Today should be remembered as the beginning of the end.  According to an article in the Guardian, President Obama has acknowledged that it is now too late to secure a legally binding climate deal at the Copenhagen summit.We will no doubt be subject to more meaningless messages of intent from failed world leaders.Meanwhile, I'm sitting in my apartment in New York in mid-November trying to swat a mosquito that's trying to suck my blood. The tropicalization of the temperate zones...... >>

Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice Edited by Heather D. Gautney, Neil Smith, Omar Dahbour, Ashley Dawson. Routledge, 2009.Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Global Justice draws on the fields of geography, political theory, and cultural studies to analyze experiments with novel forms of democracy, highlighting the critical issue of the changing nature of the state and citizenship in the contemporary political landscape as they are buffeted by countervailing forces of corporate globalization and participatory politics.Using interesting case studies, the book explores these 3 main themes:the meaning of radical democracy in light of recent developments in democratic theorynew spatial arrangements or scales of democracy - from local to global, from streets protests to the development of transnational networksthe... >>