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 →
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 →
Thlogging as the way forward? Hmm
I am going to need SOME trick to write this bloody thesis. Pretending it is a series of blog posts? Thesis -blogging, aka "thlogging"? Maybe? Or just 'Shut Up and Write' and 'Write or Die' and writing buddies. I definitely have enough material. Some of it really rich. Just need to (re)assemble it and think... Continue Reading →
Circuit breaker: Why the Finkel Review may be a game-changer for climate and energy policy in Australia #energyfutures
The review of the Australian Electricity Market being undertaken by the chief scientist may break the impasse over climate and energy policy, according to a senior South Australian public servant. Speaking in a personal capacity at an event in Adelaide, Dr Don Russell, Chief Executive of the Department of State Development for the South Australian Government,... Continue Reading →
Overflows and undertows – Callon, James and so on.
Bimbling around looking for work on how economic modelling is used to 'construct' reality/possibility, I stumbled on "An essay on framing and overflowing: economic externalities revisited by sociology" by M Callon, 1998. This (among other bits) struck me - The second attitude, typical of constructivist sociology in particular, takes the view that overflowing is the rule;... Continue Reading →
Having the courage of your conviction…narratives
I'm googling around exposing myself... to ideas to back up a piece I've two-thirds written. It's on the use of economic modeling to justify action/inaction on climate change. It's based on my Australian case study, and looks closely at the key period - 1989-1992, slightly less closely at the next period 1993-1997, and then dips... Continue Reading →
Barriers to learning – good article
Just read this - Elliot, D., Smith. D. and McGuinness, M. 2000. Exploring the failure to learn: crises and the barriers to learning. Review of Business, 21, 3/4 pp.17-24. Dead useful for something I am investigating at the moment. There are lots of juicy bits. Though the authors don't use the term, they are basically... Continue Reading →
I just saved a life!
Okay, it was a snail. But it was interesting nonetheless, and surely racks me up some karma points (I am not yet sure if those are transferable with my good guy tokens)? Cycling along Higher Cambridge Street I almost squished a snail who'd started a long and perilous journey across the road, and wasn't looking... Continue Reading →
Film Review: Nice Guys finish first, but a bit too slowly…
The film is worth your time. You won’t emerge a better person, but there are some laughs, some excellent performances and nostalgia for “The Rockford Files”. That’s a pretty good deal, I’d say. Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe are two men stumbling down mean streets in the ever-more-confusing and gritty (thanks to the pollution, both literal... Continue Reading →
Pathways, Publications and … Panda Penises. #Manchester PhD careers advice
University of Manchester’s Careers Service have just put on their tenth “Pathways” day for PhD students. There was free food (good), free entertainment (better) and free advice (best of all). There were 500 of us, and if there'd been a medical emergency, it would have been easier to shout out "“Is there someone who ISN’T a... Continue Reading →
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