Social movements from above and below at the dawn of the New Millennium: Whose rights? Whose Justice? by Alf Gunvald Nilsen
This essay engages with the collective political agency of dominant and subaltern groups in the era of global neoliberal capitalism from marxist, neoliberalist and counter-globalization movement's perspectives.
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Tevere left creek: maps and conflicts at Roman metropolitan area (an introduction) by Marco Berlinguer
An experimental action-research experience on the new metropolitan
social conflicts. Making search by producing maps and cartographies. An
exploration of new technological tools as potentialities for
facilitating networking, communication and cooperation among the
fragmented actors of the urban conflicts. Maps of the social centres,
the migrants and rom people, of the labour conflicts, of the squatted
houses, of the rave parties in the Roman metropolitan area.
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Wikipedia and wikipediam: communitarian creation at the network? by David Gómez
The author presents a close vision to the Wikipedia experience. The problematics and mecanismos of this collective knowledge creation.
En este artículo se analiza el trabajo de los participantes en el proyecto "Wikipedia - La Enciclopedia Libre" como un ejemplo de Comunidad que usa los recursos de las redes digitales para crear algo colectivamente. A partir de dicho caso se intentan extraer algunas ideas sobre este tipo de comunidades.
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Notes etnogràfiques des d'un Browser; cultura, internet, recerca i punt de vista local by David Gómez
Dins el laberint procuro orientar-me [...] Compartim el que sabem, discutim com ens sembla que és tal o qual zona; si aquell passadís és sense sortida o es bifurca. Cap de nosaltres té una idea clara de l'estructura del laberint, malgrat tot no ens quedem quiets.
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Activisme en xarxa. Estudi del fòrum anti-canon SGAE i de la llista shyleon des d'una perspectiva fenomenològica 2005 by Jaume Ferrer
Aquest estudi es planteja com una petita etnografia d'un cas concret d'activisme en xarxa, la campanya contra el canon dels CDs i DVDs gravables i contra la SGAE, amb l'objectiu d'intentar explicar com els participants experimenten una acció de la qual en són protagonistes.
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Free software for a free society by Richard Stallman
A basic reflection about why free software is a tool to fight against the gradual enclosure and privatization of our lives.
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Gender Narr-actions by Barbara Biglia
This text presents the conclusions on a research on social movements and sexism, and it is based on the analisis of a survey filled by 84 activist women around the world.
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Coming to knowledge, coming to politics. A reflection on practices from
the NextGENDERation network by Rutvica Andrijasevic and Sarah Bracke
Concerning the relationship between theory and activism, and on the
participation of the network to the first european social forum.
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PINK - PUNK – QUEER,
Frivolezza tattica ed estetica del disastro by Francesco, Warbear, Macarone, Palmieri
In una fase storica di guerra permanente è interessante comprendere come le sue economie dell’orrore producano risposte altre dalla semplice dialettica politica che ricade in una critica della belligeranza dierettamente in forma antitetica. Non è questo il caso del Pink.
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The connection between the squatter-, queer- and alterglobalization movement by Saskia Poldervaart
In this paper the author elaborates the contemporary connections between different protest movements that criticize dominant western culture: the squatters, queers and alterglobalists. Because these movements are influenced by postmodern notions their members really try to bring multiculturalism into practice, from the restricted meaning that most of multiculturalism and feminism most of the time has in western countries.
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The Situationist International Text Library
An ongoing project of uploading pieces of the wealth of
Situationist-related literature. Entire books, lengthy articles, excerpts from the journals Potlatch and Internationale Situationniste, and newspaper articles.
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De la Dissémination de la Musique by Dana Hilliot
Essai sur la musique, sa création et distribution et les nouvelles formes résultant des licences telles que creative commons
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LETTERATURA CHIMICA - Scritti di infamia e marciume postmoderno by FRANCESCO WARBEAR MACARONE PALMIERI
La definizione di “Letteratura chimica“ che qui si vuole assumere, è basata serie di stili narrativi che hanno come centro Irvine Welsh ma che si aprono a raggiera su certa letteratura inglese/scozzese contemporanea. Essa orbita intorno a dei nuclei a contenutistici specifici e a delle speriementazioni linguistiche altrettanto peculiari.
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Une clinique des trois monothéismes de la drogue? Du nouveau dans le sinthome ? (Quelques remarques à propos du syndrome de Jérusalem) by Jean Louis Blaquier
« Toute approche de la drogue » exige un type de questionnement global et transversal qui ne perd jamais de vue la singularité du cas. Selon quelles conditions le texte, le signifiant, le Livre, les Textes religieux peuvent-ils devenir des « stupéfiants » et se transformer en manuel de terreur, de suicide ou d’inquisitions...
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Communiqué, contre la confiscation de la mémoire des droits civiques, usa par le groupe fightsharing
Un communiqué concernant les actions mises en place pour la diffusion du documentaire « Eyes on the prize », mis en danger par une graduelle restriction de ses droits de difussion.
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Pour une manifeste impur et sans parti, contre l'Europe Frankestein par Le Club post 1984 Mary Shelley et C°
Manifeste contre le traité constitutionnel européen par Le Club post 1984 Mary Shelley et C° qui est un collectif circonstanciel d'universitaires de journalistes d’écrivains et d’éditeurs.
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Teaching the Ethics of Economic Globalisation by Joanna Wilcox
A theoretical examination of ethical principles underlying key perspectives on economic globalisation is used to justify an approach to teaching the subject as an ethical issue. A developmental approach to teaching strategies is suggested.
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