{"id":2088,"date":"2009-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/framing-the-global-future-by-ignoring-alternatives\/"},"modified":"2009-03-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T00:00:00","slug":"framing-the-global-future-by-ignoring-alternatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2009\/03\/framing-the-global-future-by-ignoring-alternatives\/","title":{"rendered":"FRAMING THE GLOBAL FUTURE BY IGNORING ALTERNATIVES"},"content":{"rendered":"

Unfreezing Categories as a Vital Necessity <\/em><\/p>\n

Images as indicators<\/p>\n

In preparation for the much-heralded, key meeting of the G20 Group in London (March 2009), two striking images were produced. The negatives are reproduced below:<\/p>\n

·    The Financial Times identified a set of 50 people "whose position, skills and contacts allow them to define the debate over what should happen" (Fifty who will frame a way forward, 11 March 2009) <\/p>\n

·    The meeting of the G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors (Horsham, 15 March 2009) gave rise to a communique that will be the key text for the discussions at the G20 Summit (London, 2 April 2009) <\/p>\n

What is so striking about these images? Both have the traditional predominance of "white males". But to clarify further, of the 50 identified by the Financial Times, 5 are women (blurred out in white). Of the 46 present at the G20 Finance Meeting, 2 are women (blurred out in black). This treatment might have been rendered even more striking by blurring out the women using white, and the "non-whites" using black. <\/p>\n

Despite the confusion and obfuscation over who actually had any responsibility for the financial crisis and the management of its evolution, there is a significant consensus that a failure of regulatory overview has been a key factor. It is therefore reasonable to ask:<\/p>\n

·    what proportion of those identified in either image were complicit in some way in this regulatory failure?<\/p>\n

·    with what capacities and new insights will those so involved be responding to the challenge of the crisis of the financial system — and the credibility crunch with which it is now associated?<\/p>\n

·    what proportion of the global population are not "white males" — but have had their livelihoods and future security rendered highly problematic by the those who have failed in their regulatory capacity?<\/p>\n

·    how is it that the insights of non-males — presumably some 50% of the world population — are represented by only 7% of those identified in the above images? <\/p>\n

The focus of the argument here is not on the questionable representation of "non-whites" and "women" — old issues as yet unresolved.

PLEASE CONTINUE READING IN THE ORIGINAL – LAETUS IN PRAESENS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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