Simon Ellis Poole

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What might a reconceptualization of our understanding of mental health look like given increasing numbers of diagnoses?

I ask this question not because I believe necessarily that there is a need to reconceptualize mental health, but because in a conversation with colleagues over a social prescription project we're...

15 February 2018 379 6 View

How much folklore is transmitted through schools? Do you think schools should make a point of transmitting folklore?

I'm currently laying down some groundwork to revisit Opie and Opie's seminal text (1959) with schools in my region as a focus. And this question keeps niggling at me. The line of formal, unformal...

19 January 2018 9,319 6 View

Is maintaining a cultural identity important, or should we all try to become one global culture?

A rather cod question I realise, but I've revisited some texts on postnationalism - for a paper I'm tidying up - and it has got me wondering what people really think about this. Whether I'm...

18 January 2018 5,163 24 View

To what extent can an archive be democratic - can the curatorial process be entirely democratic? And how might such an archive be constructed?

Can a folk-group be curators of their own archive? Could there be a more democratic manner in which materials are collected, recorded, accessed etc. I'm thinking particularly here of Ranciere's...

11 January 2018 2,971 3 View