Category: Activism
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Fossilised politics
What I’ve found over the last few years, particularly as I’ve engaged with the lives of environmental activists through the now concluding OHEM project is that the continuing arch of the twenty-first century’s history will be inseparable from the politics of energy; in the broadest sense of the word. How…
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Witches, lesbians and Blackness: Queering Wicked
I’m not a big fan of musicals, but my kids really wanted to watch the new film Wicked so off we went to see the Wizard. Upon leaving the cinema though I admit to not just being taken in by the emotive, searing musical numbers, and the glittering and quite…
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Hauntology: The Persistent Echoes of Lost Futures and Unfulfilled Promises
I sat down over the weekend to watch a Muppet’s Christmas Carol with the kids, and despite it being a tale a about a super-rich oligarch that is essentially guilt tripped into being a charitable entrepreneur, yet maintains his exploitative corporate enterprise but with just slightly higher wages in lieu…
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Advertising, Desire and post-capitalism
Kylie Jenner’s infamous Pepsi ad, that was pulled after a public outcry that it trivialised the Black Live Matter protests in 2017 Advertising shits in your head. It permeates every aspect of our waking (and perhaps soon, non-waking) lives, manipulating our innermost desires, and shaping our perception of what we…
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Just Stop Oil at the Snooker
Did you see this protest last night by Just Stop Oil at the Snooker? If not, here is the BBC coverage, or watch below. You probably didn’t see it because you don’t watch snooker, but I do, I love it. And listening to the players & commentators, and reading social…
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What is a General Strike?
There’s been a lot of talk about a General Strike, but what exactly does that mean? And why are they important?
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Three strikes and they’re out: why we need to get the vote and strike!
It’s Groundhog day. Again. Next week, UCU staff are balloting for strike action that, if successful, would take place before Christmas. We’ve been on the picket line twice in the last 3 years, and still, we have seen no progress in bettering working conditions and stopping the decimation of the…
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Planetary Safe Mode? Turning Lockdowns into a tool to fight Climate Change
The pandemic that currently grips our world has been many countries go into unprecedented lockdowns multiple times. Characterised by stay at home instructions, education going online, the closure of non-essential businesses; they have caused misery for millions. However, in some parts of the world they have had unintended benefits such…
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Why you should do Cultural Geography
Given the state of the social, political and environmental turbulence in the world at the moment, many of us are keen to roll up our sleeves and get to work protesting the perceived injustices of more intense neoliberalism, creeping fascism, growing wealth and income inequalities, and further environmental degradation. Resistance to these large-scale…
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Brexitrump, neoliberalism and microfascism
Fascism has been catapulted into the mainstream narrative of late, thanks to the election of a certain Mr. Trump to the position of ‘leader of the free world’ (perhaps the most oxymoronical statement of them all). The comparisons to Hitler’s rise to power in the 1930s have not gone unnoticed,…
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