Left Curve is a great journal and useful website, and gets rave reviews from elsewhere...
ie from http://www.geraldengland.co.uk/revs/mg012.htm
Left Curve: "Plainly the biggest and boldest experiment in LEFT CURVE is a lengthy segment called PUBLICity, which includes thirty-five pages of very short prose pieces on a wide variety of themes reflecting 'aspects of global public life'. As with the lengthier articles, this section includes pieces which are informative and thought-provoking, juxtaposed with those which are self-conscious, dull and poorly written. Dipa Basu's POLICING THE COLOUR LINE: CONTROL, CRIME, AND CULTURE AND THE HIP-HOP GENERATION is fascinating, while Alexander Bard and Jan Soderquist's CREATIVITY AND POWER IN THE AGE OF INTERACTIVITY and Kien Nghi Ha's HYBRIDITY AS CULTURAL COMMODIFICATION AND NATIONAL MODERNISATION are both insightful, challenging pieces. Given that PUBLICity includes contributors from every continent, and that its authors (who courageously publish their own email addresses alongside their work) explore diverse subjects, the results are often stunning. For all its risks and weaknesses, this is an experiment worth repeating. "
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Saturday, January 14, 2006
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Tandana
Tandana is an archive of anti-racist materials from the Asian Youth Movements of the UK. Its an historical archive developed by Anandi Ramamurthy with Heritage Lottery Funding. Its the best use of such funds I've seen - I mean compared to running repairs on the various facades of the monarchy, its palaces, and its personages, its much better value for money.
- Tandana aims to archive the visual and ephemeral culture of South Asian struggle in Britain for social, cultural and political rights.
- Tandana aims to give value to this heritage through:
a. the creation of a centralised and accessible archive.
b. the collection of supportive and contextual documentation. - Tandana will digitise the ephemera and make this heritage accessible through the web to allow access by as wide a number of people as possible.
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Coca-Cola campaign
This just in:
Dear supporters of the Coca-Cola campaign: We begin 2006 with the MASSIVE victory from the University of Michigan where the university has suspended its business with the Coca-Cola company because the company has not agreed to an independent investigation into issues in India and Colombia. The India Resource Center worked closely with the students at Michigan to ensure that the company was first placed on probation, and now suspended. The University of Michigan is a top-ranked public university with 50,000 students and with your support, we can expect more contracts to be revoked in 2006.
http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2068.html
The campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable continues to grow in India, with major demonstrations against the company to wind up 2005 – in Rajasthan <http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2065.html> and in Uttar Pradesh <http://www.indiaresource.org/news/2005/2064.html>. More demonstrations are expected in February.
Help us spread the campaign to hold Coca-Cola accountable. We want to attend the World Water Forum being held in Mexico from March 16-22, 2006. Coca-Cola is one of the main sponsors of the event and we are getting ready to expose to the world why Coca-Cola and sustainable development are opposites. Do consider making a donation which will allow us to bring grassroots activists from India to the Water Forum.
SUPPORT US!! Make an Online Donation: http://www.indiaresource.org/donate/index.html
TAKE ACTION: Protest Coca-Cola's Crimes in India http://www.indiaresource.org/action/faxcoke.php
[Just in case you were feeling a little parched].
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Tuesday, January 10, 2006
translate.eipcp.net
Contact Zones
Hybridity and Diaspora
It is by now established that authors writing on diaspora very often engage with the mixed notion of hybridity. We will see that this term also offers much for debate, and that this debate in turn offers material that elaborates, and may further complicate, the cultures and politics of diaspora. This text explores this uneven terrain and presents a kind of topographical survey of the uses and misuses of hybridity, and its synonyms.....
[there then follows a text that is is part of the book "Hybridity and Diaspora" written by Virinder Kalra, Raminder Kaur and John Hutnyk, published by Sage, London, 2005.]
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Google Mail - TV looking for medical Anthropologist
There are numerous reasons to despair for anthropology as a discipline, but it could be TV that is suffering even more. Evidence - this email recently sent to all in the Goldsmiths department looking for the future Davina McCall of Ethnography (Davina? She has an 'interest' in anthropology, surely...)
Google Mail - TV looking for medical Anthropologist:
"TV looking for medical Anthropologist" 10:46 pm (9 hours ago)
We are a production company called Optomen Television and are
currently looking for someone with an interest in anthropology to
become the presenter of a new series. We are searching for someone
that would relish a voyage of discovery, investigating medical
beliefs, remedies and cures across the globe. We would like our
presenter to get deeply involved in the experience, to immerse
themselves in a community rather than commentate from afar.
If this is of interest, please email with any relevant information
and we will get back in touch.
Many thanks and best wishes, My email is listed below.
Zara Lansdale
Assistant Producer
Optomen Television
zara.lansdale@optomen.com"
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Google Mail - TV looking for medical Anthropologist:
"TV looking for medical Anthropologist" 10:46 pm (9 hours ago)
We are a production company called Optomen Television and are
currently looking for someone with an interest in anthropology to
become the presenter of a new series. We are searching for someone
that would relish a voyage of discovery, investigating medical
beliefs, remedies and cures across the globe. We would like our
presenter to get deeply involved in the experience, to immerse
themselves in a community rather than commentate from afar.
If this is of interest, please email with any relevant information
and we will get back in touch.
Many thanks and best wishes, My email is listed below.
Zara Lansdale
Assistant Producer
Optomen Television
zara.lansdale@optomen.com"
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Wednesday, January 04, 2006
Poco TV
Abhijit Roy writes:
> have you received the copies of the journal? they were
> posted more than a month back.
he's referring to the Kolkata based Journal of the Moving Image vol 4. The article is called something like 'Postcolonial Television'. ITs out, but I have not yet seen it. So this is to be updated I guess...
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> have you received the copies of the journal? they were
> posted more than a month back.
he's referring to the Kolkata based Journal of the Moving Image vol 4. The article is called something like 'Postcolonial Television'. ITs out, but I have not yet seen it. So this is to be updated I guess...
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Monday, January 02, 2006
angry Chihuahuas... silly season news
From the Desk of Craig Smith:
Friday, December 30, 2005 (AP)
Pack of angry Chihuahuas attack officer in Fremont
Fremont, Calif. (AP) --
A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was
escorting a eenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said.
The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on
Thursday when the five Chihuahuas escaped the 17-year-old boy's home
and rushed the officer in the doorway, said Fremont detective Bill
Veteran.
The teenager had been detained after the traffic incident, Veteran said.
The officer was treated at a local hospital and returned to work less
than two hours later, Veteran said.
It was the third time this month a Fremont officer was bitten by a dog
while on duty. Neither of the other officers were seriously injured.
And it was the second bizarre incident in as many hours for the
Fremont olice Department.
Two hours earlier, a homeowner in Niles reported that an intruder
broke into her home and added pornography to her computer.
The woman said she woke up and was startled to see a stranger typing
away on her computer. The intruder fled, but left behind an altered
screen saver that featured images of "erotic Indian art," Veteran
said.
Nothing was reported stolen, and neither the woman nor her
nine-year-old daughter was hurt, he said.
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Copyright 2005 AP
Friday, December 30, 2005 (AP)
Pack of angry Chihuahuas attack officer in Fremont
Fremont, Calif. (AP) --
A pack of angry Chihuahuas attacked a police officer who was
escorting a eenager home following a traffic stop, authorities said.
The officer suffered minor injuries including bites to his ankle on
Thursday when the five Chihuahuas escaped the 17-year-old boy's home
and rushed the officer in the doorway, said Fremont detective Bill
Veteran.
The teenager had been detained after the traffic incident, Veteran said.
The officer was treated at a local hospital and returned to work less
than two hours later, Veteran said.
It was the third time this month a Fremont officer was bitten by a dog
while on duty. Neither of the other officers were seriously injured.
And it was the second bizarre incident in as many hours for the
Fremont olice Department.
Two hours earlier, a homeowner in Niles reported that an intruder
broke into her home and added pornography to her computer.
The woman said she woke up and was startled to see a stranger typing
away on her computer. The intruder fled, but left behind an altered
screen saver that featured images of "erotic Indian art," Veteran
said.
Nothing was reported stolen, and neither the woman nor her
nine-year-old daughter was hurt, he said.
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright 2005 AP
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