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04 red pepper feb | mar 2010

03 EditorialNot flocks or herds

06 Leters Noticeboard

08 PlatitudesThe world according to Steve Platt

15 Asylum watchInformers in the classroom

39 Democracy nowOpen to abuse

51 Natural born rebelIndigenous activist Aida Quilcué

66 BoktopiaSalma Yaqoob

56 Anything but background music

Mike Marqusee celebrates flamenco: music that is popular but ‘utterly alien to pop’

58 An anthropology of civil warEwa Jasiewicz looks at

Austrian director Michael Haneke’s film The White Ribbon, an unflinching gaze into the roots of violence

60 An alien gazeHerta Müller’s work casts experiences of oppressive authoritarian regimes in strikingly poetic language, writes Lyn Marven

62 Bok reviewsFour pages of reviews

Free to all subscribers with this issue A copy of Turbulence: ideas for movement (further copies can be ordered through editors@turbulence.org.uk)

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