I’m speaking with folk at the Centre for Stewardship in Fife concerning their need to refine a definition of stewardship and promote a model for the future. I have e-mailed and met with Ninian Stewart and Mike Small at the CfS and have an ongoing dialogue on what their needs are for research and what will be practical for me to undertake. They are very articulate and I think will be a great boon to my academic work (they will hold me accountable and make me a “steward of my words”). I also hope to pull commentary from the Centre For Human Ecology community as I would imagine many of them will have something to say on the topic. If possible, though this may be somewhat problematic, I would also like to speak with landlords in the UK to examine their thought on the evolving nature of estates management.
However, though I have to consider my time limits and scope of my research, I want to take care not to preach to the converted. I do want to explore how this concept is understood popularly; I’ll need to refer to what is happening in “the everyday world”.