Why?

A personal web-site like this is bound to be narcissistic, but I hope it has a wider social purpose of making my writing and photography more easily available to anyone who has a serious interest in sociology, politics and culture.  In particular, I hope it is useful those who are committed to thinking about and developing practice which will support radical social change.  For more, click at MY WORK and PHOTOS

Who?

I was born in 1949 in Northallerton, Yorkshire, UK. I formed myself in the varied mileux of loving friends and family, Royal Air Force camps, private and state schools, the University of Leeds’ Sociology Department, and the libertarian revolutionary movements of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s. My utopian longing continued to guide my work when I became a cultural sociologist in the mid-1990s. I’ve lived with Jane Storr since 1971. We married in 2003.  We have two children, Rose (b. 1975) and John (b. 1979), a son-in-law, Guy Dixon, and a grand-daughter, Miranda (b. 2006) who are making their own futures. (For more, click at MY CV.)

Copyright

I claim no copyright on private, non-commercial use of anything authored by me on this web-site. I would be grateful if you would credit me as the author of anything you choose to use. If you want to use any of my work in anything that generates income for you or your company, I would expect you to contact me to arrange a fee.

Contact

My postal address is:
8 Gledhow Park Road, Leeds, LS7 4JX, West Yorkshire, UK.
My Email address is max.farrar@ntlworld.com.
(Click at: CONTACT.)