macaronic ˌmakəˈrɒnɪk/ adjective 1. denoting language, especially burlesque verse, containing words or inflections from one language introduced into the context of another. noun 1. macaronic verse, especially that which mixes the vernacular with Latin. As in Private Eye's Pig Latin Honorary Degrees, or the late Miles Kington's Let's Parler Francais... anabasis (plural anabases) A military... Continue Reading →
Women talking>30% = dominating…
Is anyone actually surprised? Don't know where I grabbed this from, but Dale Spender (not Spencer) is way cool. I saw her on tellie in the late 80s or early 90s and thought 'you're smart, and you are dismantling the sexist idiot next to you on the panel.' Read one of her books, possibly Man... Continue Reading →
“Initiativitis” Love it.
Policy as palimpsest Pam Carter A palimpsest is a multi-layered text that is reinscribed over time. This article presents policy as analogous to a palimpsest to highlight implementation processes and the complexity of judging progress. Findings from an ethnographic study of the UK Sure Start Children’s Centres policy demonstrate how implementation is experienced locally. Here religious beliefs and traditional... Continue Reading →
Suspicious minds and climate policy
Goering is alleged to have said that whenever he heard the word culture he reached for his revolver. For me, whendver I hear the word 'trap' I think of my Elvis. Specifically, 'We're caught in a trap. I can't walk out....' Meanwhile, this from an article Nair, S. and Howlett. 2015. From robustness to resilience:... Continue Reading →
Sentiments and Ressentiment
Nice quotes about it from Pankaj Mishra Certainly, the current conflagration has brought to the surface what Friedrich Nietzsche called “ressentiment” – “a whole tremulous realm of subterranean revenge, inexhaustible and insatiable in outbursts.” Ressentiment – caused by an intense mix of envy, humiliation and powerlessness – is not simply the French word for resentment.... Continue Reading →
The absence of structure is hierarchy
I went to a meeting (won't say if it was activist or academic or whatever - that's not the point). There was explicitly 'no agenda'. And we were then, without warning, asked to introduce ourselves (say what we had done, were doing and what we wanted to do around this particular issue/topic). And did they give... Continue Reading →
Epic streams epigram for the thesis!!!
"A new science of politics is indispensable to a new world. This, however, is what we think of least; launched in the middle of a rapid stream, we obstinately fix our eyes on the ruins which may still be described upon the shore we have left, whilst the current sweeps us along, and drives us... Continue Reading →
Last week in #Australian #Climate Politics – a bluffer’s guide
What happened? This week the government executed a massive policy backflip and its backbenchers weakened a leader who they despise and will probably knife quite soon. The opposition rolled its eyes and sighed and secretly squealed with delight. There were assurances that Australia is on track to meet its international obligations on emissions reductions when in... Continue Reading →
A winning Streeck that could end any day now
From here. In a phone call a couple of weeks later, I press Streeck again. “If I look 10 or 20 years out, I don’t like what I see,” he says. Nor is he alone: he quotes a new book by the former head of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, and his projection of... Continue Reading →
“British Lord Vestey, and Vincent Lingari”… and Phillip Knightley
There's a great Paul Kelly song From Little Things, Big Things Grow, about an Aboriginal Land Rights struggle. It opens thus- Gather round people let me tell you're a story An eight year long story of power and pride British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiarri Were opposite men on opposite sides Vestey was fat with... Continue Reading →
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