Alternative capitalisms
A new capitalism analysis? Yes, new capitalism analyses do appear. Although fairly rarely, maybe. It is not just the old stuff on how capitalism is bad – or good. Not just the old black and white treatment. Two fairly recent examples include Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett: The Spirit Level (2010), and Thomas Pikketty: Capital […]
Kjønnslikestilling og FNs bærekraftsmål
En internasjonal undersøkelse (IPSOS) tyder på at kjønnslikestilling er det minst kjente området blant 16 omåder i forhold til FNs bærekraftsmål, selv om det er presentert ganske høyt på listen, som mål nr 5. “A new Ipsos survey finds that at a global level, three out of four adults (74%) have at least some […]
Beautify Junkyards
Hippie music – not quite dead? Checking out Beautify Junkyards: The invisible world of Beautify Junkyards. Ghost box records. This is a Portuguese band, recorded in Lisbon. I came across it, searching for good new music, listened to it on Tidal, and then decided to buy the LP. Very glad I did. First thing – […]
Gentle Giant revisited
You might think a group named “Gentle Giant” was about masculinity. Maybe it was. But this group was mainly about “weird”, as in “far out”, beyond any of the confines of their context, the music scene in the UK around 1970. Where, suddenly, everyone and his son in law were competing, how to be “progressive”. […]
Is gender equality a benefit for men?
Washington Post cites my research here: https://www.stk.uio.no/om/aktuelt/i-media/2019/why-the-patriarchy-is-killing-men.html
Feminist pioneers in music: Grace Slick
A feminist pioneer belts it out: Grace Slick: Manhole (1974) Front side of the cover of my original LP (on Grunt label) Grace Slick was an icon of the youth revolution in the late 1960s. Was she only a pretty face? No. If you want a direct ‘time window’ into the end of the hippie […]
Wigwam: Being – en gang til
Det finske bandet Wigwam spilte inn Being i 1973. Det er vel omtrent så prog man kan komme, i nordisk prog i 1965-75-perioden. Being går tre ganger rundt det meste, både musikalsk og innholdsmessig. Er det vellykket? Tja, delvis, men det tar litt tid, litt lytting, før resepten «setter seg». Er det prog? Avgjort ja. […]
Harriet Holter on gender differentiation and gender stratification
It looks a bit sad, maybe – the cover on Harriet Holter’s doctoral thesis, published by the University press (Universitetsforlaget), Oslo, 1970. The cover was made by me and Iben Hjort. No brains involved. Empty at the top. What did Harriet Holter actually say, regarding gender differentiation and stratification? Her text was a world first […]
Men and gender equality research model wins peace prize
Each year, since 2012, the Schengen Peace Foundation and the World Peace Forum award the Luxembourg Peace Prize, an award that “honors the outstanding in the field of peace”. The categories of the Luxembourg Peace Prize and their celebration “amplify the aims and goals of the World Peace Forum”. This year, the award for “outstanding […]
Why we build the wall
I have been reading Chris Beckett’s science fiction novel America city – a direct extrapolation from today’s events in the US. A hundred years from now, the south of the US is no longer liveable. Immigrants flow to the north. But to win the election, presidential candidate Slaymaker has to relieve the burden on the […]