587. UNTIL LIONS HAVE THEIR OWN HISTORIANS, HUNTING HISTORIES WILL CONTINUE TO GLORIFY HUNTERS. (African proverb)
. -For people fighting our damn wars there are no winners or losers; just survivors. But
586. CURRENT DEVELOPMENT FADS FETISHIZE DATA, OSTENSIBLY FOR WHAT IS CALLED ‘EVIDENCE-BASED POLICY-MAKING’: WHERE ARE YOU HUMAN RIGHTS?
. Let me first turn to things close to what you and
585. RELEGATING HUMAN RIGHTS TO OBLIVION: WHAT DO BUZZWORDS DO FOR DEVELOPMENT POLICY?
. 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
584. MOST HUMAN RIGHTS WRITINGS ARE ABOUT HOW OTHER PEOPLE COULD DO THINGS FOR CLAIM HOLDERS, NOT ABOUT SUPPORTING THEM TO LIFT THEMSELVES TO ACT ON THEIR OWN BEHALF.#
. -(#: 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
583. RONALD REAGAN’S MANTRA THAT THE POOR BRING POVERTY AND THE RICH BRING WEALTH, SO THE RICH SHOULD BE LEFT TO CREATE WEALTH IS A CLASSICAL DECEIVING QUOTE OF NEOLIBERALS.
. -If I were a rich man… (Fiddlers on the Roof) Economics has come to be thought-of as a discipline
582. LET US BE REALISTS: THE POLITICAL CHALLENGE THAT POPULIST AUTHORITARIANISM PRESENTS TO DEMOCRACY AND TO HUMAN RIGHTS IS HERE TO STAY.
. Human rights in the era of Surveillance Capitalism 1. Technologies (and the institutions that push the same) are part of
581. PRIMITIVE MAN HAD TO PROTECT HIMSELF FROM THE THREATS OF NATURE. NOW, NATURE HAS TO BE SAVED FROM THE THREATS OF MAN. (Albino Gomez)
. 1.The ‘curse of natural resources’ tells us of the negative relationship between natural resources and their predominance in the export model
579. HEALTH FOR ALL AND THE RIGHT TO HEALTH HAVE BEEN ASPHYXIATED SINCE THE 1980s. (Alison Katz)
. 1. Forty+ years on from Alma Ata, all kinds of ‘revivals’ of PHC have been attempted. None have been genuine revivals, because among
578. WHO WON? DEMOCRACY AT THE EXPENSE OF CAPITALISM? OR CAPITALISM AT THE EXPENSE OF DEMOCRACY?: quo-vadis human rights? (Juan Pablo Cardenas)
. 1. Capitalism ongoingly ‘creates poverty’ so that, then, due to their powerlessness*, ‘the poor’ keep