This is the next installment of my action research project which examines how people’s lives are represented in bureaucratic paperwork and how the experiences people have can be understood… Read more
What follows is the writing up of my lived experience of struggling with the over bureaucratisation of my life. It became a project when several years ago I realised that I was going between several agencies all tasked with supporting me trying to rehabilitate from a life where I had been homeless. I fell into what is categorised as ‘multiple needs’. Read more
It is important to distinguish the notion of poverty as capability inadequacy from that of poverty as lowness of income. The two perspectives are related, since income is an important means to capabilities. Enhanced capabilities in leading a life tend, to expand a person’s ability to be more productive and earn a higher income, also improvement of a person’s capabilities lends to greater earning power. Read more
After being prompted we have done much thinking and deliberating and working out the cost/benefits of intellectual property and officialdom, we decided to change the collective name from that of ‘Ragged University’ to The Ragged Project…Ragged-Online, Ragged Talks, Ragged Publishing, Ragged Music; you get the picture. Read more