Until you looked you had none.

The book is concerned with unpacking and demonstrating how these ideas are claimed but also challenged and contested through ‘grassroots’ storytelling, everyday expressions of spiritual life, and the complex class histories of the telling and retelling of folklore.

These concerns are interwoven with disputes about nature as a resource for human exploitation or as a transcendent quality of life on Earth, often both. This is rendered more complex by the intersection of these disputes with a gendered and nominally indigenous claim to the land by ethnonationalists

If you're curious about what I'll be yapping about, this is a summary:

This book will provide the reader with a strong understanding of the way in which land, landscape, and the idea of nature have been central concerns of folklore and politicised forms of national culture in England.

Amazing. That is pretty much a dream gig!

I'd particularly like to draw your attention to the stream I am co-convening with the excellent Dr Teodora Todorova - 'Critical Whiteness Studies'. There are 17 streams in total ranging across theory, politics, creativity, and healing.

You've got to hand it to the tentacled one - inspiring strangeness in a world cascading down a spiral of ever increasing terminal novelty really takes some doing!