News - Stephen Pax Leonard

03 Jul 2024 Paper on the Social Justice Ideology published

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Paper published in the International Journal of Language Studies 18 (3): 155-78 This article makes the claim that the social justice ideology that has become hegemonic and institutionalised throughout the universities of the Anglosphere is best understood by analysing what I call ‘harmonious discourse markers’. Using discourse...

04 Mar 2024 Fiat Lustitia Ruat Caelum (article in Country Squire Magazine)

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Article published in the Country Squire Magazine ‘What do you chaps get up to at Club?’, asked Don as he/she/it/they passed the shaving bowl to Reggie. Don who had previously been known as Doreen until she discovered Uncle Ted’s wife-beaters came from a long line of...

14 Dec 2023 White Privilege! – c’est quoi, mon Seigneur? (Article in the Country Squire Magazine)

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Article published in the Country Squire Magazine White Privilege! – c’est quoi, mon Seigneur? No longer able to tolerate the body odour of the classicists camped out in the Lower Bod now that Collections were approaching, Reggie – a proud, cis-gendered gentleman of remarkable plumage – had...

06 Sep 2023 ‘The Moon is a Balloon’ or is it?

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Article published in the Country Squire Magazine ‘The Moon is a Balloon’ or is it? Will we ever see the likes of David Niven again? It is a fair question to ask, isn’t it now that the new moralism has become absolutely hegemonic. Not so many years...

24 Jul 2023 ‘There is Something Amiss’: Article in The Country Squire Magazine

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There is Something Amiss (published in The Country Squire Magazine) Blessed with silly middle names since a young age, St. Clair walked the damp, post- pandemic streets of Jericho in pursuit of a croissant and a spot of Crème anglaise. There was something queer about his pronominal usage...

13 Jul 2023 Paper on the Russian philosophy of language published

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A paper on the Russian philosophy of language has been published in the Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 22 (65), 2023: 145-58. Words to things: religious cosmologies in the context of the (Russian) Orthodox philosophy of language Abstract Religious cosmologies put forward by Russian philosophers...

17 Jun 2023 Paper on the ‘The Nihilistic Turn: Dealing with Ethnographic Entanglements’ published

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'The Nihilistic Turn: Dealing with Ethnographic Entanglements' has been published in Anthropos 2023 (118): 1-5. The nihilistic turn: dealing with ethnographic entanglements In this brief essay, I intend to make two inter-related points: (1) the perception by interlocutors and one’s coevals that ethnographic fieldwork is by...

20 Apr 2023 Latest research on semiotics of prayer published

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Latest research on the semiotic analysis of prayer has been published. This research is based on my long-term fieldwork in Colombia and Russia. This research article can be found in Anthropological Notebooks 29 (1): 1-20. This article brings together two unrelated ethnographies in which former hostages...

13 Sep 2022 Book Review ‘Annals of Solitude’

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My latest book, Annals of Solitude, receives a very sound review in the Country Squire Magazine. Here is the article: https://countrysquire.co.uk/2022/09/07/annals-of-solitude/ ...

14 Aug 2022 How to find harmony in nature

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If you live alone in a cabin (it could be in the forest, up in the mountains or on the Arctic tundra), you soon reconnect with nature because the seasons and the weather become overwhelmingly relevant to the point they become internalized. This reconnection with...