Peoples Geography --- Reclaiming space

Syndicate content Peoples Geography --- Reclaiming space
Creating peoples' geographies
Updated: 2 min 50 sec ago

On crochet, coral and hyperbolic geometry

Fri, 02/05/2010 - 17:02
I love the interweaving of complex mathematical models of space with ‘feminine domestic handicraft’ here, as well as the idea of a playtank and bringing mathematics into the minds and...

Watching Yoav Shamir’s Defamation

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:09
Yoav Shamir’s memorable, must-see Defamation is by turns hilarious, profound and disturbing. It recently aired on the UK’s Channel 4 True Stories series. It is featured it here below in...

Five Sisters

Sun, 01/31/2010 - 16:06
Meanwhile, while 50 Members of the US Congress have joined Ellison, McCollum and Oberstar in urging Obama to lift the blockade of Gaza, Gaza’s agony continues and the hafrada regime’s...

‘Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind’

Thu, 01/07/2010 - 19:37
An excellent TED talk by Wade Davis on endangered languages and the ethnosphere. National Geographic Explorer Wade Davis celebrates the extraordinary diversity of the world’s indigenous...

Ban the Business Burqa

Sun, 12/20/2009 - 12:09
From Michael Leunig (cartoons site). Check out a selection of Leunig cartoons posted here. Articles (selection) by Leunig * Lest we forget the ultimate price of warfare, The Age, 23 April 2005 *...

Bank Aid: Do They Loan This Christmas?

Fri, 12/18/2009 - 15:03
Spot on song from a bunch of friends in Wiltshire in the UK who put this together.  In case you don’t already know, its a parody off Band Aid’s Do they Know Its Christmas? (1984). Its...

Labor for Palestine: ‘The BDS campaign is particularly relevant to US workers’

Wed, 12/16/2009 - 07:27
US Labor for Palestine have a terrific Open Letter from U.S. Trade Unionists to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka: Boycott Apartheid Israel, with thanks to Charlotte Kates of L4P. Sanctions alone...

Mark Braverman: ‘I think we Jews need to look in the mirror … and stop looking backwards’

Mon, 12/14/2009 - 05:51
Mark Braverman draws upon his own journey as a US-raised Jew with a Jewish Palestinian family background and frankly — refreshingly! — talks about the connection between Jewish identity...