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Get Up, Stand Up: West Papua Stands Up For Its Rights: A Rebuttal Of The International Crisis Group Report No. 188, Radicalisation And Dialogue In Papua: West Papuans Unite Against Special Autonomy And For A Referendum On Independence, Jim Elmslie, Camellia B. Webb-Gannon, Peter King
Get Up, Stand Up: West Papua Stands Up For Its Rights: A Rebuttal Of The International Crisis Group Report No. 188, Radicalisation And Dialogue In Papua: West Papuans Unite Against Special Autonomy And For A Referendum On Independence, Jim Elmslie, Camellia B. Webb-Gannon, Peter King
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
This report addresses the momentous events that have transpired in West Papua and its diaspora in recent months. A response to the recent International Crisis Group (ICG) report entitled Radicalisation and Dialogue in Papua1 is also necessary as it is being used as justification by the Indonesian government in two serious initiatives currently underway: the prosecution of activist leader Victor Yeimo on charges of 'rebellion' and the unfolding TNI military operations in the highlands of West Papua. One initiative may unjustly deprive a man of his liberty; the other will almost certainly cost the lives and livelihoods of innocent Papuan …
A 'Crisis', But Of What?, Noel Castree
A 'Crisis', But Of What?, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The current economic crisis has generated a discussion about its fundemental causes. Five major explanations for the crisis have been put forth by different stakeholders and critics. We analyze each of the five explanations and critically reflect, from a Marxist perspective, upon the vested power interests and political consequences in promoting this or that explanation.
The 2007-09 Financial Crisis: Narrating And Politicising A Calamity, Noel Castree
The 2007-09 Financial Crisis: Narrating And Politicising A Calamity, Noel Castree
Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)
The events triggered by defaults on 'sub-prime' mortgages have been widely described as constituting a 'crisis'. But a crisis of what exactly? Several different explanations of the 20 month drama that unfolded from summer 2007 have been proposed by a wide range of commentators. These include journalists, academics, politicians, business-people, pundits and public administrators, among others. This essay parses this superfluity of crisis talk into five principal accounts. It focuses on the Anglo-American scene. The interpretations presented range from the simplistic and populist to the complex and specialised. They are compared and contrasted, and in each case their diverse normative …