#john hobson

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Shout out to John Hobson (sr) the clock fixer, with his sweet, stuttering demeanour and shy jokes ❤

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Winding The Year Down With Good People

Winding The Year Down With Good People

Well, it’s the last ‘good people’ post of 2020, and I’ve got a great bunch for you to wrap up this otherwise chaotic year! One homeless man … a ton of courage Keith Walker is a 53-year-old homeless man in Atlanta, Georgia.  On December 18th, he was near the W-Underdogs animal shelter when he realized that the building was engulfed in flames.  Walker is an animal lover, his own dog Bravo being…

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[Source: Elephant eating bananas by John Hobson (j-hob) on Flickr.]

He has more photos of Asian elephants -- check them out!

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Jacques Vert appoints John Hobson as multichannel director

Jacques Vert has announced the appointment of John Hobson, previously joint managing director at Disney Stores Europe as its multichannel director.

In his new role, Hobson will manage the e-commerce of the retailer, as well as handling retail operations and customer service.

Teresa Tideman, who was appointed as chief executive of Jacques Vert at the end of 2012 and was previously also joint managing director at Disney Stores Europe, said: “John’s extensive experience will add huge value to the group and be a key driver in helping us take the business forward. I am delighted to welcome John to the business and look forward to working with him.”

Jacques Vert has also hired Sandra Clarke as design director. She will join from Coast at the end of the month.

Posted 28th March 2013

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As one nation after another enters the machine economy and adopts advanced industrial methods, it becomes more difficult for its manufacturers, merchants, and financiers to dispose profitably of their economic resources, and they are temped more and more to use their Governments in order to secure for their particular use of some distant underdeveloped country by annexation and protection . . .Everywhere appear excessive powers of production, excessive capital in search of investment. It is admitted by all businessmen that the growth of the powers of production in their country exceeds the growth in consumption, that more goods can be produced than can be sold at a profit, and that more capital exists than can find remunerative investment It is this economic condition of affairs that forms the taproot of Imperialism.

Imperialism: A Study by J.A. Hobson, pp. 80-81 

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American identity, which significantly informs US foreign policy, has been defined through a sense of exceptionalism, endangerment and paranoia that issues the need to maintain eternal vigilance against the non-Western Other. Notably, while American and British identities in their respective hegemonic phases have shared many similarities, the American differs in that its fear of the Other is yet more pronounced which, in turn – in an ever-moving show – constantly feeds the US desire for manufacturing new enemies and then containing them in order to maintain American identity. The racist double standards of the US civilising mission abound, whether these be in its uneven-handed free trade policy (as the recent breakdown of the Doha Round talks reveals); or through its wielding of the IMF as a vehicle to help indebted countries but in fact imposing cultural conversion and containment of the East in the debt crisis after 1982 and the Asian financial crisis of 1997; or again in its policies that were imposed on Japan in the 1980s. Moreover, the War on Terror opens up a Pandora’s box of racist double standards where, inter alia, indiscriminate American bombing and the killing of tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of non-Whites differentiates US foreign policy from ‘Islamic terrorism’ only in terms of the many more innocent lives that are taken by the former. When will this global nightmare end?

John M. Hobson (‘Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? Beyond Westphilian towards a post-racist critical IR’, Review of International Studies (33), 2007)

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‘Conscious Eurocentrism’... is found in those writers who explicitly celebrate all things Western while consciously or explicitly denigrating all things Eastern. ‘Subliminal Eurocentrism’ is much more subtle, though no less Orientalist. It does not celebrate the West but is highly critical of it. But what makes it Eurocentric is the assumption that the West lies at the centre of all things in the world and that the West self-generates through its own endogenous ‘logic of immanence’, before projecting its global will-to-power outwards through a one-way diffusionism so as to remake the world in its own image. ... Gramscian [neo-Marxist] [International Relations theory] prides itself on its ability to locate counter-hegemonic resistance. But by elevating world politics/economics into a panopticonesque Western fetish the prospects for Eastern resistance are unwittingly demoted. [...] Thus the West (specifically the US) is represented as the subject of globalisation while the East is viewed as its passive object.

John M. Hobson ('Is critical theory always for the white West and for Western imperialism? Beyond Westphilian towards a post-racist critical IR', Review of International Studies (33), 2007)

This speaks to liberalism and various strands of Marxism. A very interesting paper.