A lateral dialogue of ideas
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Recent news- Link by Link - At Wikimania Conference, Wondering How Wikipedia Can Grow - NYTimes.com'How Can Wikipedia Grow? Maybe in Bengali' The global south as a frontier for growth. […]
- The notebooks of William Dawes on the language of Sydney[…]
- The South of International Law (July 2010)[…]
- Fiji: Limits to 'Look North' policyFiji's so-called 'Look North' policy predates Commodore Bainimarama military-led regime, but there is little doubt that attempts to engage with China have gained traction in the wake of Western condemnation of the December 2006 coup. […]
- Chimurenga OnlineWhat could the curriculum be – if it was designed by the people who dropped out of school so that they could breathe? The latest issue of Chimurenga provides alternatives to prevailing educational pedagogy. Through fiction, essays, interviews, poetry, photography and art, contributors examine and redefine rigid notions of essential knowledge. […]
- Link by Link - At Wikimania Conference, Wondering How Wikipedia Can Grow - NYTimes.com
- Upcoming conferences
- Advancing a sustainable future: strategies for cross-disciplinary practice around the Indian Ocean (March 2010)
- Law and Culture Conference - Port Vila, Vanuatu (Sept 2010)
- Oceanic Conference on Creativity and Climate Change (Sept 2010)
- Association of Iberian and Latin American Studies of Australasia (AILASA) Conference (July 2010)
- Pacific Art in the 21st Century - Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends (Aug 2010)
- Vision Culture Lectures - Shalini Ganendra Fine Art
- The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009 (until Aug 2010)
- Independence! Two Centuries of Struggle, Latin America conference (July 2010)
- Recent books
- What if Latin America Ruled the World?, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera
- Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
- SAGE book: The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions: Sujata Patel: SAGE the natural home for authors, editors and societies.
- Shannon Lee Dawdy: Building the Devil's Empire
- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Flávio Gordon, and Francisco Araújo: The Turn of the Native
- Recent articles
- Beyond abyssal thinking by Boaventura de Sousa SantosThis article proposes an 'epistemology of the south' which opposes an ecology of knowledges to the 'abyssal thinking' characteristic of Western modernity […]
- Ubuntuism, commodification, and the software dialectic by Mike ChegeAn application of the southern African value of Ubuntu to the alternative concept of market developed for open source software […]
- Challenges in the Production and Globalization of African Knowledges | The Zeleza PostDeals with the question of a how an African academic relates to the North, distinguishing between the Pan-Africanists, the Northernists, and the globalists. Considers how to establish two-way dialogue between north and south. […]
- From Hub & Spokes to Warp & Weft – dialogue with Africa in a new worldA new multilateralism has encouraged new south-south networks that develop alternative frameworks for understanding cultural history. […]
- The Antarctic DictionaryVocabulary collected by Bernadette Hice of words particular to the experience of living in the deep South […]
- Beyond abyssal thinking by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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