, indigenous right, individuality, International Federation for Alternative Trade (IFAT), Joseé Johnston, lifestyle politics, living wage, local self-sufficiency, Margaret Thatcher, market theory, marketing, micro-lifestyle politics, Multilateral Agreement on Investment, natural resources, neo-colonialism, neo-imperialism, North American Free Trade Agreement, over-consumption, public sphere, rational consumer, Ronald Reagan, San Francisco resolution, social inequality, sustainable development, sustainable environmental practices, sweatshop labour, Third World, trade advantages, underdevelopment, workers’ co-operatives | Comments Off

Dislocations – Salman Rushdie and Fiji

August 2, 2000 – 6:36 am

John Hinkson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Aboriginal people, Asia, autonomy, China, colonialism, democracy, domination, England, ethnic cleansing, Europe, Fiji, globalisation, Han, Idi Amin, immigrants, imperialism, Indians, indigenous cultures, Indonesia, media, Melanesians, migrants, migration, multiculturalism, Salman Rushdie, Turkic Ulghurs, United States, West Papua, Zimbabwe | Comments Off

Capital’s First International?

June 2, 2000 – 4:41 pm

James Goodman The World Economic Forum is Coming to Town

Posted in against the current | Also tagged academia, Al Gore, Asia, Bill Clinton, capitalism, Chief Executives, class, commodification, corporate responsibility, democracy, economic research, environmentalism, executive salaries, George Soros, global inequality, globalisation, International Monetary Fund (IMF), James Goodman, Kofi Annan, market fundamentalism, media, neo-liberalism, non-government organisations (NGO), Russia, social dislocation, Switzerland, Ted Turner, Tony Blair, trade unions, transnational corporations, United Nations (UN), United States, World Economic Forum (WEF) | Comments Off

Mapping the Political Terrain

April 2, 2000 – 4:27 pm

George Aditjondro Post-Referendum Timor Loro Sa’e

Posted in features | Also tagged Africa, agrarian reform, alienation, Ana Pessoa Pinto, Australian Defence Forces, Australian Democratic Socialist Party (DSP), authoritarianism, autocratic rule, border dispute, Brazil, capitalism, Catholicism, civil disobedience, civilian military, co-operatives, coffee, coffee growers, coffee plantations, colonialism, colonisation, customary laws, democracy, democratic state, East Timor, East Timor independence, farms, feminist, food distribution, foreign aid agencies, foreign nationals, fund-raising, George Aditjondro, Ghana, guerilla warfare, Guinea-Konakry, human rights, human rights organisations, human rights violations, independence, Indonesia, Indonesian People’s Democratic Party (PRD), InterFET (International Forces for East Timor), international aid, international aid organisations, International Student Peace Prize, James Dunn, Java, Jose Alexandre Gusmao, Jose Ramos-Horta, Klaus Rohland, Left, liberal democracy, liberation movements, Major-General Peter Cosgrove, Manuel Pinto da Costa, Maria Olandina F.C. Alves-Cairo, Mario Carrascalao, Mario Viegas Carrascalao, Marxist-Leninist, massacre, Maubere, media, military, militia terror, minimum wage, Mozambique, Namibia, Nino Vieira, Norway, paramilitary, parliamentary elections, Philippines, political independence, Portugal, Protestants, reconstruction, referendum, refugees, relief, Richard Holbrooke, Sam Nujoma, sanitation, Sao Tome and Principe, security, Sergio Vieira de Mello, single-party states, Siti Hardiyanti Rukmana, socialism, Socialist International, South Africa, student resistance, Suharto, Sukarno, Sydney, Taur Matan Ruak, terror, Timor, UN Temporary Authority of East Timor (UNTAET), United Nations, United States, women's shelter, World Bank, World Vision, Xanana Gusmao | Comments Off

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