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Leestip: De Morgen: Dit economisch bestel vernietigt onze menselijkheid.

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mrt 212012

Hebt u soms het gevoel dat er iets niet klopt? Dat u hard werkt en successen nastreeft, maar dat er toch van alles knaagt en botst en te kort is?

In zijn snoeiharde nieuwe essay ‘Flexibel, efficiënt en gestoord’ fileert hoogleraar psychologie Paul Verhaeghe (UGent) de oorzaak. ‘De waan van de almaar grotere aandeelhouderswinst en the survival of the fittest rammelt en maakt ons ziek.’

BARBARA DEBUSSCHERE

Professor Paul Verhaeghe legt in zijn kantoor de laatste hand aan een betoog dat hij vandaag in Antwerpen afsteekt. Dat zal voor een overvolle zaal zijn, tot zijn verbazing. Plots klampen niet enkel studenten psychologie en patiënten hem aan, maar ook bedrijfsleiders, advocaten en managers. Niet bepaald publiek dat snel aan de lippen van een psychoanalyticus hangt. En al zeker niet wanneer die komt vertellen dat een ‘rücksichtslos’ streven naar maximale winst, efficiëntie en flexibiliteit een gevaar is dat mensen “op grote schaal schaadt, manipuleert en vernedert”.

Verhaeghe: “De interesse is onverwacht enorm toegenomen, misschien door de crisis en het gevoel dat we op de grenzen zijn gebotst van het verhaal dat vandaag onze levens domineert.”

Welk verhaal? Waren we niet net alle grote verhalen kwijt?

Lees verder op: http://koenbrowaeys.blogspot.fr

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Politieke orientaties zijn gecorreleerd met hersenstructuur in jong volwassenen (Ipaper/Studie)

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mrt 042012

Substantial differences exist in the cognitive styles of liberals and conservatives on psychological measures [1]. Variability in political attitudes reflects genetic influences and their interaction with environmental factors [2, 3]. Recent work has shown a correlation between liberalism and conflict-related activity measured by event-related potentials originating in the anterior cingulate cortex [4]. Here we show that this functional correlate of political attitudes has a counterpart in brain structure. In a large sample of young adults, we related self-reported political attitudes to gray matter volume using structural MRI. We found that greater liberalism was associated with increased gray matter volume in the anterior cingulate cortex, whereas greater conservatism was associated with increased volume of the right amygdala. These results were replicated in an independent sample of additional participants. Our findings extend previous observations that political attitudes reflect differences in self-regulatory conflict monitoring [4] and recognition of emotional faces [5] by showing that such attitudes are reflected in human brain structure. Although our data do not determine whether these regions play a causal role in the formation of political attitudes, they converge with previous work [4, 6] to suggest a possible link between brain structure and psychological mechanisms that mediate political attitudes.

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Leestip: Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis (Hardback, Manuel Castells)

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feb 232012

The crisis of global capitalism that has unfolded since 2008 is more than an economic crisis. It is structural and multidimensional. The sequence of events that have taken place in its aftermath show that we are entering a world that is very different from the social and economic conditions that characterized the rise of global, informational capitalism in the preceding three decades. The policies and strategies that intended to manage the crisis-with mixed results depending on the country-may usher in a distinctly different economic and institutional system, as the New Deal, the construction of the European Welfare State, and the Bretton Woods global financial architecture all gave rise to a new form of capitalism in the aftermath of the 1930s Depression, and World War II. This volume examines the cultures and institutions at the root of the crisis, as well as the conflicts and debates that lead to a new social landscape, including the rise of alternative economic cultures expressed in the social movements occupying Wall Street. The book presents the results of a shared project of reflection by an interdisciplinary group of researchers from around the world. It contends that there is no quick fix to the current financial and political system. Life beyond the crisis requires a transformation of the mindset that led to bankruptcy and despair, and to economies and societies based on an unsustainable model of speculative finance and political irresponsibility. The book explains why and explores the contours of the world emerging in the aftermath of the crisis

Inhoud

1: Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis: An Introduction
PRELUDE
2: Rosalind Williams: The Rolling Apocalypse of Contemporary History
3: João Caraça: The Separation of Cultures and the Decline of Modernity
WHICH CRISIS? WHOSE CRISIS?
4: John B. Thompson: The Metamorphosis of a Crisis
5: Michel Wieviorka: Financial Crisis or Societal Mutation?
DEALING WITH THE CRISIS
6: Sarah Banet-Weiser: Branding the Crisis
7: Terhi Rantanen: In Nationalism We Trust?
8: Pekka Himanen: Crisis, Identity and the Welfare State
BEYOND THE CRISIS
9: Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Jacobetty: Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change
10: Joana Conill, Manuel Castells, Amalia Cardenas and Lisa Servon: Beyond the Crisis: The Emergence of Alternative Economic Practises
THE NON-GLOBAL GLOBAL CRISIS
11: You-tien Hsing: No Crisis in China? The Rise of China’s Social Crisis
12: Ernesto Ottone: A Non-Global Crisis? Challenging the Crisis in Latin America
AFTERMATH?

Categorie: boeken economische crisis.

Te bestellen vanaf Juli op bookdepository.co.uk

Zie ook: Manuel Castells: Metamorfose van een crisis & 33e Globaliseringslezing door Manuel Castells

1: Manuel Castells, João Caraça and Gustavo Cardoso: The Cultures of the Economic Crisis: An Introduction
PRELUDE
2: Rosalind Williams: The Rolling Apocalypse of Contemporary History
3: João Caraça: The Separation of Cultures and the Decline of Modernity
WHICH CRISIS? WHOSE CRISIS?
4: John B. Thompson: The Metamorphosis of a Crisis
5: Michel Wieviorka: Financial Crisis or Societal Mutation?
DEALING WITH THE CRISIS
6: Sarah Banet-Weiser: Branding the Crisis
7: Terhi Rantanen: In Nationalism We Trust?
8: Pekka Himanen: Crisis, Identity and the Welfare State
BEYOND THE CRISIS
9: Gustavo Cardoso and Pedro Jacobetty: Surfing the Crisis: Cultures of Belonging and Networked Social Change
10: Joana Conill, Manuel Castells, Amalia Cardenas and Lisa Servon: Beyond the Crisis: The Emergence of Alternative Economic Practises
THE NON-GLOBAL GLOBAL CRISIS
11: You-tien Hsing: No Crisis in China? The Rise of China’s Social Crisis
12: Ernesto Ottone: A Non-Global Crisis? Challenging the Crisis in Latin America
AFTERMATH?

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Noam Chomsky over het menselijk lot

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feb 182012

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Goed voorbeeld doet goed volgen: Ijsland

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feb 182012

Story missing from our media: Iceland’s on-going revolution

An Italian radio program’s story about Iceland’s on-going revolution is a stunning example of how little our media tells us about the rest of the world. We may remember that at the start of the 2008 financial crisis, Iceland literally went bankrupt. The reasons were mentioned only in passing, and since then, this little-known member of the European Union fell back into oblivion.

As one European country after another fails or risks failing, imperiling the Euro, with repercussions for the entire world, the last thing the powers that be want is for Iceland to become an example. Here’s why:

Five years of a pure neo-liberal regime had made Iceland, (population 320 thousand, no army), one of the richest countries in the world. In 2003 all the country’s banks were privatised, and in an effort to attract foreign investors, they offered on-line banking whose minimal costs allowed them to offer relatively high rates of return. The accounts, called IceSave, attracted many UK and Dutch small investors. But as investments grew, so did the banks’ foreign debt. In 2003 Iceland’s debt was equal to 200 times its GNP, but in 2007, it was 900 percent. The 2008 world financial crisis was the coup de grace. The three main Icelandic banks, Landbanki, Kapthing and Glitnir, went belly up and were nationalised, while the Kroner lost 85% of its value with respect to the Euro. At the end of the year Iceland declared bankruptcy.

Lees het hele artikel over Ijsland op http://newsnetscotland.com

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Geld & Gedrag: Merely Activating the Concept of Money Changes Personal and Interpersonal Behavior (Ipaper/Video)

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jan 212012

Money plays a significant role in people’s lives, and yet little experimental attention has been given to the psychological underpinnings of money. We systematically varied whether and to what extent the concept of money was activated in participants’ minds using methods that minimized participants’ conscious awareness of the money cues. On the one hand, participants reminded of money
were less helpful than were participants not reminded of money, and they also preferred solitary activities and less physical intimacy. On the other hand, reminders of money prompted participants to work harder on challenging tasks and led to desires to take on more work as compared to participants not reminded of money.

In short, even subtle reminders of money elicit big changes in human behavior.

Money Makes People Less Socially Focused

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Nieuw boek David Harvey: Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution

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jan 212012

Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution
To be published in April 2012 by Verso Books. Available for pre-order on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uknow.

Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people?

Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

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Joost de Bloois: DE POLITIEK VAN DE HYPERBOOL OVER ONZICHTBARE VIJANDEN, POPULISME EN HARDWERKENDE NEDERLANDERS

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dec 312011

Wat tien jaar na 9/11 duidelijk is geworden, is dat het pathos van die dagen– ‘niets zal hetzelfde zijn’; het pathos van de historische breuk – inderdaadprecies dat was: pathos. 9/11 is de gelegenheid gebleken voor het bestendigenen vooral intensiveren van politieke en economische ontwikkelingen die al op de grens van de jaren zeventig en tachtig zijn ingezet.

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