Research Fellow, University of Oxford: theology, philosophy, ethics, politics, environmental humanities. Associate Director @LSRIOxford. Anglican Priest.
Joined January 2015
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Mar 30
"The Politics of the Visual" - my new article on the ethics of photography at a time of ecological crisis:
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1. Joseph Conrad’s wonderful late novella, “The Shadow-Line”, written in 1915, is one of my favourites.
A short thread on historical, psychologising and metaphysical readings of this important text.
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11. The narrator's adoption of his "command" on the ship thus represents the call on the self to "become what you are not - what you are not ready to be". Just as had been the case with the young Conrad, displaced from his Polish identity and sent into the world by his Uncle.
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12. In fact "The Shadow-Line" can be considered a sister text to "The Secret-Sharer" (my other favourite Conrad work), since both describe a metaphysics of identity in a modern world that can no longer understand what it means to "belong" to a particular place.
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"I think it is because I strive to be apolitical that I become supremely political."
French Jesuit Gaston Fessard, 1935.
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Jun 9
Very important article:
"Christian leaders alarmed by climate crisis raise questions over GB News owner’s £28m church donations"
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Jun 8
If anyone is free in Oxford tomorrow, we have two places left for this lecture:
"Bringing Rivers Back to Life: Indigenous Water Management in Mexico"
- for those working in political ecology, geography, religion, ethics
Let me know.
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Jun 5
Sikh religious practices and the kirpan (ceremonial knife) in relation to English law:
A short and informative article by Jasjit Singh (University of Leeds).
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Jun 3
Eleven officers and police dog injured in ‘terrifying’ violence in Southampton
Chief of Hampshire police says those claiming to protest over murder of Henry Nowak were ‘determined to spark fear and division’
theguardian.com/uk-news/2026…
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Jun 1
"The Idea of the Instant in Descartes's Philosophy"
Jean Wahl
Edited and translated by Alan D. Schrift
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Jun 1
"Reading A Thousand Plateaus: Adventures in Nomad Thought"
Henry Somers-Hall
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May 25
What is the contribution of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC) to the global sustainability agenda?
A knowledge-exchange seminar.
Friday 29 May, 15.00 BST
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