Widening Participation in the Neoliberal University

This is an extended version of an article I wrote for an assessment in the MSc I am doing at Queen Margaret University.  As a part of Public Sociology, I chose to write about the conflicted messaging of the university in terms of administration, bureaucracy and policy. Whilst many people in the educational sector act […] Read more...

Mad Studies: The Identitarian Problem

This piece of work although situated in the context of Mad Studies as an academic discipline, is part of work which extends beyond the boundaries of Mad Studies in all directions. These notes are partly a way of talking through various fragments and ideas in order to organise and coordinate a larger study which intersects […] Read more...

Action Research: Critical Evaluation of Superstructures

This is the final installment of the first phase of an action research project interrogating the activities of administrative structures (like the Outcomes Star) in the lives of people who lack agency in the UK cultural context.  As a project it has triggered an investigation of administrative systems with a particular view to asking what […] Read more...

Sexual Diversity Throughout Nature: A Primer

This post is a series of verbatim excerpts taken from the book ‘Biological Exuberance; Animal Homosexuality and Natural Diversity’ by Bruce Bagemihl, Ph.D. The excerpts are taken from the introduction and the beginning of chapter 1 in order to illustrate some of the themes which the book deals with and some of the sources.

Action Research: The Politics of Bureaucracies

This is the next installment of a long running scrutinisation of how bureaucracies and organisational structures are operating in the lives of people who live under them. The articles published on this website are a series of ethnographic perspectives in the preambles brought together with sections of a more academic thesis which interrogates the imposition […] Read more...

Working Classness: Class as a Topology of Finance and Status

In this work I am attempting to make sense of the world, not just from my own perspective but to find a formulation which offers a means of understanding the sense other people make from their relative positions in shifting and changing cultural landscapes. Class as a term gets used a lot in Britain but […] Read more...