Global Culture

To assert that economists use statistics for the same reason that the military uses body-counts: to dehumanize the victims and make it easy to carry on with the task requires some guts, and this is the kind of language that The Big Sellout is not afraid to use. Of course when you have heavy-weights [...]

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One of my favorite sites, WorldChanging posted the article Can Migration Change the World? by Alex Steffen. I applaud the fact that migration is recognized as a force that can shape the world and lead positive change:
Maybe we need to start to rethink migration, not in the light of the discussions we’ve had in [...]

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A new take on the old debate of homogenization of culture in hands of global corporations is brought by the Global Politician with an article by Trish Hallmark. Exploring the usual argument about how deep american culture has penetrated other countries and whether or not this has had a positive influence on them [...]

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Via a beautiful visual essay on the latest ADBUSTERS, I learned about the book Planet of Slums from urbanist theorist and activist Mike Davis. A sample from the book that reminds of previous posts in this blog:
Sometime in the next year or two, a woman will give birth in the Lagos slum of Ajegunle, [...]

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NetSquared is preparing for its 2007 Conference by allowing the public to vote on the projects that will be the focus of the event. As their tag line indicates they are “remixing the web for social change” so while the projects are very diverse they all share the spirit of this project: leveraging [...]

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Prof. Mike Madison has published his Manifesto for a New Pittsburgh, recognizing above all that in an era of hyper-connectivity there are plenty of resources that cities must take advantage of in order to leverage the influence they have on other regions by means of their fellow citizens who have migrated.
In the 21st century, connectivity [...]

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After being offline (no web, email or blogs!) for over a week I’m catching up with my feeds to find the stories that tell the tale of this incredibly diverse world. The first one comes via Michael Parekh about an editorial on Barron’s Online entitled End the Work-Visa Lottery by Thomas G. Donlan:
[April 2] [...]

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