Notes from Underground
Bella has been the fertile ground for new writing, books leaking out of our site without permission – not just our own Building Catalonia, or our ebook War is Coming by Gordon Guthrie, or Scotland 2021 published with Ekklesia, or our own anthology – but also Lorna Miller’s The Poshboy, the Pants and the Pandemic – and George Gunn’s The Province of the Cat: A Journey to the Radical Heart of the Far North which emanated out of George’s long-running column on Bella. There’s another exciting new book about to spring forth but not ready for public release (!)
But we’re delighted that a new and very important book that first found at least some of its origins right here is emerging. From 2019 through to 2020 Dougald Hine wrote a series of ten lengthy pieces exploring his ideas about wtf was going on with the evocative question “Maybe it’s time to stop talking about climate change…”.
He said: “This starts out as a journey into the deep context of the new climate movements that have surfaced since mid-2018. I’m not writing to celebrate or critique, but as an invitation to a quieter reflection on where all this is coming from, and what it tells us about the moment in which we find ourselves.”
“These articles invited us to go deeper into the context of the new climate movements and what they tell us about the moment in which we find ourselves.” The essays are also available as a podcast and on YouTube. In moments Dougald joked about them looking like ‘hostage videos’.
Get past the lo-fi.
Anyway Dougald is now on tour launching his new book ‘At Work in the Ruins, Finding Our Place in the Time of Science, Climate Change, Pandemics and All the Other Emergencies’ published by Chelsea Green here.
There’s a Glasgow gig at Galgael on 11 February with Alastair McIntosh, Dougie Strang and Caroline Ross. Catch also Dougald’s podcast The Great Humbling here.
Save this space for a chat with Dougald to come on Fifty Six Degrees North.
I love the idea of Bella as an experimental space to try things out, check Dougald’s work and get along in Govan.
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Thanks for all this.
Would have gone to the talk in Glasgow on February 11th, but alas, on holiday in Australia.
(The plane was going anyhow/ I don’t have any kids/ I planted a few hundreds, or even thousands, of trees 16 years ago.)
But, aye, we might be toast, soon enough.