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Donnerstag 11. of Dezember 2008

LumpenCity: Call for Abstracts: Interdisciplinary Conference at York University

Toronto, Canada | March 12-13, 2009 | www.lumpencity.com Lumpen-City: Discourses of Marginality | Marginalizing Discourses Research on marginalized urban residents has been an academic cottage industry throughout the history...


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Category: Repression, Security Security

Donnerstag 11. of Dezember 2008

Greece - The extreme righ and police are joining forces to quench protests

They shot Alex Grigoropoulos

Athen's unrest: We received the following text today from the INURA list server. Moses Boudourides (Patras University) describes how the extreme right, local shop owners and the police are chasing students and youth in general....


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Dienstag 04. of November 2008

G4S Security: The Inequality beneath India's Economic Boom

G4S Security Worker in India

In India 5,500 private security workers have been successful in fighting against their bosses. A court ruled that the workers are protected against loosing their jobs while fighting for their overtime premiums. We are providing...


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Category: Security, Control, Repression

Montag 20. of Oktober 2008

Redefinition of public space within the privatization of cities: Call for papers

Redefinition of public space within the privatization of cities

We will attend and so should you: The "5th international conference of the the research network private urban governance and gated communities" takes place in Santiago de Chile next spring (March 30th to April 2nd - wait: That's...


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Category: Abstracts & Papers, Presentations, Control

Montag 01. of September 2008

Das Elend der Universitäten - Neoliberalisierung deutscher Hochschulpolitik

Jens Sambale, Volker Eick, Heike Walk (2008)

Es ist ein Elend und es wird auch nicht besser: Lage und Zustand der Universitäten, der Bildung allgemein in diesem Land. Sozusagen zum - und das wollen wir nun doch in den Sprachgebrauch aufgenommen wissen - maxliebermannen. So...


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Category: Elend