Gonna make videos about "useful" concepts - the ones that I seem to come back to time and again. Have downloaded Openshot, am gonna fire up my Paint skills (and maybe some Gimping). This one is as rough as a badger's arse, but so what? Biographical availability. Others to follow - emotacycles, legitimate peripheral... Continue Reading →
“Don’t know much about love”
Ah, this takes me back, to Mozambique, oddly enough (long story, another time). Baby can you teach me - how to Baby can you reach me, I'm calling out for you Underneath your window tonight I know I ain't no romeo, so help me make it right If I can get this message through to... 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 →
Video: The Greening of Industry/Eco-innovation
More or less the script I burble. Stuff in square brackets didn't get said or referenced, because the damn thing was already 5 and a half minutes... The whole field of “green innovation” is a Rorschach test. We see in the blobs what we want and need to see. Capitalism mutating into something ecologically friendly,... Continue Reading →
Video: Issue lifecycles, a not-even-beginner’s guide
First, a public health warning. I am not yet clear enough on the distinction(s) between issue attention cycles and issue lifecycles to make this video. I’m doing it, therefore, to get Shot. Down. In. Flames. Then, if I survive the crash, I will make a – better- sequel. How’s that for dialectic and iterative? Issue... Continue Reading →
Proposed script for video on Issue Lifecycles Literature
Comments please on this draft script for a video on Issue Lifecycles Literature (see here for the Issue Attention Cycles one) You can also email me at marcmywords@gmail.com First, a public health warning. I am not yet clear enough on the distinction(s) between issue attention cycles and issue lifecycles to make this video. I’m... Continue Reading →
Video: Issue Attention Cycle beginner’s guide
So, a very crude (but not rude) video about the Issue Attention Cycle. Done more for my own benefit - to nail a couple of things and get back into the video-making habit. I've gotten rusty... Comments welcome, of course... Script: This guy is Ibn Khaldun. He was an historian in the 14th century. He... Continue Reading →
Advocacy Coalitions Framework – a video
The "Advocacy Coalition Framework" is a very useful tool for researching and thinking about how public policy does - or doesn't - change, especially on really contentious issues. It looks at how groups of actors that have enough in common bond together to try to get all/most of what they want. I'd heartily recommend you... Continue Reading →
Video of Prof Matthew Paterson’s “Cultural Politics of #Climate” seminar in #Manchester
Professor Matthew Paterson gave a seminar on "the Cultural Politics" of Climate Change at the University of Manchester. See also this interview conducted via email before the event. This was part of the Sustainable Consumption Institute's external seminar series. Here is the video (which was static, while the speaker was not!) And here is the... Continue Reading →
Professor Cynthia Enloe gives #Manchester Annual Peace Lecture
Professor Cynthia Enloe [wikipedia] is the author of ground-breaking works such as "Bananas, Beaches and Bases: Making Feminist Sense of International Politics" and The Morning After: Sexual Politics at the End of the Cold War. She is also Research Professor at Clark University. Yesterday she gave a clear and compelling lecture at the University of Manchester, followed by... Continue Reading →
