Dear Colleagues,
Just a brief email to alert you to a forthcoming paper by Keith Ewing, John Hendy and Nicola Countouris which provides arguably the best, current analysis and the profound challenges posed to workers’ and trade union rights …Read more…
Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class
Dear Colleagues,
Still struggling to access this blog and this accounts for far too occasional posts. Still working on the idea of moving over to WordPress, but for now will still post whenever I can.
This is just a brief post to say that I have been s…Read more…
Unions Renewed: Building power in an age of finance
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to promote a timely, innovative new book in the field of trade union renewal, Unions Renewed.
I was fortunate to be asked to comment on an early draft, and recommend the book as one of the few contemporary examinations of …Read more…
A College with Little Interest in its History
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies (as usual) for sparse commentary here. I remain having problems accessing this blog, and Google provides no support in overcoming the access problem. I am considering moving my blog to WordPress – more detail to follow.
An …Read more…
Understanding Social Justice: Learning and Movements in Adult Education
Dear Colleagues,
Further apologies for limited posts recently. I haven’t yet got back into the swing of posting following the completion of my doctorate.
I am though very pleased to say that my first journal article, based on thesis findings, is now …Read more…
Doctorate completed (still having blog access problems)
Dear Colleagues,
I am very pleased to report that, having enrolled on a Professional Doctorate in Researching Work at London Met Univ in Sep 2011, I have now been awarded my doctorate.
I have a journal article based on my findings appearing shortly i…Read more…
Update
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies again a the highly limited number of posts, and in part due, again, to the blog being taken over by a domain, but it appears accessible again.
So, all is good, and I am currently working on amendments to my doctoral thesis …Read more…
The Evolution of Struggle
Dear Colleagues,
Just a quick post to advertise the forthcoming series off events which will explore the legacy of the British anti-apartheid movement historically and today. I have posted before at length of my interest here, and also of the relation…Read more…
Free at Last!
Dear Colleagues,
For several months now I have been unable to access my blog, and it appeared that Google were uninterested in helping myself and the many others who were posting to the main Help Forum.
So, on checking today I am really pleased to se…Read more…
Activists and the Surveillance State: Learning from represession
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for an absence since my last post. I have needed to concentrate on getting the first full thesis draft submitted This is now book and am working on editing and then (all being well) submitting the final version.
Also, the d…Read more…
To the Promised Land: Martin Luther King and the Fight for Economic Justice
Dear Colleagues,
I just swiftly read an article by Colin Grant in Prospect magazine which reviews three new books on Martin Luther and Coretta Scott King. The overall thrust of the article is suggestive of a re-radicalisation of King’s legacy, and not…Read more…
Striking to Survive: Workers’ Resistance to Factory Relocations in China
Dear Colleagues,
Apologies for the delay between the last post and this; there was an odd global occurrence, whereby Blogger blogs had been taken over by some unknown source, and it took Google some time to resolve this.
Anyway, all is back to normal…Read more…
The Pedagogy of Primo Levi
Dear Colleagues,
As I enter the final stages of writing up my thesis, I am wistfully dreaming of how best to use my free time once I have (all being well) completed the examination and completed the DProff programme.
One particular daydream is to spe…Read more…
The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements
Dear Colleagues,
Just came across an amazing new book that I wanted to plug, and it comes at a pertinent point in writing thesis findings. The new book, The Paradox of Repression and Nonviolent Movements, is the kind of analysis we need where movements…Read more…
The Authentocrats and the fight for authentic identity and knowledge
Dear Colleagues,
Weird times indeed! I am taking respite from a doctoral thesis centred on issues of identity and knowledge to talk about this from a different, political dimension.
The fight against the experts is well known, and I remember well Mic…Read more…
Embodied Activism
Dear Colleagues,
Just wanted to write-up a note around findings in a space separate from my doctoral thesis, and share this via the blog.
An argument/finding/theory arising from my thesis is embodied activism (EA). The phrase can be found in several …Read more…
The multiple ways of learning and knowing through activism
Dear Colleagues,
Just a brief post whilst racing ahead in writing doctoral thesis findings. I wanted to give a plug for Griff Foley’s book, Learning in Social Action, for having set an international benchmark for understanding the learning that takes …Read more…
Political Education, Gramsci and the War of Position
Dear Colleagues,
Just a brief note that captures a thought in between working and writing thesis findings.
I had the pleasure yesterday and taking to delegates attend the AGM of the Standing Conference of University Drama Departments – SCUDD: ht…Read more…
ITUC Global Rights Index 2018: Democratic space shrinks and unchecked corporate greed on the rise
Dear Colleagues,
The yearly index chronicling the health of the global labour movement from the ITUC is just out:
https://www.ituc-csi.org/ituc-global-rights-index-2018-20299
The index is a rich source of data depicting a range of rogue states (incl…Read more…
Border Pedagogy as Postmodern Resistance
Dear Colleagues,
I’ve been reading material from Henry Giroux for many years as my experience and knowledge of being an adult educator matured. A great place for those unfamiliar with his writing: www.henryagiroux.com/
As I work to draft my thesis fi…Read more…