Showing posts with label Mark Butler. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mark Butler. Show all posts
Friday, 19 September 2014
Wednesday, 20 July 2011
Living Learning
Click here to download the Living Learning booklet in pdf.
Living Learning
Just two days before Abahlali baseMjondolo was violently attacked in Kennedy Road, the movement was in celebratory mood as hundreds of shackdwellers crowded into the eMmause Community Hall on Heritage Day, 24th September, for the launch of a new booklet, Living Learning.
Living Learning
Just two days before Abahlali baseMjondolo was violently attacked in Kennedy Road, the movement was in celebratory mood as hundreds of shackdwellers crowded into the eMmause Community Hall on Heritage Day, 24th September, for the launch of a new booklet, Living Learning.
Thursday, 23 June 2011
UFrantz Fanon waziwa kakhulu njengomunye wezinculabuchopho zomzabalazo wenkululeko eAfrika
Mark Butler, David Ntseng & Richard Pithouse
Wazalelwa esiqhingini sase Martinique ngo1925. IMartinique yayibuswa ngaphansi kwengcindezelo yombuso waseFrance. Abantu abahlala khona kwakungabokudabuka eMartinique, kanye nabase Afrika ababelethwe ngaphansi kohlelo lokuthumba abantu base Afrika benziwe izigqila kanye nabokudabuka eNdiya ababelethelwe ukuzotshala umoba eMartinique ukuze uthunyelwe eFrance.
Wazalelwa esiqhingini sase Martinique ngo1925. IMartinique yayibuswa ngaphansi kwengcindezelo yombuso waseFrance. Abantu abahlala khona kwakungabokudabuka eMartinique, kanye nabase Afrika ababelethwe ngaphansi kohlelo lokuthumba abantu base Afrika benziwe izigqila kanye nabokudabuka eNdiya ababelethelwe ukuzotshala umoba eMartinique ukuze uthunyelwe eFrance.
Mark Butler introduces: Richard Pithouse, "Fidelity to Fanon"
| Pithouse crisply extracts key features of Fanon's philosophy to illuminate aspects of our contemporary situation. Fanon's commitment to the struggle of his day against colonialism didn't blind him to the insight that "while revolutionary nationalism defeated colonialism it has failed to create a human prospect". Fanon saw "the moment when the 'liberating lava' of the great anti-colonial struggles was diverted as the people were expelled from history, 'sent back to their caves' by leaders who 'instead of welcoming the expression of popular discontentment' and the 'free flow of ideas' proclaim that the vocation of their people is to obey". |
Politics at stake: a note on stakeholder analysis
Mark Butler and David Ntseng, July 2008, Church Land Programme (There is more writing by David Ntseng here.)
People in government, business, and political and civil society organisations routinely talk about 'stakeholders'. They do exercises in stakeholder analysis to inform their 'strategic planning'. Invariably they use the stakeholder language to advertise claims about the inclusivity of their thinking, their processes, and their practice. The organisation we work with was asked recently to prepare an input for a 'stakeholder analysis' for a collegial NGO and this forced us to reflect on why we were so uncomfortable with the very idea. We presented some of our thinking as the basis for discussions at the NGO meeting. It was good that there was a mix of people there including grassroots militants as well as civil society employees. The note below includes some thoughts we had prepared, as well as things we learned from people at the meeting. It outlines why we conclude that the stakeholder discourse, and the practices that go along with it, are in fact part of an order that functions to exclude and silence.
People in government, business, and political and civil society organisations routinely talk about 'stakeholders'. They do exercises in stakeholder analysis to inform their 'strategic planning'. Invariably they use the stakeholder language to advertise claims about the inclusivity of their thinking, their processes, and their practice. The organisation we work with was asked recently to prepare an input for a 'stakeholder analysis' for a collegial NGO and this forced us to reflect on why we were so uncomfortable with the very idea. We presented some of our thinking as the basis for discussions at the NGO meeting. It was good that there was a mix of people there including grassroots militants as well as civil society employees. The note below includes some thoughts we had prepared, as well as things we learned from people at the meeting. It outlines why we conclude that the stakeholder discourse, and the practices that go along with it, are in fact part of an order that functions to exclude and silence.
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