Dear Vera, RC-10, RC-05 and members of the IC-WSF's Communication
Commission,
Greetings
Herewith forward a note we sent from "Friends of the Earth - Sweden to the
Climate Summit Meetings (COP-20), both the official (and their wishy washy
final statement, as usual)
+ the alternative Peoples' Climate Summit (a bit like a thematic world
social forum on climate and environmental justice).
Abrazos polares
Azril

On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Vera Vratusa(-Zunjic) <
vera.veritas@...> wrote:
>
> Dear Janet and all,
>
> I appologize for not having answered earlier . Since my last emails,  I
> still have problems with regular access to internet.
> The list of all sessions and links to them are available at
> http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/ISA+2014 : ).
> Best wishes and kind regards,
> Vera
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Janet McIntyre <
> janet.mcintyre@...> wrote:
>
>>  Dear Vera and colleagues
>>
>> I trust you are all well? I am enjoying my OSP time and thought I should
>> share this version of the paper with you.
>>
>> Vera I promise to load it on the web if you can give me the link to your
>> session. I have the link to mine in my emails but not your.
>>
>> I spent some time at University of South Africa and I am now working on
>> some articles before spending time at the Scumacher Inst.
>>
>> As promised here is the ( slightly) updated version of the paper.
>>
>> I will rework sections of it for a forthcoming book  and other sections
>> will appear in From Wall Street to Wellbeing. But it does sketch out the
>> main ideas ( albeit rather early version )
>>
>> I am keen to include our papers in a special edition of a journal or as
>> part of a collection of papers ( depending on what eventuates) called:
>>
>>  Wellbeing , democracy  and non anthropocentric design for human securiry
>> and sustainable living  or  ‘ Why taming wicked problems is problematic’
>>
>>
>>
>> All the best
>>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Assoc Prof Janet McIntyre
>>
>> Higher Degrees Co-ordinator
>>
>> Politics and Public Policy
>>
>> School of Social and Policy Studies
>>
>>
>>
>> Flinders University
>>
>> GPO Box 2100
>>
>> Adelaide
>>
>> 5001
>>
>> Australia
>>
>> 08 82012075
>>
>> Fax 61 882013350
>>
>> email janet.mcintyre@...
>>
>> CRICOS Provider Code : 0014A
>>
>> http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/fippm/pathways/
>>
>> http://emergentpublications.com/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
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>>
>>
>> *From:* Vera Vratusa(-Zunjic) [mailto:vera.veritas@...]
>> *Sent:* Monday, 30 June 2014 4:34 PM
>> *To:* Janet McIntyre
>> *Cc:* Dickens, Barbara (Renewal SA); Rebecca La Forgia; Constance
>> Lever-Tracy; Andrew Leader (andrewleader1980@...)
>> *Subject:* Re: Call to self-reflection of sociologists researching
>> social inequality
>>
>>
>>
>> Thank you very much dear Janet on your email response stimulating for
>> further discussion, so PLEASE post it in the form of comment on the
>> discussion part of the ISA RC10 internet forum where the original
>> question/call for self-reflexion of sociologists researching inequality,
>> modes of participation and democracy was posed at
>> http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/page/messages/Session+12+ISA+14,
>> to contribute to broaden and deepen threaded discussion, and for every
>> document already uploaded you are mentioning provide the url so everybody
>> can easily look it up and comment. Hoping you will positively answer my
>> plea, I salute you and other colleagues in the cc, Vera
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 5:47 AM, Janet McIntyre <
>> janet.mcintyre@...> wrote:
>>
>> Hello Vera and All
>>
>> Thanks for posing this question. I am still giving it some thought.
>>
>> ·         Barbara Dickens has a very good paper on the challenges for
>> social engagement and an assessment of different engagement processes which
>> will be loaded soon, she is finalising it today. I have seen the draft.
>>
>> ·         Rebecca has produced an excellent pod cast  on social
>> engagement and trade which I recommend to you  and ask that you listen to
>> her podcast.
>>
>> ·         Andrew Leader is about to commence very important social
>> engagement research for his PhD in South Australia
>>
>> ·         Constance will be sending her paper this week on climate
>> change and the way in which climate change politics changes on a daily
>> basis here in Australia. Last week was particularly interesting as Clive
>> Palmer hosted Al Gore – a move that came out of the blue. The role of on
>> line engagement is important for building coalitions
>>
>>
>>
>> In ( part) response to your question Vera : The role of all social
>> thinkers ( and sociologists) and practitioners to speak out and to *monitor
>> from below* is becoming increasingly important as a way of holding the
>> state and the market to account.  But the problem is that meeting the
>> demands of the market ( by those in employment) consumes so much time that
>> monitoring sometimes does not receive the attention it deserves. In other
>> words the so-called priviledged  academics are not so priviledged in terms
>> of time - days are not long enough!!! More very soon – I have someone
>> knocking at my door.
>>
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Assoc Prof Janet McIntyre
>>
>> Higher Degrees Co-ordinator
>>
>> Politics and Public Policy
>>
>> School of Social and Policy Studies
>>
>>
>>
>> Flinders University
>>
>> GPO Box 2100
>>
>> Adelaide
>>
>> 5001
>>
>> Australia
>>
>> 08 82012075
>>
>> Fax 61 882013350
>>
>> email janet.mcintyre@...
>>
>> CRICOS Provider Code : 0014A
>>
>> https://wellbeing.csem.flinders.edu.au/
>>
>> http://www.socsci.flinders.edu.au/av/pathways/binder.php
>>
>> http://emergentpublications.com/?AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Vera Vratusa(-Zunjic) [mailto:vera.veritas@...]
>> *Sent:* Monday, 30 June 2014 3:38 AM
>> *To:* Azril Bacal; Erik Lindhult; mart.revel@...; Janet McIntyre;
>> mroussis@...; Vera Vratusa; Åke Sandberg; gszell@...;
>> fgaribaldo@...
>>
>>
>> *Subject:* Call to self-reflection of sociologists researching social
>> inequality
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear colleagues organizers and authors of all accepted papers within the
>> ISA RC10 Yokohama 2014 world congress session “Inequality, Modes of
>> Participation and Democracy”(
>> http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/page/messages/Session+12+ISA+14),
>> all interested friends, I hope you agree that it is high time to attempt to
>> realize the idea to finalize synergically our papers through pre-Congress
>> threaded virtual discussion   of their main points of convergence and
>> divergence, enabling both an optimal use of limited time during the live
>> session in Yokohama for those who are coming to the Congress, as well as
>> important post-Conference  planning of continuation of the research of
>> themes of common interest  and eventual common publishing of our findings,
>> irrespective of the fact whether we are coming to Yokohama or not.
>>
>> More concretely, I would be most grateful if you would help me prepare
>> for the live session and post-conference planning, by kindly answering the
>> following question: Do we highly educated sociologists, affiliates of the
>> new small bourgeoisie having contradictory place and role in class division
>> of labor of hired direct producers of theoretical and ideological systems
>> mediating commends of the ruling class towards the exploited and oppressed
>> class, contribute considerably to realization and perpetuation of
>> self-fulfilling prophecies like “Inequality is a basic condition”
>> (description of the session), uncontrolled controlling Panopticon state
>> (Janet), “post-dialogical… professional and scientific mediation”
>> (Martine), “powerful woman” (Magda), “mainstream sociology” (Gyoergy),
>> “adapting to global trends” in Nordic countries (Erik), by choosing the
>> most often neo-Weberian conflict version of class relational social
>> hierarchy and social inequality research paradigm, or neo-Durkhemian
>> moralizing and neo-Parsonian pragmatic stratification gradualist consensual
>> variant of the same research paradigm, as well as closely related practical
>> political class interested standpoints and policies of the reproduction or
>> just attempt at quantitative reform of the systemically contradictory
>> social relations of accumulation of capital on the world scale?
>> I will post the same question on the discussion part of our session at
>> http://isarc10internetforum.wikispaces.com/page/messages/Session+12+ISA+14
>> where you could if you kindly would, post your answers, pose your own
>> questions and / or open a new theme for threaded discussion.
>> I thank you in advance on your help. Best regards, Vera
>>
>>
>>
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