Comments on: the tears that made the clyde http://www.joelafferty.com/2010/03/04/the-tears-that-made-the-clyde/ ...enabling purposeful conversations... Tue, 06 Dec 2011 07:38:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Joe Lafferty http://www.joelafferty.com/2010/03/04/the-tears-that-made-the-clyde/comment-page-1/#comment-9745 Joe Lafferty Fri, 02 Apr 2010 13:11:54 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/2010/03/04/the-tears-that-made-the-clyde/#comment-9745 Maybe you should read Carol's book Harry? I certainly don't see it as either platitudes or basic undergraduate Sociology! You might not agree with her diagnosis or ideas for change, but at least, as Prof Devine said, it's a serious intellectual attempt at synthesising the roots of these endemic problems, and offering some options for change. Maybe you should read Carol’s book Harry?

I certainly don’t see it as either platitudes or basic undergraduate Sociology!

You might not agree with her diagnosis or ideas for change, but at least, as Prof Devine said, it’s a serious intellectual attempt at synthesising the roots of these endemic problems, and offering some options for change.

]]> By: Harry Greenwood http://www.joelafferty.com/2010/03/04/the-tears-that-made-the-clyde/comment-page-1/#comment-9743 Harry Greenwood Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:46:42 +0000 http://www.joelafferty.com/2010/03/04/the-tears-that-made-the-clyde/#comment-9743 As an ex-pat, reading the reviews and the critique which have followed the release of The Tears that made the Clyde I am overcome with the feeling of deja vue. I left Glasgow soon after WWII with the joy of escaping a dark, drudgy, dreary city and leaving it to nice folk, many of them living in squalid housing and continuous exploitation by other nice folk. On my frequent return visits I encounter, in spite of some clean-up and demographic shift, no change in the Victorian drabness and the perpetual decay in cultural values. There is no one speaking up for a better Glasgow, moving chairs and dealing in platitudes is Sociology 101. As an ex-pat, reading the reviews and the critique which have followed the release of The Tears that made the Clyde I am overcome with the feeling of deja vue. I left Glasgow soon after WWII with the joy of escaping a dark, drudgy, dreary city and leaving it to nice folk, many of them living in squalid housing and continuous exploitation by other nice folk. On my frequent return visits I encounter, in spite of some clean-up and demographic shift, no change in the Victorian drabness and the perpetual decay in cultural values. There is no one speaking up for a better Glasgow, moving chairs and dealing in platitudes is Sociology 101.

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