When I was learning about South African apartheid, its (formal) collapse, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions, I remember learning about a very telling story about what aspects of apartheid the TRC process concentrated on, and what it avoided. One day, at the time that TRC’s were hearing [...]
Posts Tagged ‘land’
October 2nd, 2009 - 10:19 pm § in Commentary
Nepal: Land of the Landless, Government of Non-Governments
In Hebrew, Nepal is still referred to as a “poor country,” but in English development practitioners have long ago adopted the much nicer sounding term “impoverished.” Progress seems to have come to the very discourse of progress itself. But in my bilingual program Tevel Be’Tzedek (The Eart[...]