Dear all,
Below are the details of two more forthcoming events in the 'What is Radical Politics Today?' project.
(also the book 'What is Radical Politics Today?', published by Palgrave-MacMillan in 2009, is now free to all new subscribers of the NewStatesman)
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1] Children and Cities
Ken Worpole
1st February 2010, 5.30pm, Beehive, Room 2.21. Newcastle University.
After the Second World War, architects, planners and politicians across Europe privileged the role of the child in the city. Yet today one or more children on the street is considered a social problem in the making. How did we get to this impasse and how can we get out of it?
About Ken Worpole:
A writer and environmentalist, Ken Worpole is one of Britain’s most influential writers on architecture, landscape and public policy issues. He has an Honorary Doctorate from Middlesex University, and is a Senior Professor at The Cities Institute, London Metropolitan University. He has served on the UK government Urban Green Spaces Task Force, and has been an adviser to the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (CABE) and the Heritage Lottery Fund (See http://www.worpole.net/ )
“For many years, Ken Worpole has been one of the shrewdest and sharpest observers of the English social landscape” (The Independent).
Ken will be giving a version of his contribution to the book What is Radical Politics Today? Edited by Jonathan Pugh of Newcastle University, and published in November 2009 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Those interested in attending should email Jonathan Pugh ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>).
2] 'It's the end of the world as we know it (and I feel fine): why environmentalism has failed and what comes next.'
Paul Kingsnorth
22nd February 2010, 5.30pm, Beehive, Room 2.21. Newcastle University.
Paul Kingsnorth has worked in an orang utan rehabilitation centre in Borneo, as a peace observer in the rebel Zapatista villages of Mexico, as a floor-sweeper in McDonalds and as an assistant lock-keeper on the river Thames. He studied history at Oxford University between 1991 and 1994, was arrested during the Twyford Down road protests of 1993 and was named one of Britain's 'top ten troublemakers' by the New Statesman magazine in 2001.
Paul has worked on the comment desk of the Independent, as commissioning editor for opendemocracy.net<http://www.opendemocracy.net/> and as deputy editor of The Ecologist<http://www.theecologist.org/>. He is also an award-winning poet<http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/poetry.html>, and an honorary member of the Lani tribe of New Guinea. He has written for most UK newspapers and many other publications at home and abroad, and appeared on radio and TV.
Paul's first book, One No, Many Yeses<http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/onmy.html> (Simon and Schuster, 2003), an investigative journey through the 'anti-globalisation' movement, was published in six languages in thirteen countries. His second book, Real England<http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/realengland.html>, was published by Portobello Books <http://www.portobellobooks.com/> in 2008. His debut poetry collection, Kidland, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry<http://www.salmonpoetry.com/>. In 2009 he co-founded of the Dark Mountain Project<http://www.dark-mountain.net/>.
http://www.paulkingsnorth.net<http://www.paulkingsnorth.net/>
Paul will be giving a version of his contribution to the book What is Radical Politics Today? Edited by Jonathan Pugh of Newcastle University, and published in November 2009 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Those interested in attending should email Jonathan Pugh ([log in to unmask]).
For "The Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network website
<http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/>http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org<http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/>
For Radical Politics Today magazine
http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/resources/publications/magazine/magazine.html<http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/resources/publications/magazine.magazine.html>
For more on the book What is radical politics today?, published in 2009 by Palgrave MacMillan
<http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/resources/resources_bookstoread.html>http://www.spaceofdemocracy.org/resources/resources_bookstoread.html
Jonathan Pugh
Senior Academic Fellow
Director "The Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space" network
School of Geography, Politics and Sociology
5th Floor Claremont Tower
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 7RU
United Kingdom
Honorary Fellow, The Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster
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