Dear Colleagues —
Dr Karen Bacon and I give all members of staff and interested colleagues and students a warm welcome to the next Leeds School of Geography Seminar by Dr Andy Price on 19 March 2014. Abstract and directions below.
Dr Price is Principal Lecturer in Politics, The Department of Psychology, Sociology and Politics, Sheffield Hallam University. His research focus is on political theory of currently emerging social movements. Please find Price's staff profile at http://www.shu.ac.uk/faculties/ds/psp/staff/DrAndyPrice.html.
ABSTRACT
Recovering Bookchin
Geography Lecture Theatre, Geography East Building*
Wednesday 19 March 2014, 4-5PM
Through an extensive body of political and philosophical ideas he called social ecology, Murray Bookchin (1921-2006) elucidated one of the first intellectual responses to the ecological crisis. However, over the last two decades of his life Bookchin’s ideas slipped from focus, obscured by the emergence of a crude caricature that portrayed him as a dogmatic sectarian who intended to dominate the radical left for his own personal motivations. In Recovering Bookchin, Andy Price revisits the Bookchin caricature and critically discounts it as the product of a largely misguided literature that focused on Bookchin the individual and not his ideas. By looking afresh at Bookchin's work, Price argues that his contribution can be seen to provide a coherent practical and theoretical response to the ecological and social crises of our time.
*DIRECTIONS
All seminars are held in the School of Geography Lecture Theatre. This can be found in the Geography East Building, University of Leeds. If you find the car park in the centre of this Google Maps image at http://goo.gl/DbxKBC, the Geography East Building is the building on the right of it. Enter from the car park, and follow the right-hand wall to reach the Lecture Theatre. Instructions for getting to the University, and for visitor car parking, can be found here: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/info/20014/about/157/how_to_find_us.
Dr Karen Bacon & Dr Martin Zebracki
Convenors, Leeds School of Geography Seminars
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Dr M.M. (Martin) Zebracki
Lecturer in Critical Human Geography
School of Geography
University of Leeds
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Leeds LS2 9JT
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 113 34 33331
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/m.zebracki
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