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...
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.
We live in an age of digital technology and year after year new infrastructure to support this gets laid out, economies expand based on these and new software tools are released into the wild made by tech developers trying to make a living. For many, digital technology has permeated every aspect of our lives as […] Read more...
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...
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...
This is the fourth part of a review and digest of the work of Professor Arthur Deikman who studied cults and identified how certain everyday tendencies in humans can coalesce in cult behaviours. As someone who has spent his professional life examining cases of extreme cult indoctrination he is ideally placed to foster a discussion […] Read more...
This research was done by Judith Vickers, the operational manager of Lifeshare in Manchester – a project which supports Manchester’s finest as they try to find a place to live. This work came out of her understandings of the hard sides of life which so many have to face and championing getting various supports in […] Read more...
This is an article exploring human rights in relation to the mental health industrial complex which has risen to articulate the way which people are treated in response to their need for support. In this piece of writing I examine human rights discourses in the context of present day Britain and deconstruct some of the […] Read more...