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An Ecosocialist Perspective on Gaia 2.0: The Other World That is Still Possible
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Volume 31, Issue 2, p. 40-49
ISSN: 1548-3290
Monbiot's Muddle
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Volume 31, Issue 1, p. 103-106
ISSN: 1548-3290
Liberal Modesty and Political Appeasement - Cécile Laborde: Liberalism's Religion. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017. Pp. 344.)
In: The review of politics, Volume 81, Issue 4, p. 648-652
ISSN: 1748-6858
Must Laws Be Motivated by Public Reason?
In: Public Reason and Courts (Silje Langvatn, et al. eds., Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming)
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Official Intentions and Political Legitimacy: The Case of the Travel Ban
In: NOMOS LXI: Political Legitimacy
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Chico Mendes, the rubber tappers and the Indians: reimagining conservation and development in the Amazon
In the mid-1970's rubber tapper leaders Chico Mendes and Wilson Pinheiro reformulated strategic objectives of the rubber tappers' movement, from protesting and denouncing violent dispossession of families and deforestation to defending rubber tappers' forest territories and diversified land use. This strategic turn laid the basis for the rubber tappers' transformation from a solely class-based union movement to one that incorporates a specific cultural identity associated with land and resource uses defined as opposed to the government-sponsored socio-environmentally destructive development model. The rubber tappers' conceptual transformation of "extractivism", from an archaic, outdated and primitive economic activity into an alternative for a modern, sustainable development model, based in their distinct culture, mirrored and paralleled the emergence of identity-based social movements globally. It also mirrored the re-emergence of "submerged" indigenous ethnicities and subsequent "ethnogenesis" of allegedly extinct or forgotten indigenous peoples, in both cases contrary to the assumptions and predictions of both policy and some anthropological theory. The rubber tappers' definition of extractive reserves as collective land rights – and access to technology, social services and markets on terms in some measure controlled by the communities – in exchange for environmental and forest protection enabled significant territorial gains (parallel to indigenous territories), as well as proliferation of extractive reserve analogues in both environmental and land reform policy. Alliances with indigenous peoples and environmentalists were central to the development of this vision. The model of collective rights, with access to technology, services and markets could have very broad applicability for poor populations globally, in light of climate change and other environmental crises, if at-scale incentives for climate change and other environmental mitigation can be created.
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Unma(s)king Education in the Image of Business: A Vivisection of Educational Consumerism
In: Cultural studies - critical methodologies, Volume 17, Issue 4, p. 333-346
ISSN: 1552-356X
Configuring students as consumers and higher education as a commodity have been widely suggested as ways to empower students and improve efficiency. This critical autoethnography challenges the assumptions and implications of modeling education after free market economic principles. Personal perspectives on the promotion and tenure process, students confronting the marketplace, and exemplary mentoring accompany poetic reflections on market-infused university life.
Inequality Across and within Us Cities Around the Turn of the Twenty-First Century
In: Economic Quarterly, Issue Q1-Q4, pp. 1-35, 2017
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Review of Seán ÓRiain's The Rise and Fall of Ireland's Celtic Tiger: Liberalism, Boom and Bust
In: Journal of world-systems research, Volume 22, Issue 2, p. 570-575
ISSN: 1076-156X
How Much and What Kind of Energy Does Humanity Need?
In: Socialism and democracy: the bulletin of the Research Group on Socialism and Democracy, Volume 30, Issue 2, p. 97-120
ISSN: 1745-2635
DEMANDA E POLÍTICAS PÚBLICAS PARA O ENSINO SUPERIOR NOS BRICS
In: Caderno CRH: revista quadrimestral de ciências sociais, Volume 28, Issue 74, p. 267-290
ISSN: 1983-8239
Este artigo analisa a expansão do ensino superior nos países chamados BRICS. A aspiração crescente pelo ensino superior obriga os governos a gerir os custos de funcionamento desse sistema. As respostas de cada país variam com sua história, cultura e regime político. Todos eles enfrentam problemas semelhantes, como escassez de recursos e o poder político de atores do sistema de ensino superior e fora dele. Cinco dilemas se apresentam aos países: 1) expansão, igualdade de acesso e diversificação das matrículas, taxas de participação, o número e os tipos de instituições; 2) limitações financeiras; 3) regulação do ensino superior privado; 4) como fazer com que as instituições de ensino superior prestem mais contas a seus alunos, funcionários e à sociedade como um todo; e 5) qualidade e relevância social da aprendizagem e pesquisa em instituições de ensino superior. Utilizando dados e evidências das pesquisas mais recentes, o artigo mostra respostas comuns, com algumas exceções em cada caso: diversificação institucional; políticas de ação afirmativa; crescimento das matrículas nas ciências sociais, humanidades, profissões sociais e Educação; pouco sucesso nas políticas de internacionalização.
From the Gaia hypothesis to a theory of the evolving self-organizing biosphere: Michael Ruse: The Gaia hypothesis: Science on a pagan planet. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013, 251pp, $26 HB
In: Metascience: an international review journal for the history, philosophy and social studies of science, Volume 24, Issue 2, p. 315-319
ISSN: 1467-9981
Time to produce and emerging market crises
In: Journal of Monetary Economics, Volume 68, p. 37-52
My Response to Trainer
In: Capitalism, nature, socialism: CNS ; a journal of socialist ecology, Volume 25, Issue 4, p. 109-115
ISSN: 1548-3290