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Thursday February 9th, 2009 

Thinking Globally
Social Life
Thinking Online

Chavez interviewed
In his first interview in the USA, the president of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez talks with Amy Goodman of DemocracyNow about the war in Iraq, President Bush, the role of the media in the aborted coup against him and Venezuela's request for the extradition of Cuban anti-Castro militant Luis Posada Carriles. Watch, listen or read the interview: Part 1 | Part 2

Africa's time has come
Larry Elliott, economics editor of The Guardian examines the futures for Africa in the light of the rhetoric of Gleneagles and the disappointing recent UN summit on world poverty. More

China: Gender equality
China has for the first time outlawed sexual harassment and domestic violence, establishing gender equality as a national policy. BBC.
People's Daily

The second age of globalisation?
Welcome to the second age of globalisation, and the labour practices of Victorian mill owners argues Larry Elliott

Globalisation is an anomaly
James Kunstler argues that cheap energy and relative peace helped create a false doctrine and its time is running out. More

Aborigines' island life
Nick Squires visits the Tiwi Islands, a pair of remote islands situated 80 km (50 miles) north of Darwin, Australia in the Arafura Sea and finds a very different way of Aboriginal life. More

Enlightened globalisation
Anthony Barnett talks to Jeffrey Sachs who hopes that the Gleneagles summit will generate an Enlightened globalisation for the world's poor. openDemocracy.

Sleepwalking to Segregation?
In the speech, titled After 7/7: Sleepwalking to Segregation, given to the Manchester Council for Community Relations, Trevor Phillips, the chairman of the Commission for Racial Equality, highlighted how Britain's younger generation were less integrated than their parents. More

So much more than blood
Libby Brooks launches a year-long project chronicling the day-to-day lives of 11 diverse British families. More

Fatwa on Indian tennis star to cover up
A group of Muslim clerics has issued a religious diktat demanding that India's teenage tennis star Sania Mirza cover up during matches, saying that her skirts and T-shirts are "un-Islamic" and "corrupting". More | BBC

Gender gap in primary school
Boys have fallen even further behind girls in their writing skills despite a marginal overall improvement in youngsters' performance in compulsory national tests taken this spring in English and maths, new figures revealed yesterday. More

The average family: 1961
From the Guardian archive comes this article from 1961 summarising Social Trends on the family.More

Britain to rebrand ethnic minorities
THE Government is proposing to rename ethnic minority groups along US lines in an attempt to strengthen and highlight their British roots. The Times

Strangers in London?
What would you do if you came across a dying man - stop to help or walk away? Last week 'Tara McCartney' was caught up in a horrific attack on a bus. She was shocked by the response. More

There is no such thing as community
The idea that society comprises homogeneous groups is deluded More

Walking towards a better life
Rambling in the countryside has never been so popular, but a conference this weekend will examine how taking a daily stroll down the High Street can breathe new life into towns. More
Living Streets

BBC1 too focused on white suburbia, say governors
BBC chairman Michael Grade today reignited the debate over the corporation and the "white middle classes". more

BBC directors
Broadcasting unions yesterday criticised senior BBC executives for "gross" and "cynical" behaviour for accepting bonuses totalling £546,000 at a time when the corporation is making up to 4,000 staff redundant. more

In praise of Charles Tilly?
Geoff Mulgan provides an introduction for UK readers to the work of Charles Tilly, who Mulgan considers "America's most prolific and interesting sociologist". Interesting but cannot help thinking that in terms of the range of writing emanating out of US sociology at the moment Mulgan 'doesn't get out much'! More

City of Panic
Ian Pindar reviews Paul Virilio's apocalyptic study of the modern metropolis, City of Panic.

Love and/vs money
US sociologist Viviana A Zelizer suggests the New Orleans disaster highlighted two very different ideas about the economics of life and intimacy. Intimate truths

Jacques Lacan
From The Philosophers' Magazine comes this brief introduction to Jacques Lacan and his work More

A Hobbesian state?
Timothy Garton-Ash suggests once we "..remove the elementary staples of organised, civilised life - food, shelter, drinkable water, minimal personal security - and we go back within hours to a Hobbesian state of nature, a war of all against all." More | Others disagree

Ramadan joins task force
Muslim scholar, Professor Tariq Ramadan, accused by critics of sympathising with violence, has been appointed to a government taskforce attempting to root out Islamic extremism in Britain. More

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