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Soundings credit crunch seminar
Contents
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Gavin Poynter The crunch and the crisis: the unravelling of lifestyle capitalism?
John Urry The great crash of 2008: pouring oil on troubled waters
Sylvia Walby Contested futures: is the financial crisis a tipping point?
John Clarke After neoliberalism? Markets, states and the reinvention of public welfare
Michael Rustin Reflections on the present
Neal Lawson and John Harris No turning back

A selection of Soundings articles

Issue 43

The patriot's game
Mark Perryman

The media and climate change

Helen Bird, Max Boykoff, Mike Goodman, George Monbiot, Jo Littler

Political futures

Constructing a left politics
Bryan Gould
Issue 42
Fraternity without equality and other Conservative ideals
Jonathan Rutherford
Issue 39
Interview with Jon Cruddas
Jon Cruddas talks to Jonathan Rutherford
Issue 38
Has the future a left?
Zygmunt Bauman
Issue 35
Cultures of Capitalism
Jonathan Rutherford
Issue 38
New Labour's double-shuffle
Stuart Hall
Issue 37
New Labour, market state and the end of welfare
Jonathan Rutherford
Issue 36

Living differently
Human happiness and the stationary state
David Purdy Issue 31

The politics of well-being
Hetan Shah
Issue 30
The Other Pleasures of Post-Consumerism
Kate Soper Issue 35

A good-enough life: developing the grounds for a political ethic of care
Fiona Williams
Issue 30
Happiness in a society of individuals
Zygmunt Bauman Issue 38

What's wrong with happiness
Mike Rustin Issue 36

Tackling turbo consumption
Juliet Schor Issue 34

Race and Identity
Living with difference
Stuart Hall Issue 37

The sound of the suburbs
Rupa Huq Issue 37

Race in neo-liberal times
George Shire Issue 38

Rethinking segregation
Bilkis Malek Issue 34

Man's the Talk on Road
A dialogue with young black people on their experiences of gun crime
Ejos Ubiribo
Some of the issues behind the headlines, from an article first published in Soundings 32.

Globalisation
China: changing the rules of the game
Lin Chun Issue 39

Global income inequality
Branko Milanovic
Issue 37
London inside-out
Doreen Massey Issue 32

Al-Qaeda, Spectre of Globalisation
Faisal Devji Issue 32

Westward look, the land is bright: race and politics in the Andes
Richard Gott Issue 33

Rehabilitating Pacification: Then and now, Iraq and Vietnam
Kurt Jacobsen Issue 32

America's deputy sheriff in South East Asia: Australia and Timor-Leste
Pete Murphy Issue 34

The history of democracy in DR Congo
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja
Issue 34

Understanding Venezuela
Francisco Dominguez
Issue 37

A selection of work by Stuart Hall

Living with difference Soundings Issue 37
New Labour's double-shuffle from Soundings 2003
Cultural Identity and the Diaspora from Identity: Community, Culture, Difference 1990
Through the Prism of an Intellectual Life extract from the epilogue of Caribbean reasonings
Great Moving Right Show from Marxism Today 1979

Commentary

A new chapter for the centre-left
Mike Kenny
New Labour was a product and architect of an era that has gone. It is no longer fit for purpose, but what can replace it?

Pieces of Labourism and the ‘fascist possibility’ in English politics
Andrew Pearmain
What will follow the collapse of Labour?

Democracy driven change Public service reform … but not as we know it!
Hilary Wainwright
Biting back: good food in hard times
Geoff Andrews
Enoch Powell
Jonathan Rutherford's essay from his book Forever England
Review of Enoch Powell's Island Story

Milla Schofield responds to Jonathan Rutherford' essay on Enoch Powell
A rough guide to the Italian political crisis
Hilary Wainwright
Italy's hour of darkness
Geoff Andrews

Silvio Berlusconi: ten more questions
Geoff Andrews

A selection of newformations articles

A Long and Complex Revolution: The Theo-Ontological Expansion of Science
Wendy Wheeler (issue 50)
Machinic Magic: IBM at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
Ben Highmore (issue 51 )

The Death of the Working Class Hero
Cora Kaplan (issue 52 )

Sexuality, Subjectivity and . . . Economics?
Mandy Merck (issue 52 )

A Place to Think?: Some Reflections on the Idea of the University in the Age of the 'Knowledge Economy'
Phil Cohen (issue 53 )

Public Intellectuals and the Public Domain
Andrew Gamble (
issue 53 )
Idleness for All
Scott McCracken
(issue 53)

Foucault, Sexuality, Liberalism: A Commentary
David Glover (
issue 55 )
Foucault Recalled: Interview with Michel Foucault
Frank Mort and Roy Peters (issue 55)

Critical Realism and the Strategic-Relational Approach
Bob Jessop (issue 56)

Disseminating Africa: Burdens of Representation and the African Writers Series
Clive Barnett (issue 57 )

Borders and the Boundaries of Democracy
Iain Chambers (issue 58 )

In Defence of 'In Defence of Disco'
Jeremy Gilbert (issue 58)
The 'Moral Empire': Africa, Globalisation and the Politics of Conscience
Priyamvada Gopal
(issue 59
)
Postcolonial Studies After the Invasion of Iraq
Neil Lazarus
(issue 59
)
Eugenics: A Polemical View of Social Policy in the Genetic Age
Bill Armer
(issue 60
)
British Eugenics and 'Race Crossing': A Study of an Interwar Investigation
Lucy Bland
(issue 60
)
Eugenic Undergrounds: Stem Cells and Human Futures
Chris Ganchof
(issue 60
)
The New Eugenics: Jaques Testart and French Bioethics
John Marks
(issue 60
)
Contra Habermas and Towards a Critical Theory of Human Nature and the Question of Genetic Enhancement
Lenny Moss
(issue 60
)
Eugenics and Social Democracy: Or, How the European Left Tried to Eliminate the 'Weeds' from its National Gardens
Veronique Mottier and Natalia Gerodetti
(issue 60
)
Is the New Genetics Eugenic?: Interpreting the Past, Envisioning the Future
Alan Petersen
(issue 60
)
Eugenics and Genetics: The Conjoint Twins?
Hilary Rose
(issue 60
)
Self-Eugenics: The Creeping Illusionising of Identity from Neurobiology to Newgenics
Barbara Maria Stafford
(issue 60
)
Serenity, Self-Regard and the Genetic Sequence: Social Psychiatry and Preventive Eugenics in Britain, 1930s-1950s
Gillian Swanson
(issue 60
)
Parsing the Postmenopausal Pregnancy: A Case Study in the New Eugenics
Elizabeth Siegel Watkins
(issue 60
)

A selection of Anarchist Studies articles

The direct action ethic. From 59 upwards
Benjamin Franks
Anarchism, Alternative Publishers and Copyright
Ellie Clement and Charles Oppenheim
Literature and Politics in early twentieth-century Argentina: The anarchist modernism of Roberto Arlt
Glen S Close
The insubordination of words: Poetry, insurgency and the situationists
John Moore
Anarchism, anthropology and Andalucia: An analysis of the CNT and the 'New Capitalism'
Beltrán Roca Martínez
The Trial of Fatima: Anarchists, Muslims and the Monde Libertaire, 2003-05
Sharif Gemie
Abu Ghraib: the spectacle of torture
Sureyya Evren
Looking back and moving forward: The radical humanism of The Politics of Individualism
L. Susan Brown
Empowering anarchy: Power, hegemony and anarchist strategy
Tadzio Mueller
Paradigm crash, paradigm shift
Thomas S. Martin
Israeli anarchism: Statist dilemmas and the dynamics of joint struggle
Uri Gordon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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