. -As Al Capone used to say, “You get more with gentle words and a pistol in your hand than with gentle
. -For people fighting our damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But
. Let me first turn to things close to what you and
. 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