<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Nick Buxton</b> <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:nicholasbuxton@gmail.com">nicholasbuxton@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br>Date: Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:28 AM<br>Subject: [NetworkedLabour] Fwd: State of Power 2016: essays on democracy by Varoufakis, Bello and others<br>To: <a href="mailto:networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org">networkedlabour@lists.contrast.org</a><br><br><br>
  

    
  
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    Hi folks, There are some good essays in here that I am sure will be
    of interest to folk in this list. Best wishes, Nick<br>
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            <td>State of Power 2016: essays on democracy by Varoufakis,
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            <td>Thu, 21 Jan 2016 09:33:32 +0100</td>
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            <th nowrap valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">From: </th>
            <td>Transnational Institute <a href="mailto:news@tni.org" target="_blank">&lt;news@tni.org&gt;</a></td>
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            <td>Transnational Institute <a href="mailto:news@tni.org" target="_blank">&lt;news@tni.org&gt;</a></td>
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            <th nowrap valign="BASELINE" align="RIGHT">To: </th>
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                                          Power 2016 report<br>
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                                      <p>TNI
                                        is proud to present its
                                        fifth annual State of Power 2016
                                        report. This year we  explore
                                        the
                                        intersect of power
                                        and democracy, with essays by
                                        prominent and new activists and
                                        academics
                                        - including an exclusive
                                        interview with former Greek
                                        Finance Minister,
                                        Yanis Varoufakis. See a summary
                                        of all the essays below or
                                        download the
                                        full report  <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/state-of-power-2016" target="_blank">here
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                                                        <img style="border:0pt none;display:block;max-width:355px" src="https://www.tni.org/files/thumbnail-images/thumbnail_state-of-power-2016-chapter1.png" alt=" " height="250" width="250"></a>
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                                                          power and
                                                          sovereignty in
                                                          today’s Europe</span></p>
                                                      <p>Former
                                                        Greek Finance
                                                        Minister <span style="font-style:italic">Yanis
                                                          Varoufakis</span>
                                                        argues that the
                                                        nation-state is
                                                        dead and
                                                        democracy in the
                                                        EU has been
                                                        replaced by a
                                                        toxic
                                                        algorithmic
                                                        depoliticisation
                                                        that, if it is
                                                        not confronted,
                                                        will lead to
                                                        depression,
                                                        disintegration
                                                        and possibly
                                                        war. He calls
                                                        for a launch of
                                                        a
                                                        pan-European
                                                        movement to
                                                        democratise
                                                        Europe, to save
                                                        it before it is
                                                        too late. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/democracy-power-and-sovereignty-in-todays-europe" target="_blank">Read the interview »</a></p>
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                                                          is dead: Long
                                                          live
                                                          democracies!</span></p>
                                                      <p><em>An
                                                          introduction
                                                          to State of
                                                          Power 2016 by
                                                          Hilary
                                                          Wainright.</em>
                                                        Building
                                                        a real democracy
                                                        in the face of
                                                        corporate and
                                                        financial power
                                                        will
                                                        require a
                                                        rethinking of
                                                        power and
                                                        agency,
                                                        unleashing the
                                                        creative,
                                                        experimental,
                                                        knowledge-sharing
                                                        and emancipatory
                                                        approaches of
                                                        social
                                                        movements.<br>
                                                        <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/democracy-is-dead-long-live-democracies" target="_blank">Read more »</a></p>
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                                                          and its danger
                                                          to
                                                          Democracy</span></p>
                                                      <p>We
                                                        are increasingly
                                                        entering a world
                                                        where gatherings
                                                        such as Davos
                                                        are
                                                        not laughable
                                                        billionaire
                                                        playgrounds, but
                                                        rather the
                                                        future of global
                                                        governance. <a name="-1120282087_ " style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/article/davos-and-its-danger-to-democracy" target="_blank">Read more »</a></p>
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                                                          does the World
                                                          Economic Forum
                                                          really
                                                          represent?</span></p>
                                                      <p>TNI
                                                        takes a close
                                                        look at the
                                                        World Economic
                                                        Forum’s Board to
                                                        see who they
                                                        represent, their
                                                        economic
                                                        interests and
                                                        political
                                                        beliefs. Might
                                                        this
                                                        be the future of
                                                        global
                                                        governance? <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/publication/who-does-the-world-economic-forum-really-represent" target="_blank">Read briefing »</a> |  <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="http://davosclass.tni.org/" target="_blank">View Infographic »</a> </p>
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                                                global
                                                post-democratic order</a>
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                                              Phillips </td>
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                                      <p>In
                                        the era of globalisation, the
                                        steady removal of
                                        decision-making from
                                        democratic chambers by EU elites
                                        is serving as a blueprint for
                                        post-democratic governance
                                        around the world. Progressives
                                        must be
                                        ambitious and start putting
                                        forward ideas for a democratic
                                        world
                                        government as a viable
                                        alternative. <a name="-1120282087_
                                          " style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22744" target="_blank">Read more »</a></p>
                                      
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                                                as
                                                ideology: challenging
                                                expert political power</a>
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                                            <td>Elaine
                                              Coburn </td>
                                          </tr>
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                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>Economics
often
                                          appears boring, but this
                                          narrow, mostly male dominated
                                          profession
                                          decides on matters intimately
                                          bound up with questions of
                                          power,
                                          democracy and vital matters of
                                          health, education, social
                                          welfare and
                                          the environment. Meaningful
                                          democracy requires the
                                          participation of
                                          ordinary people in economic
                                          debates, so that they can
                                          shape their own
                                          lives in solidarity with
                                          others.  <a name="-1120282087_ " style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22746" target="_blank">Read more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                                tyranny
                                                of global finance</a> </td>
                                          </tr>
                                          <tr>
                                            <td>Walden
                                              Bello </td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>Against
all
                                          expectations, financial
                                          capital has emerged even
                                          stronger after the
                                          financial crisis having staved
                                          off regulation and putting the
                                          blame on
                                          public spending. But its
                                          victory is likely a pyrrhic
                                          one as a new
                                          crisis looms, one in which the
                                          global public could learn from
                                          victories
                                          such as reforms in Iceland and
                                          finally reassert its control
                                          over
                                          money. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22747/" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a href="https://www.tni.org/node/22749/" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Multi-stakeholderism:
a
                                                corporate push for a new
                                                form of global
                                                governance</a> </td>
                                          </tr>
                                          <tr>
                                            <td>Harris
                                              Gleckman</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>The
                                          World Economic Forum’s Global
                                          Redesign Initiative is perhaps
                                          the best
                                          reflection of how corporations
                                          and other elites envision the
                                          future of
                                          governance. It calls for
                                          marginalising
                                          intergovernmental
                                          decision-making with a system
                                          of multi-stakeholder
                                          governance, but what
                                          does this mean for democracy,
                                          accountability and the rule of
                                          law? <a name="-1120282087_eqbal-ahmad" style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22749/" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22750" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Case
                                                study:
                                                nutrition and food – how
                                                government for and of
                                                the people became
                                                government for and by
                                                the TNCs</a> </td>
                                          </tr>
                                          <tr>
                                            <td>Flavio
                                              Luiz Schieck Valente</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>Advocating
multistakeholderism
                                          in the area of food and
                                          nutrition has been one of
                                          the main strategies for
                                          advancing a pro-corporate
                                          agricultural agenda
                                          that results in dispossession
                                          of small-scale farmers. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22750" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22751" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">“To
                                                change
                                                the heart and soul”: How
                                                elites contained the
                                                global climate justice
                                                movement</a> </td>
                                          </tr>
                                          <tr>
                                            <td>Herbert
                                              Docena</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>Corporate
executives
                                          and climate skeptics that
                                          mobilise against strong
                                          international climate change
                                          agreements have rightly been
                                          the focus of
                                          attention of many people
                                          concerned about the climate
                                          crisis. But
                                          another group of elites—those
                                          who actually believe in
                                          climate change
                                          —may paradoxically have done
                                          more to block effective
                                          solutions to the
                                          crisis. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22751" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22734" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Precarity,
power
                                                and democracy</a> </td>
                                          </tr>
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                                            <td>Tom
                                              George</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>The
                                          increasingly precarious nature
                                          of work and life poses a
                                          serious threat
                                          to democracy as it undermines
                                          our social fabric, atomizes
                                          individuals
                                          and seeks to personalize blame
                                          for economic insecurity. What
                                          potential
                                          is there for ‘the precariat’
                                          to become a new kind of social
                                          movement
                                          with a collective vision to
                                          reimagine contemporary life? <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22734" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22730" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Freedom
technologists
                                                and the future of global
                                                justice</a> </td>
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                                            <td>John
                                              Postill</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>In
                                          the wake of early 2010s
                                          upheavals such as the Arab
                                          Spring, Spain’s
                                          indignados, or the global
                                          Occupy movement, many
                                          commentators were quick
                                          to either invoke the presumed
                                          tech-savvy of ‘digital
                                          natives’ or the
                                          purported ‘cyber-utopianism’
                                          of net freedom advocates who
                                          supported the
                                          protests. But what role have
                                          internet freedom activists –
                                          or ‘freedom
                                          technologists’ – played in
                                          ongoing struggles for
                                          progressive political
                                          change around the world and
                                          how can the pursuit of liberty
                                          be combined
                                          with the struggle for social
                                          justice? <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22730" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22732" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">The
                                                open
                                                source city as the
                                                transnational democratic
                                                future</a> </td>
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                                            <td>Bernardo
                                              Gutierrez</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>Experiences
and
                                          experiments in Spain, Brazil,
                                          Istanbul and other cities
                                          suggest
                                          that a transnational
                                          municipalism, based on
                                          concepts of an open source
                                          city (free online tools and
                                          active citizen participation),
                                          has the
                                          potential to regenerate
                                          democracy and build a
                                          geopolitics of the
                                          commons against
                                          neoliberalism. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22732" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_ " href="https://www.tni.org/node/22728" style="color:rgb(64,128,194);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">Power
                                                in
                                                India: radical pathways</a>
                                            </td>
                                          </tr>
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                                            <td>Ashish
                                              Kothari &amp; Pallav Das</td>
                                          </tr>
                                        </tbody>
                                      </table>
                                      <p><span>India
has
                                          strongly entrenched power
                                          hierarchies that have
                                          historical roots
                                          but have also been exacerbated
                                          by inequalities and injustices
                                          that have
                                          deepened with economic
                                          globalisation. However
                                          grassroots political
                                          movements are emerging in
                                          India that could signal a
                                          gradual shift to
                                          direct or radical democracy,
                                          coupled with making
                                          representative
                                          democracy more accountable and
                                          ecologically sustainable. <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/node/22728" target="_blank">Read
                                            more »</a></span></p>
                                      
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                                            <td style="padding:0pt 0pt 4px;font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:24px;line-height:30px"><a name="-1120282087_es1"></a> En
                                              español </td>
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                                                          <td style="padding:10px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(64,128,194);font-size:16px;line-height:23px"><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/node/22738" target="_blank"> <img style="border:0pt none;display:block;max-width:355px" src="https://www.tni.org/files/thumbnail-images/thumbnail_state-of-power-2016-chapter1.png" alt=" " height="250" width="250"></a>
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                                                          <p style="margin:0pt 0pt 9px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(64,128,194);font-size:6.923px"><span style="font-size:24px;line-height:30px">Democracia,
                                                          poder y
                                                          soberanía en
                                                          la Europa de
                                                          hoy</span></p>
                                                          <p>En
                                                          2015, Yanis
                                                          Varoufakis,
                                                          exministro
                                                          griego de
                                                          Finanzas, se
                                                          enfrentó a
                                                          las poderosas
                                                          instituciones
                                                          europeas. En
                                                          esta
                                                          entrevista
                                                          comparte sus
                                                          experiencias y
                                                          habla sobre
                                                          las amenazas
                                                          que se ciernen
                                                          sobre Europa
                                                          hoy
                                                          en día, así
                                                          como posibles
                                                          formas para
                                                          democratizarla.<a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/es/publicacion/democracia-poder-y-soberania-en-la-europa-de-hoy" target="_blank">Leer más »</a></p>
                                                          </td>
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                                                    </td>
                                                  </tr>
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                                            </td>
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                                                  <tr>
                                                    <td bgcolor="#f0ede7" valign="top">
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                                                          <td style="padding:10px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(64,128,194);font-size:16px;line-height:23px"><a href="https://www.tni.org/en/node/22736" target="_blank"> <img style="border:0pt none;display:block;max-width:366px" src="https://www.tni.org/files/thumbnail_davos_ties.png" alt=" " height="250" width="250"></a>
                                                          </td>
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                                                          <td style="padding:20px 20px 0pt;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(64,128,194);font-size:16px;line-height:23px">
                                                          <p style="margin:0pt 0pt 9px;font-family:Georgia,serif;color:rgb(64,128,194);font-size:6.923px"><span style="font-size:24px;line-height:30px">¿A
                                                          quién
                                                          representa
                                                          realmente el
                                                          Foro Económico
                                                          Mundial?</span></p>
                                                          <p>El
                                                          TNI analiza de
                                                          cerca la junta
                                                          directiva del
                                                          Foro Económico
                                                          Mundial para
                                                          intentar
                                                          entender a
                                                          quién
                                                          representan
                                                          sus
                                                          integrantes y
                                                          cuáles son sus
                                                          intereses
                                                          económicos y
                                                          convicciones
                                                          políticas.
                                                          ¿Será este el
                                                          futuro de
                                                          la gobernanza
                                                          global? <a style="color:rgb(64,128,194)" href="https://www.tni.org/en/node/22736" target="_blank">Leer
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