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Perhaps it could also be a forum in which questions of academic freedom are also be raised, to explore the fantasy that we are protected by the state. One way of inviting discussion about that would be to ask participants to call for the reinstatement of Rod Thornton at the University of Nottingham. Please circulate this:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-whistleblower-at-nottingham/
Ian Parker, Dept Psychology, MMU, Hathersage Rd, Manchester, M13 0JA, UK
Department website is at http://www.hpsc.mmu.ac.uk/psychology/
www.discourseunit.com has resources including books, papers and links
Discourse Unit diary of events is at www.discourseunit.com/diary.doc
Manchester Psychoanalytic Matrix: www.discourseunit.com/matrix.htm
Annual Review of Critical Psychology: www.discourseunit.com/arcp.htm
Asylum Magazine for Democratic Psychiatry is at www.asylumonline.net
Manchester 24 hours time-lapse video is at http://vimeo.com/16147759
From: Psychosocial Studies Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of G.A.Lewis
Sent: 13 June 2011 18:43
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Subject: Re: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth
I am also unable to attend the conference and agree with Tom, Paul and Vic that the debate is already warming up. I also agree that the need to think and respond to both state driven and all other forms of threat to the formation and maintainance of democratic cultures - but the acheivement of the latter surely must be based on dealing with state and other together - and part of the task is to create the mental space in the collective mind to be able to do that, historically, contemporarily and future oriented too. Otherwise as has been said so well we simply hold the separations..
Sounds like it will be a really interesting conference, and I look forward to hearing about it and contributing to the continuing debate that is sure to follow.
best wishes
Gail
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Sent: 13 June 2011 15:20
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Such a fascinating debate - and such a shame I won’t be able to be at the conference.
Going back to Tom’s final remark - I do find myself increasingly wary of the established language and concepts that we import into this project and which, when we speak of ‘the state’ or ‘the individual’ for example, all too easily rive the concepts apart - as though they can be understood as separate, even mutually exclusive domains. Thus, part of the agenda for the psychosocial (noting too the absence of the hyphen here) is surely to develop a language and a conceptual structure better suited to a reality in which inner worlds and outer structures are necessarily understood as inseparable dimensions of one and the same thing.
Best wishes and good luck for the conference.
Vic
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Sent: 13 June 2011 14:21
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Subject: Re: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth
Thanks Barry,
Looks like we're already warming up for a stimulating event!
Best wishes,
Paul
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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 2:16 PM
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Subject: Re: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth
Tom and Paul, et al.,
Some big questions raised by your comments...My main response would be to say that the reality of state-driven terror does not invalidate a focus at times on other threats to safe and democratic life. To go further, I think your critique takes us into basic Qs about our relationship to the democratic state in UK and elsewhere. The vision of a protective state (see e.g. Will Hutton in Observer yesterday) is vital for a shared civic life, common weal, etc. We've also got the concepts for that!
Best
Barry
Barry Richards
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From: Psychosocial Studies Network [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
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Sent: 13 June 2011 14:03
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Subject: Re: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth - 'extreme denial in practice'
I tend to agree that psychosocial attention needs to be directed at the motivations and desires of those in positions of power and authority who profit enormously from the exploitation that is implicated in generating 'extremism'. How can we 'contain' the greed and lust for power of a relatively small minority of hugely influential and powerful people who typically pass as not only quite normal but as exemplary in their 'moderation'?
Best wishes
Paul Stenner
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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 1:26 PM
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Subject: Re: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth - 'extreme denial in practice'
What worries me about the program is that it itself seems to be based on extreme psycho-societal denial (to be explained by Freud and Marx) about State extremism and State terrorism as conducted by, say, the Belgians in the Belgian Congo, the USA (and its allies) in the military dictatorships in Latin America, Vietnam and elsewhere, the UK state in Kenya against the Mau-Mau, etc and in Northern Ireland, as well as ‘drone assassinations’ and shock and awe, in Israel, Pakistan and elsewhere. Such scotomisation needs itself to be explained psycho-societally at the individual, small group, and macro-societal level, especially in conjunction with analysis of the workings of the mass media and its irresponsibilities….. luckily we have the concepts for it!
Best wishes
Tom
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Sent: Monday, June 13, 2011 12:58 PM
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Subject: Responding to extremisms: media roles and responsibilities. 15 July conference in Bournemouth
Dear all,
There is now a programme for this event (see blurb below), at http://www.cerb.ws. It's part of a project at Bournemouth University concerned with developing a psychosocial approach to the field of violent political extremisms and terrorism.
Barry Richards
Professor of Public Communication
The Media School
Bournemouth University
Talbot Campus
Poole BH12 5BB
UK
+44(0)1202 965331
Profile: http://onlineservices.bournemouth.ac.uk/AcademicStaff/Profile.aspx?staff=brichards
Editor, Containing Extremism Research Briefing http://www.cerb.ws
Founding Co-Editor, Media, War and Conflict (Sage)
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