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ACADEMIC ARTICLES

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'A Short History of the Leeds West Indian Carnival, between 1967 and 2000'

(This article was commissioned by the West Yorkshire Archive Service.  It is stored along with the author's collection of Carnival documents and some of his photographs of Carnival, at WYAS, Chapeltown Road, Sheepscar, Leeds, LS7 3AP
(http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/leeds.htm)

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'Better Mus’ Come”: re-thinking ‘community’ as a radical social imaginary

(Unpublished paper)

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'Carnival in Leeds and London, UK: Making New Black British Subjectivities' by Geraldine Connor and Max Farrar. Chapter in Riggio, Milla, C (ed.) (2004) Carnival: Culture in Action — The Trinidad Experience (London and New York: Routledge

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‘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

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'Love and Dread in Modern Times', Emergency, No. 2

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‘Migrants and Settlers: Space and Time in English Inner City’

(Published in: Westwood, S. and Williams, J. (1997) Imagining Cities. London: Routledge, pp.104-126)

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‘People, Poetry and Politics – the Novels of Don Bannister’ in Scheer, Jorn, W and Sewell, Kenneth W (eds.) (2006) Creative Construing - Personal Constructions in the Arts, Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag

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Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology.

Published in Sociological Research Online , Volume 10, Issue 1, 7th April 2005

Web Link: http://www.socresonline.org.uk/10/1/farrar.html


'Racism, Education and Black Self-organisation' (Published in Critical Social Policy Issue 35 Autumn 1992.)

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'Re-thinking ‘community’ as a utopian social imaginary'

(Paper presented to ‘Class, Space and Community - A Workshop Conference’ Department of Sociology and Social Policy University of Durham – 6th to 8th April 2001.)

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‘Riot and Revolution: The Politics of an Inner City’ Revolutionary Socialism Winter 1981-2

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'Shifting identifications in a British multi-ethnic inner city area, the 1970s to the 1990s – a sociological analysis'

(Versions of this paper have been presented to to ESRC Seminar Series ‘Ethnicity, Diaspora and the City of the Third Age’, University of Leicester, 1st December, 2000; Understanding the Social World (2), University of Huddersfield, 5th September 2000 ; Peterhouse Theory Group, University of Cambridge, 14th November 2000.)

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'Social Movements and the Struggle Over ‘Race’

Chapter in Todd, Malcolm J and Taylor, Gary (2004) Democracy and Participation - Popular protest and new social movements London: Merlin Press

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‘Social movements in a multi-ethnic inner city: explaining their rise and fall over 25 years’

(Published in Bagguley, P. and Hearn, J. (1999) Transforming Politics: Power & Resistance. London: Macmillan)

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The Libertarian Movements of the 1970s – What can we Learn?Edinburgh Review Vol 82 (1989)

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'The Northern ‘race riots’ of the summer of 2001 – were they riots, were they racial? A case-study of the events in Harehills, Leeds'

Paper (work in progress) presented to the BSA Race and Ethnicity Study Group Seminar on 'Parallel Lives and Polarisation', City University, London, 18th May 2002

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'The Struggle for Paradise' article published in the journal CITY, Vol 6, No 3, 2002

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'The Writing on the Wall', published in Street Signs, Goldsmiths, University of London, Centre for Urban and Community Research Newsletter, Volume 1, Issue 6, Spring 2004.

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'The Zone of the Other: Imposing and Resisting Alien Identities in Chapeltown, Leeds, During the Twentieth Century' Chapter in Simon Gunn and RJ Morris (eds.) (2001) Making Identities: conflicts and urban space 1800-2000 London: Ashgate.

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‘Thirty Years of the “Changing Same” – Four Lessons in Teaching Race’ in Spencer, Steve and Todd, Malcolm (eds) (2006) Reflections on Practice – Teaching Race and Ethnicity in Further and Higher Education, Birmingham: C-SAP/Higher Education Academy.

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'What’s essential? Alienation, poststructuralism and the theorisation of ‘race’'

(A version of this paper was presented to the Research Committee on Alienation at the
International Sociology Association Conference, Montreal, August 1998)

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 ‘When alienation turns to nihilism – the dilemmas posed for diversity post 7/7’ in Conversations in Religion and Theology Vol 4, Issue 1, May 2006 pp. 98-123

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‘When the Bombs Go Off – Rethinking and Managing Diversity Strategies’ International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations, Volume 6, 2006

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'White man: black history. Some problems and some possibilities.'

(Paper delivered to THE THIRD ‘LEEDS IN CONTEXT’ CONFERENCE, Organised by the School of Cultural Studies at the Beckett Park Campus, Leeds Metropolitan University, 10TH March 2001)

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‘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 to 1990s.

(Paper delivered to THE CLR JAMES CENTENNIAL CONFERENCE, CLR James at 100: Global Capitalism, Culture and the Politics of World Revolution, The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad, 20-23 September 2001)

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