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Esta investigación se centra en los discursos y las estrategias usados por los representantes pol... more Esta investigación se centra en los discursos y las estrategias usados por los representantes políticos británicos en la justificación del 'apoyo' continuado al Gobierno israelí en la ocupación de Palestina. Gran Bretaña, como miembro de la usualmente denominada 'alianza occidental', y ante la crítica internacional hacia la ocupación israelí, se ve obligada a justificar sus intereses en la región. Entre los meses de mayo a julio de 2004 se realizaron siete entrevistas a miembros del Parlamento británico y a un representante de un lobby pro-israelí de Londres en relación a los fundamentos de la posición del Gobierno británico sobre las prácticas de ocupación del gobierno israelí. La realización de un análisis crítico del discurso revela los temas ideológicos y discursivos dominantes que conforman los fundamentos de legitimación de la posición e implicaciones británicas en la región. Estos razonamientos son considerados como ideológicamente `necesarios' en la negociación de las contradicciones entre las identificaciones y las prácticas neoliberales.
I will argue in this paper that the commonality between urban localized battles against neolibera... more I will argue in this paper that the commonality between urban localized battles against neoliberal restructuring and the protest movements which now occupy central squares in Madrid, Paris, and Athens is precarity itself. The condition of precarity is complex, varied and operates in the margins as well as at times below the radar of formal representation. Urban resistance in a neighborhood in Barcelona called la Barceloneta which defeated a proposed restructuring of their historical neighborhood was made up of older residents, squatters and urban activists. Those in the central squares or 'los indignados' in Madrid, Barcelona, and Athens have no central political identity or even ideology, what brought them together instead was a common anger and opposition to the way modern forms of power are managing and regulating the conditions of their lives. These are the precarious conditions of unrepresented bodies, the overflows which are forcing the reformulation of the neoliberal inclusion project itself. The power of unrepresented movement of bodies in space has historically been the leading edge of social and labor transformation so perhaps we have now entered the age of precarity. In this paper I will consider the question of how the increasing precarity of life conditions in Western European cities creates a context for rereading political subjectivity, urban governance and potential forms of new urban social transformation. To do so I will draw on my research in Barcelona, Spain and beginning observations from research I am currently conducting in Athens, Greece on precarity and mobility.
The sentencing of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning 2 in August of 2013 ended for the moment a type of so... more The sentencing of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning 2 in August of 2013 ended for the moment a type of social theater where many interesting and at times disturbing realities were brought to center stage.
Esta investigación se centra en los discursos y las estrategias usados por los representantes pol... more Esta investigación se centra en los discursos y las estrategias usados por los representantes políticos británicos en la justificación del 'apoyo' continuado al Gobierno israelí en la ocupación de Palestina. Gran Bretaña, como miembro de la usualmente denominada 'alianza occidental', y ante la crítica internacional hacia la ocupación israelí, se ve obligada a justificar sus intereses en la región. Entre los meses de mayo a julio de 2004 se realizaron siete entrevistas a miembros del Parlamento británico y a un representante de un lobby pro-israelí de Londres en relación a los fundamentos de la posición del Gobierno británico sobre las prácticas de ocupación del gobierno israelí. La realización de un análisis crítico del discurso revela los temas ideológicos y discursivos dominantes que conforman los fundamentos de legitimación de la posición e implicaciones británicas en la región. Estos razonamientos son considerados como ideológicamente `necesarios' en la negociación de las contradicciones entre las identificaciones y las prácticas neoliberales.
I will argue in this paper that the commonality between urban localized battles against neolibera... more I will argue in this paper that the commonality between urban localized battles against neoliberal restructuring and the protest movements which now occupy central squares in Madrid, Paris, and Athens is precarity itself. The condition of precarity is complex, varied and operates in the margins as well as at times below the radar of formal representation. Urban resistance in a neighborhood in Barcelona called la Barceloneta which defeated a proposed restructuring of their historical neighborhood was made up of older residents, squatters and urban activists. Those in the central squares or 'los indignados' in Madrid, Barcelona, and Athens have no central political identity or even ideology, what brought them together instead was a common anger and opposition to the way modern forms of power are managing and regulating the conditions of their lives. These are the precarious conditions of unrepresented bodies, the overflows which are forcing the reformulation of the neoliberal inclusion project itself. The power of unrepresented movement of bodies in space has historically been the leading edge of social and labor transformation so perhaps we have now entered the age of precarity. In this paper I will consider the question of how the increasing precarity of life conditions in Western European cities creates a context for rereading political subjectivity, urban governance and potential forms of new urban social transformation. To do so I will draw on my research in Barcelona, Spain and beginning observations from research I am currently conducting in Athens, Greece on precarity and mobility.
The sentencing of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning 2 in August of 2013 ended for the moment a type of so... more The sentencing of Chelsea (Bradley) Manning 2 in August of 2013 ended for the moment a type of social theater where many interesting and at times disturbing realities were brought to center stage.