RECENT ACADEMIC PAPERS DELIVERED

2004
'Racialised representations and violent urban protest: thinking with Sartre and Fanon.' Paper presented to the Second International Conference: Imaging Social Movements, Edge Hill College of HE, Ormskirk, 1st July - 3rd July 2004

2003
‘Community, Social Capital and Identification in the Multi-ethnic Inner City :
Reflections on the violent urban protest in the north of the UK in 2001.’ Paper delivered to the Communities Conference, Trinity and All Saints College, University of Leeds 18-20 September 2003

2003
‘People, Poetry, Politics – the novels of Don Bannister’ Paper delivered to the XV International Congress of Personal Construct Psychology, University of Huddersfield, 17th July 2003

2003
‘The Struggle for Paradise – Dirty, Pretty Things in Chapeltown, Leeds.’ Paper delivered to the Centre for Urban and Community Development, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 3rd March 2003.

2002
'Sociological observations on the 'riots' in the summer of 2001 - the example of Harehills'. Paper delviered to the British Sociological Association annual conference, University of Leicester, 27th April 2002.

2001
'"You don't have to have read James to be a Jamesian." Preliminary notes on the relationship between the work of CLR James and some of the radical black, anti-racist and left movements in the UK, 1970s-1990s.' The CLR James Centennial Conference: Global Capitalism, Culture and the Politics of World Revolution. University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, 20-23 September 2001.

2001
'Community - a Social Imaginary' paper to 'Class, Community and Space' Conference, University of Durham, 6-8 April 2001.

2001
'White Man: Black Culture. Research problems and possibilities'. Paper delivered to the Migration and Settlement in Leeds in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Day School, School of Cultural Studies, Leeds Metropolitan University, 10th March 2001

2000
'From Identity to Identification: Shifting Constructions in a Multi-cultural, Inner-city: Chapeltown, Leeds 1970-2000'. Paper presented to ESRC Seminar Series 'Ethnicity, Diaspora and the City of the Third Age', University of Leicester, 1st December, 2000.

2000
'From Identity to Identification: Shifting Constructions in a Multi-cultural, Inner-city: Chapeltown, Leeds 1970-2000'. Paper presented to Peterhouse Theory Group, University of Cambridge, 14th November 2000.

2000
'Shifting identifications in a British multi-ethnic inner city area, the 1970s to the 1990s - a sociological analysis'. Paper presented to Understanding the Social World International Conference, University of Huddersfield, 3-6 September, 2000

2000
'From Cultural Studies to Cultural Politics'. Paper presented to the Third International Cultural Studies Conference, University of Birmingham, 21-24 June, 2000

2000
'Marxism meets the postmodern: alienation and the sociology of 'race'.' Seminar paper to the Marxist Cultural Network, University of Sheffield, 15th March.

2000
'Constructing and deconstructing identity in a multi-ethnic British inner-city - Chapeltown, 1972-2000.' Seminar paper to the Centre for Constructions and Identity, University of Huddersfield, 23rd February

1999
'Some principles for a viable anti-racist curriculum: why Afrocentrism won't help (much).'
Equality in Education: The Second European Conference
Verona, Italy, 17-19 May 1999.

1997
'The Chapeltown Carnival - an intepretation of its cultural and political meanings'. Equality in Education, First European Conference, Leeds 13-16 December 1997.