Andie
My blogs
Blogs I follow
- Critical Animal
- The Only Jenk
- Between These Four Walls
- Bird-dog Dame
- Blad's Blog
- Blog de Carlos Braverman
- Center for Development in Central America
- Foucault News
- game changing
- Nicklas Noterar
- Politics, Popular Culture, Poststructuralism
- Reading Identity Conference
- richelectron
- sarahpfinlay
- Struggles With Philosophy
- Territorial Masquerades
- That's Not It
- Understanding Society
| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Non-Profit |
| Occupation | Lecturer / Development Practitioner / Consultant |
| Location | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Introduction | PhD in Development Studies. Also a graduate in Applied Social Sciences, Social Research, Community Education and TESOL who has practitioner experience in youth work, community development, international development, adult education, lecturing, teaching, social enterprise and international development. Programme Director for MSc Community Action and Social Justice at Edinburgh University, UK. Currently writing about refugee education, populism in Latin America, defending community development and the future of development studies. |
| Interests | self-development, community development, international development, youth development, volunteering, participatory action research, gender, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, post-humanism, making a difference, travelling, meditation, spirituality, philosophy, hillwalking, tarot, runes, hermeticism, astrology, numerology, yoga, video games, making connections, languages, teaching... a lot really. |
| Favorite Movies | A Dark Song, Warrior, The Dark Knight, The Crow, Enter the Dragon, Pan's Labyrinth, Big Trouble in Little China, Daughters of the Dust, All About Eve, Zero Dark Thirty, Sicario, Aliens, The Keeping Room, The Motorcycle Diaries, In the Mood for Love, Lust Caution, The House of Flying Daggers, Brotherhood of the Wolf, District 9. |
| Favorite Music | The Cure, Depeche Mode, The 1975, Joy Division, PJ Harvey, Fiona Apple, Portishead, The Tea Party, Nine Inch Nails, Empathy Test, Russian Circles, The Offspring, The Killing Joke, Juno Reactor, Bruderschaft, Nightwish. |
| Favorite Books | The Shadow of the Wind, The Marriages Between Zones 3, 4 and 5., Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Celestine Prophecy, The Grass is Singing, The Color Purple, The Ethics of What We Eat, Tao of Physics, Magic: An Occult Primer, His Dark Materials trilogy, The Amazing Tale of Adolphus Tips, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Eat Pray Love, The Outrun, The Da Vinci Code, 1984, 100 Years of Solitude, The Grapes of Wrath |
What kind of tape is best for creating a sculpture?
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.