Incite means to stir, encourage, urge on, stimulate or prompt to action. Its synonyms include provoke, goad, spur, arouse, exhort, fire, induce
Oxford is a beautiful city. If you are a visitor, Oxford Inciter aims to encourage you to come to Oxford, to stimulate your interest, to arouse your passion, to fire you with enthusiasm, to prompt you to see the parts of it which the tours miss, and to induce you to come back.
Oxford is also a threatened city. If you are a resident, Oxford Inciter aims to encourage you to protest about matters which concern you, to spur you to defend the place you live in, to arouse you from apathy about it, to fire your interest in things you may otherwise lose, to stimulate discussion and stir up debate, to exhort you to write to the local newspapers and to goad councillors in the hope that we can induce them to action where action is required and to inaction where that would be better.
I hope there will be some cross-over here – that residents will find positive things in Oxford Inciter which interest them and that visitors will join in helping to defend the place.
In its finished form, Oxford Inciter will also be a mine of information which is neither positive nor negative, but simply useful – directories, guides and links to other sources of information.
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