By Jonathan Michael Feldman October 25, 2015 Capitalism as the Colonizer of Universities In a recent article for The Chronicle of Higher Education, Terry Eagleton, describes “The Slow Death of the Universities.” He writes: “Yet the distance they established between themselves and society at large could prove enabling as well as disabling, allowing them to…
Connecting the Dots Working Group Workshop Connecting the Dots (CTD) är ett nytt Stockholmsbaserat gräsrotinitiativ och en arbetsgrupp med syfte att fungera som tankesmedja, organisatör och initiativtagare. Vi vill bjuda in er till en workshop. Våra medlemmar är aktiva inom den breda vänstern och inom gröna, feministiska, antimilitaristiska och antirasistiska rörelser som aktivister, akademiker, konstnärer…
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THE BIGGEST BARRIERS ARE POLITICAL AND NOT SIMPLY “ECONOMIC” By Jonathan M. Feldman The argument that it is impossible to build low cost housing sounds plausible, using the tools of standard housing economics, but it leaves many questions unanswered. First, the population of Stockholm and other key locations will inevitably expand. One study suggests its…
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Deconstructing Peter Woladarski’s Låt SD vråla för sig själva i svensk politik in Dagens Nyheter, August 9, 2015: An Analysis of Nine Key Problems Picture 1: SD poster campaign; Picture 2: August 4, 2015 protest against posters By Jonathan Michael Feldman, Posted August 9, 2015 and August 10, 2015 Preface At one point in time,…
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Here are some presentations from the Global Teach In we had in April! More to come soon!
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