Colas and Edwards contribute to book on radical politics
Alex Colas and Jason Edwards contribute to new book on Radical Politics Today
16 November 2009
What is Radical Politics Today?, published by Palgrave Macmillian.
"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."
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.
'This is a bold, brave and timely book. As we emerge, blinking into the light after three decades of neo-liberal darkness, Jonathan Pugh has put together a collection of essays that will provoke and provide clues to the question of what comes next; what indeed is radical politics today ?'
Neal Lawson (Chair, Compass)
Debate and Book launch
- 25 November 2009 @ 13:30 at Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London. SW1Y 5BJ
- The discussion will feature Doreen Massey, Saskia Sassen and David Chandler.
Hosted by Catherine Fieschi, Director Counterpoint and Jonathan Pugh, Director, the Spaces of Democracy and the Democracy of Space network.