The raisons d'être behind this website are set out in the writings below. Please, follow the links and see the sitemap. Writings on related themes have been grouped together, but no prescribed reading sequence is intended or expected. The more that is read the more complete the picture of why this website is as it is, will become.
For this website, I take a more personal, reflective tone - it is not meant to be read as academic literature per se although what is described does have a direct bearing upon my academic work.
As of 2009, this part of my web output has been migrated to this Google site as this offers a more easily edited and more readily accessible writing environment.