Author: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research / Political Geography: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 05-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: This dossier on the global pandemic focuses on three main elements: the structural features that resulted in our present crisis (from policies of austerity to the increasing wave of financialization), the most dire and immediate needs for the global working class, and a brief introduction to the idea of the Universal Basic Income (UBI) – including some critiques of the concept and some ways to sharpen the way we think about it.
Topic:: Economics, Universal Basic Income, Pandemic, and COVID-19
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 03-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: This dossier offers a sparkling introduction to Fanon’s life and work, stressing the contemporary political traction of his radical humanism, and noting that his work carries an ‘irrepressible openness to the universal’ and an axiomatic commitment to ‘recognize the open door of every consciousness’. It examines, in particular, Fanon’s contribution as a theorist of praxis committed to move beyond the ontological and spatial ordering of oppression and undertake a form of insurgent and democratic praxis in which ‘a mutual current of enlightenment and enrichment’ is developed between protagonists from different social locations.
Topic:: Political Theory, Social Order, and Biography
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 01-2020
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The two terms that define our epoch are ‘crises’ and ‘protests’. The former are an outcome of a world system that has exhausted itself, while the latter are a cry towards the future. Our January dossier is dedicated to offering an assessment of the conjuncture – where is the world today? This year opens up with a detailed consideration of austerity, the bipolar world order, neoliberalism’s exhaustion, and a planet of protest.
Topic:: Neoliberalism, Protests, Social Order, and Political Crisis
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 05-2019
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The modern global economy, essentially guarantees the continued expatriation of profits and natural assets from resource-rich but capital-poor countries, facilitating the enrichment of the global economic elite and Multinational Corporations (MNC), at the expense of developing countries. To elaborate on the themes of corporate plunder, resource nationalism and people-centered forms of resource management, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research spoke with Gyekye Tanoh, head of the Political Economy Unit at the Third World Network-Africa based in Accra (Ghana).
Topic:: Economics, Globalization, Natural Resources, Multinational Corporations, and Profit
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 02-2019
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: The New Intellectual provides a short assessment of Castro’s Battle of Ideas and the task that lies before new intellectuals in our current political context in order to build a world where our productive capacity enriches all of us. It is essential that we participate in the conversation about what a transformed society would look like. Once you have organised people to push for a new world system, what is the policy framework that needs to be adopted? It is here that intellectuals must put their heart and soul into action.
Topic:: Civil Society, Intelligence, and World System
Political Geography:: Global Focus

Author:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Publication Date:: 03-2018
Content Type:: Working Paper
Institution:: Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
Abstract:: Water is a class issue. Its distribution has never been equitable. What the residents of Cape Town will struggle with is what more than one billion residents of informal settlements across the planet deal with each day. They too have little access to piped water and no sanitation system. They have to fetch water from afar and have to rely upon open fields to relieve themselves. What has already a afflicted the very poorest on the planet has now become a grave peril as it inflicts itself upon a major city. Our Dossier #2 looks closely at cities without water.
Topic:: Natural Resources, Water, Urban, and Cities
Political Geography:: Global Focus

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