CDI:
Civic Democratic
Institutions and Other Strategies for a Democratic Renaissance
Greetings and welcome to the homepage for my creation, the CDI (Civic Democratic
Institution). What is it? Well, if you have found this page you likely have recieved a
short email text describing it. If you are unsure what I am talking about, click on the
"short description" link below.
I intend to make these pages a clearinghouse of interesting links on theorizing
sustainability and works integrating grass roots democracy into political solutions in a
nation-state context. Who am I? I'm getting a Doctorate in Sociology at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. I'm interested in theorizing 'unsubstanability,' and from that
extrapolating what a sustainable society, politics, and economics would look like. There
is a description of me in the link I mentioned below.
CDI RELATED TEXTS:
OTHER AREAS OF MY INTEREST:
- COMPURB-L: List for Comparative Urbanization
and Comparative Urban Planning, Theory and Practice. I'm the host. It
began in January of 1998. As of January 2000, it has around 250 worldwide
subscribers.
- INTERSCI-L: List for Empirical Interconnections
across the Sciences~Physical, Biological, Sociological. I'm the host.
Its based on the premise that the existing frameworks of the sciences are
contributors to the institutionalization of environmental degradation, through
particularly disjunctive applied knowledge frameworks of power that tend to
operate in mutually exclusive vacuums in the world because of the organization
of the philosophical science. So, why are the sciences the way they are, and
what can be done about it? This list began in January of 2000. It currently
has around 40 people interested in interscientific perspectives that avoid
philosophical reductionism frameworks.
- The Bioregional State: These are letters addressing
the formal governmental changes required to achieve sustainability, written
with examples that use the United States. This commenced in November 2000.
- I will be beginning a list explicitly dealing with theorizing sustainability strategies
shortly, from a comparative and macro-sociological/historical perspective on what we have
done before as a species over the course of urbanization, and what that bodes for us all.
I would be interested in grouping together people in different world regional 'areas
studies' who additionally are interested in urbanization. Email me if you want to receive information when it
begins and I will foward some information.
OTHER USEFUL AND INFORMATIVE LINKS ON THE WEB (SEND MORE IF
YOU WANT MENTIONED):
questions, comments, corrections to the pages: mrkdwhit@wallet.com.
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