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Controverse à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond à un énorme congrès de géographie aux Etats-Unis.

https://dl.dropbox.com/s/it55ije6xi4995d/jareddiamond.jpg

La liste de géographie critique s’est enflammée à propos de la venue de Jared Diamond au grand congrès annuel des géographes américains (AAG 2013) qui se tient cette année à Los Angeles.

C’est Jamison Miller, du John Tyler Community College en Virginie (Etats-Unis) qui ouvre le bal :

While I am in the middle of designing the last section of my Intro to Cultural Geography course, I am jollily uploading Jim Blaut’s 1999 article devouring Diamond, and the slew of 2003 articles from the special edition of Antipode on the same lines. I’m still figuring out how to explain how he is welcomed at the AAG to my students.

Is anyone planning to oppose/heckle Diamond’s talk on what we can learn from freaking “traditional societies” at our AAG in LA?

John Paul Catunga, géographe à l’universté de de Totonto poursuit en racontant son expérience (et son dégoût) lorsqu’il a participé au AAG 2007 :

He also gave a keynote talk at the San Francisco AAG (2007) where he talked partly about Papua New Guinea coming into modernity with the arrival of an airport. I was then an MA student and was utterly shocked and livid. It was my first AAG and I was really not sure what avenues there were to voice my displeasure and concern.

It remains one of the ugliest moments of any AAG for me.

Why is he welcomed at the AAG? Probably in no small part because he is appointed to a department of geography and probably because he is well known and therefore “relevant”.

This reminds me of David Harvey’s 1974 piece “What kind of geography for what kind of public policy?” in which he argues that we need to examine what kind of relevance we want geography to play, mentioning of course that Pinochet was a geographer...

With all the commendable focus on geographies of racialization that the AAG has focused on recently, I sure hope we could be more reflexive: why we feature environmental determinist and racist scholarship in marquee events such as AAG keynotes?

Filippo Celata, de l’Université de Rome propose avec une grande sagesse :

...Wouldn’t it be an option to listen to Diamond’s talk and to “oppose” him with critical questions?

I attended to Krugman’s talk at the AAG in 2010 and even if I think his “geographical” theories are limited and dangerous, I have been happy we had the chance to tell him and to listen to his replies....

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Lunch with the FT : Jared Diamond
By David Pilling

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/144fa854-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2P1DsRs8b

#géographie-critique #géographie-radicale

Prédictive software for surveillance

On the power and perils of “preemptive government” - Strata

http://strata.oreilly.com/2013/02/preemptive-government-predictive-data.html

On the power and perils of “preemptive government”
Stephen Goldsmith on the potential of urban predictive data analytics in municipal government.
by Alex Howard

February 28, 2013

http://s.radar.oreilly.com/wp-files/5/2012/10/DCHomicideMap.png

The last time I spoke with Stephen Goldsmith, he was the Deputy Mayor of New York City, advocating for increased use of “citizensourcing,” where government uses technology tools to tap into the distributed intelligence of residents to understand – and fix – issues around its streets, on its services and even within institutions. In the years since, as a professor at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the former mayor of Indianapolis has advanced the notion of “preemptive government.”

#surveillance #police

Beltway Foreign Policy - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/opinion/global/roger-cohen-the-end-of-foreign-policy.html

“IT is not going too far to say that American foreign policy has become completely subservient to tactical domestic political considerations.”

This stern verdict comes from Vali Nasr, who spent two years working for the Obama administration before becoming dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. In a book called “The Dispensable Nation,” to be published in April, Nasr delivers a devastating portrait of a first-term foreign policy that shunned the tough choices of real diplomacy, often descended into pettiness, and was controlled “by a small cabal of relatively inexperienced White House advisers.”

Nasr, one of the most respected American authorities on the Middle East, served as senior adviser to Richard Holbrooke, Obama’s special representative to Afghanistan and Pakistan until his death in December 2010. From that vantage point, and later as a close observer, Nasr was led to the reluctant conclusion that the principal aim of Obama’s policies “is not to make strategic decisions but to satisfy public opinion.”

John Scofield Quartet - Chariots - Live (1991) - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtaZDWslMkE

#John_Scofield #Guitar
#Joe_Lovano #Sax
#Marc_Johnson #Bass
#Bill_Stewart #Drums
#jazz

John McLaughlin Trio-Thelonius Melodius - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBERK81HdyI

#Nigeria: Genetically Engineered Bacteria Prevent Mosquitoes From Transmitting #Malaria
http://allafrica.com/stories/201207240738.html

In a renewed hope to eliminate the menace of malaria on human health, researchers at the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute have genetically modified a bacterium commonly found in the mosquito’s midgut, to kill the malaria parasite before it is transmitted.
(...) According to a study published by PNAS, the modified bacteria were 98 percent effective (...).

#recherche #paludisme #santé

John Scofield Quartet feat. Mulgrew Miller - Jazz in Marciac 2011 3/4-1 - YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K32P_5ZCEl0

“Anonymous” Reveals Meetings Between Ron Paul And Neo-Nazis | News One
http://newsone.com/nation/casey-gane-mccalla/anonymous-reveals-close-ties-between-ron-paul-and-neo-nazis

he group of hackers known as “Anonymous” has shut down several neo-Nazi websites owned by Jamie Kelso, a former John Birch Society member, assistant to David Duke and moderator for the white supremacist website, Stormfront.

“Anonymous” claims to have recovered emails from Kelso that prove that Ron Paul has regularly met with members of Jamie Kelso’s neo-Nazi political party American Third Position and even was on several conference calls with their board of directors. Here is a statement from “Anonymous” from one of the neo-Nazi websites they shut down.

In addition to finding the usual racist rants and interactions with other white

power groups, we also found a disturbingly high amount of members who are also

involved in campaigning for Ron Paul. According to these messages, Ron Paul has

regularly met with many A3P members, even engaging in conference calls with

their board of directors. Ron Paul’s racist politics and

affiliations are already well known, being viciously anti-immigrant,

anti-abortion and against gay marriage — not to mention having authored the

racist “Ron Paul Papers” and receiving financial support from other white power

groups (pictured with Don Black from stormfront.org). Hard to believe Ron Paul

draws some support from the left and the occupation movements, especially now

that it is confirmed Ron Paul hangs out with straight up racist hate groups.

We put extra effort in ruining the life of A3P webmaster Jamie Kelso. On top of

being on the board of directors of A3P, former $cientologist, and high ranking

Ron Paul organizer, he also is the account owner of german nazi forums and store

nsl-forum.org, rhs-versand.com.

Mort du musicien de rumba Edmundo Ros - LeMonde.fr
http://lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2011/10/22/mort-du-musicien-de-rumba-edmundo-ros_1592477_3382.html

❝Le musicien Edmundo Ros, chanteur et percussionniste de rumba, est mort à l’âge de 100 ans en Espagne, a annoncé samedi une société britannique d’artistes à laquelle il appartenait, the Grand Order of Water Rats. « Il est mort la nuit dernière tranquillement chez lui en Espagne, deux mois avant son 101e anniversaire », a indiqué un responsable de cette organisation, John Adrian, précisant que le musicien était mort de vieillesse.

Pas mal dis donc, ça conserve !

EDMUNDO ROS - Tico Tico
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z37WK5sNxOs&feature=related

#musique

"Around this time, Bachmann became interested in the writings of David A. Noebel, the founder and director of Summit Ministries, an educational organization founded to reverse the harmful effects of what it calls “our current post-Christian culture.” He was a longtime John Birch Society member, whose pamphlets include “The Homosexual Revolution: End Time Abomination,” and “Communism, Hypnotism, and the Beatles,” in which Noebel argued that the band was being used by Communists to infiltrate the minds of young Americans. Bachmann once gave a speech touting her relationship with Noebel’s organization. “I went on to serve on the board of directors with Summit Ministries,” she said, adding that Summit’s message is “wonderful and worthwhile.” She has also recommended to supporters Noebel’s “Understanding the Times,” a book that is popular in the Christian homeschooling movement. In it, he explains that the “Secular Humanist worldview” is one of America’s greatest threats. Bachmann’s analysis of education law similarly veered off into conspiratorial warnings. “Government now will be controlling people,” she said during one lecture on education, at a church in Minnesota. “

Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/08/15/110815fa_fact_lizza#ixzz1UUBBO6Jz

So, Black Men Get Better Healthcare In Prison ? Pathetic | News One
http://newsone.com/newsone-original/boycewatkins/black-men-prison-healthcare-death

Black men are half as likely to die in prison than if they are free.

“Ironically, prisons are often the only provider of medical care accessible by these underserved and vulnerable Americans,” said Hung-En Sung of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York.

“What’s very sad about this is that if we are able to all of a sudden equalize or diminish these health inequalities that you see by race inside a place like prison, it should also be that in places like a poor neighborhood we should be able to diminish these sort of inequities,” said Evelyn Patterson, who studies correctional facilities at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

Vatican Blames Child Molestation Scandal On Woodstock | Death and Taxes
http://www.deathandtaxesmag.com/91287/vatican-blames-child-molestation-scandal-on-woodstock

This morning, the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, published the findings of its four-year long, $2 million research project looking into the causes of the Catholic Church’s decade-long sex-abuse scandal. It’s important to note that this “research study” was conducted with data provided by the Church, and the study itself was mostly funded by the Church. Prepare for the kind of objectivity you’d find only in Fox News.

John Jay claims the sex scandal is only a temporary problem, due partly to the influx of poorly trained priests into seminaries. The rest of the blame goes onto the prevalence of “deviant behavior” like the sexual and drug experimentation during the 1960s and 70s, claiming that priests who entered the seminaries in the 80s were much less likely to commit acts of molestation. Free love and reefer cigarettes made countless priests commit sex crimes—that totally makes sense, right?

#religion #christianisme #pédophilie

La NED, vitrine légale de la CIA [Voltaire]
http://www.voltairenet.org/article166549.html#article166549