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12 Nov

The Economist has a nice article on immigration in Germany. If you Buy Valium 10mg Cheap can recall, Angela Merkel recently said that multiculturalism has utterly failed in Germany. This was following the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap furore that was raised by the publication of a book that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap claimed that immigrants and muslims were causing the downfall of Germany. The book was written by Thilo Sarazzin, a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap member of the board of the German Bundesbank. He was subsequently forced off the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap board of the Bundesbank. (See the Economist article for a recap of the main issues.)

What some of the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap people I have spoken with are scared of is that this Buy Valium 10mg Cheap might yet become a major political issue, leading, for instance to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the creation of an acceptable right wing party. (There are the crazies, like NPD, the neo-Nazi party, but nobody really takes them seriously.) The fear is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap that if Ms Merkel is unable to contain the discussions surrounding immigration within her party, it Buy Valium 10mg Cheap is possible that some members might decide to go with the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap general sentiment of anti-immigration and form a political party that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap retains the basic economic policies of the right of centre CDU, but adds to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap it anti-immigration rhetorics and policies. A party like that, I am Buy Valium 10mg Cheap afraid, will be appealing to certain segments of the German middle-class.

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2 Nov

Jonathan Rosenthal, The Economist’s European finance correspondent writes about my (for now) adopted city, Berlin:

Iconoclasm is not just the preserve of the rebellious poor. In Berlin’s opera houses—there are still three, despite the broken budget—audiences are Buy Valium 10mg Cheap known to boo and hiss. When I went to a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap performance directed by Nigel Kennedy earlier this year at the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap Berliner Philharmonie, which was beautiful if unconventional, I found people brazenly getting up from Buy Valium 10mg Cheap their seats to leave before the end. That may have Buy Valium 10mg Cheap been because the bad boy of Vivaldi had upset their sense ofOrdnung by discarding the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap programme. Yet a few months later the audience almost flattened Daniel Barenboim in their rush to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap leave the concert hall before him.

For all this, Berlin is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap a very human city and easy to love. A stranger once ran two blocks to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap hand me a tiny shoe that my infant son had Buy Valium 10mg Cheap thrown from his stroller. When my wife got into a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap taxi with a child who was upset, the driver started singing to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap calm him down. And the city’s many Kindercafés provide a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap remarkably grown-up environment to drink good coffee while the children head for Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the communal pile of toys in a sandpit. Berlin’s suburbs are Buy Valium 10mg Cheap surprisingly compact and easy to get around. London, it is often said, is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap a city of villages, but that has more to do with its origins than Buy Valium 10mg Cheap a real sense of kinship. Berlin really is a city of neighbourhoods. Most have Buy Valium 10mg Cheap been built with a village-like communalism in mind. Park benches are Buy Valium 10mg Cheap set close to one another, so that strangers can talk. And sharing tables in restaurants is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap common, as long as you remember to make the ritual enquiry, “Is this free?”

You come across thoughtfulness in unexpected places. I saw a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap pierced, tattooed and black-clad young man waiting for the lights to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap change before crossing an empty road. “It sets a bad example for children,” he told me when Buy Valium 10mg Cheap I wondered why he, of all people, should be so obedient. In this Buy Valium 10mg Cheap tangle of contradictions, the thing that perplexes me most is the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap seeming inability of Berliners to form a queue. In this regard there are Buy Valium 10mg Cheap two sorts of Berliners. Some of my German friends take umbrage at the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap notion that they are pushy. Yet when quizzed they confess that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap if confronted with, say, a single queue in front of two ATM machines, they would unthinkingly walk straight to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the front to form a second line. The second sort of Berliner tells me that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap they have noticed when travelling abroad how foreigners line up and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap often have gates and ropes to guide them. Yet they find this Buy Valium 10mg Cheap infantilising and an assault on liberty. “Free people”, one tells me, “don’t queue.” I finally felt I had Buy Valium 10mg Cheap gone native late one night at the main railway station when Buy Valium 10mg Cheap I pushed past a throng of people waiting for taxis and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap hailed the first one I saw. As I got in I overheard the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap wistful complaint of a German couple who had been waiting. “Why can’t we be more like the English?” one of them said. I shuddered.

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2 Oct

From a commentary on Owen Barder’s comment on Bob Zoellick’s speech on development discourse:

… if we really want to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap democratise the development discourse we should also publish, say, the minutes of Bank board meetings and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap other relevant internal documents to understand how ideas and statistics are Buy Valium 10mg Cheap translated into ‘reality’ through powerful interlocutors like the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap Bank and its staff. In other words, ‘democratising development’ is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap too important to be left to economists and large aid organisations alone; critical sociological and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap ethnographic research on the ‘life of numbers’ is needed as well.

If you Buy Valium 10mg Cheap knew where the commentator, Tobias Denksus, whose blog I just discovered today, is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap coming from, you would understand his desire for a discourse that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap aims to unpack black boxes like ‘development data’. This is from the summary of a PhD dissertation Generic Ambien Identifier he is currently finishing:

Secular rituals in peace research, policy-making, consultancy and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap project management have lead to what Knottnerus describes as the ‘formation, reproduction and transformation of social structure’ away from Buy Valium 10mg Cheap critical aims of transforming societies through peaceful means to ritualised economy around virtual knowledge products. This growing industry, intertwined with the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap broader development industry has fostered the emergence and maintenance of ritualized spaces. Studying these rituals in workshops, meetings and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap conferences and complementing it by other ethnographic research helps us to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap understand better the micro-dynamics of what happens when the peacebuilding discourse or Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the peace industry come to a place like post-conflict Kathmandu or Buy Valium 10mg Cheap work around knowledge management in German development agencies. In Germany rituals and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap performances are often employed to maintain the perception of grounding in the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap peace movement of the 20th century and to maintain corporatistic ties between civil society, academia and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap policy-makers, de facto ignoring the global debates and local realities.

You definitely should check out his blog. Reminds me of a book titled The Paternalism of Partnership, by Maria Eriksson Baaz.

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26 Oct

From the BBC: A group of rich Germans has Buy Valium 10mg Cheap launched a petition calling for the government to make wealthy people pay higher taxes.

The group say they have Buy Valium 10mg Cheap more money than they need, and the extra revenue could fund economic and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap social programmes to aid Germany’s economic recovery.

Germany could raise 100bn euros (£91bn) if the richest people paid a 5% wealth tax for two years, they say.

The petition has Buy Valium 10mg Cheap 44 signatories so far, and will be presented to newly re-elected Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The group say the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap financial crisis is leading to an increase in unemployment, poverty and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap social inequality.

Simply donating money to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap deal with the problems is not enough, they want a change in the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap whole approach.

“The path out of the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap crisis must be paved with massive investment in ecology, education and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap social justice,” they say in the petition.

Those who had “made a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap fortune through inheritance, hard work, hard-working, successful entrepreneurship, or investment” should contribute by paying more to alleviate the crisis.

The man behind the petition, Dieter Lehmkuhl, told Berlin’s Tagesspiegel that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap there were 2.2 million people in Germany with a fortune of more than Buy Valium 10mg Cheap 500,000 euros.

If they all paid the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap tax for two years, Germany could raise 100bn euros to fund ecological programmes, education and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap social projects, said the retired doctor and heir to a brewery.

Signatory Peter Vollmer told AFP news agency he was supporting the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap proposal because he had inherited “a lot of money I do not need”.

He said the tax would be “a viable and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap socially acceptable way out of the flagrant budget crisis”.

The group held a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap demonstration in Berlin on Wednesday to draw attention to their plans, throwing fake banknotes into the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap air.

Mr Vollmer said it was “really strange that so few people came”.

We woke up this Buy Valium 10mg Cheap morning to learn that the new center-right coalition of Ms Merkel’s CDU and Mr Westerwelle’s FDP have decided to cut taxes.

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23 Oct

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22 Oct

Yesterday I read a journal article on the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap hypersexualisation of blacks and the redefinition of citizenship in Germany after the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap fall of the Berlin Wall. In plain English, German women saw black men as exotic consumables – blacks here meaning both Africans and African American GIs. But the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap experiences in both cases are radically different. It is a really interesting article that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap tries to cover the two different accounts. I’ve learnt quite a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap bit about this from conversations with Africans who were in Berlin when Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the Wall came down.

A friend sent me this story today about a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap German journalist who goes undercover to discover life as a black person in Germany. Still trying to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap decide whether I should watch the movie he made from the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap experience. Wondering why I can’t decide? Read the Der Spiegel article for yourself.

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14 Oct

From Deutsche Welle Order Ativan Mastercard: Iranian filmmaker Narges Kalhor has Buy Valium 10mg Cheap applied for asylum in Germany after her visit to a film festival. The move is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap likely to ruffle feathers in Tehran, as her father is the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap media advisor to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Narges Kalhor decided at the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap last minute that she would not return to Tehran after showing her film at a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap human rights film festival in Nuremberg.

“I had definitely planned to go back,” Kalhor told the Financial Times Deutschland (FTD) on Wednesday. But shortly before she was due at the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap airport, a phone call from Iran let her know she would probably be Buy Valium 10mg Cheap arrested upon her arrival in Tehran. She therefore decided to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap apply for asylum in the southern German city.

Kalhor’s father Mehdi is said to be one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s closest confidants. The former documentary film producer has Buy Valium 10mg Cheap advised the Iranian president on cultural issues since August 2005.

Iran’s Kafkaesque penal system

Kalhor attended the Nuremberg festival with her short film “The Rake.” It is based on Franz Kafka’s short story “In the Penal Colony” but the story is transported to Iran.

In “The Rake” people’s crimes are etched into their skin

In the film, a machine called “the rake” stands in a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap deserted cellar vault. It punishes convicted prisoners by carving the commandment they had Buy Valium 10mg Cheap disobeyed into their bodies. The only possible escape from this procedure is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap death – there is no chance of defense.

“This film reflects our emotional situation in Iran,” Kalhor told the FTD. “I hope viewers will recognize the parallels.” Kalhor both wrote the script and directed the film.

Nuremberg’s “Perspective” is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the first German festival to be dedicated to the subject of human rights. This year, the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap program included a special series on films from Iran.

News spread quickly

Kalhor told news agency AFP that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap she came to the event to establish contacts.

“This is important for me as a filmmaker,” Kalhor said. She hadn’t expected her participation in “Perspective” to spread so quickly. After all, this was “a small festival in a small town,” she said.

After her arrival in Germany, her mother told her that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap news about the film festival was available through the Internet in Iran. After the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap first screening of the 10-minute film, her sister had called her to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap tell her: “They’re asking where you are. It’s better if you stay in Germany,” Kalhor said.

Mehdi Kalhor confirmed to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap the Iranian Mehr news agency that his daughter had applied for Buy Valium 10mg Cheap asylum, but said he did not know what her reasons were. He said he had Buy Valium 10mg Cheap not seen his daughter since he divorced his wife a year ago. His daughter had Buy Valium 10mg Cheap been exploited by “enemies of the country” for propaganda purposes, he said.

“I have had political problems with my father for some time,” Kalhor told AFP.

Kalhor took part in the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap mass protests in Iran this summer following the controversial presidential elections. Though none of her friends died, some were arrested and Buy Valium 10mg Cheap treated poorly, she said.

“From the Buy Valium 10mg Cheap moment of arrest until their release, they were treated violently,” she told the FTD.

The 25-year-old is Buy Valium 10mg Cheap currently in a refugee center near Nuremberg, festival spokesman Matthias Rued said.

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5 May

Not long after I got to Germany – close to three years ago – someone called me and, among other things, we talked a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap bit about what I was doing in Germany. This is a Buy Valium 10mg Cheap rough presentation of an interesting part of the conversation.

The Other Person aka TOP: So, what exactly are you studying?
Me: Anthropology.
TOP: Like Anthology of poems? (Part of the legacy of British rule is that we have to study English poems that are compiled in anthologies in secondary schools.)
Me: No.
TOP: Oh, sorry, that Buy Valium 10mg Cheap is different from anthropology. So, what exactly is anthropology?
Me: Ehm… It is the study of cultures and societies.
TOP: So you are studying the German culture and society?
Me: No, I am Buy Valium 10mg Cheap not. I will actually be coming back to Nigeria in some months to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap do the fieldwork for my PhD.
TOP: If your PhD is about Nigeria what are you doing in Germany?

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2 Apr

a new blog hosted by the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity. Check out my friend Boris’s post on gaining fieldwork access to Buy Valium 10mg Cheap a public administration office in Stuttgart, Germany. Each field site has Buy Valium 10mg Cheap its own peculiarities. But they all have one thing in common: waiting.

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20 Mar

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