He Escaped Death, But Dreams of Returning to Gaza
▻https://wearesolomon.com/mag/format/photo-essay/he-escaped-death-but-dreams-of-returning-to-gaza
Yousef fled Gaza in 2024, still a minor. Now 19, he’s in Cairo — caught between loss and survival, still hoping to return home one day.
(1) From Russia with love - Emmanuel Todd
via▻https://diasp.eu/p/17665926
After Budapest, Moscow : here is the text of the lecture I gave at the Russian Academy of Sciences on April 23rd, 2025, titled “Anthropology and strategic realism in international relations”.
La politique des putes
Océan réalise, avec « La #Politique_des_putes », une enquête en immersion dans laquelle il tend le micro à des travailleuses·rs du sexe. Elles disent le stigmate, la marginalisation, la précarité, les violences systémiques mais aussi les ressources et l’empowerment. Pour elles, l’intime est résistance. Dix épisodes de 30 mn pour briser les préjugés.
http://www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/COVER_DOCU_INTIMEPOLITIQUE-2-1-600x600.jpg ►http://www.nouvellesecoutes.fr/podcasts/intime-politique
#sex_work #prostitution #patriarchy #capitalism #feminism #wage_labor #whorephobe #whorephobia #pimping #stigma #bias #prejudice #stigmatization #discrimination #systemic_violence #instiutional_violence #heterosexual_concept #sexual_education #normalisation #abolotionism #black_and_white #subventions #decriminalisation #penalty #laws #rights #transphobia #domination #marginalisation #vulnerability #invisbility #undocumented #isolation #fear #police_harassment #physical_violence #rape #precarity #affirmation #empowerment #dignity #trust #solidarity #network #community #choice #perception #society #associations #seropositive #access_to_healthcare #suicidal_thought #debt #menace #voodoo #exploitation #trafficking #migration #borders #family_pressure #clients_image #mudered #testimony #interview #podcast #audio #France #Paris
“sex work is not dirty - dirty are all the representations about sex work” (La politique des putes 7/10, min 7).
The beginning of the end of the Facebook era
▻https://hackernoon.com/the-beginning-of-the-end-of-the-facebook-era-f5cb03c1c45e?source=rss----
And the division of labor of social mediaI’ve been off of Facebook for more than six months. My reason for quitting was primarily because I felt aimless, scrolling through an endless feed of content with no particular theme or underlying motivation — no greater purpose for generating awareness, spreading knowledge or happiness; even the strengthening of #community which social media intends — or at least claims — to do is not being successfully achieved by Facebook.My life has improved since then, for many reasons, not least of which being: the realization and consequent relief of the incredible awkwardness of the idea of posting personal updates to an audience of hundreds of people, of whom only a few dozen (if even that) actually care.But aside from my personal life-standard improvement as a (...)
Why Gamers (And #blockchain) Are Creating The Future Of Work And #society
▻https://hackernoon.com/why-gamers-and-blockchain-are-creating-the-future-of-work-and-society-38
I grew up #gaming with my brothers, and over the years, I had a chance to see some of the most significant evolutions in the industry.At first, players were in self-contained worlds like those of the Mario or Zelda games. For the games that allowed you to play with multiple people, everyone had to sit in the same room with each other, within reach of the nearest controller.Once the internet connected players and created multiplayer worlds online, everything changed.Communities began to form around games like World of Warcraft and Second Life — groups consisting of people from different cities, countries and continents.When I began studying anthropology, I realized the significance of these online communities and became fascinated in learning more about how people interact and live online. (...)
Que serait la société sans école jadis préconisée de façon provocatrice par Ivan Illich ? L’école doit-elle détenir le monopole de l’éducation ? What would be the society without a school that Ivan Illich advocated in a provocative way? Should the school have a monopoly on education?
▻https://sms.hypotheses.org/14723
#école, #school, #Illich, #société, #society, #social, #éducation, #education, #instruction, #carrière, #career, #apprentissage, #famille, #learning
Low #MMR uptake blamed for surge in #measles cases across #Europe |...
▻https://diasp.eu/p/7600946
Low #MMR uptake blamed for surge in #measles cases across #Europe | #Society | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/20/low-mmr-uptake-blamed-for-surge-in-measles-cases-across-europe
The question of the #surveillance of #society with public and private sectors gathering data on individuals, and the use of #computer resources and #techniques to do so, is in the headlines today more than ever. (english article)
Cultural Climate Change | Standpoint
▻http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/6938/full
if you are a regular goer to church, synagogue or other place of worship, you are more likely to help a stranger in need, give a meal to the hungry, shelter someone who’s homeless, find somebody a job, give to charity (whether the cause is religious or secular), get involved in voluntary work. The best predictor is not class, ethnicity, or education. The best indicator is: do you or don’t you go regularly to a house of worship. Robert Putnam refined the thesis and said that it doesn’t matter what you believe: do you go?
‘The city’ Proverbs 11.10 VOTD | Fellowship Room
▻http://fellowshiproom.com/city-prov-11-10
“When the righteous do well, the city rejoices; when the wicked perish, there is joy.”
“I go chop money nah”: the perversion of #class consciousness in #Nigeria.
▻http://africasacountry.com/2016/03/i-go-chop-money-nah-the-perversion-of-class-consciousness-in-nigeri
In a country where the police and justice system are largely perceived as corrupt and ineffective, many Nigerians have resorted to vigilantism and jungle justice to balance the scales. But as expected, in the court of public opinion where sentimentality and frustration run high, the quest for justice can become perverted, if not overtly partial. […]
Creators of Fake Instagram Account Showing a Migrant’s Journey Speak Out
▻https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/abdou-diouf-instagram-migrant1.jpg?quality=65&strip=colo
An #Instagram account that purported to show the tribulations of a Senegalese #migrant embarking on an illegal journey to Spain turned out to be a campaign set-up to promote a photography festival.
Launched a week ago, the account claimed to show how “Abdou Diouf” left his native Dakar in Senegal to find a better life in Europe. The pictures – all self-portraits – showed Diouf at various stages of his “trip”. In one image, he’s seen embarking on a small floating device, while another showed him reach Spanish shores.
▻http://time.com/3982506/immigrant-instagram-migrant-journey-abdou-diouf
The account went viral this weekend after the Huffington Post wrote about Diouf’s journey. However, as international attention turned to Diouf’s mysterious postings and his use of popular, yet unrelated hashtags, the account was revealed as fake. “It’s a campaign for an international festival of photography in Getxo in Spain” Oriol Caba of Volga, a Spanish production company, tells TIME.
The #Getxophoto festival hired Volga and the Barcelona studio Manson to produce a series of videos and images that would promote the event as well as raise questions about the use of #photography in today’s #society.
“In developed countries, there’s a use of the self-image that is not common to other parts of the globe,” says Caba. “[We wanted] to show how the banality of the treatment of the self-image could be used to produce an image of the self but in a very different context, like the dangerous and traumatic trips people embark on to get a better life. We thought it was strong and powerful enough to make a statement and to raise questions.”
The fake account was also a way for the festival’s organizers to show how the “narration of reality is always in the hands of people with power, not in the hands of people living that reality,” says Caba.
But all involved say they never expected the account to garner such international attention. “We were shocked to see it published on the Huffington Post and to see other media organizations follow it up,” Caba tells #TIME. “We never thought about this question on the power of the [fourth estate]. I think that the necessity of selling, having hits and being the first to publish is lowering the standards of news.”
The end result, the festival said in a statement, offers “a reflection on the way we process and share images of displacement and migration in established media and on #social_networks.”
Now, the festival is ready for the potential backlash. “It won’t be surprising to us if we’re accused of trivializing this issue,” says Caba. “But we can see it every day already in the passivity of the people and governments who [are confronted] to the issue of #immigration in every European city.
“We are very respectful of these people going through such unbelievable struggles,” he adds.
“policymakers could think of ways to show native-born people that #immigrants are not as different as...”
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/107929433123
“policymakers could think of ways to show native-born people that immigrants are not as...
From #Paris to #Beirut: on the privilege of shock and the right to heal
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/23156
Pencils and flowers are laid down in front of the French embassy in Berlin on January 10, 2015, in solidarity with the victims of the terror attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. AFP/DPA/Rainer Jensen Pencils and flowers are laid down in front of the French embassy in Berlin on January 10, 2015, in solidarity with the victims of the terror attacks on the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo in Paris. AFP/DPA/Rainer Jensen
In the past three years since I first moved to Lebanon as yet another French journalist, I have come to learn the shared anguish stemming from acts of #violence that can shake a country. I have grieved with the Lebanese, and shared the sorrow of Palestinians and Syrians as (...)
#Opinion #Articles #France #freedom_of_expression #identity #mourning #society
LiSS : Living in Surveillance Societies
The Living in Surveillance Societies (LiSS) COST Action is a European research programme designed to increase and deepen knowledge about living and working in the surveillance age, in order to better understand the consequences and impacts of enhanced surveillance, and subsequently to make recommendations about its future governance and practice. The underlying theme of the programme is that technologically mediated surveillance - the systematic and purposeful attention to the lives of individuals or groups utilising new ICTs - is a ubiquitous feature of modern society, with citizens routinely monitored by a range of sophisticated technologies. Yet, despite these developments relatively little is known about the depth of personal surveillance or how our personal information is used.
Giant Cruise Ships to be Banned from Venice Beginning Next Year | Italy Magazine
▻http://www.italymagazine.com/news/giant-cruise-ships-be-banned-venice-beginning-next-year
▻http://www.italymagazine.com/sites/default/files/styles/313xauto/public/story/navi.jpg?itok=FGZUl6Tq
Large cruise ships passing through the Venice lagoon are to be banned effective November 2014, and a limit on smaller cruise vessels will kick in January, government officials in Rome ordered on Tuesday.
The order came following a meeting between Italy’s Prime Minister Enrico Letta, his transport and culture ministers and Venice city officials and regional authorities, discussing how to implement in Venice a law that bans large ships from passing near Italian shores. The law was enacted nationwide following the crash of the Costa Concordia cruise ship in early 2012, which killed 32 people off the coast of Tuscany, but was not applied in Venice where the cruise industry plays a key role in the local economy.
As of January, the traffic volume of cruise ships weighing between 40,000 and 96,000 tonnes must be reduced to no more than five ships per day. The outright ban starting November 2014 only applies to those over 96,000 tonnes (similar to the Costa Concordia).
According to the order, cruise traffic will eventually be rerouted through the Contorta Sant’Angelo Canal. Environmentalists warn that the lagoon surrounding Venice, itself a UNESCO heritage site, is at great risk due to its fragile ecosystem and Venice residents have staged many protests over the invasion of the cruise ships. Currently, cruise ships pass within 300 metres (1,000 feet) of St Mark’s Square. Over the past 15 years, Venice has become one of the world’s most important cruise destinations, with more than 650 cruise ships passing through the city annually.
“Finally the trend towards gigantic ships in the lagoon has been turned around,” the mayor of Venice, Giorgio Orsoni, said in a statement on Tuesday. “We’ve had enough of these mega cruise ships just meters away from San Marco; from now on there will be clear limits on the size of ships that can enter Venice.”
Dans le @mdiplo anglais du mois :
Protests for ecology, and humanity, of Venice
No big ships - English edition
▻http://mondediplo.com/2013/11/14venice
Since June activists have been mobilising to prevent huge visiting cruise ships from entering the canals of Venice, disrupting the much-loved Unesco world heritage site and damaging its ecology.
“The songs of Sheikh Imam taught me how to understand the big problems of my country and how to...”
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/62380668711
“The songs of Sheikh Imam taught me how to understand the big problems of my country and how...
“in #lebanon, […] Sunni-Shi‘i #sectarianism has always been less about #religion and more about...”
▻http://levant.tumblr.com/post/58671402609
“in Lebanon, […] Sunni-Shi‘i sectarianism has always been less about religion and more...
#politics #sunnis #chiites #shiites #society #social #economic #economy
The values gap between Western #Europe and the #USA
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L’enquête date du printemps 2011.
Il peut être intéressant de regarder les résultats pour l’ensemble des pays (classés par taux d’approbation croissants) pour la question Our people are not perfect but our culture is superior
ou la distribution par tranche d’âge pour les pays représentés dans l’article
Economists are fond of saying that one in three Africans are now middle class. But who are they talking about ? In search of the African middle class...
▻http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/03/africa-middle-class-search #Africa #economics #society #development
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Stuart McMillen - cartoon Recombinant Records
►http://www.recombinantrecords.net/docs/2009-05-Amusing-Ourselves-to-Death.html
et du son à sampler... ^^
