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Subject: Centre for Cultural Studies Research at UEL Seminar: The
Politics of Pain
The Politics of Pain
8 December 2010, 15:00 to 17:00
Pain has become one of the central discourses of the coalition
government as it embarks on its cuts programme. The cuts are inevitable,
we are told, and the pain must be shared in the interests of fairness.
But is the pain necessary, should it be shared, is it really being
shared, how will the pain affect the social fabric, and what are the
psychosocial consequences of the crisis? This is the second seminar in
the Centre for Cultural Studies Research’s three-part “Debt, Pain, Work”
series that interrogates the discourses and policies of the coalition
government.
Speakers
Kate Pickett, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of York,
co-author of The Spirit Level: Why More Equal Societies Almost Always Do
Better
Mike Rustin, Professor of Sociology in the School of Humanities and
Social Sciences at UEL and author of The Good Society and the Inner World
Jeremy Gilbert Reader in Cultural Studies in the School of Humanities
and Social Sciences at UEL and author of Anti-Capitalism and Culture:
Radical Theory and Popular Politics
UEL Docklands Campus
Transport: Cyprus DLR station is located right next to the campus (just
follow signs out of the station)
Room EB.G.14
(Ground Floor, East Building, which is to the left on entering the main
square from Cyprus station)
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