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A Change in the Arctic Neighbourhood: Greenland Referendum

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Arctic states are becoming a reality.  This means that we could one day talk of arctic lawmaking and jurisprudence without having to explain, for example that Canada’s marriage laws own much to experiments in the Northwest Territories in the 1970s to accommodate Inuit customary marriage.  This also means the territorialization of the north, respatializing a [...]

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Flood in Venice

Monday, December 1, 2008

Flood in Venice, Italy  Copyright www.NotationPhoto.com. Originally uploaded to Flickr.com by Minneapolis Pro.

Sea water rose to its highest level in 20 years, topping 156 cm, flooding the squares of the City. The usual flood level has been 110cm. It is hoped flood defences will be completed by 2011. As vita venexiàn comments,
I [...]

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Salman Rushdie and the Festival of Ideas

Friday, November 14, 2008

Comments from Salman Rushdie on freedom, religion, growing up in Bombay and England, and the theme of fear and happiness in the modern world and how it is anticipated in earlier imperial moments, such as the mid 1400s which saw the discovery of America, the flowering of Venice and Florence and, far to the east, [...]

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Book Review: May 68 + 40

Friday, September 19, 2008

Mai-Juin 68 edited by B. Damamme, B. Gobille, F. Mattonti and B. Pudal (Ivry sur Seine: Ed. l’Atelier 2008). ISBN 978-2708239760. In French.

Looking back on the French social movements and political significance of May 68 and now looking back on the many retrospective studies published in French to mark the 40th Anniversary of [...]

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The Ballardosphere rises in the London Orbital

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Here is a wonderful post from a fantastic blog.  Reality follows fiction with the case of the development of ‘Ebbsfleet’, a suburb centred ‘Bluewater’ on the exurban super mall just Southeast of London.  My gosh, I thought, they’re trying to build Edmonton.  Already living in the Ballardosphere, I can affirm that Bluewater is a descendant [...]

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