How do we talk about the networks, communities, and infrastructures that arise from efforts to organise collectively? How does the language we use to describe radical organising affect the way we do it? And what productive conversations can be had when theory and practice are brought into dialogue? This is the third of three ‘in-conversation’ workshops that bring academics … [Read more...] about Keywords for Radical Organising: Community Workshop
Race Class and Imagined Community
Why Mapping Black Lives Matters
REPORT FROM POINT NEMO Race, has been a constant point of intersection between cartography and demography since late Victorian times when developing the new field of anthropometrics[i]. Using mapping techniques to visualise the spatial distribution and concentration of populations defined in terms of race or ethnicity, and … [Read more...] about Why Mapping Black Lives Matters
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Working-class identity politics after Labourism
Finding uncommon ground: working-class identity politics after Labourism[1] Don’t talk to me of fucking representing the class yer were born into any more. Yer going to get ’urt and start resenting it’s not poetry we need in this class war. Yer’ve given yerself toffee, cunt. Who needs yer fucking poufy words. Ah write mi own. Ah’ve got mi work on show all ovver … [Read more...] about Working-class identity politics after Labourism
Working class identity politics in post Brexit Britain
Part One : Subtle Dialectics,Crude Thoughts ‘In order to save the Party we had to destroy it’ (with acknowledgement to Bert Brecht) After the so called uprising of June 23/When business and political leaders /had leaflets distributed /stating that the people/had forfeited their confidence/and could win it back only/by redoubled … [Read more...] about Working class identity politics in post Brexit Britain
