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Since politics among the top Soviet leaders is vigilantly screened from outsiders, serious studies must be based on indirect evidence. Analysis of published hidden messages provides a major source of such evidence, since esoteric communication has a key role in contention over high policy & questions of power in the USSR For example, in 1955 publication of a telegram which incorrectly addressed Khrushchev with Stalin's famous title of `general secretary', when analyzed in conjunction with related evidence, enaged the inference to be drawn that Khrushchev was bidding for dictorial power. Subsequent events have tended to confirm this hypo. IPSA.

Medea Vox, an academic podcast. Episode 24: Comics have been around for more than a hundred years. For a long time, comics were mainly viewed as light entertainment for kids, but today they can also be seen as an aesthetically ambitious art form. But are comics also a politically significant medium? In this Medea Vox episode, comics artist Daria Bogdanska and professor Magnus Nilsson talk about comics and politics. Can comics be used to criticize and think about society in new ways? Can comics articulate new voices, or reach out to those who are not taking part in political life? And which are the potentials and limitations of comics as a political art form? ; Podcast

Huque reviews the book 'Decentralization and Local Politics: Readings in Indian Government and Politics, 2' edited by S. N. Jha and P. C. Mathur.

Thinking psychoanalytically about the nature of social exclusion involves a self-questioning on the part of the interpreter. While we may all have some experiences of having been subject to stereotyping, silencing, discrimination and exclusion, it is also the case that, as social beings, we all, to some extent, participate in upholding these practices, often unconsciously.The book poses the question of how psychoanalysis can be used to think about the invisible and subtle processes of power over symbolic representation, in the context of stereotyping and dehumanization: What forces govern the state of affairs that determine who is an 'I' and who is an 'it' in the public sphere?Thinking in terms of 'containment', a communication which is denied a social space for expression can be said to be actively stripped of meaning. Through its original contribution of attending to, and interpreting material that so far had seemed meaningless, psychoanalysis demonstrates a capacity to reinstall meaning where none was before - but how are such acts performed on a social level?When common responsibility is displaced onto a suitable class or group and its representatives, the end point is reached when the individual is objectified and the social aspects of the process are no longer recognized. His or her position becomes an illegitimate one from which to speak - the person's subjectivity is excluded. The book poses the question of how we can conceive of the 'how' and the 'why' of this phenomenon and of possible counter-actions.

To characterize the actual political and social situation in mathematics education around the world, in particular in most of the rich countries, one could state that the commercial textbook 'business' community controls the materials available to teachers to an extent that teachers are rather slaves of the textbook than autonomous and enlightened users; and that assessment still is primarily and predominantly a mechanism for selecting the mathematical elite only instead to provide a profound mathematics education to all. The few promising developments in mathematics education could be seen in the increasing availability of personal technology, in the growth of the vocational education sector, in the growth of the informal sector through web- access, and – my big hope – in the increasing professionalization of mathematics teacher associations in many countries and the growth of equal and fair collaborative research within the mathematics education community.