Let us be clear: when I was a full-time NGO staffer I was very anti-celebrity. I didn’t like their field trips using up precious staff time and community resources; I didn’t like their press statements over-simplifying and misrepresenting our work and the people we worked with; I didn’t like how their presence created a juxtapostion … Continue reading »
May
26
Snippet of Celebrity and the Environment
I keep going back to this paragraph as if trying to commit it to memory so I’m parking it here. It’s from page two of Celebrity and the Environment. Fame Wealth and Power in Conservation by Dan Brockington. The rest of the book is good too but I keep going back to this bit. Normally … Continue reading »
May
25
An editor’s lot – division of labour
Last week, explaining to some people why and how I’d be editing their words, a guy I’ve worked with over a few years asked, “How do you see ownership? I think the words are 80% mine and 20% yours but you act like they’re 80% yours.” I’d anticipated a bunch of questions but that wasn’t … Continue reading »