organization:graduate institute

The Bureaucratization of Utopia – A Report

“Our students do not dream of global change anymore!” It is on these pessimistic words that Alessandro Monsutti opened our workshop « The Bureaucratization of Utopia: International Governance, Audit Cultures and Administrative subjectivities in the 21st Century », organized at the Graduate Institute in Geneva on June 29-30 in collaboration with Allegra Lab. During these two days, and with the financial support of the Swiss National Sciences Foundation, twelve anthropologists and one historian from Switzerland, the UK, the US, Finland, Germany and France gathered to discuss the interplay between utopia and bureaucracy and to track the possibility of hope in the cracks of the global administrative processes that are their object of study.

▻http://allegralaboratory.net/bureaucratization-utopia-report
#utopie #droits_humains #organisations_internationales #it_has_begun #post-human_rights #post-droits_humains

Large-Scale Land Acquisitions | Brill
▻http://www.brill.com/products/book/large-scale-land-acquisitions

Edited by Christophe Gironde, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies; Christophe Golay, Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights; Peter Messerli, University of Bern

Large-scale land acquisitions, or ‘land grabbing’, has become a key research topic among scholars interested in agrarian change, development, and the environment. The term ‘land acquisitions’ refers to a highly contested process in terms of governance and impacts on livelihoods and human rights. This book focuses on South-East Asia. A series of thematic and in-depth case studies put ‘land grabbing’ into specific historical and institutional contexts. The volume also offers a human rights analysis of the phenomenon, examining the potential and limits of human rights mechanisms aimed at preventing and mitigating land grabs’ negative consequences.

téléchargeable ici
▻http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/books/9789004304758

#terres #accaparements

#merci @cdb_77

Increasing Food Production … and then wasting it?!
March 10, 2016
By: Anne Saab, Assistant Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies- Geneva, Switzerland

▻http://www.arabspatial.org/blog//blog/2016/03/10/increasing-food-production-%E2%80%A6-and-then-wasting-it

While the proposed solutions have concentrated mostly on increasing food production, Arab countries should make more serious work of combating food waste and encouraging more sustainable consumption.
[...]
Related to sustainable consumption is food waste. National Geographic in its March 2016 issue has a feature on food waste, and data reveals that in North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia less than half of the food that is produced is actually consumed. Over half of food production is lost in the production process or wasted in post-production. Reducing food waste is a key part of sustainable consumption (and production). Although food waste does not always feature very prominently in climate change discussions, it must feature much more highly on the food security agenda. There is little sense in investing immense efforts on increasing production, while continuing to waste more than half of what is produced.

#nourriture #gaspillage #consommation_durable #Moyen_Orient

Video: the Birth of Humanitarian Economics

A new book from #Gilles_Carbonnier, Professor of Development Economics and Director of Studies at The Graduate Institute, traces the emergence of an important new field of study dealing with the economic dynamics of armed conflicts, disasters and terrorism.

http://graduateinstitute.ch/files/live/sites/iheid/files/shared/news/2015/september/Carbonnier-Humanitarian-Economics-web.jpg

#humanitaire #économie_humanitaire

CartoDB | Blog, #map of the Week: Doughnut Holes in international waters
▻http://blog.cartodb.com/post/82798101453/map-of-the-week-doughnut-holes-in-international-waters

We welcome Dmitriy Skougarevskiy who is a doctoral candidate at The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in this guest post to let him tell us about his pet project on the loopholes in the Law of the Sea, called donutholes.ch.

http://i.imgur.com/vfh7SBS.jpg

The beauty of complexity is apparent when you explore the areas that cannot be grasped by any neighbouring state. These are the so-called donut holes

►http://donutholes.ch

#tutorial