TOPAZ ARTS, Inc. hosts
Walden Bello: Global Battlefields
Wed, March 26, 6-8pm
TOPAZ ARTS, 55-03 39th Ave. > directions
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TOPAZ ARTS hosts a talk with Walden Bello, a Filipino public intellectual and activist, introduced by renowned author Luis H. Francia. Launching his new book Global Battlefields, this is a special opportunity to hear from Bello’s sharp, contextual analysis, followed by a Q & A.
A timely launch, Bello’s memoir has been described by Nobel Peace Prize awardee Maria Ressa as, “…a raw and honest examination of what it takes to challenge power and money—essential reading for anyone working for a just world.”
About the Speaker:
Walden Bello, a Filipino academic, environmentalist, and activist, is concurrently the International Adjunct Professor of Sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton, Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies at Kyoto University, and Co-Chairperson of the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South.
Bello is the author or co-author of 25 books, including Counterrevolution: The Global Rise of the Far Right (2019), Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019), Capitalism’s Last Stand? (2013), Food Wars (2009), Dragons in Distress: Asia’s Miracle Economies in Crisis (1990), and Development Debacle: The World Bank in the Philippines (1982). He received his PhD in Sociology from Princeton University in 1975. Bello received the Right Livelihood Award (also known as the Alternative Nobel Prize) in 2003 for his work showing the negative impacts of corporate-driven globalization and was named the Outstanding Public Scholar of the International Studies Association in 2008.
