Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain : She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights

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  • Raquel Rolnik is an USP urbanist, a major academic figure in Brazilian urban studies... called a loopy leftist in the british press

    Via la la liste de géographie critique

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    Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights | Mail Online

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418194/Outrage-loopy-UN-inspector-lectures-Britain-Shes-violent-slum-ridden-Br

    Outrage as ’loopy’ UN inspector lectures Britain: She’s from violent, slum-ridden Brazil, yet still attacks us on housing and human rights

    Iain Duncan Smith said Raquel Rolnik undermined impartiality of the UN
    Work and Pensions Secretary wants UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon to investigate
    Tory MP Stewart Jackson said Miss Rolnick was a ‘loopy Brazilian leftie’
    Her country has 54million living without clean water or sanitation
    There are an estimated 30million homeless in the city of Sao Paulo and 625,000 live below the poverty line

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    Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx | Mail Online

    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2418204/Raquel-Rolnik-A-dabbler-witchcraft-offered-animal-sacrifice-Marx.html

    Raquel Rolnik: A dabbler in witchcraft who offered an animal sacrifice to Marx

    Academic brought up a Marxist and offered an animal sacrifice to Karl Marx
    The architect appears to follow Candomble, an African-Brazilian religion that originated during the slave trade

    Libby Porter, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography at the School of Geography and Environmental Science in Monash University, Australia

    "Well, these are outrageously disgusting and insulting media reports of a highly respected activist and voice for housing rights for the poor. We should note in particular, the use of ’loony leftie’, ’raised in violent slums’ and ’witchcraft’ as a means to denigrate and undermine Rolnick along class, gender and political lines. Rolnick is quite right to launch a significant attack on Britain’s housing policy, because that policy is frankly appalling, just as she mounts similar cogent arguments and critiques in countless other places and has done so for years"

    #racisme #royaume-uni #arrogance

    • Une réaction de David Featherstone de l’université de Glasgow sur la liste des géographes radicaux :

      « I think for me what is more important is situating the vilification of Rolnik within the Coalition’s vicious assault on the poor in Britain in the current conjuncture. I think it would perhaps be more accurate to see the Mail’s piece in this context, rather than assuming it is somehow an ‘outlier’ in a context of otherwise reasonable debate. I also suspect that some of the Coalition are rather rattled by this criticism from Raquel Rolnik and the UN…

      But for me the broader context for this is statements by Michael Gove (who in a Question Time appearance earlier in this year –cited Rita Gardner and the RGS as someone who backed his education policies- nice one RGS) blaming the ferocious increase in use of food banks in Britain on the people who use them- implying they are to blame- nothing to do with Coalition’s job cuts in the public sector etc. It is also a context where the Labour Party seems more interested in a sustained bout of union bashing than mounting anything like an effective opposition. »