Transformation is a process, not a thing. An important part of it is breaking down the shape the world is presented to us in, recognising in it what we do and what other people do, and rethinking the whole of it: seeing connections, recognising hidden conficts, and locating ourselves in relation to them. So rather than set out the stuff on these pages in a neat system of headings and boxes, I've played about with different ways of organising them.
The end result is a ring on which western Marxism and contemporary Buddhism - or community politics and academic research - don't seem to exist on completely different planes from each other, but start to share some kind of communicative space. You can enter the ring at any point, or move from one document to the next one on the ring. If your browser has problems with the graphics, there's a text version below.
A list of new stuff is available here.
An Caorthann (The Rowan Tree) green / alternative zine
All the back issues
Ireland From Below activist / academic get-together
Papers from the workshop
Buddhist meditation for beginners
A stand-alone course
Buddhism in the 21st century
A bit about the book The Buddha and the barcode
Does modernity have Buddha nature?
When all that is solid melts into air....
Towards a liberation Buddhology?
Some issues in contemporary Buddhism
Thinking and writing skills
Writing essays for professional courses
Methodologies in the social sciences
Complete text of the Post-methodology? collection
Mapping the social world
A few points of reference
Connecting academia and social movements
Documents from the Centre for Research on Environment and Community
Doing research from and for social movements
Possibility of doing participatory research on social movement practice
The Ballymun Oral History Project
Some background material
What's wrong with incinerators
Briefing document against the SE regional incinerator
Mummifying Raymond Williams
A review of Fred Inglis' Raymond Williams
Marx as you've never seen him before
Dave Landy's alternative biography
Talkin' 'bout a revolution...
The "new movement" from Seattle to Genoa and beyond
Understanding social movements
A collection of conference papers
Building counter cultures
Summary and contents of a 10-year research project
The German counter culture
The Hamburg "alternative Szene" in 1990 - 91
Activists and academics on social movements
The social-movements mailing list homepage and archives
Academics and activists call for peace
A public statement against the drive to war
How to be a better activist
Talk to Convergence sustainable development fair
Go somewhere else
Selected links to other sites
Search this site
An alternative way to find what you need
These pages are maintained by Laurence Cox. I can be contacted at . There's only one of me, though, and I find burnout is a constant risk. So it may take a while for me to get back to you. More to the point, this site is precisely a collection of tools: I'm trying to pass on knowledge, democratise skills, and generally enable people to do things for themselves. I'm not interested in doing people's homework, joining more organisations, getting junk mail, arguing about opinions or buying products. I will do my level best to answer genuine emails, though!
Many thanks to Anna Mazzoldi for much Web assistance of various kinds.
Thanks to Richard Cox, Wendy Cox, Megan Hall and Monica Mazzone
for comments on a draft version of this site.
Last updated: August 25th, 2003
Surrendering vain attachment
To ownership and selfhood,
May the benefit generated
By these actions here
Assist the liberation of all suffering beings.
May I be of service
To all sentient existence
In the arising and dissolution
Of all world systems
Throughout time and space.
- Shantideva (8th century), tr. Dharmachari Sanghapala
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