‘From Sweden With Care’; Alternative Visions of Education by Isak Stoddard

This is an audio recording of the presentation given by Isak Stoddard at the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research in the University of Manchester. Isak is Project Coordinator in Climate Change Leadership, Educational Coordinator and Deputy Director of CEMUS at Uppsala University in Sweden. The presentation was called ‘From Sweden with care’ and it deals with education and societal change in troubled times. Read more…

Impoverishment, Downsourcing and Buying Your Way Out

In this article I am laying out a term I have coined – ‘downsourcing’ – as a kind of impoverishment externalised by classes with sufficient finance to buy themselves out of trouble.  I will be trying to drill down to the fine detail some of the what’s, how’s and why’s of ‘poverty’ are recreated in day to day behaviours and actions in the UK today.  For such an affluent nation brimming with endless numbers of charities, for me, significant questions are not being asked and significant acknowledgments are being avoided. This is part of an extended project focusing on how impoverished circumstances are created and recreated. Read more…