Sensuous materialism – – an emotionally charged type of marxism
Sensuous materialism The Transformation page, admirably edited by Michael Edwards for the impressive openDemocracy website, kindly published my journalistic effort (linked above) to promote an idea I had for promoting a version of Marxism which has, I think, been deeply buried. It came to me in the late 2010s while writing the concluding chapters of […]
Opposing terrorism
I wrote this article with Dr Rumana Hashem, prompted both by the death threats issued against Rumana, a Bangladeshi-born Muslim academic at a British University, and the disagreement I had earlier (supported by Rumana and other feminists) with British academics who support the organisation called Cage. It forms part of my ongoing investigations into Islamism, […]
On youth in the multi-cultural inner-city in the 1990s
Youth in the multi-cultural inner-city: Learning from experience I learned as much of my sociology from experience as I did from books. Ethnography has always been my preferred method. I learned to write as much from home-made journalism, particularly for Chapeltown News and Big Flame, as I did from the great literature I’ve consumed since […]
Chapeltown: where is it and what does it do? (7 June 2014)
Fiona Gell is the driving force behind the marvellous Big BookEnd festival of authors and books in Leeds and when she asked me to contribute a talk I jumped at the offer. I’m giving this talk on Saturday 7th June 2014 at the Leeds Central Library (2.30pm). Fiona’s an assiduous organiser and brilliant user of […]