http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com Blog of the Institute for the Study of Democracy and Social Movements, Sungkonghoe University, South Korea Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:06:50 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Just a note to say that this blog has been discontinued. We have not added anything now for almost a year. It was originally created for institute for the study of social movements and democracy at Sungkonghoe University in Seoul as a trial experiment for launching a blog and archive ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2008/04/22/the-future/ I forgot to post on this upcoming program at SungKongHoe. It is one of the first of its kind, and needs to be promoted widely. Here is the ad: Master of Arts in Inter-Asia NGO Studies (MAINS)at the Inter-Asia Graduate School of NGO Studies (IGSONS) Jointly offered by SungKongHoe University & ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2007/01/12/finally-a-masters-degree-fit-for-progressive-activists/ Here’s the banner for an event we have coming up this month with the Korean translator of Hardt and Negri’s empire. It looks like its going to be a lively discussion.     http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2007/01/04/reading-negri/ I posted below on some more recent critical perspectives on the developmental state, perspectives which aim to assess any progress in economic development without bracketing off the social. As has been done quite frequently in both state and market focused approaches. Anyways, since his book, featured below, is perhaps to ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/12/14/beyond-the-dev-state-pt-2/ Here is an interesting film night put on by media cultural action. http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/12/06/upcoming-event/ There are a number of studies of Korean industrialization that have come out of anglo-american scholarship that focus quite heavily on the role of the state in industrial policy, and often in a positive light. One of the downsides of this discourse has often been a neglect of the roles ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/11/14/beyond-the-developmental-state/ It’s been busy here recently. Tonight we had Chen Hsin-Hsing visiting from Taiwan. He gave a talk on current political crisis in Taiwan and the larger, formative context of Taiwanese political groupings that informs it. Chen is from the Graduate Institute for Social Transformation Studies at Shih-Hsin University in Taiwan, ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/11/14/political-crisis-in-taiwanacef-06/ Statement on North Korea’s Nuclear Test: A call for an Anti-war, Anti-U.S, Nuclear Disarmament Movement Opposing war and violence on the Korean Peninsula and around the world, in the name of all people who wish for peace and democracy, we assert the following: 1. We condemn the hypocrisy of the United ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/11/05/a-call-for-an-anti-war-anti-us-nuclear-disarmament-movement/ Today’s seminar was cosponsored seminar between ARENA (Asia Regional Exchange for New Alternatives) and our institute, and featured Claude Alvares, from the Multiversity project, discussing curriculum redesign in the social sciences. The project seeks to create a dialogue about the conditions under which knowledge is produced in both East and ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/10/30/the-multiversity/ As we are still picking up steam with this blog, I thought I would take some time to introduce people loosly affliated with the larger intellectual circle around the Institute, Sungkonghoe University, and the larger Korean academic left in general. Sounds like a project that might be a little to ... http://criticalconstellations.blogsome.com/2006/10/30/economic-crises-class-compositiondecomposition/