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The tidal power scheme proposed for Swansea Bay (Tidal Lagoon Swansea Bay) has been in the news today due to the government’s announcement that it is discussing subsidising the ambitious £1bn project. Our research has used the tidal lagoon as a case study for exploring the social and economic impact of local energy infrastructure, and the role of local communities in energy developments.
The media has, wittingly or not, individualized the NSA/PRISM story by focusing on the ridiculous question of whether the whistle blower is a hero or traitor and conducting a farcical "Great Snowden Hunt".
Notes on a lecture given by Zygmunt Bauman at the Howard Assembly Rooms, which provided an opportunity to hear him speak on a topic which seldom makes its way into the critical commentaries: heroism.
In his lecture Professor Zygmunt Bauman will reconsider man’s relationship with his world from the perspective of the stage for which he uses the term 'liquid modernity'.
Abundance Generation, the product of three years hard work, including many weeks 'deep hanging out' with people across the UK, is finally 'launched'. Abundance has tried to shift the focus of investment from the 1% (who frankly have enough) to the 99% who are short of meaningful choices of things to do with their money...
A response by Mark Davis to Aditya Chakrabortty's thought-provoking article in The Guardian - Economics has failed us: but where are the fresh voices?
New post on Res Publica blog on how the budget reflects the last gasps of economics as politics in disguise and the need for new sources of knowledge and understanding about the meaning of money... step forward the sociology and anthropology! http://respublica.org.uk/item/We-get-the-budgets-we-deserve
Having been the inspiration for www.zopa.com, Liquid Modernity can now claim a new offspring - www.abundancegeneration.com Abundance hopes to disrupt the conventions of money and financial services which deliberately alienate and disorientate the individual by allowing ordinary people to earn cash by investing directly in renewable energy production. The minimum investment is £5 which makes...
As a part of the Histories of Violence project, directed by Dr Brad Evans (POLIS, University of Leeds), The Guardian newspaper has launched its 10 Years of Terror series: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/series/10-years-of-terror Today, a specially commissioned video lecture by Zygmunt Bauman was launched on the Comment is Free website and can be accessed here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/video/2011/sep/01/zygmunt-bauman-terrorism-video For more...
For a recent interview with Zygmunt Bauman, visit: http://www.citsee.eu/interview/past-central-europe-future-europe-interview-zygmunt-bauman www.citsee.eu is a website of the CITSEE project (The Europeanisation of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia) and is focused on the over-arching theme of “Citizenship in Southeast Europe”. For more on the CITSEE project, see: www.citsee.eu