Territorial animals

This follows last week’s reflections on the patriotic predicament  to which a global dimension is also added that explains how the new ‘progressive’ British neo-nationalist discourse works. On the clip iconic folk singer Billy Bragg ‘repeats’ Gordon Brown. More next week.

The patriotic predicament, British style

This is about the sheer futility involved in the attempts at developing a new, as it were, minority-led, ‘progressive’ and ‘alternative’ yet still grand-national British patriotic predicament by the very ‘secular’, ‘liberal’, ‘cosmopolitan’ and ‘unprejudiced’ representatives of the British ethnic minorities themselves (Afro-Caribbean, Muslim…). The clip below offers a possible way of linking the particular and the universal. 

Gentle perspectivism

The notion of gentle perspectivism refers most particularly to how scholarly work on ‘external’ phenomena should be approached by academics but blends in this argument below about the foreign gaze as well. As to the clip: just a gentle take on manners and this obsession with ties that British men accross the class divide display at every possible public occasion.