Andrew F Wilson

Interested in apocalyptic belief, extremism, and environmental justice. Interdisciplinary: sociology, criminology, cultural studies.

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@Scorhill e.g. 13. Another way to do ethics: uses of the landscape in the far-right cultural milieu and the ethics of researching them in this: https://t.co/kS4tUFxiun

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@Scorhill Yes but also as an antidote - opening up land through the retelling of polysemous tales. Currently looking at inland mermaids in the Peak District.

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@Scorhill I certainly will; and if I keep on equivocating with my own stuff I'll end up citing it, haha!

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@Scorhill Yes! Absolutely, I ended up reading bits and pieces of a few collected in a book I happened across yesterday (The Derbyshire Gatherer).

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@Scorhill I'll be fascinated to read it. I'm walking around the edges of a project with 'strata of enchantment' at its centre - folklore/myth as open stories that continually make and remake landscapes as human spaces and cultural 'resources'. Potential overlap with charismatic landscapes

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

Thanks @malcschofield - last night was a fun event; talking about folklore as a contested cultural form and the role it can, and has played, in countering misogyny and ethnonationalism among other socially harmful discourses.

[Malcolm Schofield @malcschofield]

Excellent research cafe talk by @drafwilson at Quad tonight featuring Mam Tor and mermaids @DerbyUni @DerbyUniVC

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

...and now will come the lazy 'the media made them do it,' 'politicians led them here,' analyses. All with the subtlety of '30s view of the easily led 'masses'. There is a rottenness in the core of society; opportunists have leapt on it as they always do but the malaise is deep.

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

Yes.
The vibes were off.
There were unseemly shows of support from those with 'first dibs' on the archaeology thrown up by the boring process but it can only be a good thing that the site is respected. Want a quieter henge landscape? Take back MoD land and build a road there.

[Gazette & Herald @wiltsgazette]

Stonehenge tunnel plans scrapped by Labour government https://t.co/DcbxTXvNSX

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@BBCBreaking Fear of peaceful protest betokens a weak and fearful political system. In the climate crisis, the wrong people are being pursued and punished

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@SassySENDCo @JohnPortSpencer @satrust_ What a wonderful experience for them, fantastic!

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

@philbc3 Good to see, 'just about,' in there because, well, where do we start? It is going to be a very fecund period for the bullshit industry.

[Dale Vince @DaleVince]

Labour are ending the use of bee killing chemicals in farming, as promised - fab news. One teaspoon of Neonics can kill 1.25 billion bees! An end to the Badger cull next pls & proper enforcement of the Fox hunting ban… it's a bit like Xmas…:) https://t.co/U0kV9uAQrF

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

There is a far deeper malaise at work than 'the media made them do it' and the sooner the complexities of the voids where a shared public culture and mechanisms of social support used to exist are addressed, the better. 5

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

It really is. There's a lot of hot air in the media-new and legacy-about the media's role in boosting Reform. A lot of their supporters don't care about the 'MSM'; it's sad to see the pedestrian analyses treating them as guileless masses manipulated by the mass media 1

[Gaia Vince @WanderingGaia]

Brilliant column by ⁦@MarinaHyde⁩ https://t.co/2r5qgu2isV

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

Reform's vote share isn't up much on UKIP's 12.6% in 2015 but 14% still means that 1 in 7 voted for a far right party. There are deep structural problems in the UK but there are also deep cultural problems that get us to this point. Media coverage of Reform does not help but 4

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

As joyous as it is to see the kicking out the morally bankrupt Tory ghouls I'm repulsed by Reform's seats. 'Brexit' grievously wounded this country and the wound is festering; the politics of hate has taken hold. That is the legacy of the last 14 years.
https://t.co/z6twvHmg2N

[Andrew F Wilson @drafwilson]

Really interesting first morning at #sacredwaters conference in Buxton