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''Small is Beautiful' : Tracking Direct Democracy in Southern Brazil
(Optiuni)
29-05-2005
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
The Brazilian city of Porto Alegre has surprised the ranks of academia by undertaking a spectacular and unexpected return to grassroots direct democracy after a long tyrannical rule. Indeed, many answers to the problems of the ill-adapted Western...
Beneath the cobblestones… a beach
(Optiuni)
25-09-2004
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
Surprisingly enough, the walls of the campus weren’t covered with posters to announce Toronto’s seventh annual Reclaim the Streets party that took place on September 17th near Kensington market.
The event isn’t just an outdoor version of...
Can India play a balancing role for the US in the Asia Pacific Region?
(Optiuni)
28-08-2007
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
Facing the prospect of a multi-polar world, the US is now facing more than ever the urge to consolidate alliances to fulfill its self-proclaimed mandate of ensuring global stability. While some analysts argue that India, like Japan, will become an...
El Papel del Pueblo: A New Liberator in Oil-rich Venezuela?
(Optiuni)
25-06-2005
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
\'Yo no soy el presidente, yo soy Hugo; soy un campesino.\'
So long after Che Guevara and Sandino, does charismatic Hugo Chávez Frias steal the Latin-American radical scene.
Big news. 46-year enduring Cuban dictator Fidel Castro might as...
Power Dynamics in the Human Rights Movements - Universalism or Relativism
(Optiuni)
28-08-2007
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
In a world where identity has become a political tool for public mobilization, it takes great facilitation skills to navigate across the universalism and cultural relativism debate without hurting anybody's feelings. Ideas of global citizenship...
Retaliations fromThe 999 SIN Card
(Interviuri)
28-08-2007
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
February 26 2006, 13h30, Québec City
É: Hello Mini-Mini.
M: Hello Manue.
É: I was going to ask you some questions for my research methods course that I take at University.
M: Okay.
É: So if you agree we are going to have a...
Tease for Peace :How a Joking Institution keeps checks in Burkina Faso
(Optiuni)
2-05-2007
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
When a driver in Burkina Faso stops his vehicle to lower its windows and start insulting a kid on his bicycle for no apparent reason, when two coworkers constantly insult each other over meaningless habits, or when you overhear a debate between...
The Threads of Wrath
(Optiuni)
28-08-2007
by Emanuele Lapierre-Fortin
Cotton is the world’s most famous plant, more than sugar, cocoa or tobacco. It has became even more so since the Hong Kong WTO Round of Negotiations in which Brazil challenged the US government for subsidizing their farmers - known to be a lobby...
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