Interpretive Policy Analysis: Discourse and Power in Critical Policy Studies
I’ll be going to Kassel in June, originally i had planned to go Glasgow(triple helix) to Kassel (Interpretive Policy Analysis) to Cologne (E-social science), Glasgow and Cologne accepted my papers as posters, which I don’t like, though I can see why someone might do that. So I’m bowing out of those conferences, I’m not a […]
Read MoreThe technology can only do so much, nutrition is worth thinking about
Jamie’s Ministry of Food, the celebrity chef’s new TV series, is a powerful portrait of the socially excluded. It also reveals an enduring truth, says Felicity Lawrence: our diet today is as much about class as it always has been – and it will take more than a one-man mission to change that [From Felicity […]
Read Morebail-out be gone
I have to say, that if you vote for the bail-out, I am not voting for you anymore. This bail-out benefits the wealthy in the short term and supposedly supports the rest of us long term, but that’s a fiction. This is Enron 2.0. We can support the rest of use in the long term […]
Read MoreYouTube – QueenRania’s Channel
QueenRania [From YouTube – QueenRania’s Channel] ——– this is a brilliant use of youtube!
Read Morekiki and bubu have a plan
more kiki and bubu i didn’t know there are 4 of these now.
Read MoreEconomic Mobility Project Literature Reviews
Researchers across a variety of disciplines including economics, sociology and psychology have been studying economic mobility for some time. Led by a team of researchers from The Urban Institute, the project has summarized the best-available existing research on various factors that might influence individual and family economic mobility, both within and across generations. [From Economic […]
Read MoreCharles Tilly passed away
Charles Tilly Tilly chuck tilly Sociology, n-1 —- From the sites that I read…. I’ve read a few of his books. He was an easy and sensible read, very accessible on the surface level. It is hard to find fault with the surface of his texts. I think he will be missed.
Read MoreKnowledge Ecology Studies
Knowledge Ecology Studies KE Studies is an online publication that focuses on the creation, dissemination and access to knowledge goods. It is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on a number of specialties: sciences, technologies, public policies, the laws of intellectual property, business, free speech and privacy, telecommunications and other related knowledge disciplines. [From Knowledge Ecology […]
Read Moresometimes… the puppets know… they just know.
—- this is a great little puppet show about neoliberalism with great social and political theoretical basis. from monochrome
Read Moresome Muslim disobey hygiene rules Female Muslim medics ‘disobey hygiene rules’ – Telegraph
“No practising Muslim woman – doctor, medical student, nurse or patient – should be forced to bare her arms below the elbow,” it said. [From Female Muslim medics ‘disobey hygiene rules’ – Telegraph ] —- personally, i think they have the right to say no, but by not following the rules, I think they should […]
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