Karl-Erik Paasonen
is currently based in Brisbane, in Australia.

As you can see this site is not that well-developed as yet.   It will never be more than minimal - I get so sick of sites that take all day to load useless fripperies and gewgaws.  Perhaps the exhuberance of the background colour makes up for it to some degree.  It will , I promise, become more fully developed than this.  In time.

I can be contacted at <K.Paasonen@uq.edu.au>
 
This index-page will lead you to sites on the following:

  • Non(-)violence and other issues around protests :  I've been active in such matters for two decades and more, and I also train people in such matters and more lately lecture and tutor in it. You can also go to the relevant page of my University of Queensland website, which willprobably offer some links not offered here, but also led you to resources around the   The Jabiluka issue - various pages connected  with the campaign to stop this major proposed uranium mine in Kakadu National  Park in the Northern Territory.   It happens to be the topic of my doctoral thesis.
  • General anti-uranium issues in Australia - Australia is currently facing the prospect of more than twenty new uranium mines.  There is a vigorous campaign to oppose them.  Here there are links to resources to help you get involved.               (no content as yet)
  • Linguistics - mainly, but not exclusively, cognitive linguistics and various forms of critical linguistics.            (no content as yet)
  • Issues around notions of “belief”    - I regard this as an extremely important set of issues – where does “knowledge” end and “belief” begin?   Is there a bodily basis to mystical experience?   What relationship does that have to the way that people become politically active?  As you can see, a grab-bag, to a degree.   For the moment, this section will include everything from
    • benign forms of paganism (which I’m drawn to but find it hard to commit to, any more than to Marxism, say) to
    • aspects of conspiracy theories (which I find fascinating, if only because of the sheer will to believe it exhibits – though often there are factual nuggets buried in there too). 
    • from Morris dancing to
    • Neo-Nazi uses of Runes (pointing out to people the fallacies involved in modern runic stuff)

 I don't particularly hold with this kind  of thing, but a lot of it is fascinating stuff - some liberatory, some downright repressive and reactionary, some simply fun.

            (not much content as yet; but for what there is – largely promises about the good things to come – go to Issues around belief page)


I've written a fair few, some reasonably well-known, some little known; some political, some less so.

  • Various bits to do with music, particularly folk music – festivals, balalaika and saz sites etc
again, no content as yet
 
 

 

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