WRITING
JOURNALISM
writing and editing
Bella Caledonia (2007-2020)
Brexit Britain, the Golden Tortoise
Guardian - Comment is Free (2006-2016)
Open Democracy 2008 - presentBack to the Future with Empire Oil
De Smog - investigative climate journalism 2018 - presentInvestigative feature: US Oil Billionaire Charles Koch Funds UK Anti-Environment Spiked Network
The Herald - articles 2015 - 2018
'Time to Abolish the Queen of the Kleptocracy'
The National - weekly column
On Coal, Koalas and Colonialism
WRITING PROJECTS
non fiction
Bella Caledonia - an anthology of writing from (2007-2021) This is fourteen years of writing from Peter Arnott; Alan Bissett; Stuart Christie; Neil Cooper; Alistair Davidson; Meaghan Delahunt; Chloé Farand; Katie Gallogly-Swan; George Gunn; Scott Hames; Gerry Hassan; Dougald Hine; Kathleen Jamie; Pat Kane; AL Kennedy; George Kerevan; Laura Cameron-Lewis; Abi Lightbody; Caitlin Logan; Iain Mackinnon; Max Macleod; Jamie Maxwell; Cáit O’Neill McCullagh; Mairi McFadyen; Alastair McIntosh; Raman Mundair; Alison Phipps; Brian Quail; Adam Ramsay; George Rosie; Rory Scothorne; Amna Saleem; Christopher Silver; Claire Squires; Dougie Strang; Paul Tritschler; Irvine Welsh; Andy Wightman.
undefined
Radical Scotland: a brief history of Scottish anarchism, direct action and free-thinking 1880-2010 (forthcoming AK Press)
Biography of Patrick Geddes
BOOKS
publishing and contributions to collected essays
'Scotland 2021' (Edited with Simon Barrow) 2016
In forty chapters we explore practical radical innovation and policy challenges with contributions from Irvine Welsh, Joyce McMillan, Maggie Chapman, Robin McAlpine, Kathy Galloway, Tom French, Vonnie Moyes, Anuj Kapilashrami, Niamh Webster, Michael Marten, Milja Radovic, Talat Yaqoob, Jan Bebbington, Adam Ramsay and dozens more.
Buy from Waterstones £12.99 here.Or Word Power Books £12.99 here
Scotland 2021 edited by Simon Barrow and Mike Small (Paperback) (ISBN: 9780993294235)
'Unstated - writers on Scottish Independence'- (Edited by Scott Hames, published by Word Power Press. 2014)
'Despatches from the Invisible Revolution' New Public Thinking 1: Reflections on 2011 (Edited by Dougald Hine and Keith Kahn-Harris
Scotland’s Local Food Revolution, Argyll (2013)
This book brings together leading voices in the Catalonian left independence movement alongside key figures in the international solidarity movement. The book articulates the political strategies and aspirations of the anti-capitalist, feminist and socialist struggles for self-determination in Catalonia in a series of 35 short and sharply written essays.
The book includes a preface by Anna Gabriel, who was the Parliamentary leader of the municipal socialist CUP party at the time of the referendum and is now in exile in Geneva, under threat of arrest and imprisonment by the Spain. It includes chapters by Catalan political leaders including Jordi Cuixart (currently in jail awaiting trial for sedition), Liz Castro and David Fernandez, and prominent international contributors including journalist Paul Mason and economist Costas Lapavitsas.
Ignasi Bernat and David Whyte set the scene for the book in an extended introduction that traces the enduring influence of the ’78 transition from Franco, and use this analysis to discuss the possibilities for developing truly democratic and popular forms of self-determination.
The book is published by Pol-len in Catalonia and Bella Caledonia in Scotland. UK distribution is by Lighthouse Books.
Price £9.99
Scotland's Local Food Revolution
"This book lifts the lid on the unsavoury reality of our current food system including horsemeat in processed beef products, the unsustainable movement of food round the globe, and how supermarket shopping generates massive waste. It's an indictment of a food system that is out of control. But this is also a hopeful book as it describes the local food movement in Scotland and how demands for change are growing in strength to recapture control of the food system. It also shows how individuals can take simple steps to switch to more sustainable and healthy eating and evaluates what the Scottish Government is doing to address these profoundly important issues."
Publisher: Centre for Confidence and Well-Being
ISBN: 9781908931269
Price £7.99 Buy it here.
Research / Action
Enough
growing our economy is costing us our future
The Enough! Collective is a response and a call to action.
"We believe that growing our economy is costing us our future. This story of growth is so embedded in our ways of living that any kind of change demands the complete re-imagination of our society. We believe that not only is this possible, it is now essential."
I work on the Degrowth Commission and edit the journal 'Less'. More here.
Citizen
re-imagining the city
Citizen is a network of people working to re-imagine the city as a sustainable place for people to live in, one of social justice and equality, not just a space for consumption and profit. Through its Manifesto for the City Citizen will promote community-led development to defend the city against unwelcome development, privatisation and over-tourism.
More here.
Food
a restorative food practice
TALKS
Talks
Launch of the Degrowth Commission, Govan, Glasgow July 2019
Talk on Rojava and Social Ecology, organised by Scottish Solidarity with Kurdistan, Dundee, September 2019
Twilight Sci-Fi - on Patrick Geddes, Jules Verne and the Celtic Origins of Science Fiction, Edinburgh, October 2017TedX Portobello 15 May 2016 ‘Find Us Here’: ‘The Liminal Land’
Malmö Sweden 30 March 2016 at Connectors Salon 38: ‘Citizen Journalism’
Stockholm Sweden 29 March: ‘Scotland’s 5th Estate’
Reykjavík Iceland. 'Scotland and Iceland: Crisis, Flux & Constitutional Change'. Open seminar hosted by the Institute of International Affairs and Centre for Small State Studies at the University of Iceland
Dundee Commons Festival 25 August 2015: ‘Food as Commons: creating a restorative food culture’
TedX Glasgow June 2015 The Local Food Revolution
Edinburgh Book Festival - 16 August 2014: ‘Scotland’s Local Food Revolution’.
Edinburgh Radical Independent Book Fair, Out of the Blue - 25 October 2014: ‘On New Media and Democracy’
Edinburgh College of Art - 2013 November 2013 ‘Food, Art, Nature, and Sustainability’
Lectures
University of Edinburgh - 4 February 2015 ESRC Seminar Series
“The Politics of Food and Nutrition: Resilience, Security and Justice in a Global Context”University of Dundee - 18 November 2015 - Geddes and the 5th Estate - publishing, citizenship and cultural insurgency
Torino, Italy - UNESCO Chair in Sustainable Development and Territory Management: ‘Our Food Future’ (University of Turin)
University of Edinburgh - On Food Sovereignty and Climate Change 2012-16 - Human Dimensions of Environmental Change and Sustainability, School of Geosciences
Univeralism and the Genus Loci: Geddes in Cyprus, Italy, Catalonia and Japan in 'A Vigorous Institution: The Living Legacy of Patrick Geddes', Luath Press (2007).
Local Development as a Strategic Alternative in 'Systemic Complexity and Eco-Sustainable Development', Edited by Ivano Spano and Dario Padovan (2001), Padua, Italy - June 2001
