A rather intriguing and canny seminar at Manchester Business School… Ever stand in the aisle, lost in the supermarket, and wonder what went into getting the products on the shelves? The tin mined for the cans, the oil drilled for the plastic packaging, the lives lost and the futures mortgaged for our present convenience? I... Continue Reading →
My supervisors say I should focus. The wife says I should focus. If the cat could talk, it would tell me to focus (on it). At least two of them are right… Anyhows.. about the birth of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change… By the mid 80s, scientists were getting more and more sure –... Continue Reading →
Yet again I walked (flounced?). Yet again there’s communications (civil this time) with(one of) the organisers of the event. Yet again the old conscience/ego chides “well, instead of specific criticisms, why not spell out how you’ld have done it differently?” Here it is. There’s actually a couple of innovations I dreamt up today. It is... Continue Reading →
Marc Hudson has been to one too many event that describes itself as “open space”. The fightback starts here.[Update: here's how he'd have done it] The Evil Corporations and their Evil State lackeys are trying to defeat us!! They constantly steal our ideas, water them down, and then use them to sell their own very... Continue Reading →
Personally I am not a big fan of fascism. Call me squeamish. Nor am I a big fan of the whole ubermensch “Aryan blonde-blued eyed” thing . Something to do with understanding who was on the land before whitey arrived and what whitey did to get that land. I am not saying that the people... Continue Reading →
One of the joys of being a PhD student (asides being paid to read, “think”, write, hang out with very very smart people (and you too, Miles? 😛 ) is that you can go to day-long seminars on things called “Enhancing Interdisciplinarity.” I couldn’t stay to the end because I had a symposium on neo-institutional... Continue Reading →
Last week Dr Tom Hargreaves came to Manchester and delivered an interesting seminar (for the Sustainable Consumption Institute) on "Smart homes, energy use and every day life." The idea of "fun washing" (as akin to greenwashing etc) popped up. My understanding is that it a rhetorical/advertising ploy to get people past the anxiety of their... Continue Reading →
On Wednesday there's a "Methods Fair" at University of Manchester. If you can come, vote for meeeeeeeeeeeee!!! PS This is already out of date, in that I've got some fancier methods to play with than I knew about when I threw this poster together. The cartoons, to emphasise, are from the amazing Marc Roberts. PS... Continue Reading →
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 →
The article below appeared in the latest issue of the essential-reading “Peace News.” (subscribe here.) Activist Fictions The absurdly handsome activist bit his lip. The Peace News crew were threatening mil-itary action if the final extended deadline for a 2000 word essay on “Activism and Fiction” was missed. The clock was most definitely two minutes... Continue Reading →
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