https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1637791469476954112 If you don't understand protest waves and movement cycles and ABEYANCE, you are a risk not just to yourself, but to those around you.
“Living with the climate crisis” launch event – Monday 17 April
Upcoming event - Living with the climate crisis which provides group support and routes to action for those struggling with the climate crisis. Do take a look at the materials on the new Living with the climate crisis website, join us for the launch, and circulate to your networks. Join us for the online launch of Living with... Continue Reading →
“Activist Credibility Tokens”
I made a video about what I call "Activist Credibility Tokens" - how people try to get them, how there's an "easy" way and how that sets up perverse incentives, unhelpful patterns. Tell me what you think... https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1637048946613706754
Looting the Ivory Tower – “Biographical Availability”
https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1636318881311588353 From here - McAdam, D. (1986) “Recruitment to High-Risk Activism: The Case of Freedom Summer.” American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 92, No. 1, pp. 64-90
Tetris as metaphor, and that moment just before ‘game over’ #climate #anthropocene
Thirty years ago I had a Tetris addiction. For those who have come late, Tetris was a very simple (but addictive - did I mention that)) game where you had to move and re-orient different shaped blocks so that they would fall "into place". If a whole row of blocks existed, it would wink out... Continue Reading →
Durkheim the truffle-hunting pig, question begging, and – yes – “fuck nuance”
There's a very good paper (with a click-bait headline - "Fuck Nuance") about theory building, abstraction etc. Here's a link to a pdf. And there's a section in it (lots of it is eminently quotable) about Emile Durkheim, the French guy who can claim to be the father of sociology. "Indifferent to fairly representing his... Continue Reading →
Book: Goliath by David Harris
I remember reading this in Denmark in 1994 or so. I remember being blown away by it. We knew the shape of the problem(s) inside out by January 1970. And here we are, fifty three years later... Will read this alongside a couple of others and do a group review... #BetchaCan'tWait
Pro-tip for surviving booooooooring (academic) events…
From Alison Lurie's magnificent 1984 novel "Foreign Affairs" How much nicer and less boring it would be if we were all still children, Vinnie thinks. Then, as she often does on boring public occasions, she relieves her restlessness by imagining the weight of years lifted suddenly from everyone in the room. The older members of... Continue Reading →
Looting the Ivory Tower: Trasformismo, #Gramsci #Transitions
Made a new short video for my "Looting the Ivory Tower" series (important academic articles or concepts translated into plain English) https://twitter.com/marcsrhudson/status/1635273839214211072 What do people think (of the concept, of the video)? Suggestions for improvements to future videos, and concepts that could be rendered in 2 mins and 19 seconds (i.e. within the Twitter limit).
The research process and serendipity – excerpt from Alison Lurie’s “Foreign Affairs”
Another excerpt from Alison Lurie's brilliant "Foreign Affairs" - this time Vinnie (academic) and her non-academic acquaintance Chuck, who is looking up his family tree... Nice on how research can be a coming-at-it-sideways thing... He had a real productive trip to South Leigh this time, Chuck tells her, putting away two-thirds of the Indian dinner... Continue Reading →
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