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By Mark Bahnisch on January 23, 2010
When disaster strikes, there’s always a reflex to suggest that politics is a dirty word, that humanitarian considerations trump any sort of consideration of the context of the impact of horrendous events. There’s something of the ‘act of God’ and [...]
Posted in Activism, Developing world, Disasters, International, Media, Politics, Sociology | Tagged agency, Aristide, Ben Ehrenreich, debt, disaster, disaster capitalism, earthquake, facebook, global sociology blog, haiti, History, humanitarian response, Hurricane Katrina, IMF, Katrina, Medecins San Frontieres, Media, Naomi Klein, Peter Hallward, Rebecca Solnit, representation, Saskia Sassen, Slate, Slavoj Žižek, social context, Sociology, US, USA |
By Mark Bahnisch on December 1, 2008
On a couple of reports on tonight’s tv news, I saw a citizen of Mumbai being interviewed who demanded the Indian government go to war with Pakistan. That set me to wondering what such a war – and God forbid [...]
Posted in Disasters, Government, History, International, Politics, Sociology, Terrorism, War | Tagged assymetrical warfare, attacks, Eric Hobsbawm, global sociology, globalisation, globalism, India, Max Weber, modernity, Mumbai, Norbert Elias, pakistan, political sociology, Saskia Sassen, Sociology, state, state power, Terrorism, Urbanism, War, warfare |
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