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the currently popular discourses of ‘participation’, ‘empowerment’, and ‘democratisation’ … as strategies of governance rest on tutoring people to build their capacities and become self-dependent, responsible citizens who can take care of their own welfare and govern themselves. This provides yet another example of __neo-liberal ‘unloading’ of public services onto empowered and ‘responsibilised’ selves and communities who … are thereby made complicit in the contemporary workings of power and governance.__ (Sharma and Gupta, 2006: 21).

Publics, Politics and Power

Janet Newman and John Clarke

Our idea of God tells us more about ourselves than about Him.

New Seeds of Contemplation

Thomas Merton

And just as Freud was wondering what was intractable about sexuality and what could be satisfying about it, Balibar is asking us to wonder: if violence is the material of politics – the violence created by scarcity and frustration, by inequality and censorship, by exploitation and domination – what kind of civility might be possible?

On Wanting to Change

Adam Phillips

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