As
you all know, I am much happier with face-to-face meetings. Can skype, but I
really don’t like long complicated discussions by phone.
And
I understand very well just how frustrating all our comments/suggestions/queries
must be. And how much time they take!
From: Martin
Spafford [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Martin
Spafford
Sent: 24 August 2015 11:11
To:
[log in to unmask]; 'hakim adi'; 'Dan Lyndon'
Subject: Re:
Industrial fully amended and with tasks etc
added
We clearly need to
have a discussion about this as a team. I’ve now sent Jim the version with
amendments along the lines of Hakim’s comments (ege describing anti-Irish riots
as racist) but it’s only the first draft so changes can be made in the light of
whatever we resolve.
I think it’s clear
that the four of us have to meet.
A suggestion: two
face-to-face meetings. One as soon as possible, to decide parameters for
1900-2010 and to discuss how we present racism and
‘race’.
Then I go away and
write, sending to you as I go along. Rather than you all sending comments bit by
bit and me ending up having to do revision after revision of the same text, once
I’ve written a draft for the whole chapter we meet again and you each bring
along all your proposed corrections/amendments/changes etc for us all to hack
out and agree in one meeting. I then redraft and send to you for final
adjustments. That would certainly be easier for me.
If face-to-face is
difficult, maybe we could skype the first meeting (though I think that’s
problematic for Marika – however I could bring my laptop to the ICS for us to
skype together from there). I think a final meeting has to be face to face
because we’ll be working together on the text.