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‘The Bog Offerings of the Balts: I give in order to get back’ By Audronė Bliujienė   “In one way or another, offerings were related to water, and, by their essence, they were offerings into water as a universal mediator in the journey to the afterworld or the eventual realm of the dead. Without doubt, […]

Developing the research imagination: Working together, co-design and sharing ideas

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Research is a process of constantly theorizing from evidence. In order to give our findings life and meaning we can apply frames that allow us to do that and also help us work together and react to practical problems as they come up. One frame is normalization. As sociologists we deal with the problem of […]

Theorising Scottish Children’s and Young Adult Fiction

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In this post, Fiona McCulloch argues for the timeliness of critical engagement with children’s and young adult literature  –   and how it can help chart journeys into new ways of thinking… * You’re reading too much into it’… ‘it’s just a children’s story’ … ‘don’t ruin it for me’… These are just some of […]

CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT

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CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT APRIL 1998 “Glasgow: Onwards and Upwards”, Art Monthly, No.216, May 1998, p26-27. This extended version of this report on the Glasgow appeared in basetext, @ www.succession.uk.com/basetext/ Glasgow’s cultural commissars were smarting this March at the loss of the new parliament to Edinburgh.  To make matters worse, Timothy Clifford was refused […]

CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT

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CLEAN THE CLUTTER AND REPEAT APRIL 1998 “Glasgow: Onwards and Upwards”, Art Monthly, No.216, May 1998, p26-27. This extended version of this report on the Glasgow appeared in basetext, @ www.succession.uk.com/basetext/ Glasgow’s cultural commissars were smarting this March at the loss of the new parliament to Edinburgh.  To make matters worse, Timothy Clifford was refused […]

Publications

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Peer-reviewed Articles and extended Abstracts Manuscripts in preparation [57] Mangriotis, M.-D., Cartwright-Taylor, A., Main, I.G., Curtis, A., Bell, A.F., Butler, I.B., Fusseis, F. Micromechanics and micro-seismicity associated with controlled failure in a sandstone: implications for management of extreme events. [56] Leung, D.D.V., Fusseis, F., Butler, I.B. Where curling collides with rock physics: Characterising the damage […]

Common problems: BAM TCP Atlantic Square Limited v BT plc

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BAM TCP Atlantic Square Limited v BT plc [2020] CSOH 57 presents something approaching a full house of recent hot topics in conveyancing: interpretation of a deed of conditions; determination of the scope of common property; the transitional provisions in the Land Registration etc (Scotland) Act 2012; positive prescription and the offside goals rule. Lady […]

sbh

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the ceiling felt so much closer to her than ever before, so much closer to her forehead to the hairs brushed swept to the left side she tried to swing her foot over but again, CAUGHT, on the bed frame, the metallic ridge stuck out into the foot well she thought, and then the collapse […]

Gifford Lecture 6- “Only Connect!”: Christianity in the Digital Age

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Professor Hempton greeted us into his last lecture by thanking the University of Edinburgh for their great hospitality and thanking the blog respondents for meeting him for coffee al fresco. His stimulating and energetic lecture however soon warmed up the Playfair library. As usual, below is a short lecture summary, followed by a response by […]

Sexing The Field

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Sexing the Field: A note on intersectional ecofeminism in geographical fieldwork. PREFACE before things get juicy:This is an essay I wrote in November 2018. Looking back it has nowhere near the level of critique I now hold for geographical undertakings of ecofeminism. It does however hold true that intersectionality in geographical fieldwork RE climate change […]