Oh dear. Margaret Wente went and wrote something incredibly stupid again. “Feminists have swept through geography like the avenging Furies. The stated mission of feminist geography is to disrupt ‘the masculinism of contemporary geographical discourses.’ (Translation: White male explorers are bad.) Queer geography is also hot. Geographers who aspire to make tenure are busy churning out… [Read more…]
October 29, 2011
Occupy Edinburgh has grown some more. Far from fizzling out as the weather gets colder, the occupation has flourished. Fully one half of St. Andrew Park is covered in tents. Yet despite the numbers now living there, the site is remarkably well-run. There are maintenance tents as well as pavilions both for serving food and organizing and a… [Read more…]
October 27, 2011
I promise that I’ll be done bragging about my trip to Belgium after this. First, however, I need to share one more thought I had on Sint Pieters Basilica in Ghent. Last time around, I explained why non-theists should not want to deprive the religious of the emotional impact of such spaces. Now, however, I’m… [Read more…]
October 25, 2011
I’ve been out of town for the past five days, and so today I don’t have very much to say about Occupy Edinburgh. There are upcoming posts on the subject, to be written once I’ve revisited the encampment, but for now I’m going to finally give in to something we all knew was coming ever… [Read more…]
October 17, 2011
I was busy today, so I didn’t make it down to the occupation as I did over the weekend. Tonight’s blog post is therefore going to be a little bit more theoretical. I’m going to address one of the major criticisms of the movement: that it is aimless and lacks specific objectives. I’ve seen this… [Read more…]
October 16, 2011
It was less than twenty-four hours between yesterday’s visit to the Edinburgh occupation and my first trip there today, but it was obvious that a lot had changed during that time. The site looked neater, and was a flurry of activity as activists worked to establish a semipermanent presence in the park. As of my… [Read more…]
October 15, 2011
I was in the highlands for the past two days, and my train didn’t get into town until about 4 PM today, so I was a late arrival to the small protest encampment that has now been established in St. Andrew Square. I missed the initial setup and only had a brief, conicidental encounter with… [Read more…]
October 11, 2011
Dear Window-Smashing Anarchists, I must confess that I am somewhat confused as to why I keep finding you at political rallies. My understanding of your political philosophy is that you want to hang the last bureaucrat with the entrails of the last capitalist. Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming that the extreme… [Read more…]
October 5, 2011
I stumbled across this article on Twitter today. It’s conclusion is pretty silly: “The Founding Fathers believed, and the evidence still shows, that industriousness, marriage and religion are a very important basis for male empowerment and achievement. We may need to say to a number of our twenty-something men, ‘Get off the video games five… [Read more…]
October 3, 2011
I had originally intended on covering the Ontario election. Not with the same frantic pace with which I posted during the Federal election, mind you, but I was planning on writing a post or two. Unfortunately, it wasn’t to be. The last month has been my first of a year in Edinburgh for grad school,… [Read more…]
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