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Refereed paper presented at the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Sydney, 28th to 30th September. This paper explores the contributions that struggles over knowledge are making to theglobal justice movement, with a focus on the digital liberties movement and the Indianmovement against genetically modified crops. These ...

To start off: * They Might Be Giants are lovely, * I am delighted that TMBG are putting out children's albums. I heartily encourage all bands to put out children's albums.   Okay. Got that out of the way. So, the latest TMBG kids album is called Here Comes Science, and it looks like a lot of fun. If I had littles, there's a pretty good ...

  There's a fascinating podcast over on Against the Grain about Darwin, Evolution, and Slavery. James Moore argues that Darwin's research into natural selection was motivated by his abhorrence of slavery. I won't blog about it at length as I'm grappling with chapter rewrites and a long to-do list, but it raised a few thoughts fI wanted to ...

  I've recently finished the edits for my first chapter, which includes a reasonable large section on knowledge and power. I have also recently had a number of deeply frustrating debates about 'science' with friends and acquaintances. (I suspect that the two are not unconnected.) I'm writing this in part because I feel like I'm still working ...

Asha Achuthan has an interesting series of posts over at the CIS website, a work in progress that she writes will:lay down the historical and geo-political contexts for the use of technology in Indiaengage with existing concepts like context, postcoloniality, organicity, and exclusion that have come into use with the critical responses to ...

* Debate continues on the use of FOSS at UWA, and I want to do another post to engage with some interesting issues people have brought up in the comments thread and through email, but I'm taking a break for a post or two to talk about some other things I've been reading.  A large part of the theoretical basis of my thesis relates to ...