Published: November 15th 2009 - at 9:15 am

Launch: What is radical politics today?


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Debate and book launch

What is Radical Politics Today?

A crisis makes you re-think your life. The recent economic crisis is no exception. All of us are now thinking how the world could be run differently. Despite this, a radical alternative has hardly emerged to mobilise the masses, which begs the question: What is radical politics today?

In this book, leading academics, politicians, journalists and activists attempt to pinpoint an answer, debating the issues facing radical politics in the 21st Century. Rarely united in their opinions, they collectively interrogate the character and spirit of being radical in our times.

1.30pm, 25th November 2009 @ Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London, SW1Y 5BJ
Hosted by: Catherine Fieschi (Director of Counterpoint, British Council)

Jonathan Pugh (Editor and director, the Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space network;
The discussion will feature Doreen Massey, Saskia Sassen and David Chandler

http://www.counterpoint-online.org/what-is-radical-politics-today/

RSVP to Counterpoint@britishcouncil.org

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What is Radical Politics Today? Is published by Palgrave Macmillan and edited by Jonathan Pugh, Senior Academic Fellow, Newcastle University

Including original contributions from Zygmunt Bauman, Frank Furedi, Paul Kingsnorth, James Heartfield, Terrell Carver, Clare Short, Edward W. Soja, David Chandler, Hilary Wainwright, Dora Apel, Michael J.

Watts, Jason Toynbee, James Martin, Jeremy Gilbert and Jo Littler, Doreen Massey, Gregor McLennan, Tariq Modood, Nick Cohen, Amir Saeed and David Bates, Alastair Bonnett, Ken Worpole, Sheila Jasanoff, Nigel Thrift, Will Hutton, Saul Newman, Chantal Mouffe, David Featherstone, Alejandro Colas and Jason Edwards, David Boyle, and Saskia Sassen.


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Jason Toynbee ? A name to strike fear. Any relation ?


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