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Published in: TransformationWhat do you think of Transformation?Transformation, openDemocracy’s newest section, turns one year old today. We want your help in evaluating our progress.
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Published in: TransformationThe case for hard: why social transformation demands lots of social frictionHovering above the restrictions of place and culture, detached from democracy, and technocratic to its core, a new...
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Published in: TransformationAmerican politics: beyond angels and demonsIn celebration of July 4, Independence Day in the United States, Transformation asks what lies in store for...
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Published in: TransformationThis is what life is like for an asylum seekerSurvival on £35 a week, the everyday boredom of waiting for a trial, and how the system needs to be humanised: a UK...
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Published in: TransformationShould we fight the system or be the change?Short-term campaigns versus building the beloved community: what are the real costs and benefits of pre-figurative politics?
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Published in: TransformationI am sorry for you, you mean well: trust and history in the making of a better worldWhy do foreign aid and advice so often fail? A transformative social vision means nothing without humility.
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Published in: TransformationEconomic growth: getting beyond fairytale policyAgainst the myth of trickle down economics.
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Published in: TransformationSafe white hands: Hollywood's problem with minorities in filmWhite men make films about the emancipatory struggles of everybody else. The final article in Transformation's...
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Published in: TransformationWhat's liberation got to do with it?Veteran activist Urvashi Vaid on being a utopian in the 1970s, and how gay rights prevailed over liberation...
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Published in: TransformationWhat if the LGBTQ movement fought for prison abolition instead of same sex marriage?"There are lots of poor people who have been convinced that this is the way forward by a bunch of upper class gays...
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Published in: TransformationStephen Sutton and the politics of the deathbed smileIn the political economy of modern dying, Stephen's Sutton's death from cancer - wrapped up in cheery charity...
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Published in: TransformationWhen is civil society a force for social transformation?There are more civil society organizations in the world today than at any other time in history, so why isn't their...
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Published in: TransformationLiberation in the age of the hashtag activistUnder austerity we tweet #bringbackourgirls from the safety of our laptops: anything else is naive. Liberation means...
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Published in: TransformationI was arrested 75 times: how violent policing destroys mental healthPolice harassment drove me into hospital. Why aren't we questioning their tactics? This is the final article in...
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Published in: TransformationCan disruptive power create new social movements?Explosive short-term mobilization and long-term organizing are both important to social transformation. When, where...
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Published in: TransformationListening to the Buddha: how greed, ill-will and delusion are poisoning our institutionsWhen politics and economics are based on the worst aspects of human nature, societies become riddled with inequality...
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Published in: TransformationPanic and the city: I thought I was dying two or three times a weekThere was no apparent trigger to my panic attacks, they were caused by the capitalist city itself. Part of...
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Published in: TransformationBrought together by the Keystone Pipeline fight, "Cowboys and Indians" heal old woundsAs Native Americans and ranchers work together to oppose the Keystone XL pipeline, they're also learning to...
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Published in: TransformationThe struggle to defend La Famantina is forever: how social movements in Argentina are close to changing historyIn La Rioja, Cordoba, Corrientes and elsewhere, activists are defending what they hold in common. In the process,...
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Published in: TransformationHave they healed yet? Western dreams about RwandaShattered societies cannot be mended with pills or analysis or technology or foreign aid. Our need to hear that...
