. 1. Development work is plagued with myths that work through emotional identification, not through rationality.* (Georges Sorel) The utopias that are shored up by myths in the
. -(#: I hope this is not true for this Reader…). -It is understandable that texts intended for students and human rights (HR) academics are not written for the
. -If I were a rich man… (Fiddlers on the Roof) Economics has come to be thought-of as a discipline
. Human rights in the era of Surveillance Capitalism 1. Technologies (and the institutions that push the same) are part of
. 1.The ‘curse of natural resources’ tells us of the negative relationship between natural resources and their predominance in the export model
. 1. Forty+ years on from Alma Ata, all kinds of ‘revivals’ of PHC have been attempted. None have been genuine revivals, because among
. 1. Capitalism ongoingly ‘creates poverty’ so that, then, due to their powerlessness*, ‘the poor’ keep
-Piu le cose cambiano, piu sono le stesse cose. (G. Lampedusa) . Global governance of the development conundrum cannot remain a club for the
. -We often look at ethics like a list of things we ought not do. But, actually, ethics is