Reading for Battle

Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.

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International Relations & Development

Against the Populist Temptation
The French and Dutch NO to the project of European constitution was a clear-cut case of what in the "French theory" is referred to as a floating signifier: a NO of confused, inconsistent, overdetermined meanings, a kind of container in which the defense of workers' rights coexists with racism, in which the blind reaction to a perceived threat and fear of change coexist with vague utopian hopes.
Slavoj Zizek, lacandotcom

Environmental Colonialism: 'Saving' Africa from Africans
Under the banner of saving the African environment, Africans in the last half century have been subjected to a new form of "environmental colonialism"
Robert H Nelson, The Independent Review, VIII, n1, Summer 2003


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Festival Buzz
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"No word was untested, no argument taken for granted, no opinion dismissed without argument nor accepted without argument."
David Jones, professor of bioethics, St Mary's University College