Andrew Pigott
Biographic Data
| ID | 1173023 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Pigott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Pigott |
| SIGNATURE | PIGOTT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Swansea University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0573-8181 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No one talks about it”: Using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education
Higher Education (HE) is, at best, struggling to rise to the challenges of the climate and ecological crises (CEC) and, at worst, actively contributing to them by perpetuating particular ways of knowing, relating, and acting. Calls for HE to radically transform its activities in response to the polycrises abound, yet questions about how this will be achieved are often overlooked. This article proposes that a lack of capacity to express and share …
Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture
In this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual knowledge practices rarely sit comfortably alongside technoscientific, productivist accounts of soil health, and yet they can re-configure how soils are conceptualised and managed, with implications for relationships of care. Drawing on an extended peri…
Articulating artfulness: Exploring the ecological potential of creative conversation
Notions of “artfulness” are increasingly being used in the humanities and social sciences to nod towards ephemeral linkages between creativity and ecological sensitivity, but there has so far been little work to flesh out in detail what this term entails, both conceptually and in practice. This paper contributes to current understandings of “artfulness” through an in‐depth case study of conversations facilitated by an arts‐sustainability project …
Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future
This article explores how the Welsh Government’s recent policy innovations in climate change and environmental sustainability can be read in terms of their imaginative capacity for transformation. The Welsh Government is one of only a few governments in the world to have a legal duty to sustainable development, which includes the pioneering Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). The legislation has received international attention and prais…
Rites of Holy Terror: Sadean Governmentality in France's Les Dieux ont soif
Rites of Holy Terror: Sadean Governmentality in France's Les Dieux ont soif Les dieux ont soif seems, at first blush, to endorse a centuries-old cliché: the Jacobin club trafficked in ideological abstraction, thus dooming their project to “failure.” Reading more closely, we find an altogether different set of concerns. In his stereotyped cast of characters, in the leitmotifs of nature and monstrosity, and in an interlocking grid of references, wh…
On Pascal’s Revealed Word (and What it Says about Being Human)
On Pascal’s Revealed Word (and What it Says about Being Human) Andrew Pigott (bio) Le cœur a ses raisons ... Perhaps we should begin, in naïve earnestness, by consulting the heart. Perhaps, before erecting our scholarly apparatus, advancing our arguments and adducing the evidence we have compiled, we should attend, not to the “text itself” (whatever that means), but to the feelings that the text provokes. And perhaps, in so doing, we will be led …
L'En-tropologie flaubertienne: La Tentation, Bouvard et Pécuchet , et l'éclipse du discours
L'En-tropologie flaubertienne :La Tentation, Bouvard et Pécuchet, et l'éclipse du discours Andrew Pigott (bio) La Deuxième Loi de la thermodynamique En 1824, Sadi Carnot publia Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propre à développer cette puissance. Résumant ses recherches sur l'efficacité des moteurs, ce traité modeste allait faire couler beaucoup d'encre1. Selon les observations de Carnot, la chaleur ne se traduit pas…
Le Vers libre (review)
Reviewed by: Le Vers libre Andrew Pigott (bio) Michel Murat. Le Vers libre. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. Much like Michel Murat’s earlier work, Le Coup de dés de Mallarmé: un recommencement de la poésie, Le Vers libre responds to a perceived gap in the scholarship. While library stacks burgeon with histories of and technical treatises on traditional French verse, critics (however intrepid) and historians (however longsuffering) have fairly negle…
Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (review)
Reviewed by: Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century Andrew Pigott (bio) Motte Warren. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century Champagne-Urbana: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. 200 pages. ISBN 978-1564785039. In opting for the title Fiction Now, Warren Motte registers the immense risk— and potential payoff—associated with his most recent endeavor. Of course, he may simply have intended to pay homage to Francis Ford…
Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita (review)
Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture
In this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual knowledge practices rarely sit comfortably alongside technoscientific, productivist accounts of soil health, and yet they can re-configure how soils are conceptualised and managed, with implications for relationships of care. Drawing on an extended peri…
Articulating artfulness: Exploring the ecological potential of creative conversation
Notions of “artfulness” are increasingly being used in the humanities and social sciences to nod towards ephemeral linkages between creativity and ecological sensitivity, but there has so far been little work to flesh out in detail what this term entails, both conceptually and in practice. This paper contributes to current understandings of “artfulness” through an in‐depth case study of conversations facilitated by an arts‐sustainability project …
Dirt for Art's Sake: Books on Trial from Madame Bovary to Lolita (review)
Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century (review)
Reviewed by: Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century Andrew Pigott (bio) Motte Warren. Fiction Now: The French Novel in the Twenty-First Century Champagne-Urbana: Dalkey Archive Press, 2008. 200 pages. ISBN 978-1564785039. In opting for the title Fiction Now, Warren Motte registers the immense risk— and potential payoff—associated with his most recent endeavor. Of course, he may simply have intended to pay homage to Francis Ford…
Le Vers libre (review)
Reviewed by: Le Vers libre Andrew Pigott (bio) Michel Murat. Le Vers libre. Paris: Honoré Champion, 2008. Much like Michel Murat’s earlier work, Le Coup de dés de Mallarmé: un recommencement de la poésie, Le Vers libre responds to a perceived gap in the scholarship. While library stacks burgeon with histories of and technical treatises on traditional French verse, critics (however intrepid) and historians (however longsuffering) have fairly negle…
L'En-tropologie flaubertienne: La Tentation, Bouvard et Pécuchet , et l'éclipse du discours
L'En-tropologie flaubertienne :La Tentation, Bouvard et Pécuchet, et l'éclipse du discours Andrew Pigott (bio) La Deuxième Loi de la thermodynamique En 1824, Sadi Carnot publia Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur les machines propre à développer cette puissance. Résumant ses recherches sur l'efficacité des moteurs, ce traité modeste allait faire couler beaucoup d'encre1. Selon les observations de Carnot, la chaleur ne se traduit pas…
On Pascal’s Revealed Word (and What it Says about Being Human)
On Pascal’s Revealed Word (and What it Says about Being Human) Andrew Pigott (bio) Le cœur a ses raisons ... Perhaps we should begin, in naïve earnestness, by consulting the heart. Perhaps, before erecting our scholarly apparatus, advancing our arguments and adducing the evidence we have compiled, we should attend, not to the “text itself” (whatever that means), but to the feelings that the text provokes. And perhaps, in so doing, we will be led …
Rites of Holy Terror: Sadean Governmentality in France's Les Dieux ont soif
Rites of Holy Terror: Sadean Governmentality in France's Les Dieux ont soif Les dieux ont soif seems, at first blush, to endorse a centuries-old cliché: the Jacobin club trafficked in ideological abstraction, thus dooming their project to “failure.” Reading more closely, we find an altogether different set of concerns. In his stereotyped cast of characters, in the leitmotifs of nature and monstrosity, and in an interlocking grid of references, wh…
Imagining socioecological transformation: An analysis of the Welsh Government’s policy innovations and orientations to the future
This article explores how the Welsh Government’s recent policy innovations in climate change and environmental sustainability can be read in terms of their imaginative capacity for transformation. The Welsh Government is one of only a few governments in the world to have a legal duty to sustainable development, which includes the pioneering Well-being of Future Generations Act (2015). The legislation has received international attention and prais…
Articulating artfulness: Exploring the ecological potential of creative conversation
Notions of “artfulness” are increasingly being used in the humanities and social sciences to nod towards ephemeral linkages between creativity and ecological sensitivity, but there has so far been little work to flesh out in detail what this term entails, both conceptually and in practice. This paper contributes to current understandings of “artfulness” through an in‐depth case study of conversations facilitated by an arts‐sustainability project …
Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture
In this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual knowledge practices rarely sit comfortably alongside technoscientific, productivist accounts of soil health, and yet they can re-configure how soils are conceptualised and managed, with implications for relationships of care. Drawing on an extended peri…
No one talks about it”: Using emotional methodologies to overcome climate silence and inertia in Higher Education
Higher Education (HE) is, at best, struggling to rise to the challenges of the climate and ecological crises (CEC) and, at worst, actively contributing to them by perpetuating particular ways of knowing, relating, and acting. Calls for HE to radically transform its activities in response to the polycrises abound, yet questions about how this will be achieved are often overlooked. This article proposes that a lack of capacity to express and share …
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