Presentations

Dr. Vandana Shiva draws attention to the artificial conflict between “economic growth” and “environmental sustainability” that dominates commodity-based economies. Wealth generated by destroying the carrying capacity of the planet is in fact impoverishment:

“We  are living in a global economy of genocide, and it is rooted in these decisions because of the destruction of democracy… One of the costs that this genocidal economics has had is that it has robbed us of our very humanity. It has killed our humanity both by making us so scared all the time of the...

In February 1934, Engelbert Dolfuss’s regime outlawed the Austrian Social Democratic Party and took over its various newspapers, many of which were “normalized” – integrated into a nationalist and anti-socialist, but also anti-Nazi, worldview.

One of these newspapers was the weekly Die Unzufriedene, founded in 1923 under the editorship of Eugenie Brandt to expose the oppression of working-class women – though it soon came to include kitschy serialized novels as well. Now, however, the paper was handed over to a male editor, Fritz Robert Kirchner; its new title, Das Kleine...

• Lead Presenter - Paula B Crockford, MSW Candidate, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
• Co-Presenter - Sarah N. Leo, BA, Renison University College, University of Waterloo
• Co-Presenter - Margaret F. Gibson, Assistant Professor - Social Development Studies and Social Work, Renison University College, University of Waterloo

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