The very cool people at Beyond Zero Emissions, on 3CR (community radio in Melbourne) interviewed in November. Here's a link to their page about it. (it's cut and paste below) BZE radio talks to Marc Hudson: Marc is studying the strategic responses of the Australian coal industry to the challenge of climate change. He is... Continue Reading →
What do we want? Grumpy old men at the National Library of Australia (book launch!)
Last night at the National Library of Australia two grumpy old men talked about social movements and protest. That doesn’t sound too enthralling, does it? But the event – hosted by the NLA, and the launch of the book “What Do We Want: the story of protest in Australia" was a thoughtful, passionate and... Continue Reading →
Ideas about the festival of ideas #AdlFoI
[Seventh of a series of blog posts about sessions at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas on Saturday 22nd October] So, had a great time at the Adelaide Festival of Ideas today. Met some very interesting people (some famous-ish, some as obscure as me). And while not ever disgruntled, I was also not completely gruntled. I... Continue Reading →
Keeping together in time: movement-building and mobilising
Most activist events, even (especially?) the ones that are supposed to be energising are, imho, demoralising and dis-visioning. Stale repertoires, ritual denunciations that show us – and others – our powerlessness and lack of imagination.Today, while setting the mood and giving information, an activist used a word you don't hear often - joy. When I... Continue Reading →
Machiavelli on incumbency and insurgency…
As Mr. Machiavelli said- “It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This... Continue Reading →
Video: What is absorptive capacity?
And here is the script that I more or less stumbled through. So, what is absorptive capacity? According to the seminal 1990 article by Cohen and Levinthal it's "a firm's ability to recognize the value of new information, assimilate it, and apply it to commercial ends" Extending this, Zahra and George (2002) say it is... Continue Reading →
Bragging: Published in a Routledge collection #activism #climate
Whoop. Whoop. WHOOP!!! I am published!! Emergent Possibilities for Global Sustainability: intersections of race, class and gender, edited by Phoebe Godfrey and Denise Torres, Routledge 2016. Chapter 22 is "Pathological and ineffective activism - what is to be done?" by Marc Hudson and Arwa Aburawa. Whoop!! A physical copy just arrived. It looks fantastic, and... Continue Reading →
Social Movement Learning: Partisan Collective and “Activist Skills and Knowledge”
How do we know what skills and knowledge we have? How do we know who else in the group can help us, or would benefit from our help? How do we spot “single points of failure”? What do we do about burn out – before, during, and after? All these (good) questions were on the... Continue Reading →
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