Siggie Freud would have a field day with this Those benefitting from the status quo will act to resist socio-technical change, obvs. One of the "derailing risks" we don't talk about enough... Barles, S. (2014). History of waste management and the social and cultural representations of waste. In The basic environmental history (pp. 199-226). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
Will admit that I am losing the will to ... write the same thing over and over. This occurring long after others have lost the will to read the same thing over and over. And yet we plod on (or I do). There's a two page comment in the latest Nature Climate Change (an academic... Continue Reading →
So, one thing the Bad Guys do is set up fake "consultation" processes where a few voices, who are saying the right things, are amplified and other more problematic ones marginalised ("we're outa time..." etc etc) And so in an hour and a half (felt longer) webinar about precisely this - the Bad Guys and... Continue Reading →
On a particular type of news article/magazine piece you may find when trawling archives and online database, that take you on OTHER documents… I need to come up with a decent name for these “Rabbit Hole Invitations” (but anything can do an RHI, if you want it to!) “Signposters” “Threads to pull on” Something else?... Continue Reading →
I am fascinated by failure - personal, movement, species (not that the three are distinct, of course, but that's for another time). (see previous blog post, to which this is a sequel). How is it we persist with doing things so "obviously" stupid and self-defeating? Are we just blind? Blinded by ego? Blinded by fear?... Continue Reading →
Ugh. Listened to some podcasts while walking along the canal tow-path feeding the moorhens. Love those moorhens. The podcasts? Not so much. There's so much smug self-congratulatory circle-jerking going on. "Ooh, it's the evil oil companies." "Ooh, it's the corrupted politicians, meatpuppets for the EOCs." "Ooh, it's the x, ooh it's the y." Over the... Continue Reading →
The emotions of archives, their "affect" - presumably someone's done an autoethnography of that? (Yes - see further reading!) Of the joy of handling papers that haven't been looked at for decades/centuries? Of the rituals of the getting of the entrance card, furtling around in archives, of visiting, of becoming adept at the various rituals... Continue Reading →
You can read it here. And yes, I screengrabbed this below. Bugger #humblebrag, just straight up #brag
A couple of years ago I was doing some tutoring for The Brilliant Club in a school in Trafford. One of the things the students had to do was compare and contrast some poems. There was a Yeats one about young love in later years "When you are old", followed by Carol Ann Duffy's "Havisham".... Continue Reading →
How’s THAT for a click-bait headline, (albeit circa 2014)? You’re unlikely to read to the end of this, so I’ll spit out the tl;dr - It’s hubris, or pride, or arrogance, whatever you want to call it. Of COURSE it is also the wildly successful disinformation and delay campaigns run by the oil companies and... Continue Reading →
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