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April 18, 2011
I'm new to the group so please forgive me if I breach posting protocols in this first attempt to engage.
I am curious about many things, but it seems to me that in encouraging an active community or group in online environment it might help to keep a rolling post on some current reading projects or areas of interest we may have, or indeed share.
It might also help to stimulate a rolling library of reccomendations for those interested in moving beyond thier current milieu. So here's my thought on a book of quality.
Stephen Graham (2009) Cities under seige: The new military urbanism
A high quality review of globalk neo-liberalism and the imapct it has had and is having on the urban envirnment in an increasingy urban world. Whilst academic in texture it is accessible to most well-read and engaged global citizens, and the first chapter or two in particular are must readibg for activists who still feel a left of centre ideological alignment is possible.
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Sacred Economics
— Jul 19, 2011
That sounds like a really interesting book, Pete! Seems like it would fit well in a library alongside Charles Eistenstein's new one called Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition (more info here: http://www.northatlanticbooks.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97815839439...). Reality Sandwich is actually releasing serialized chapters of the book on a weekly basis for free, so you can choose to buy the book, or wait for each new chapter to become available on their site, free of cost. Eistenstein felt strongly that if he was going to write a book about a gift economy, he/we needed to walk the walk, so the book comes with a Creative Commons license -- free to share and distribute as you like, but not to sell.
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