jon,

again, i am VERY apologetic about my post on glen's blog.

i will spend some proper time engaging "with" your work.

take care

C
C | 05 Dec, 2005 - 1:57 pm | #

Don't worry about it, C.

And comment here if you want to, if you find stuff that interests you or that you find useful. Otherwise, no problem, either.
Jon | Homepage | 05 Dec, 2005 - 3:56 pm | #

I just finished a book by a former ambassador to Nicaragua. It was disgusting how much the US was able to influence the electoral (or not) politics of that country. I made some comments here:
http://ourlatinamerica.blogspot....-change- in.html
Taylor Kirk | Homepage | 06 Dec, 2005 - 1:49 pm | #

hey jon, know any references for critiques of ngo's, neocolonialism and the like?
C | 06 Dec, 2005 - 3:18 pm | #

Thanks for the link, Taylor, and I know I owe you an email...

C, not off the top of my head, no... unless you include my forthcoming attack on the concept of civil society. There must be more on this. The quotation that comes to mind is Hardt and Negri's barb that NGOs are the "mendicant orders of Empire."
Jon | Homepage | 06 Dec, 2005 - 4:49 pm | #

thanks anyway Jon. altho i don't understand what Hardt and Negri mean by that phrase lol. mendicant?

when your "discussion" of civil society arriving?
C | 06 Dec, 2005 - 5:59 pm | #

oh, ok. mendicant = a beggar. a bit bloody harsh, albeit possibly true.
C | 06 Dec, 2005 - 6:00 pm | #

Just stumbled across the blog, but thought I'd jump in and recommend Paul Farmer's "Pathologies of Power" for some trenchant critiques of (specific aspects of) the human rights/NGO complex.
Kate | 14 Dec, 2005 - 2:26 pm | #

Thanks for the recommendation, Kate. The book looks interesting.
Jon | Homepage | 07 Jan, 2006 - 5:10 pm | #