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London civil unrest
A lot of words flying around in the “mainstream media” to describe the events in London over the last three days. “Anarchists” being my favourite misnomer (Sky News). “UK riots” has become the key...
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Peace Poets Workshop at Bethanienhaus
Wednesday 10th & Thursday 11th August, 13:00-16:00 The Peace Poets We are young artist educators committed to teaching with a focus on our collective liberation. Our goal is to create safe spaces...
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London vs. Moscow
I can’t stop the “imagine this is Russia” thing going through my head. The police are announcing they will act “robustly”, including bringing in water cannons and rubber bullets; police officers all...
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The language of riots
1. BBC World reported yesterday that the police had announced “that Mark Duggan had not fired the first shot”. This is linguistically correct. But since apparently all shots fired were from police...
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Rising powers
No more old-fashioned talk of “developed” and “developing” countries. China and India now categorised as “rising powers“.
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CDA and education
Rebecca Rogers’ Introduction to Critical Discourse Analysis in Education is out in a new, revised, updated second edition. This edition includes chapters by James Paul Gee, Norman Fairclough and...
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Pirates: Redistributing the sensible
The Piraten Partei, with their 8.9% results in the Berlin election, have already massively reconfigured what counts as politics and election issues. Now they’re tweeting on what the other side of the...
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Deepest darkest Austria. An ethnography
Brilliant. I think I might take up culturalbytes teaching tip: I am now assigning Walter Wippersberg’s 1994 Film, Dunkles, Rätselhaftes Österreich – Dark, Mysterious Austria, to all my students! If...
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Making bankers human
Fascinating! A Dutch anthropologist explores London city bankers. Blog at The Guardian.
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Twitter @discoursology
At least one of the Berlin-based discoursologists is now able to communicate in less than 140 characters…. @discoursology #discourse #media #ethnography #russia #theory
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