Shorts
I’m so slack on this website, so while updating the ‘about’ page just now I thought I’d post some links to some of the short writing I’ve done recently mainly on my Substack page, or book reviews for the excellent web-magazine Writers’ Mosaic. Short essays: Writing for a change — my first foray into Substack […]
Sensuous materialism – reviving the subjective side of marxism
Sensuous materialism The above link goes to the Transformation page, edited by Michael Edwards for the impressive openDemocracy website. It’s my journalistic effort to promote an idea I’ve 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 […]
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 […]