One NED [National Endowment for Democracy] grantee was in the spotlight on Sunday night at the Academy Awards when “Burma VJ,” a film about the gutsy video journalists of the Democratic Voice o

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As I’ve said before on several occasions, an index is a mind map, the ‘visualization’ of your study as an alphabetical list. This map is implicit in the index but you can dramatically improve the coherence, balance and completeness of your index and the actual text of your book itself by making this map explicit. In [...]

In this short text the notion of ‘performative’ as according to Butler (1988) is examined and discussed in relation to resistance. With the term performative, Butler is originally referring to gender roles and the way individuals can choose to act the way people expect them to, or not.

Please see the new working paper on "Ambivlalent about rights" regarding Thailand at the Southeast Asian Research Centre's working paper series http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/doc.aspxThe paper explores the conditions that give rise to human rights abuses in Thailand.