Really really wish I'd gotten better hold of the institutional theory leg of this stool (chair?) that is my thesis earlier in the process. Am good enough on the policy stuff (MSA, PE, ACF etc etc), and the empirics, and even the sociotech transitions stuff. But I wasn't deep, wide and overview-y enough on institutional... Continue Reading →
Mundane epiphany #94 on the thesis
I am walking around the park pretty much every morning now, with my backpack (weights, books) and journal articles in hand. And things are coming together on this (though they probably could have earlier. So it goes). And two mundane epiphanies that will mean nothing to anyone except me and my supervisors (who I assume... Continue Reading →
Boxer’s disease
"Boxer could not get beyond the letter D. He would trace out A, B, C, D in the dust with his great hoof, and then would stand staring at the letters with his ears back, sometimes shaking his forelock, trying with all his might to remember what came next and never succeeding. On several occasions,... Continue Reading →
Fear and the capture of new markets #transitions #energy
Oh I want a post-doc. Not just for the paying of the bills: I actually know what I want to study too. I want to study the mobilisation of emotions (fear, greed, hope etc) by entrepreneurs and contrapreneurs to create new markets capture existing/emerging ones prevent new ones forming because it offends your a) worldview... Continue Reading →
Rabbit Holes, Mole Hills and living life forward… #PhDburblings
The fairly horrible (emotionally) but exhilarating (intellectually) process of The Thesis is coming to an end, overdue and incomplete as they mostly are. While yomping around the park this morning articles with title like "Institutional Logics and Institutional Work: Should they be agreed?" and "How are Management fashions institutionalized? The role of institutional work", I... Continue Reading →
Generosity and conviviality in the age of algorithmic oppression: #Manchester #odmnoble
This was a superb event. A diverse audience of somewhere between 80 and 90 attended a truly excellent event on 'algorithms of oppression' yesterday in Manchester. The event, hosted by Open Data Manchester with the support of The Federation and Manchester School of Art, was centred on a lecture and q and a with Dr Safiya... Continue Reading →
Events, dear boy, events – of oil slicks, rich people and creeping
Musing #1 on Molotch, H. 1970. Oil in Santa Barbara and Power in America. Sociological Inquiry, 40, 131-144. In January 1969 the first big Oil Slick That Mattered washed up on the beaches of rich people in California. Sure, there had been the Torrey Canyon in 1967, where someone took an ill-advised shortcut and hit... Continue Reading →
“Staying with the trouble” – Donna Haraway quote leads to productive ‘trouble’
‘Staying with the Trouble’ insists on working, playing and thinking in multispecies cosmopolitics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterise the age cunningly called 'now' and the place called 'here.' Donna Haraway I am the teaching assistant on a VERY interesting course for third year geography students... Continue Reading →
Justice or Just us? “Data Justice” and the big questions #Manchester
The newspapers and webfeeds are full of stories of the (un)intended consequences of the increased “datafication” of society, and the ways in which people are sorted, silenced and discriminated against by ‘algorithms.’ It is rich terrain for academics and activists (the two beasts need not be totally distinct), and today at the University of Manchester... Continue Reading →
The big picture: waving goodbye to Kondratieff, plausible futures etc…
Big Picture Thinking (BPT) is endlessly seductive, isn't it? What's the old saying? "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." (see here for more on this). Well, some mediocre minds can discuss ideas, especially the big sweepy-generalisation-y stuff. Then again, some super-bright folks have a go too. BPT comes in... Continue Reading →
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