Apologies to everyone for the last e-mail which was intended for Alex only.
I'm not really a slacker (honest!)
Andy
Dr Andrew Cumbers
Department of Geography
University of Aberdeen
Elphinstone Road
Aberdeen
AB24 3UF
Tel +44 (0)1224 272335
Fax +44 (0)1224 272331
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> cumbers
> Sent: 17 October 2000 17:12
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> Subject: RE: EGRG Newsletter Items
>
>
> Alex
>
> How are things? Beginning to make preparations for transition to
> Glasgow. I
> don't know if you benefited from this when you've moved recently
> but I keep
> losing various jobs which frees up time. Also, I feel less bothered by the
> general malaise.. I'm sure all this will change...
>
> Anyway, enclosed are details about a conference I'm organising with Fraser
> MacDonald in December. Is it too late to make the November newsletter?
>
> Andy
>
>
> The Socialist Project /
> Revisiting The Red Paper on Scotland
>
> 1st December 2000 - University of Aberdeen, UK
>
> http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/redpaper/
>
> This one day conference marks the 25th anniversary of the
> publication of The
> Red Paper on Scotland, a seminal collection of essays edited by
> the then 24
> year-old Gordon Brown, now Chancellor of the Exchequer.
>
> In 1975 The Red Paper provided an important analysis and direction for
> radical politics, despite the subsequently divergent trajectories of its
> editor and the contributors. Asking whether the book can still speak to a
> contemporary socialist politics, several commentators will examine the
> implications and contestations of uneven development.
>
> Speakers include:
>
> Tom Nairn / Doreen Massey / Larry Elliott / Neal Ascherson / Sheila
> Rowbotham / Hilary Wainwright / Owen Dudley Edwards / Bob Jessop
>
> Chair: Tom Devine
>
> Followed by an open plenary session with
>
> Tommy Sheridan MSP (Scottish Socialist Party)
>
> Susan Deacon MSP (Labour) Minister for Health, Scottish Executive
>
> Kenny MacAskill MSP (Scottish National Party)
> John MacAllion MP MSP (Labour).
>
> Chaired by Lesley Riddoch of BBC Scotland.
>
> Specific papers consider: the history and importance of The Red Paper;
> nationalisms, old and new; the external impact of Scottish devolution; the
> geography of uneven development in the UK; home-workers and the informal
> economy; political strategies under globalisation; the post-Keynesian
> welfare state; networks, alliances and the future of socialism.
>
> The conference fee is £25.00 (waged) and £12.50 (student/unwaged).
>
> Further details and a REGISTRATION FORM can be found at:
>
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/redpaper/
For other information contact:
Fraser MacDonald, Research Fellow, The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development
Research, St Marys, Kings College, Aberdeen, AB34 3UF
[log in to unmask] ; tel (01224) 272347
Andy Cumbers, Lecturer in Geography, St Marys, Kings College, Aberdeen, AB34
3UF ; [log in to unmask] ; tel (01224) 272335
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The Socialist Project 1st December 2000
Revisiting The Red Paper on Scotland
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/redpaper/
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tel (01224) 272347
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