Judging Between History and Politics

The politics of accuracy in judging global warming films

In 2007, two documentaries about global warming – An Inconvenient Truth and The Great Global Warming Swindle – became subject to legal and regulatory challenges in the UK. This paper examines the limitations of appeals to accuracy in these two cases. Rather than terminating debate, the discourse of accuracy engenders a representational regress which serves only to generate further controversy. ...

Inserting politics and history in conservation.

“On 2 October 2012, birthday of the Mahatma (Gandhi), Sargun Masomait, a 35-year-old tribal woman . . . began marching toward New Delhi from Gwalior. She was part of a group of 40,000 people – tribals, Dalits, nomads, nowhere people with no land of their own, the wretched of the Indian earth, out to claim their dignity; or to reclaim it” (Pandey 2012). The March of the Landless led to the signi...

History, politics, and practice in knowledge construction

perceptions of Vygotsky’s cultural-historical theory – from scarce knowledge of it, to seeing it as one among many accounts of social factors in child development, and eventually, to a wide acknowledgment that this theory provides a unique perspective on human development and implicates profound changes in many fields of psychology and education. As this approach is rapidly gaining in popularit...

Toward an Integrative Jurisprudence: Politics, Morality, History

Wendy Brown : Politics Out of History

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