nigini wants to read The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins

The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins
In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the …
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In 1965, the U.S. government helped the Indonesian military kill approximately one million innocent civilians. This was one of the …
"It's almost impossible to look away, or not feel that special kind of guilty excitement in the worst, most greedy and indecent parts of yourself. This is why (...) the cruelest forms of reality TV and tabloid news and talk radio generate such numbers. But that doesn't mean the fascination is good, or even feels good. Aren't there parts of ourselves that are just better left unfed?"
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
Tackling some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine, these stories will change the way …
"Nunca sé si estamos en México o La USA. Los dos tienen los mismos arbustos, hay Solitarios y algunos Peluches. En vez de árboles hay piedras..."
"Parecemos pura caja de fósforos. Palitos encima de otros palitos. Un pastel de gente. Yo soy la candela de arriba. El más chiquito de todos que va encima de la alfombra mágica. Soy Aladino y al fin crucé el desierto."
I think we can build what Ivan Illich called “tools for conviviality”—tools that support “autonomous and creative intercourse among persons, and the intercourse of persons with their environment.” Convivial tools are ones that invite us to be creative and responsible, rather than deferring responsibility to someone else.
— Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider, Darija Medic (7%)
"“migrantes”, como nos llama la gente de acá. Es una palabra que cuesta decir. De “gran” a “tes” hay como una montaña que a mi lengua le cuesta escalar. Es una palabra que cae como agua salada en mi garganta. “Ustedes los migrantes son así”, “esos migrantes son asá”, migrantes, migrantes."
"Trato de recordar a qué olía Mamá Pati, pero no me acuerdo. Es lo que más me emociona de verla otra vez: recuperar su olor."
Life can flourish on rotting logs, as brown’s fungi remind us. If nation-state democracy is rotting, then we might allow ourselves to imagine its erosion not solely as a loss. Rot is metabolism, an act of digestion into something else. If democracy is not a static organism so much as an evolving symbiosis, then we can allow ourselves to search for more of the possible feedback loops that we could sense and act on.
— Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider, Darija Medic (5%)
"Any precise meaning of self-governance is necessarily contextual, depending on who is involved and what kinds of say they seek. Likewise, I claim no fixed definition for democracy. I understand it as always a horizon, a longing for power shared equitably among participants, a destination that moves depending on where one stands."
Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class, and …