Wednesday, Feb 8th 2012
Can We Still Write Big Question Sorts of Books? | David Graeber
David Graeber and the model of his ‘popular’ yet scholarly book Debt: The First 5000 Years
So: what was to be the model for a big questions sort of book, and how to write a book that would still be scholarly, but not academic?
This is [...]
“New agendas in social movement studies”
Social Movements Conference
NUI MAYNOOTH,
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 26TH, 9.30 - 6.15
About the conference
This conference brings together 21 researchers from Ireland, Britain, Italy,Belgium and the US working on movements ranging from alternative food movements to the World Social Forum, from Shell to Sea to SlutWalks and from Irish Ship to Gaza to children’s rights advocacy. It showcases some of the best [...]
This interview with the late Juliano Mer-Khamis was originally published on South/South on the 5th of April, after a shorter version appeared on Electronic Intifada. Many thanks to Maryam Monalisa Gharavi for allowing us to publish it here.
Art cannot free you from your chains, but art can generate and mobilize [a] discourse of freedom. [...]
An interview with filmmaker Eamonn Crudden
This interview is was originally published on media bite. You can watch the three parts of the Wallets Full of Blood trilogy here: Houses on the Moon , Zombie Banker Blues , Roscommon Death Trip
A compelling narrative of Ireland’s crisis of capitalism is very difficult to find. Those provided by [...]
This article is an edited version of a presentation I gave at the “Equality in a time of crisis” conference organised by the Egalitarian World Initiative and the UCD School of Social Justice (May 6 - 7).
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Introduction: youthful mistakes
I was asked to talk for this paper about [...]
Last May we had a our local and European elections, we are now in the midst of another Lisbon referendum campaign, and at the moment even the well groomed terriers and mongrels sniffing each other’s butts in the street are making small talk about a coming general election. The one thing that we are all [...]
The Left has often been accused of not understanding economics properly. So it’s been no small pleasure over the last year to see the guardians of neo-liberal orthodoxy thrashing around helplessly in a bid to explain the financial meltdown, while radical critics like David Harvey and Robert Brenner have provided by far the best guide [...]
This is the third programme in the series, and hosted by Donagh of Dublin Opinion and Irish Left Review.
There were ten issues of Gralton published from 1982-83, and three issues of Z Magazine, all in 1989.
